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So let's think about it for a second. What are your unrealized hopes, dreams, projects, goals, aspirations, and intentions? Just think about that for a second. Right? You came here today. You probably have hopes and dreams and goals and aspirations and projects that you've been thinking about, intentions that you've been thinking about. Right? What's been on your vision board that you are 99.99% ready to do but haven't done yet? Anybody
got something you're thinking of immediately? Like, ah, the business. Ah, the relationship. Ah, weight loss or health. Right? There's something there. Right? So what if it's true that you don't have those things in your life yet because your system hasn't felt safe enough? Could that be true?
And how would that feel in your body? And what if it's true that you don't have those things, not because there's nothing wrong with you, but not only is your system not safe enough, but you maybe have a missing skill set on how to create that safety. Could that be true? What do you think? So here's the thing. Okay? Living your purpose starts with a flexible nervous system. In a way, living your purpose is what creates nervous system flexibility because what we're finding is that purpose in
life is the thing that comes before the thing. Right? So there's psychedelics. There's, you know, all these different modalities, parts work, snack experiencing, coaching, neurolinguistic programming, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But if you really think about it, if we don't have a purpose for why we're doing this, there's really not much to do. Right? We need to have a reason why. We have to understand why are you healing? Why are you trying to reach the next level? Right?
Why do you want to have a healthy relationship or repair a relationship? Right? And if we don't have that purpose, then it's like the blind sort of leading the blind. And what's really interesting is when we have purpose, guess what else we have? We have a more flexible nervous system because we have a reason why. But the ultimate biohack, the ultimate tool for nervous system regulation isn't just breath work or yoga or psychedelics. It's purpose. Purpose is the one thing that when you have
that, everything shifts and everything changes. And when you have purpose in life, it unlocks a new level of nervous system flexibility. So if you think about it, right, have you been living a life that you've been dreaming about but haven't manifested yet? Have you been stuck in high level coping? How flexible has your nervous system been? Right? And if you're honest, how safe do you feel to expand into your dreams and purpose now? Right? Do you feel super safe? Maybe, maybe not.
Right? So purpose is the one thing that shifts and changes everything. So flexible nervous system is not just something that you breathe your way into. It's not just something that you, you know, titrate your way into or parts work your way into or coach your way into. It's it starts with purpose. In fact, purpose is the most important thing to start with. And with that said, I'd like to get some coaching here in the VIP, so feel free to pick up some space. Hi,
Masten. How are you? Good. How's it going? Good. I'm, excited because, you know, therapy is obviously, has its own trends and then the books that you've recommended are obviously, not mainstream. Like, I love Bessel van der Kolk and and Porges for their, working with the nervous system
as opposed to these cognitive approaches. Yes. You know, one of the things that Bessel van der Hoek mentions in his book is that hypnosis has kinda gone away for a while, and that's something I'm kind of interested in pursuing primarily because the other methods and and by the way, if I get off track, please just feel free to interrupt me. Oh, okay. No problem. In the end of his book, he recommends, like, psychodrama, psychedelics, tai chi, yoga,
you know, and then hypnosis. I guess, do you think that's, do you think that's a good method for regulating the nervous system? And specifically, I'm working with I'm trying to work with people like myself Mhmm. Who had, let's say, difficult childhoods where there was a lot of Sure. You know, violence. And then, when they're adults, the things that they struggle with are because they can't regulate their nervous system. Totally. So I love your question.
So, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna answer it in a roundabout kinda way, but I'm gonna bring it I'm gonna land the plane, I promise. Okay? So so if you think about the world of trauma healing that you've mentioned, right, so we talk about Bessel, maybe Peter Levine, doctor Porges, etcetera. Right? So like like like the the the pioneers in the trauma space. Right? Well, they're pioneers because they're able to now understand what's happening in the body at,
like, a very specific level. We can look inside the brain. Right? We can look inside and see our biophysiology, our blood chemistry. We can measure, you know, DNA expression, methylation, so many different things we couldn't do before, which allows us to create these modalities, right, which is very reductionistic. Okay? Now that being said, the experience of trauma has been in the human experience since the beginning of time. Right? And we've
made it through. And so if you look back and we think about, like, what has helped people regulate in the past, right, Psychedelics, breath work, all the things that you might be talking about. Right? What we notice is a reason why is primary. Right? So if you think about, like, someone like a a soldier going off to war, right, to fight for their family, there's a reason why. If you think about, for example, Viktor Frankl, who was in Auschwitz,
right, and created logotherapy as a result. Right? He's sitting in Auschwitz. He's lost most of his family. He's in one of the worst situations you could possibly be as a human being, and he is mentally rehearsing, leaving, and imagining a time where he'll be able to take what he's learned and pass it on. So there's a utility or there's a purpose in what he's doing. Right? And there's so many different examples of people being able to get through some of the hardest of human
experiences because they have a purpose. Right? And so the reason why I'm saying that is because your question is reductionistic, which is okay. But if if if we just isolate any specific modality, does it work? Well, we can look up meta analysis on some of them. We can look up sometimes observational studies depending on what we're looking at. Ketamine, for example, has a lot more research behind it than DMT. Right? Because DMT hasn't been as researched as ketamine, and
ketamine's already approved for other stuff. So, like, there's all these different modalities, breath work, sauna. You could talk about trauma informed yoga. You could talk about EMDR. You could talk about neurofeedback. So many different siloed modalities. Right? However, when you think about, let me start with what's most important to me.
Why am I doing this in the first place? And you actually front load that in your care, whether it's coaching therapy, I mean, functional medicine doctors, psychiatrists, whoever, if you actually stop and you don't say what modality do I need, you say, why am I doing this in the first place? What is the what is the reason? Right? What is my purpose? Right? Well, I wanna break patterns. I wanna break generational cycles. I don't wanna pass this on to my children. I
wanna be the first person in my lineage to do this. Right? Now there's an intrinsic motivation, and what's weird is that will start to inform what we need or don't need because sometimes, some of these things for example, when we find purpose like, purpose boosts your serotonin. Purpose, like, downregulates sympathetic nervous system. Purpose upregulates oxytocin. Like, there's so many interesting
things that we start to see the biophysiology of purpose. It actually shifts our biochemistry because what we don't wanna do is we don't want to regulate a lack of purpose with a modality. So if someone's missing their purpose and they're trying to make up with it by doing breath work or psychedelics, like, you're trying to solve a problem that's not gonna be
solved by a modality. Like, you could do all the cognitive behavioral therapy in the world, but if you don't have a reason why that's compelling you forward, then you're you're probably doing the CBT to make up for a lack of purpose. Right? I'll give you another example. Right? So I cope. My one of my high level coping strategies is I intellectualize everything. Imagine that. Okay? Why do I do that? Right? Because when I was growing up, nobody was
there. My parents, my mom had a broken back. My dad was getting his PhD. I was all by myself. They said, he's a smart kid. He'll figure it out. So I had a lack of connection that I used intellectualization and imagination to cope with. Right? So when I'm going in my day to day life, if I find myself trying to intellectualize something too much, I go, woah, woah, woah, woah. What I'm actually missing is connection. I need connection. I'm feeling alone. Right? So there's nothing that will help me
not feel alone if I'm by myself. I mean, yes, you could do parts work and connect to your inner child and stuff like that, but I'm talking about coregulation. Right? Like, there's nothing that can make up for that. Just like if you're dehydrated, there's no breath work that's gonna make up for dehydration. You need water. Right? So purpose is the first thing. Once we have purpose, why are we doing this? Then we can start to say, hey. Hold on a
second. I might even start to feel better. And now I'm I'm gonna actually change and make sure that I'm choosing things that align with my goal and where I'm going. Right? So, for example, if I'm trying to, I don't know, move forward in a business, right, and I have a hard childhood like you talked about, right, and every time I try to move forward in my business, I get afraid. I feel sympathetic or I feel sympathetic energy when I think about going
online. Right? That's very common for certain some people. Right? Well, now I can regulate the sympathetic response to go online, but that has a larger purpose to bring a cycle breaker in my family who's never had financial agency. So my reason for breaking this pattern is fueled by something more than just, like, trying to get rid of it in the moment. And so, like, we break those patterns with a purpose. We break those patterns
with modalities that help us get there. And, also, to understand that once you start going a certain direction, yeah, your stuff's gonna come up, but it's gonna come up differently than if it's just kinda coming up randomly, right, or if you're just being triggered by life and kind of going through life kind of without
thinking about these types of things. And so we want to choose tools that are helping you regulate your system's protective responses based on where you want to go, not based on reacting to life.