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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 701 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host, Josh Trent, shares practical steps for self-love and personal growth in 2025. Today's Question Matthew: I've been doing everything I possibly can to grow my Wellness Pentagon, but I keep hitting up against this roadblock when it comes to loving myself and believing in myself. There's a long line of depression and emotional health issues in my family and I just want to escape the cycles of it all once and for all how and where do I begin? Is there a topic that you'd like us to cover in the next AMA episode? Record your message HERE. Save 20% with code "WELLNESSFORCE" on everyone's favorite Superfoods brand, ORGANIFI, including their Sunrise to Sunset Bundle and their Women's Power Stack that includes HARMONY + GLOW for true hormonal balance and great health radiating through your beautiful skin. Listen To Episode 701 As Josh Trent Answers Your Questions [01:40] What Is Self-Love? The question from the audience today is real special. This is a question from Matthew. Hey Josh, I love the podcast and I've been doing everything I possibly can to grow my Wellness pentagon, but I keep hitting up against this roadblock when it comes to loving myself and believing in myself. There's a long line of depression and emotional health issues in my family and I just want to escape the cycles of it all once and for all how and where do I begin? What a great question. What a vulnerable question. If you listen to the AMA 699 that we did, and if you haven't, make sure you do. We talked about the number one mindset shift that you must have in 2025 around your beliefs and your barometer. And we touched on this and I'm so happy that Matthew, you asked this question today because it is the deepest work we'll ever do. It is the most potent work we'll ever do to love ourselves. But how do we actually do it? Self-love is looked at as selfishness, especially from previous generations, where let's be honest, they didn't have the affluence, the time affluence, the financial affluence that we are afforded with, where we can actually dive in to know ourselves. It's pretty amazing. I mean, we're so blessed. We're so incredibly blessed to be able to even practice self-love. It's something our ancestors didn't necessarily ever get to do because they were just stuck in survival. Yet, Here's the paradox. In 2025, self-love isn't selfish, it's about transcending survival. And it's the ultimate power move. Let me ask you this. Do you feel guilty when you put yourself first? When you fill your own cup, Do you have feelings of guilt or shame or a narrative in your mind that says, I shouldn't put myself first? I should be taking care of everything and everyone else before I put myself first. Well, what if I told you that all successful people prioritize putting themselves first and they do it without shame, guilt, or blame. Well, in 2025 we're going to unpack why this is so important to put yourself first and also why the world 2025 will demand more from you than ever before and if you don't fill your own cup you'll have nothing left to give. So first let's define self-love. Self-love is the capacity, the awareness, and the consciousness to take care of yourself, nourish yourself so that you can do that same thing for others. That's essentially what I believe self-love is. It's the consciousness, capacity, and awareness to care for you in all the different ways of the Pentagon so that you can then give that gift of caring and loving to others. That's what self-love is. Self-love is not just bubble baths and candles, right? Self-love is about boundaries. It's about self-respect. It's about doing the inner work so you can actually the stigma that's been around for so long. This self-love has been labeled as this narcissistic or indulgent thing, but true self-love is actually the foundation for authentic relationships, career success, and mental health. Here's why. There are 3 key pillars for self-love... [14:15] Take Inspired Action Let's go into the actionable framework for 2025 that you can actually practice on a daily basis to become the best of you. The first one is having a morning ritual. It's a self-affirmation. It is a mantra. And the mantra I'd love for you to say is put your hands on your heart and say: I am worthy of the love I give to others. I am worthy of the love I give to others. Say it over and over and over again until you believe it. I am worthy of the love I give to others. Say it over and over and over again until you believe it. I am worthy of the love I give to others because, in that mantra, you're reinforcing on an unconscious basis that you're giving it to yourself. You can't give anything to anyone else that you don't hold, right? You can't give wisdom to someone else that you haven't earned. You may be able to regurgitate it, but people are gonna feel in their esoteric nervous system and in their enteric nervous system and in their unconscious nervous system, and their automatic nervous system, that it's just not true. In other words, we can tell when somebody hasn't embodied something that they're sharing. So even if it's wisdom given from a messenger, the wisdom won't land, the wisdom won't hit and be embodied unless the person themselves has done the work to embody it. Second practice, I want you to say no for 1 week. Say no for 1 week. Say no to anything or anyone for 1 week that drains your energy. Energy vampires can be acknowledged by just doing this simple practice. When you hang out with someone, or when you consume content, or when you do anything at all, does it drain your energy? Do you have less energy when you're done? Or do you have more? Say no for 1 week. Just 1 week. Give it a practice. Say no for 1 week to anything or anyone that drains your soul, that takes away your energy. Watch how this transforms your mindset. Number 3, tactical. Schedule time for you. Put yourself on your calendar. I have a color-coded calendar where I have business and family and self and in-studio and remote. I really like color-coding. This is a great strategy for you to do this. So put yourself on the calendar like a meeting can't cancel. Don't cancel on yourself. Use this time to charge yourself. Maybe it's cold plunge, maybe it's sauna, maybe it's walking. It's typically going to be, I'll share with you, it's typically going to be a physical practice. A lot of our world is sedentary. So nourish yourself with time on your that's color-coded so you can actually practice feeding you, feeding your body, feeding your heart and soul. Number 4, detox from comparison. In 2025, unfollow any accounts that make you feel less than, that make you feel like shit. There's no reason why you need to be following people or consuming content. Curate your digital space for inspiration, not insecurity. Have the awareness to know when something's making you insecure that you don't actually have to feed yourself with it. Just because you feel insecure about something means you have to keep banging your head against it till you feel secure. Security is an inside job, not an outside job. And number 5, in the tactical ways we can practice these skillsets, celebrate small wins. This is a big one for me. I've been so focused in my life on going to the next thing, going to the next thing, that I have lost track of celebrating my small wins. So for myself and everyone, keep a journal, like write in a journal where you're doing one thing that nourished you that day, one thing that you're proud of, celebrate it. It's not selfish. It's about transcending survival... 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 699 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares how to use your beliefs as a barometer to determine your success in 2025. Is there a topic that you'd like us to cover in the next AMA episode? Record your message HERE. Listen To Episode 699 As Josh Trent Answers Your Questions [03:00] Beliefs Are Your Barometer What if I told you that our beliefs, not our skills, not our communication, not our relationships, not how much money we have... What if I told you that our beliefs are the number one factor that determines all types of success in 2025? Would you believe me? Well, the belief set that you're listening to me through is going to inform what's possible and what's not possible. Most people are prisoners of their own mindset and here's why. There have been many, many studies around animals, specifically rats, even horses, that when they are jailed in a cell, or when a horse is tied to a fence, or when even human beings are brought up with a certain structure of slavery that when they become liberated and their environment shows them that they can walk out of the jail cell at any time, they don't. Elephants do this too. Have you ever seen elephants at the circus? This massive two-ton animal and there's a circus conductor with a little whip, and this little whip is so fearful that the elephant trained since birth will not go against the conductor in the circus. The same thing happens with horses. Horses get tied to objects from when they're very young, And then when they're this massive beast that could literally break a fence with their legs, just the fact that the horse's mouth, the horse's head is tied to a fence post, keeps the horse still. We're no different. We are not that different than animals because I believe that we are half beast and half spirit. So in 2025, things are accelerating like never before. Look at AI and technology and information and social media. And the speed of technology, if you look at Moore's law, doubles every year and gets 50% cheaper every year. Now, it's not gonna slow down. Technology's not gonna slow down. Evolution is running at a much smaller pace. Evolution goes slow, yet consciousness is accelerating. So we have 3 forces at play here when it comes to your being affected so deeply by your beliefs. Your beliefs are your barometer. So if your beliefs are not aligned to your purpose in 2025, it is going to be metaphysically, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially impossible for you to be the person that you know you're capable of. But here's the great thing. You hold the keys to unlock your own jail cell. You hold the keys and the will to be with me on this podcast and to actually deep into the 5 sides of yourself. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial. These are the 5 sides that we nourish or we starve with our unconscious or conscious beliefs. This is why I'm saying your beliefs are your barometer in 2025. And so in the next 10 minutes, we're going to go into the tactical, practical ways you can be and what you can do so that you can have exactly the life that you want. Let's dig in... [10:05] The Power of Thoughts So if your beliefs are your barometer, what are the unconscious beliefs or even conscious that you journaled about and just choose that one thing. This is where people get really, really set off and they become overwhelmed because they try to change 3 things or 5 or 10 things. Don't do that. Change one thing and commit to it wholeheartedly with humility, with vulnerability, by sharing it in tribe, in community, or with another person. And then ask that person, can you support me in my commitment? Can you support me in my accountability to resetting my barometer? So that may have felt a little jarring, but I promise you if you do it, it'll feel less and less challenging to do each time. This was both a spiritual and scientific mental practice. But let's talk a little bit more about the science. There are thousands of studies showing that neuroplasticity in the brain is not only real, it's neurological. So it's plastic that is getting shifted by the habitual thought patterns that we allow ourselves think. Here's a great example. Your brain is wired to think thoughts and then repeat those thoughts as a habitual loop. That's why grooves that get run into the earth from rain or from water or from streams Become even more carved out your is no different the thoughts that you think could essentially be water and the tapestry of your brain Is the earth that you allow yourself to think thoughts that are negative? To think thoughts that are harmful to self or others, the more those are going to get grooved in. But here's the paradox. The more that you consciously seek out the evidence that you're safe, that you're supported, that you have all the resources coming to you, you have all the network, all the community, all the money, all the love from self, and others, the more you are actually tricking or training to seek out the neuroplastic pathways where that abundance can actually come in. So here's the mindset shift that we must do in 2025. It is not positive thinking. It is not good vibes only. Positive thinking does not work. It's about alignment. See, the alignment of our beliefs actually allow us to have the neurology match the person that know we can become. It's about the neurology. So when it comes to a mindset shift, we first and foremost have to approach the beliefs and the neurology behind the fact of why that belief is there in the first place. Now, there are many episodes that we'll link in the show notes today, JoshTrent.com/699. And this is a place where you can go to start deepening your journey in the mental portion of the Wellness Pentagon. But I'll tell you that anytime we have a mental journey, it is also going to be a spiritual journey as well. Here's why. The body cannot live without the mind and vice versa. We are a soul inhabiting the body. So as we go into this audit of our beliefs, write down your core beliefs about money, write down your core beliefs about relationships, health, and success. Are they empowering or are they limiting? Turn off every limiting belief. Get them down on paper, write them down right here, and know that repetition is what rewires your brain. It's in this conscious repetition and the flushing out of our unconscious beliefs that are harmful to self or others we actually become free. I mean, I just got a chill in my whole body right now saying that. Feel into this. It is in the repetition of writing down, of practicing the awareness of the beliefs that are keeping that actually yields us liberation. If we're the amalgamation of the 5 people that we spend the most time with. Audit your people this year. Audit your people. Do I enjoy hanging out with my 5 closest contacts, my family, and my friends? Liberation is not always easy because a lot of these relationships that we formed, they actually created this network or this spider web to keep us stuck, but we don't even know that we don't know it... [19:00] Make 2025 Your Year There is never a perfect time for you to start. And actually the only perfect time for you to start is now. It's when you're becoming aligned. It's the alignment of the beliefs that shape the fabric and really the lens of your barometer. This is so key. This is so big. If I can just share with you 1 more thing, your beliefs shape your reality. Align them and 2025 won't just be another year. It'll be your year. This is your year. This is your life. This is the place where everything can change. Do you feel it? Do you feel it in your heart? Do you feel it in your soul? This is where everything changes because you say so. So write me, podcast@wellnessandwisdom.com. Tell me your dreams, tell me your alignment, tell me the beliefs that are blocking the barometer that you're committed to letting go of. I'll share with you my beliefs. There's a story, there's a belief that it's become conscious, it was unconscious. And the belief in me said, how are you going to crack a million in 2025? How are you gonna hold the community? How are you gonna hold your family? How are you gonna hold your business? And you know what my belief is now? That I'm gathering evidence, that I'm being vulnerable with my men's groups that I'm even sharing with you right now, you know exactly how I'm fortifying the new belief. I'm fortifying the new belief by sharing it with you. I'm fortifying the new belief by sharing, by holding up the lantern. Because when I shine a lantern, I shine a lantern on my stuff and I shine it on yours too. That's what a true leader is. Leaders hold lanterns. So write in the comments below, what belief is holding you back? What belief are you committed to letting go of in 2025? And this is the key, how are you going to practice it? What is your practice for being liberated? Join us in the Liberated Life Tribe... Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Links From Today's Show  The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks 411 Gay Hendricks | The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity 055 Love Vs. 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 698 How does the pro-blame bias influence our thinking and judgment? Cory Clark, Behavioral Scientist, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 698, to unpack why we shouldn't fully trust science, how victim mentality creates a dysfunctional dynamic, the dangers of social media-fueled tribalism, and how self-awareness, courage, and meaningful conflict can transform the way we create an honest connection with others in today’s world. "When you have people who identify strongly with a political in-group on the left or right, they start to become very afraid of contradicting beliefs that are strongly held by their in-group based on the fear of being ostracized. Our brains evolved to be averse, trying to avoid anything that could get us ostracized from our social group. 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Why AI is biased according to how it's trained. We shouldn't trust science completely. Why she's dedicated to making scientists more trustworthy. [06:25] The Source of Self-Righteousness 096 Emotional Resilience, Nootropics & Outsmarting The Modern World – Daniel Schmachtenberger What people want to believe is true correlates to what they actually believe is true. Why sometimes we believe something's true because we're scared of something. Self-righteousness is a reaction to someone attacking our moral beliefs. [10:45] What's Behind Victim Mentality Why many traditions are harmful. The reason why most people feel like a victim. How convincing other people that we've been mistreated can provide us with compensation. Why living in large anonymous societies makes victimhood easier. How victim mentality justifies bad behavior towards another person who harmed the victim. Why there is a cost of being in the victim mentality. [16:30] The Connection Between Affluence + Victimhood How 100 years ago people didn't have the conditions to be in victimhood. Why many people think they deserve more, even though they have everything they need. How the meaning of the word "harm" has increasingly become more trivial. [20:15] Victimhood Only Provides Short-Term Advantage 678 Dr. Peter McCullough | Pandemic Lessons Learned: World-Famous Medical Doctor Shares Health Freedom Through Scientific Data, Analysis + Courageous Discourse 503 Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis The short-term benefits of victimhood. Why people don't want to interact with victims because there is an imbalance of reciprocity. How getting what we want right now might not be what we want in the long run. People who feel like victims fall deeper into victimhood if they don't get what they want. [27:40] The Dangers of Social Media King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Douglas Gillette + Robert Moore How social media provides people with easy-to-get attention. Why social media fuels the victim mentality. How people are being monetized by tribalism. [34:40] Gender Dysphoria Why some people go all in on an ideology to signal their commitment to the group. How parents use their children to get status for themselves. Why people are afraid to speak up when their in-group is doing something harmful. How we are still afraid of being ostracised. Why we give too much power to the extremists of the group. [40:05] We Lost The Ability To Have a Conflict Technology and lifestyle evolve much faster than the human body and brain. Why during conflict people judge others in the group. How kindness is essential in navigating disagreement. Why some people are more capable of making resolutions than others. How information that challenges us can make us have a physiological reaction. [48:35] Do You Really Want to Change? How Just trained his nervous system to show up emotionally regulated for his family. Why being disliked by others teaches us something about ourselves. How some people perceive their own behavioral change as undesirable. Why Cory is aware that data doesn't equal facts. [54:40] Can Science Be Humanized? How science is being humanized through social media. Why peer reviews don't allow any subjective opinions. How science can help justify our intuition. Why scientists often dismiss intuition when it's not justifiable. [59:55] Pro-Blame Bias Why people have a bias towards attributing responsibility for negative results. How negative bias towards morally culpable agents serves to protect us. Pro-Blame Bias: The Don Corleone Principle Why most people have the tendency to follow the Don Corleone Principle. Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence How people censor themselves based on fear. Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Power Quotes From The Show Pro-Blame Bias ""People have this tendency more in general where they think bad things are going to happen more than they probably will and they think good things are less likely to happen. So they have this bias toward assuming bad things." - Cory Clark The Downside of Victimhood "There are short-term benefits to victimhood. So if you signal your victimhood, I might give you some money. I might not challenge you. I might let you get away with little things here and there. However, people, in general, don't want to have permanent relationships with people who take and don't give because anytime someone is appealing to someone else for resources, they are now taking advantage of that other person. They've created an imbalance between themselves and that person." - Cory Clark Self-Censorship "Many people are self-censoring their own beliefs and based on an unwarranted fear of what might happen to them if they were to be honest and speak what they truly think openly around people who might disagree with them. 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 697 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares how to navigate the dark night of the soul and create peace within yourself. Today's Question Jared Fekete: How can I understand the role of vice as a guide during my dark night of the soul and how do I integrate the wisdom it offers while moving towards wholeness? I feel I'm in a big moment in my life of self-discovery. Is there a topic that you'd like us to cover in the next AMA episode? Record your message HERE. 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Save 20% with "JOSH20" Listen To Episode 697 As Josh Trent Answers Your Questions [02:50] Dark Night of The Soul Let's get into this question from Jared. Hey Josh, thanks for re-inviting me to submit my question. How can I understand the role of vice as a guide during my dark night of the soul and how do I integrate the wisdom it offers while moving towards wholeness? I feel I'm in a big moment in my life of self-discovery. I've had a crazy weird wild year divorcing my high school sweetheart and I met a woman in an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru in June and I love this woman and we've decided to take a separation just, she's been such a mirror and an amplifier for everything for each other, like for everything that she's going through, everything that I'm going through and I just realized like I have had a porn addiction since I was, you know, a child. And I brought that into my marriage and, you know, hit it. And it's very clear how all that kind of manifested. And I just lost the respect, lost all the libido in my relationship. And then, you know, getting that back in this relationship, I've had like no draw towards it at all. But I have just been chasing women since I divorced. But then I found this woman and Everything changed and I wanted to shape it up and everything. And yeah, I just realized now that we're separated that it just comes back. It's like I want to, I want to fuck, fuck and like not think about it. And, but then I don't want to ruin the chances of going back. So I'm just like so torn right now, you know, and it's just, it feels so childish, but it's also so important. Wow. First of all, I can relate. I've shared many times on the podcast that I have struggled in my past with porn. It is a very, very deep black hole. So my heart goes out to you, Jared, for first of all, having the courage to even share this. How amazing is it, Mar, that people that don't even know me, that just listen to our AMAs or listen to the podcast, have the courage to actually speak in the way that Jared just spoke. I mean, it's just so, I'm smiling and my heart is blasted open because y'all, this is what we need. This is what we're all thirsty for. Like, come on, what are we doing if we're not doing this? So Jared, one thing that I heard you say that really flagged my consciousness is you said this porn addiction has been there. But one thing that you really said that hit hard, you said, I've been chasing women. I've been chasing women. And this is actually a real big challenge because my intention today is to deliver my wisdom and Mara to deliver her wisdom so we can stop the war, right? So if we're chasing something or if we're battling should I or should I not, it can feel like a war, right? Mar, I mean, have you ever had times in your life where you had a war in your mind? You're like, what is this war even about? Does that happen to you? Yeah, it happens quite often. Actually, I remember I mentioned it to you last week in our meeting that I had this inner war between the motivation I wanted to have versus the actions I was actually taking to not do anything to avoid doing the things that I actually wanted to do. So there's like this one part of me that wants it and the other part of me that's trying to sabotage me. So that's the inner war I've been dealing with lately. Thanks for sharing because what you just shared is actually what Jared spoke upon and it's what we all do when we are suffering. We look for the meaning. I believe Jared even said, what is this all about? I divorced my high school sweetheart. I'm going through all this pain. Now, Jared, I'm going to say this with respect. You are being called forth to be a man. That's what this is about. I'm 44. I'm still learning how to be an embodied man. I don't have it completely mastered at all, but at 44, I can tell you that when I look back on my 20-year-old self and even in my early 30s, the reason that I was chasing women and I was addicted to porn, and I've said this many times, but it's borrowed wisdom from Gabor Mate, addiction is a disconnection from self or others, right? Addiction is the opposite of connection. So it's the disconnection, it's the lack of connection to self that it's going to find pseudo connection by running outside of itself. Well, meanwhile, your soul is sitting there asking for a connection. That's what this is really about, right? And so I'll speak with respect, but I'll also speak with conviction here. Your pain is the biggest tool for your growth. So you're experiencing porn as an addictive nature, or you're experiencing chasing women and feeling hollow because every man has this biological drive to replicate. Women have it too. But as men, it's been so normalized in our society by Instagram and Pornhub and all these aspects of how women are literally on such a deep level, such a deep level, the objectification of women, that it not only becomes normalized for men, The sad part is many women fall into thirst traps where they unknowingly normalize it with their behavior. Maybe that's a whole separate podcast. What I'm getting out here is like when you are addicted to porn Jared and when going deep into the aspects of any addiction, you have to keep feeding it more. I remember when I was deep in addiction, I had to keep going to more aggressive scenes. I had to keep watching really gross stuff that I went through a massive purging process over. And actually Mar, when we were doing breath work here during our retreat, there was still residue in there that I ended up sharing with the group at 44 years old that I didn't even know I didn't was there. In other words, I had unconscious incompetence to the residue that pornography created in my signature that I got to belch out and burp out and breathe out through my breathwork ceremony. The reason I'm sharing this I chased women too. And I think it's just this really challenging thing that we experience as men because on one hand, you're a biological being filled with testosterone, right? And so when you're in your twenties, like you're basically a walking testosterone stick where you're just looking to hook up and play and do all these things. These things, am I here to say that conscious sex from that place is wrong? No, I'm not. If you really love someone and you feel like you respect them and you have a unique connection, I think that sex is a beautiful way to experience love or that's why they called lovemaking, right? That's the whole point of it all. But what happens is, in uncertainty, myself and all of us as men, we fall into this trap where we reach for something that we can create as certain. And an orgasm or that deep breath after orgasm, or even the feeling of like the rush you get from catecholamines and epinephrine and norepinephrine using porn, masturbating with porn, or using women to masturbate, because essentially that's what unconscious sex is. You're using a woman's body to masturbate with. The reason why this has been so normalized is because souls like you, Jared, are rare. Souls that want to reflect and go deep into why their behavior is showing up in a way that they despise is rare. Now we're making it less rare... [15:30] Spiritual Maturity I'm just so amazed that the layers of awareness feed into each other. I was on a beach in Maui this year with my mentor Margo, who's been on the show before, and she flipped open a Rumi poem. And Rumi says that the cure for the pain is the pain. So the cure for your pain here is to go into the depths of this pain so fully and feel it so deeply that even in you feeling the pain itself, you can develop the skill set and the spiritual and mental maturity to be able to just lift your hand up to pornography and say no at any time. But the only way you can be forged and you can really figure that out isn't from your head. And this is the part that messed with me more for so long. I put blockers on my computer. I did pornography programs. I even went to like an essay meeting because I thought that, oh, maybe I'm a sex addict. The only thing that really healed me was actually a blessing through ayahuasca that so deep into my pain and gave me such a psychic break where I was throwing up in a bucket on the face of my future son with ayahuasca shouting at me so loud saying, if you continue to watch porn, this is what your life will become. You are vomiting on the soul of your unborn son. That was the severity that I needed. I mean, I can still feel that right now, just talking to you about it. And that was 2019. Do you have to go to ayahuasca to have that experience? No, you don't. And actually, for 2 years, I recovered from that experience, which I've talked about many times on the show and with Paul on our episode. I don't wish that experience on anyone, but what it really taught me was It's in the uncertainty and me embracing the uncertainty of what's going to happen if I continue down this road. Well, I'll tell you, friend, once you have enough behavior that puts you in so much pain, you know exactly what's going to happen if you continue down that road. You don't have any uncertainty. The scary part is who would you become without the porn? Who would you be without that relief valve? Who would you be if you were an alcoholic and you didn't have the drink? Who would you be if you were a workaholic and you didn't have an 80-hour work week? Who would you be if you actually turned and faced your family and said, I'm sorry for the ways that I've shown up and I'm here to make it better? Who would you be? It really boils down to an identity, Jared, because the identity that you get to have is that you're never alone. That's what this is all about, man. You're not alone. It may feel like you're alone. It may feel at times that you're on a cliff with no one to save you. But the reality is, is that that suffering that you're feeling, it's going to pass. You know, in the Bible, there's a phrase, this too shall pass. Because everything that is chaos seeks order. That's the law of the universe. Nothing can be in chaos and perpetuity. So how do you confront this corner? Well, first you realize that the dragon is you. You are the one, the aspect of yourself that you're rejecting actually the fuel source for that dragon, for that monster doing pushups... [30:15] Gather, Apply, Embody There's always this fleeting that whispers in our ear when we lay our head down on the pillow at night. And it usually says something like this, there's more to life than this. There's more to life than just going out to the bar with my friends on the weekend. There's more to life than just following football games and Oprah. There's more to life than just taking care of my pets. There's more to life than this. And I'm not here to shame anyone that doesn't answer the call because the call comes sometimes really softly. Sometimes it'll hit you in the face with a fucking sledgehammer. Like the call will be so severe that you can't not answer it. But the courage that we must develop in order to take an honest look at picking up the phone and answering the call of growth, that's the rub, that's the inflection point. That's where the threshold is breached. And Jared, I'm gonna tell you, man, you've already breached the threshold. You're in the perfect place for your healing. So now you're in this phase of the arc of wellness where you're gathering. You're gathering, man. Now it's time for you to apply, right? Because we gather, we apply, and then we embody. It's on the screen right now. We gather, we apply, and we embody. We gather podcasts, we gather conversations, we gather ayahuasca sessions, and then we actually do the things that ayahuasca showed us. We do the things that our meditation showed us. We apply them. Cause I'll tell you going and doing a plant medicine ceremony could still be in the gathering phase. It doesn't mean you've applied it yet. It's only through the application of wisdom that you become embodied in the wisdom that you're seeking, period, full stop. And we all can fall into this trap. So Jared, the only way out of this is right fucking through it. It's right through it, my man. You are going to meet yourself in the next 1 to 3 years in a way that I'm so excited. I like almost makes me want to cry for you. It's so exciting. You're going to meet a part of yourself that's going to be so loving. And when you finally find that part of yourself through conscious, humble inquiry, you're going to cry. There's going to be a reunion. You're going to feel your own heart again, you're going to be able to hold your younger in ways that nobody ever could. He's waiting for you. Young Jared, young Mar, young Josh, young anyone, they're always there for us. They're always there for us. And all they're asking for is just a handhold, a hug, and a conversation in the same way that if anyone's blessed to be a parent, you know that the same way you treat your children is the same way you treat yourself. It's all the same. The way that I'm triggered by my children is the way I'm triggered by myself in life. The way that I make love with my woman or that I treat her or am triggered by her is the same way that I make life. It's the same way that I'm triggered by life. It's all the same, but we think it's different. We fall into this trap of it being linear, of our growth being linear, but I'm here to tell you it is not linear... 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 696 How did we as a society buy into the illusion of authority? Justin Nault + Abel James join Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 696, to expose how health propaganda, corporate interests, and the illusion of authority have fueled a crisis driven by processed foods and seed oils disguised as nutrition, and how their journeys of personal growth led to finding purpose, radical authenticity, and the power of self-expression. "The #1 reason for the health care epidemic that we have is the illusion of authority. 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Manna is a combination of the highest quality minerals, amino, fulvic, and humic acids, and nutrients gathered from some of the highest and lowest points on the planet —the mountains and the sea—to provide a comprehensive and enhanced mineral matrix. Save 20% with code "JOSH20" In This Episode, Justin Nault + Abel James Uncover: [01:30] The Reality of Reality Shows Justin Nault Abel James My Diet Is Better Than Yours (2016) Abel's experience being on a reality TV show. Big Time (2012) Why Justin participated in a musician reality show. How the producers of reality shows manipulate the participants. [07:15] Creative Expression What motivated Abel to become a musician as a child. How he overcame his shyness to share his joy with others. Why he was recording 8 podcasts per day. Melissa Hartwig Urban [13:05] Becoming a Professional Performer Why Justin wanted to make people laugh as a child. How he realized that art was a fast track for love. Why he didn't love music the same way other musicians do. How he was getting external validation from being a performer. Why he left the music industry. [20:00] The Lifestyle of a Rockstar Tim McGraw How Abel inspired Tim McGraw's band members to live a healthier lifestyle. Why it's important for musicians to put meaning into their songs. The opposite of addiction is connection. [25:30] The Fear of Losing Love Why expression is the quickest path to health. How we're conditioned to not express ourselves. Why we have the desire to judge everything. If we lose love as children, we can't survive. How parents don't have the capacity to hold their children's negative emotions. [30:50] Intuition VS Instinct Why intuition is like a muscle. How Justin intuitively knew his partner was the woman he was going to marry. Why our vulnerability helps others open up. How radical authenticity and self-expression are the medicine. [35:30] Cultivating a Loving Relationship How Abel met his wife through eHarmony. Why they took the time to get to know each other before meeting in person. How he saw light around his wife the first time he met her. Why she didn't want to continue dating Abel after a few days. How working together as a team builds intimacy. We're always becoming a new version of ourselves. [42:25] What Is The Game You Play? Why Josh didn't have a peaceful home base growing up. What led Justin to only date women casually when he was younger. Why romantic relationships are a process of parenting. Scary Close by Donald Miller How he feared intimacy and didn't allow himself to get vulnerable with women. Don Howard Lawler Justin's first experience with plant medicine in Peru. How somatic work helped him release stuck emotions. [51:45] The Career Pursuit 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream Why Abel pursued an intellectual path to secure his future. How corporate work allowed him to play music. Why performing almost every day for multiple years made Abel burn out. How he was working on a project helping children pursue higher education. Why the government didn't want them to improve the educational system. [59:40] The Journey to Health How good food helps students perform better. Why Abel decided to start a blog and a podcast about health. How Abel got himself sick by following his doctor's advice. Why losing everything in the fire and being sick made him turn his life around. [01:07:15] Food Is A Powerful Medicine 1 out of 3 children in the U.S. will be obese. How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek How Justin still struggles with body dysmorphia. Why poor nutrition was preventing him from getting truly fit. The Perfect Human Diet (2012) How the paleo diet helped Justin lose weight. Why the ketogenic diet can stop seizures. Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters [01:16:15] Understanding Health + Disease How Justin started his first company. Robb Wolf Why Justin studied the human body to understand why people get sick. How people accused Justin of spreading misinformation. [01:21:10] The Health Propaganda 071 Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Why Whole30 started to add seed oils to their prepared meals. How the illusion of authority damages our health. Why science in the U.S. is a marketing funnel and a propaganda machine. How the medical school system is not any different from Herbalife. The problem with Whole30 food. [01:29:45] The Dangers of Consuming Seed Oils How prioritizing scale over values takes a business away from its mission. Why seed oils can be used as car fuel. Seed oils are an industrial product that doesn't belong in the kitchen. Why some people don't feel like they've contributed enough to the world. How money is not worth sacrificing other people's well-being. [01:35:25] Can You Really Believe Science? 694 Shawn Wells | Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Mental + Physical Health Why scientists should be open to changing their mind. How Melissa Urban has made science the God. We can cause harm even though we think we're helping. Dr. Jack Kruse and Andrew Huberman, Ph.D (Part 1) How the scientific environment differs from the natural environment. Why most nutrition studies have been done in the 2000s. How seed oils decrease immune function. Why science for many people is an ego play to sound like an authority. [01:45:35] Is It Ever Okay to Eat Seed Oil Products? How Robb Wolf supported the use of seed oils. Why we need to tell each other the truth. How we make exceptions in healthy eating. Why Josh doesn't give his children food that contains seed oils. How Whole30 is taking advantage of people being lazy. [01:53:05] Can Authorities Be Trusted? Max Lugavere How the healthy eating movement has become political. Why people get corrupted when they want more influence and authority. How paleo products became extremely popular during the pandemic. Why people can be unaware of their unconscious manipulative behaviors. Authorities don't always hold the truth. [02:01:00] Money Is Not The Driving Force Why Justin turned down a lot of money to not sacrifice the quality of his products. How big companies need influencers to get access to people. Why Abel always stayed true to the message he's been sharing about health. How the Fat Burning Man's Instagram got blocked during the pandemic. Why Abel stayed focused on his growth and the relationship with his wife. [02:10:50] Fame Affects The People In Your Life How sacrificing our truth gives our peace away. Why people in the past served their community without pursuing big money. How men should consult their fame goals with their family. Why there are consequences to getting famous. [02:15:55] Plant Medicine Experience Why Justin lacked self-love and used external validation as a band-aid. How he stayed alone in the forest, fasting, with no technology, and doing plant medicine. Justin's understanding of God. How plant medicine helped him finally be met with unconditional love. Why the world is full of internal conflict with the self. [02:23:05] Feeling Connected with Everything How psychedelics helped Abel and his wife grow spiritually. Why his experience with ayahuasca was physically challenging. How the shaman was able to see Abel's visions. Why Kambo gave him an allergic reaction but also made him feel connected to everything. How he felt his soul when he almost died of poisoning. [02:32:10] Life Is a Ceremony How Josh felt like he wouldn't make it back from his last ayahuasca ceremony. 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength Why entities reside in us only if we have the space for them. How we put meaning behind being in a ceremony in Peru. [02:38:25] Wellness + Wisdom How physical health is a fundamental pillar of wellness. Why it's important to stay true to our path. How wellness is connected to unconditional self-love. Why experience is the point of living. Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Power Quotes From The Show Food Proved to Support Students' Performance "The lever that the best performing schools use to change student behavior and outcomes is food. It's bringing high-quality food to the school so that when those kids eat it, they perform better." - Abel James Fill Your Cup First "Until we can get to a place non-judgment of self, unconditional safety with self, unconditional love of self, we can't give that to anybody else and we're going to be constantly finding and seeking conflict. And we live in this massive world right now. where conflict never seems to end. All it is is reflection of our internal conflicts." - Justin Nault Seed Oils Are Not Food "Seed oils are an industrial product and so many industrial products have found ways to weasel themselves into our foods, our drinks, and our environment. A little bit here and there is not the end of the world. But if you're saying that this is food, you're incorrect. It's gear oil." - Abel James Links From Today's Show  Justin Nault Abel James My Diet Is Better Than Yours (2016) Big Time (2012) Melissa Hartwig Urban Tim McGraw Scary Close by Donald Miller Don Howard Lawler 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek The Perfect Human Diet (2012) Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters Robb Wolf 071 Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig 694 Shawn Wells | Your Ultimate Guide To Healing Mental + Physical Health Dr. Jack Kruse and Andrew Huberman, Ph.D (Part 1) Max Lugavere 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 695 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares three ways of how we ask for permission and why we've been conditioned to need a permission slip from others. Is there a topic that you'd like us to cover in the next AMA episode? Record your message HERE. 🧠 Better Brain Health Starts Today Save 20% on Mendi.io with the code "JOSH20" + Take control of your attention, learn to avoid distractions, and enhance mental resilience. Human health is at the heart of everything Mendi.io does. By providing cutting-edge brain health technology for home use, they help people like you measure, control, train, and improve brain function. ❄️ Biohack Your Mind & Body with Plunge Ice Baths! 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Click HERE to download for free. *Review The Wellness + Wisdom Podcast & WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Listen To Episode 695 As Josh Trent Answers Your Questions [02:30] Are You Still Asking For A Permission Slip? I love that movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Have you ever seen that? There's many versions. Yeah, I've seen the one with Johnny Depp. That's my favorite. Such a good one. What I loved in that was this metaphor of the golden ticket. You remember the young boy who won the golden ticket and he was impoverished and he went to the factory and out of all the people, Willy Wonka chose him to be the guaranteed running CEO of the Chocolate Factory. And I thought it was such a cool story because I'm like, wow, that's such a beautiful metaphor. All of us are looking at some point in our journey for the golden ticket. We're all looking for this permission slip to let our light shine, to be gold, basically, to be first for ourselves. And I think why we connect with this movie so much, not only that it follows the hero's journey is in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and basically every movie ever is based on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, separation, initiation and return. But I love this metaphor as a jumping-off point for our AMA today, because I think about why that story of the chocolate factory is so inspiring. It's because you see a young boy who is in and in pain and he is gifted this external ticket that allows him to share the love and the humility and just the softness and the pureness that was in his heart. That's why he beat the other children in the movie, because he was so pure and he just wanted so much to share his love of chocolate or whatever our thing is that I believe that's how we really ask for permission. There's 3 ways I think we ask for permission. And let me know if you can relate to this. Are you in your life currently so overloaded and so stressed that you feel like you're waiting for the golden ticket? You feel like you're waiting for someone or something or something else to come in and give you that deep breath of love in your heart and give you the validation of your external circumstance, giving you what you think you need before you actually reorganize yourself because it works backwards, y'all. And we talked about this on so many shows. Gosh, Mar, I feel like it's the last 5 shows we've put out that this same concept of you reorganize yourself, you do the healing within yourself, and then the world reorganizes itself around you. Yet, because of our training and because we intellectualize permission and empowerment, we tend to wait for something outside of ourselves to give us permission to go and to grow and to do the thing regardless what's around us. I can relate to this. I was $80, 000 in debt when I started this podcast. I put my mom in a mental home. I broke up with a woman I thought I was going to be with, and I was having health issues, and I got fired from a safe corporate job. It was like 5 uppercuts all at once. It was not exactly the proving ground, the perfect place for me to start a podcast. But I did it anyways, I gave myself permission. And this is really what I want to explore today. There's 3 ways that I think we allow permission in our life. Number 1, we give ourselves permission, either through joy or pain, because we just love ourselves and trust ourselves, and believe in ourselves enough to do the thing that our soul wants us to do. The second way that we ask for permission, which is unfortunately too much, is that we ask others around us who we think are better than us, or who we think have the golden ticket or the answer, we want the permission slip from them. Remember when you're in school, Mar, and you'd have to like raise your hand to go to the bathroom, and you get a little permission slip to go to the bathroom? Or if you're late to class, or if you went to the doc, you get what's called a permission slip. Do you remember that back in the day? Same thing in Czechoslovakia, you get permission slips? Not exactly. Like, if you wanted to go to the bathroom, you would just raise your hand and they would send you to the bathroom. You don't need a ticket, you just go. Isn't that crazy? You have to ask for permission, right? And I get that, because my son tries to delay bedtime for like 3 hours. So at some point I'm like, okay, let's just go to bed. Schools have to do the same thing. But we ask for permission so much because we don't have the agency of choice or of trust. We haven't built that through life experience yet. And then the third way, really that's honestly the most important way, which is piggyback of number 2, is to get permission from God. To get permission from God. I am not a religious man per se, but I really love parts of the Bible. And Mark 11:24 in the Bible says, therefore I say unto you, whatever things ye so desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them. And we learned in the episode with Daniele Kathryn Hage, that there's a piece of that that's missing. And we'll link this in the show notes today for our episode with Daniele. It was really amazing. The most misunderstood phrase from Mark 11:24 is, in alignment with God's will. So thank God and praise you if you've received it and share with God what you're willing to do upon receiving your prayer that you're going to be of service for and humbly ask if it is in God's will that this transpires. You can see the missing piece here, right? And this is what people get wrong about the LOA is they're like, I want the money, I want the car. They're looking for their outside experience to change before they believe that they have it, before they act as if they are embodied in their prayer. So 3 ways we ask for permission. Number 1, we love ourselves enough to develop the courage to give ourselves permission. Number 2, which so many people fall into, we ask our teachers, society, school, people we think are better than us for permission. And then really most importantly, number 3, we get permission from God. We get permission from God only by having time in solitude and in prayer and in being still enough to know that we are being granted our dream and granted our desires by God, because we have shared with God and ourselves what we're gonna do to be of service once we get the permission slip us to do the thing we wanna do. So, there are 1 of these 3 that I think you can relate to... [24:40] The Journey to Liberation I feel like the greatest gift we can give is to liberate ourselves. That's what the Liberated Life tribe is all about. And so if you're listening to this, if you're feeling this, and you want to have conversations like this, head over to liberatedlife.com and sign up for waiting list because we're launching this community in 2025. You know, liberation, it only comes from giving yourself permission and a connection to a higher power. I've never met, to quote Paul Chek again, it's hard to find an atheist in a foxhole because as soon as people are confronted with their death, they all of a sudden have a connection to God. They're all of a sudden humbled enough to reach out to something outside of them. And so if all of us can give ourselves permission, have divine permission from God, because God only hears yes anyways, look at all the spiritual teachings, not just from Paul Chek, but from Wayne Dyer to Dr. John Demartini to even like Wallace Waddles or people from the early 1900s with the New Thought Movement. They're all saying the same thing. The universe God only hears yes. That's why in NLP And that's why in our language and in life, it's so important to actually speak the affirmative of what you are desiring or what you know is already true. If I on this podcast say, you know, I'm trying to be a good podcast host and I kind of want to create a Zalt for you to change your life, you'd stop listening. That's not trustable. But if I say I'm honest in my conviction about my confidence to give you the wisdom that I've learned in 44 years and share global wisdom that's impacted people on a grand scale so that you can make it practical in your life, that's more trustable. Because I'm speaking in the affirmative, the words I use hold so much power. Like if you get one thing from this AMA, just get this, the words you say to yourself and the things that you do for yourself in private, they show up in public. They show up in public. If you eat a bunch of junk food, it shows up in public as extra weight. If you're very hard on yourself and very judgmental yourself, you're unconsciously gonna show that to other people. You're going to be judgmental of other people in public. If your narrative to yourself is self-loathing and non-appreciative and self-harming, oh my god you're so fat I can't believe you did this, how are you going to do it, blah, blah, blah. These are all things that'll actually show up in public. And that's why when people go on a stage, maybe you felt this before, Mar, when you see a speaker on a stage, they say all the perfect things. They know all the marketing jargon. They know exactly how to present themselves. But you just can't feel it in your gut that they're really saying the truth. It's because they haven't embodied it yet. They're not wearing it yet. It's not in their cells yet. And that's why when I was speaking at the Mark Groves event, I started the whole talk by saying, Hey y'all, I don't exactly know what I'm gonna say today and that's good because last I had these crazy thoughts like who am I to be on stage and blah, blah, blah. And I'm here to tell you that it's in the act that you become liberated. We share in community, we become liberated in community. So this is the permission that I'm giving myself first and all of us is to just fumble forward and to just figure it out forward and to start with the pure intention and the end goal in mind and give yourself permission and get permission from God and stop, please stop asking for permission from other people to do the thing that makes your soul feel like it's lit on fire. Just stop, just stop. Like, you don't have to do that anymore. Instead, give yourself permission, have a practice, even if it's 1 minute a day, 5 minutes a day. Like for me, it's in the sauna, or sometimes in the cold plunge, or sometimes it's in holding my son, or I don't know when you find moments with God. What's one moment with God that you find where you're actually praying and getting permission from God to do what it is you want to do? It might be a big moment for you, it might be a different moment. What's a moment that you find yourself where connected to God?... 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 694 How can you increase your capacity for stress and build mental resilience? Shawn Wells, the World's Greatest Formulator + Health Optimization Expert, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 694, to share about his journey to healing, self-love, and resilience, how vulnerability and balancing masculine and feminine energies have deepened his relationships and personal growth, and why paraxanthine is the caffeine 2.0. that is going to change the way society thinks, feels, and acts. "When I finally believed that I could have love, that I'm worthy of love, that love isn't necessarily fleeting, and that I can feel whole internally, all of a sudden I went from suicide to having a purpose." - Shawn Wells 25% off UPDATE | Paraxanthine Drink The Next Era of Energy: Be alert, not overstimulated. Paraxanthine powers a wakefulness you'll actually enjoy. Upgrade your attention span with ingredients that enhance concentration and get a dopamine boost with paraxanthine and powerful nootropics. Paraxanthine elevates you beyond the baseline in a way that caffeine simply cannot. It's one of the three metabolites of caffeine and is the compound that produces the energetic and focus effects we love from caffeine. The other two metabolites, theobromine and theophylline are excluded in order to eliminate the side effects of jitters, anxiety, overstimulation, and the dreaded caffeine crash. 25% off with code "JOSH25" In This Episode, Shawn Wells Uncovers: [01:30] Relationships Need Healing Shawn Wells 618 Shawn Wells + Daniel Solomons | Paraxanthine: UPDATE Your Energy + Vitality Without Caffeine 359 Shawn Wells: Ingredients For Healing, Self Love, & Mental Health How he's healing his inner child and relationships. What helped him get away from dating apps and start focusing on himself. Why the relationship with his fiancée started as friendship. How they're preventing distrust and disconnection as a couple. [08:45] The Power of Vulnerability Why our intentions are important. How Josh inspires Shawn as a human being. Why leaders hold lanterns. How vulnerability establishes trust. Why even the most successful people suffer alone. How Shawn has been connecting to his feminine and masculine side. [17:05] Learning to Love Yourself How the wound is where we serve from. Why Shawn became successful thanks to his struggles. How there is always more for us to chase. If we're not whole within ourselves, we can easily be destroyed. [22:30] How Lack of Self-Love Shows Up in Life Why Shawn was extremely sick and suicidal. How he was gaslighting himself and his body through drugs and caffeine. Why he had no self-love because it wasn't modeled to him in his childhood. How being bullied at school ended up with Shawn bullying himself. Why he didn't have any peace in his life. [27:50] You Can Only Blame Yourself for Your Problems 447 Josh Trent with Dr. Doug Brackmann | I am Driven: Embodying Higher Frequencies to Live Your Purpose Why we need to hit rock bottom in order to grow. How we can't blame anybody but ourselves for what we're going through. Why being nice is not the same as being kind. [32:35] How to Take Care of Your Physical Wellness Why we're not broken, we need to be reminded that we're perfect. How physical wellness is essential for spiritual development. Why doctors don't know how different medications interact with each other. How medicating our physical symptoms is not the solution. Why we're no longer connected to God, nature, and each other. How biohacking was helping Shawn survive. [43:05] Allow Yourself Grace Why we should express more love and appreciation. Everything has a purpose, even our mistakes. How hypnosis helped Shawn resolve a childhood trauma. Why he was trying to prove his worth to other people because he didn't believe he could be loved. [54:00] Trusting The Divine Purpose 686 Mark Groves | Your Triggers Are Your Teachers: How To Answer The Call of Self-Mastery In Relationships + Life Steven Young We can be the parent to our inner child. Why Josh honors the pain that he's been through. There is a divine purpose behind our struggles. [59:05] Science Is An Art Why true science and spirituality should be used together. How science has become a type of religion. Why Shawn is always open to learning a new way. How science has been weaponized. Why science is an art that's meant to be explored. [01:05:25] How to Increase Your Capacity for Stress 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream 096 Emotional Resilience, Nootropics + Outsmarting The Modern World – Daniel Schmachtenberger Why there is no quick fix. The importance of taking care of our mental health to get out of the state of overwhelm. The ENERGY Formula by Shawn Wells Why challenges increase our capacity for stress. How understanding hormesis can help us manage our stress levels. [01:14:50] Is Extreme Physical Training Bad for You? How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek How extreme physical training was causing health problems for Shawn. Why overtraining is under-recovery. How the best professional athletes often struggle mentally. A 70-Year-Old Billionaire’s Definition of Success Why being loved by our children is the best reward. [01:21:35] Paraxanthine: The Catalyst of Creation How Shawn saw in a ceremony that paraxanthine would change people's lives. Why paraxanthine helps our brain stay young. How paraxanthine decreases oxidative stress levels. Why people are addicted to caffeine. How paraxanthine is changing how our society thinks and acts. [01:31:20] Healing From Caffeine Addiction Why physiological and mental resilience are tied to each other. How Josh abused caffeine when he was younger. Why healing one wound gives us a capacity for more healing. How paraxanthine helps us get into a flow state. Why we're exhausted from not following our natural rhythm and not having a connection to God. [01:39:25] Alcohol + Caffeine: Good or Bad? Why the effects of alcohol and caffeine provide a pseudo-relief. How caffeine and alcohol served humanity to evolve. When we're hurting, we need something to provide support. We're here to learn and evolve as souls. [01:49:55] What Gives You Energy? Why we should keep track of the things that give us the energy to become successful. The importance of surrounding ourselves with the right people. Why being conscious of what we allow in creates a change in our lives. Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Power Quotes From The Show Paraxanthine Is Going to Change The World "Paraxanthine is the caffeine 2.0. It's going to change the way society thinks, feels, and acts. It's going to be the replacement for caffeine where it's been an abusive relationship for millennia." - Shawn Wells What Is Science? "Science is meant to be empowering. Science is meant to be a journey. Science is meant to be open-ended. I believe that science is an art that's meant to be explored. We never truly get an answer. It's a journey with no definitive beginning or end. And we get to explore and find what makes sense for us, that's science." - Shawn Wells The Benefits of Paraxanthine "Paraxanthine doesn't only give you energy. It increases the nitric oxide to the brain, glutathione, catalase, BDNF neuroplasticity, cognitive flexibility, serotonin, acetylcholine, and dopamine. All the ways that your brain could be younger, it's doing. So it's no longer a come-at-a-cost ingredient like caffeine. It's the ingredient that is going to help us reshape our society, if we let it, in a very healthy way." - Shawn Wells Links From Today's Show  Shawn Wells 618 Shawn Wells + Daniel Solomons | Paraxanthine: UPDATE Your Energy + Vitality Without Caffeine 359 Shawn Wells: Ingredients For Healing, Self Love, & Mental Health 447 Josh Trent with Dr. Doug Brackmann | I am Driven: Embodying Higher Frequencies to Live Your Purpose 686 Mark Groves | Your Triggers Are Your Teachers: How To Answer The Call of Self-Mastery In Relationships + Life Steven Young 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream 096 Emotional Resilience, Nootropics + Outsmarting The Modern World – Daniel Schmachtenberger The ENERGY Formula by Shawn Wells How To Eat, Move And Be Healthy! by Paul Chek A 70-Year-Old Billionaire’s Definition of Success   Josh's Trusted Products | Up To 40% Off Shop All Products Biohacking⁠ MANNA Vitality - Save 20% with code JOSH20 HigherDOSE - 15% off with the code JOSH15 PLUNGE - $150 off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE SaunaSpace - 10% off with discount code JOSH10 Ultrahuman Ring Air - 10% off with code JOSH Wellness Test Kits FertilityWize Test by Clockwize - Save 10% with code JOSH Tiny Health Gut Tests - $20 off with discount code JOSH20 VIVOO Health Tests - Save 30% off with code JOSH SiPhox Health Blood Test - Save 15% off with code JOSH Nutrition + Gut Health Organifi - 20% off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE SEED Synbiotic - 25% off with the code 25JOSHTRENT Paleovalley - 15% off with the link only EQUIP Foods - 15% off with the code JOSH15 DRY FARM WINES - Get an extra bottle of Pure Natural Wine with your order for just 1¢ Just Thrive - 20% off with the code JOSH Legacy Cacao - Save 10% with JOSH when you order by the pound! 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 693 Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Host and Wellness Force Media CEO, Josh Trent, shares how we can honor motherhood and our mothers, no matter how they raised us, to show them our love and appreciation. Is there a topic that you'd like us to cover in the next AMA episode? Record your message HERE. 🧖‍♀️ Experience Red Light Therapy at Home Save 10% on your SaunaSpace order with the code "JOSH10" Unlike the traditional methods, near-infrared light works with your body’s biology to create radiant heat from the inside out. By using near-infrared’s shorter wavelengths in a way that mimics natural sunlight, the light penetrates deeply to raise your core temperature faster.   🎃 Limited Edition: Gold Pumpkin Spice from Organifi Save 20% with code "WELLNESSFORCE" on everyone's favorite Fall treat is here! Pumpkin Spice is more than just a taste phenomenon: it’s a portal directly into the nostalgia of fall. 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Click HERE to download for free.   *Review The Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to WIN $150 in wellness prizes! *Join The Facebook Group Listen To Episode 693 As Josh Trent Answers Your Questions [01:45] Honoring Mothers Today, I would love to be able to go into the depths of motherhood. Now I'm not a mom and I never will be. And by the way, never will anyone with an XY chromosome. It just won't exist. Men are biologically different and different because we're here to serve a purpose that we can honor in other episodes. Of course, I'm here to honor fathers. I'm a father. But today I really wanted to give grace and respect and homage to mothers. This world that we live in, Mar, there is so much propaganda and so much really conditioning from the media and let's just call it out for what it is, the woke mind virus that Paul Levy described as Wetiko or the mind virus that native Americans as a projection of the darkness of self, either individually or collectively. And I feel like what we're experiencing with RFK coming to the helm and the health awareness that's gonna sweep our nation at least, and that's gonna trickle over into Europe, is just this ownership of nature and an ownership of self. That just feels so good to say out loud. The fact that mothers are going to have even more spaciousness to be real mothers in America and in Europe and everywhere. But it starts with narrative, it starts with belief... [05:10] Tap Into The Motherly Love Yes, this is a podcast for mothers. This is also a podcast for women who have mothers. And by the way, if you're here, you have one. They're either with us or, you know, they've transitioned to another dimension, another life. And so I just want to honor my mom to start this. And so wherever you're listening, just put your hand on your heart and just feel the warmth of your heart in your hand. And just, if you're driving, just pull over or if you're walking in the park or whatever you're doing, and just close your eyes for a moment and just feel the warmth of your hand on your heart. And I want you to go on an imaginary timeline way back to when your mom first put her hand on your heart. And just feel how loved you were then. Because she loves you the exact same way now. She loved you before you were born. She loved you when you were just an emanation of a star seed. She's loved you since the time you took your first breath. And you are loved in the exact same way by your mother, whether she's here in physical form or not, you are so deeply loved by her. And just trust that that's real. And just take a cold breath with your hand in your heart just feel the warmth of your mother's hand on your chest, penetrating through your skin, going all the way down to your heart. And just be grateful that you are here, that you've had a mother who loved you enough to birth you into this world that didn't get caught up in the propaganda that my body, my choice means reckless sex and hedonism and multiple abortions. Just be grateful that you're here. And also just have compassion in this moment your mom. My mom struggled with bipolar the majority of her life. It still does. And medications are really just for energy and expression that couldn't come out, that didn't have the space or the courage or the safe place to come out. And a lot of moms that deal with bipolar or emotional issues or choosing abusive husbands or choosing dads that choose to leave, all of this, all of this, all of this has nothing to do with the fact that your mom loves you so much that she into this world. She carried you in her body for so many months so that you could draw your first breath. And just let that for a moment, just let that be enough that you're loved so much that you were gifted life through a woman. And just how special that is, how incredibly sacred and beautiful that is, and just hold that in your heart and take a big deep breath and breathe it out. And maybe this is just the one piece of gratitude you could have today, the fact that you were born and your mother loved you enough that she'd carry you in her body and bring you into the world. And now just send that love to your mom wherever she is. Maybe she's with you, maybe she's still here, maybe she's left the planet. And just say thank you, mom. Thank you, mom, for doing everything that you've done so that I could eat, so that I could nurse from your breast, so that I could be nourished by you. And just feel how special it of a mother and that your mother has always done the best she can with the level of consciousness and awareness that she's been brought. Because this is the ultimate truth. You don't need a strategy, you don't need a PDF, you don't need the top 5 ways to love your mom. Just connect with the same heat in your hand that rests on your heart mom touched you for the first time when you were born. And just let that be enough for a moment. And just let the power and the love of that wash over your entire nervous system and just say thank you mom, thank you for being there for me, for taking care of me when I was sick, for loving me when I didn't know how to love myself, for showing me all the ways that I could express myself with joy, or for teaching me by its opposition because I always wanted to experience joy and you showed me the way that I could not experience it. So thank you for its opposite. Because regardless of the trials and the tribulations that we have with our mothers, the fact is that they loved us enough to bring us here. And so, when we have attacks on motherhood and when we have gender dysphoria and vocabulary and nomenclature that are supposed to be for everyone. Well, I'm here to tell you if you stand for everything and everyone, then you fall for anything. And I think what's most important when we talk about this conversation of truly honoring mothers, it is to just give homage and respect and reverence for what it really means to be a mother. This selfless, caring, nurturing, beautiful being with her own imperfections that were gifted to her by her mother. It's just so beautiful. So instead of fighting against gender dysphoria or fighting against this narrative, which really is you feeding it, Stand for motherhood and stand for women instead. Because if we keep fighting what words can you use to describe breastfeeding? What words can you use to describe a mother? A mother is a mother. That's it. There's nothing else. Yes, it's biological, but it's also God-given. It's also from nature... [20:10] Let Go of The Story You're Telling Yourself When we're young, we have such an underdeveloped ego that we think there's something wrong with us. We think that our parents loving us in the best way they know how, which by the way, most of them weren't loved by their parents either. And I say most because it's most. That we create stories to cope that were not lovable, that were not accepting or worthy of love. And it's all a lie. It's a complete fabrication that the ego creates to make sure that we can tough it out as a lone wolf and make it alone. This is why the hashtag boss babe, boss bitch exists. And this is why all the men that have millions of dollars in their bank account still have an empty heart. It's because in their core, they don't actually feel worthy of love and they don't know how to give that love because don't have it to give. So it's these small exercises today where we just honor mothers, just let go of all the fucking story for like 1 minute and just love her and forget all the projections and all the trauma and all the wounding and just imagine what it's gonna be like if God gives you a child that you can hold against your breast and how special it'll be for you to put your hand on that child and how much done as a woman to be able to show up for that child so loving and so imperfect yourself, which is probably the same thought your mom had. When she brought you into the world, she probably said, Mary Padileno, my mom, probably said, I'm gonna love this child, I'm gonna be the best mother, I'm gonna do anything I can for this baby. And then their stuff came in. But see, the difference between us and them is that we are empowered with such radical knowledge that they never had access to. This podcast brings that, our conversation brings that. So if anything, call your mom. Call your mom today and tell your lover, you don't even have to get into the stories because they're there, right? And you'll get to them. But call your mom, send your mom a text, send your mom a card, connect with her, love her because society only wins this narrative of society where mothers are chest feeders and mothers don't exist and gender doesn't exist. That narrative only wins if we feed it, if we fight against it. It's like Paul Levy says, the seed of Wetiko has encapsulated within it the solution to the very virus itself. Always, always, always, encapsulated in every question is the answer. So when we say, how do I love my mom? I've been through so much trauma, she didn't love me the way that I wanted. How do I love my mom? You just love your mom. It's in the question itself. So how do I do the work on myself so that I can pierce through all the generational bullshit that's gotten the way that she put on to me from her mother and then from my great great and then from my great because all that stuff lives in our body. A really great teaching from this is the Paul Chek episode that's coming next week, where he said that Carl Jung states that the unfinished business of parents will be finished by their children. And it's true on a cellular level, on an energetic level. So yeah, I mean, it would be great if our moms could hang out in a shop and just laugh and hug each other, and we could hug them, and just having these moments of healing, having these moments of somatic connection without story, Without all the stuff that's there, because we know it's there. It's there. But can we just honor mothers?... Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Links From Today's Show  690 Mary Ruddick | Tribal Wisdom in Modernity: How Birthing + Gut Microbiome Impact Your Entire LIFE 503 Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis 692 Paul Chek | Spirit Gym: How To Find The Truth of Your Soul + Live Your Dream Good Will Hunting (1997) Josh's Trusted Products | Up To 40% Off Shop All Products Biohacking⁠ MANNA Vitality - Save 20% with code JOSH20 HigherDOSE - 15% off with the code JOSH15 PLUNGE - $150 off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE SaunaSpace - 10% off with discount code JOSH10 Ultrahuman Ring Air - 10% off with code JOSH Wellness Test Kits FertilityWize Test by Clockwize - Save 10% with code JOSH Tiny Health Gut Tests - $20 off with discount code JOSH20 VIVOO Health Tests - Save 30% off with code JOSH SiPhox Health Blood Test - Save 15% off with code JOSH Nutrition + Gut Health Organifi - 20% off with discount code WELLNESSFORCE SEED Synbiotic - 25% off with the code 25JOSHTRENT Paleovalley - 15% off with the link only EQUIP Foods - 15% off with the code JOSH15 DRY FARM WINES - Get an extra bottle of Pure Natural Wine with your order for just 1¢ Just Thrive - 20% off with the code JOSH Legacy Cacao - Save 10% with JOSH when you order by the pound! 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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 692 What does it mean to experience God and how to embrace pain as a teacher to deepen your spiritual growth? Paul Chek, Founder of the CHEK Institute, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 692, to dive deep into the true nature of GOD and the difference between believing in God and experiencing God, how love acts as the essence and expression of divinity, why generational healing, plant medicine, and lucid dreams can unlock deeper understanding of the soul, and the importance of purpose-driven action in aligning with divine consciousness and leading a life of purpose. "Your awakening and your realization of what God is will astound you and it will keep you so inspired to keep going because you'll realize the more you understand about the magic and the mystery of God the more magical and mysterious life becomes and the more exciting it is to be alive." - Paul Chek 15% Off Spirit Gym Spirit Gym, created by Paul Chek, is a transformative program aimed at holistic health, spiritual growth, and self-discovery. The program focuses on teaching individuals how to unlock their soul's purpose and achieve true fulfillment in life. The program offers a unique blend of principles that guide participants through mental, emotional, and spiritual development. It emphasizes changing one's life story, fostering creativity, and developing deeper self-awareness. Spirit Gym also offers tools for breaking free from limiting behaviors, like addiction and depression, and cultivating a life of love, joy, and purpose. Paul Chek's approach integrates the mind, body, and spirit to promote healing and self-realization. 15% off with code "JOSH15" In This Episode, Paul Chek Uncovers: [01:30] What Is God? Paul Chek Paul Chek | All Is God - 3 Part Series Be Here Now by Ram Dass Why people misunderstand the word "God." How Paul helped Josh find a new way to approach life. Why religions have created the wrong idea of God. The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse Why we can't have a spiritual experience if we're not open to the mystery of God. How all belief systems are closed. [11:00] Do You Believe or Do You Know? The difference between believing and knowing. Why Paul doesn't "believe" in God. IG reel @paul.chek How Paul shows people how to engage consciousness. Why the birth of his first son was a profound spiritual experience. How his father made him feel like he was in a prison camp. [20:35] Trusting The Voice of God How a voice told Paul that his life would be one of purpose. Why massage was the only thing that helped relieve his asthma as a child. How he had a natural gift for massaging. Spirit Gym - 15% off with code "JOSH15" [29:00] Becoming One with The Universe Why many people experience God through pain and suffering. What it means to become one with the universe. Why the soul is in possession of our body. How pain makes us question if we're going to die. Why monks use torture to achieve a conscious out-of-the-body experience. [32:55] Plant Medicine Experience Why Paul has done over 1,000 plant medicine ceremonies. How sacred dance can be a tool for experiencing samadhi. Why some people experience fear in plant medicine ceremonies. Our souls can only have transcendent experiences that match the level of consciousness we are at. The definition of wisdom according to Paul. How plant medicine can be a karmic experience. [41:05] Connecting with God Why God is the only being that can create and sustain itself. How God is an idea that becomes an experience. Why Paul had one of the deepest experiences of God through Tai Chi. [47:45] Love Is God Why love is the verb of God. How religion gets us trapped in our head. Why giving love honestly and receiving love openly is the path to knowing God. The beauty of love is that it never works. How loving everybody else and not loving ourselves creates disease in the body. [52:35] The Power of Dreams Why God is people which means it doesn't utilize people. How every single creation that exists is unique. Why the characters in our dreams are an aspect of ourselves until proven otherwise. How God dreams novelty into existence. The purpose of lucid dreaming. How Paul was shown that he didn't need to be afraid of death. [01:00:30] God Is Ever-Present Why we are in an endless game. Love is experienced by all sentient beings. How people's auras are overlapping and creating a third being. [01:05:45] Perception of Time Why Josh fears that one day he won't be able to hold his children. Energy can't be destroyed, only transformed. Salicrow and Angie Chek: Death and Beyond  How our sense of time can create false narratives. What happens after we die. How Paul taught her sister to talk to her deceased husband. Why the biggest challenge for a soul is being addicted to matter. [01:21:55] Spiritual Alchemy How alchemists discovered that the spirit is affecting matter. Why alchemy is the science of what's animating the body. How after we die we can connect with our loved ones through dreams. How Josh experiences unconditional love. Why unconditional love is not easy. [01:31:10] Evolved Consciousness How Yogananda made a professional runner believe in God by outrunning him. Why we need to be brave in order to see what's been in front of us the entire time. How remote viewing is only accessible if we believe it's possible. Why spiritual development is figuring out who we are. [01:38:35] Leaders Hold Lanterns How people fall into the ego trap when they say "I'm God." Why the life people lead shows us the truth about the healing they need. How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek Why working too much on our spirituality can make us resent it. How having two wives has been an accelerator of Paul's spiritual development. Why we learn from the people that we spend time with. When we say "I know that," it's the ego stopping us from mastery. How Paul creates independence in his students to not need him in the future. [01:49:00] Let The Pain Guide You How pain shows us that we haven't resolved the root cause of the problem. Why we project our own wounds onto other people. How our body is telling us what's going on inside. 668 Evolve Your Consciousness: The True Healing Work To BE An Adult, Learn How To Love + Live A Thriving Life | Margo Running How pain navigates us to go in the right direction. [01:56:35] Healing Generational Wounds How Paul speaks to the souls in the Spirit Gym. When we dream together, we grow together. How the environment impacts our epigenetics. Why our body can make adjustments when we change our diet. How the group soul is connected to us at all times. Why we carry the unresolved energy from the previous generations. It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn How children are tasked with the unfinished business of their parents. [02:10:50] Paul's Relationship to Women Why realizing that our problems are passed onto our children can motivate us to heal. How Paul found out that he wasn't happy in a monogamous relationship. Why chasing after women could be a pattern he got from his father. How knowing his purpose helps Paul take actions that are aligned with it. Why men who lie to their wives get physical symptoms from the fear of getting caught. [02:22:30] Getting The Second Wind in Life Why chasing women can get in the way of walking a path of purpose. How we're blind to our shadow side. Why we shouldn't rush to find our soulmate. A soulmate is a mirror sent from God. Why having children gave Paul a push to continue the work. How to use our heart to feel what we know. Leave Wellness + Wisdom a Review on Apple Podcasts Power Quotes From The Show The Unfinished Business of Your Parents "Whatever you have not resolved in this lifetime will go with you and your children will have to work on it. This is why Jung said, all children are tasked with the unfinished business of their parents' lives. Even if your kids didn't know about it, they're going to have to carry it out because your soul is still in resonance with their genes. So everything that's unresolved in you actually is like a flow of desire that's coming through the psychic energy that the DNA of their bodies is picking up because they're in resonance with you as their parent." - Paul Chek Should You Take Plant Medicine? "People should not do psychedelic journeys either when they're psychologically not ready, they're doing it for the wrong reasons, they're being pressured into it, or they're doing it with the wrong people that have the wrong motives because you can use a psychedelic just as effectively to enter the dark arts as you can the light arts or the healing arts." - Paul Chek Where Are You Living Untrue to Reality? "Your soul only opens the door to the transcendent experiences that are needed for you to awaken to the truth of yourself at the level of our spiritual development that you're at. So you have a God experience when you're ready for it. And until then you have an awareness of all the parts of you that you've put energy into that are blocking you from realizing the truth of yourself. 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For over 40 years, Paul’s unique, integrated approach to coaching and education has changed the lives of many of his clients, his students, and their clients. By treating the body as an integrated system of systems and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has been successful where traditional approaches have consistently failed. Author of numerous books, videos, and professional development courses, he is the creator of Spirit Gym, founder of the CHEK Institute, and the host of the popular Spirit Gym with Paul Chek podcast. Website Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok X