Welcome, everybody. I'm so thrilled that you're here. For so many different reasons, I can tell you that I've been doing this work for a very long time, and I think what you're about to learn today will be extremely helpful for you to get the next level in your life. I've been doing some research on instagram previous to this, but would just like to kind of see show hands
here on Zoom. Who here feels like no matter what you do, no matter what you do somatic experiencing internal family systems, life coaching, NLP, neuro Linguistic programming, health coaching, you go gluten free, dairy free, soy free, FODMAP, yada yada, yada, yada. And yet the next level emotions seem to block you. Who's ever had that happen? Let me see if I show hands or just say yes if that's you okay as well.
You know that you are in the right place. If you keep falling back into old patterns and you don't know what to do, we're going to be talking about today, and I would be shocked. You did not have a crystal clear understanding about why you do that and also what to do moving forward. If you tried everything else and nothing seems to be working, that is what we specialize in. My name is Mastin Kip. If we're just meeting
for the first time, it's lovely to meet you. I'm the creator of Functional Life Coaching, which is the world's first and best and longest lasting form of trauma informed coaching. Pioneered the field of trauma informed coaching. I'm a best selling author. I have over 20,000 hours working with clients in this space to help them resolve emotional blocks and exceed and reach their next level, their goals. And I am not a therapist, so we're super clear about that. I'm a coach. I'm interested in your
high performance. I'm interested in you helping get the next level, and I'm also interested in helping you do that in a holistic and integrated way. So if you've been doing lots of personal growth work or lots of trauma work, lots of coaching, lots of therapy or spirituality or energy healing or business trainings, or may I even add into the mix now,
longevity. If you've been doing glutathione and vitamin C and hyperbaric and you've been doing cryo and all the different things and you're still stuck, I want you to know that if you're not completing your goals, if you've been feeling frustrated or guilty or overwhelmed or unclear, you are absolutely in the right place. We have a very smart group of people who tend to come to my work, which means you might have done some trauma work before. Anyone here done trauma work before?
Anybody here think you don't have trauma? That's cool, too. Just going through challenging times. No problem. We'll just call that for now, okay? You might have some stress in your life. Okay? Maybe you don't know if you have trauma. Maybe you're doing lots of trauma work. Maybe you've been thinking you have trauma. You're not entirely
sure. Maybe you have an expert PhD in your trauma history, but you're still feeling stuck, or you've been doing the coaching, and for whatever reason, these emotional blocks seem to stop you and maybe even feels like everybody else is getting it right. But you. The good news is that you do not have to stay stuck. There is a reason why you've been stuck, and it's not your fault, as you'll learn shortly. Okay, so as I've shared,
I have over 20,000 hours working with people. I don't have any certifications or degrees. I train therapists. I train psychiatrists. I train psychotherapists. I can go toe to toe and debate the best in the trauma neuroscience field. We push that field forward.
And what I have is a knowledge base, and I'm like an encyclopedia of knowledge in a lot of ways, but I also have a lot of time working with people and the difference between what I do and what academia does, which I love academia, but if my stuff doesn't work, I go out of business. So our stuff has
to work. And we've been doing this for over 15 years, right? And when we meet people, usually they're doing the retreats, the seminars, the therapies the biohacking, the psychedelics, the meditation, the spiritual work, the self healing, but they still feel stuck, and it's not your fault. Okay? That it's not your fault. And that's what I really want you to start
to understand. Is there's a reason why? So if you're still doing the work and not getting the results or you're not getting results fast enough or you feel stuck, the reason might not be why you think. In fact, let me just see if I show hands or just let me know in the comments. Who here feels like if you think if you're doing this work right, you shouldn't be getting triggered or you shouldn't be having emotional blocks, you might think that that's you just
show hands here on Zoom. Just so I can understand, who here feels like you want to amplify the positive emotions, it'd be really nice not to feel the triggers. That'd be so nice. So many triggers. Okay, so here's what we need to learn. Okay? What if I told you that, yes, we're going to talk about how to amplify positive feelings? Okay? But what if I told you that your triggers, your emotional blocks are the gateway to your next level? But what if that were true? What if we've been avoiding
some of the most important data? I respect people who help you feel different emotions, whether it's Dr. Joe Dispenza and the quantum healing that he does, which is really beautiful, or Tony Robbins, who talks about changing your story in your state. The problem is, because it's not trauma informed, what ends up happening is we end up bypassing parts of us that have the most wisdom that is in the frustration, the avoidance, the triggers and stuff like
that. And the other thing to understand is that they don't need to be trauma informed. Just like if you go to CrossFit, they don't need to be physical therapists. But if you walk in a CrossFit with a hurt ankle, there's no amount of quantum manifestation that's going to help that ankle heal until we actually do the healing part and then we can get stronger again. And so we have to understand where are you now? And not just how do we create more positive emotion, but how do we
help you learn from the emotions that are holding you back? What if they were your greatest gift, your greatest teachers? Okay, so the latest neuroscience suggests that you are stuck. And hear me now, you are stuck because there are specific emotions that you are either avoiding or afraid of feeling. There are specific emotions that we as human beings are either avoiding or afraid of feeling. And what we have to realize is we don't fear life, we fear our emotions about life.
We don't fear life, we fear our emotions about life. So what this means is when it comes to emotions you are either trying to activate a feeling or shut a feeling down. So if you think about most personal development processes, most top down processes, even cognitive behavioral therapy, okay, they call it distortion of thinking. But we are trying to shut something down when we say find a feeling that's bigger than the depression, right? The joy, let the joy and the abundance
be bigger than the depression or the sadness, right? You're basically telling the depression off. You're telling that part of yourself, you know what, you're not welcome here. What does it feel like to be exiled? It doesn't feel good. Who follows? This makes sense when we try to turn off feelings. The only time that makes sense is if we're trying to leave a house because it's on fire or we're fighting a battle and we
just need to be in a specific focus state right now. But we are either trying to turn a feeling off or we're trying to turn a feeling on. The problem is we have it a little bit backwards. Okay? And so in the Facebook group I've shared this with you and I'm going to bring this up now here to share with you here too, so I can walk you through this. But when you look at the research, y'all, there are basically seven emotions that we either
don't want to feel or we shut down. And because of that you're stuck at wherever you are in your business, you're stuck wherever you are in your chronic health, you're stuck wherever you are in your relationships and it's about everyone. We're talking about inclusivity these days, which is a very important thing. We want to be inclusive, right? Well we also want to be inclusive of all of our emotions,
okay? So we talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. That might be race, that might be sexual orientation, that might be gender, gender expression, gender identity. But let's also include our own emotions in that process as well, because if we don't include all of our emotions, we're writing off the most important information that we could possibly have about how to reach the next level of our life.
And so here they are. Okay, these are the seven most commonly avoided emotions that are feared. And then we either try to shut down or not feel. One would be anger or asserting yourself, which causes stress or more of a sympathetic response. Okay? Another one is sadness, grief, or guilt. Those are all kind of in the same kind of category of emotion. Another one could be closeness. We start to feel close to somebody, okay? That can be
scary. And we want to shut those feelings down. Also, sexual feelings, right? Especially if you grew up with any religion, for the most part, they're like, don't you dare. It's interesting how religion really cares about what you're doing between the sheets, but not what you're doing day to day in your life, right? Like, it's really fascinating sometimes how that works. Okay, also check this out. Positive feelings about yourself, right? I'm a good person. I deserve this, I deserve that,
right. I am allowed to receive all that is good for me. Right? We shut down positive feelings about ourselves many times. Also excitement, right? Being interested in something. We can go to somebody who here, by the way, has ever had an experience where you tone down how you feel about something around certain people because you don't really want either they're not going to support your excitement or you just know that it's going to upset them in some way, so you tone it
down. Who knows I'm talking about, right? Usually it's like you're tigger and you want to be bouncing around and be all super tigger, but nobody wants you to be tigger. Tone it down, right. And then also just enjoyment, right? Especially after trauma, it can be very hard to make it safe to feel joy. And so what we want to realize, what if it was as simple as the next level of your life is about befriending and learning
the lesson of one of these emotions. What I'd like you to do almost just kind of intuitively right now is in the chat or in the comments, let me know what emotion do you think it is for you? Okay? What emotion do you think it is for you? If you just had to kind of guess for me, I'll tell you what. It's grief. I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars avoiding grief. It's like I want to feel anything but the grief, right? It's like, if I could just turn the grief feeling off, oh my
God, I'd be so happy about that. But what is it for you, right? Is it maybe asserting yourself or speaking up? Is it anger? Is it grief? Is it feeling close to somebody? Feeling positive emotions about yourself, being excited? Right? Not having a hard time turning that on or off? Which one is it for you? So we're seeing a lot of assertions, so a lot of people are saying some of it, right? So let's just check in for a second,
okay? Think about the emotion that you're writing down here. Anger, grief, excitement, whatever it might be. What would your life be like if you were bowl to manage this emotion and take action and not let it stop you anymore? What would your life be like? What would be possible for you in health, wealth, relationships, in business with your income? Right? What would be possible for you if these emotions were not taking you out anymore?