If you're seeing this video you're about to go through a BIG TRANSITION...

Aaron Doughty opens a three-day live event in London for people going through major life transitions. He shares how he moved from a 9-to-5 job to YouTube to live events, and how surrendering control and trusting the process let him show up authentically. The three days focus on awareness, healing through breathwork, and embodying new patterns.
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How many of you feel like right now in your life you're going through some form of transition? Look around. Most people are going through a transition right now. In my life, I'm going through a powerful transition. Through many of my friends' lives, they're going through powerful transitions. I've heard from many people, many people are moving right now, they're relocating right now. It seems to be an energy that's really in the collective. Is like a big energy that is happening where people are shifting into a new way of being. And sometimes that comes with some uncomfortable emotion, doesn't it? It comes with a feeling like you're letting go of maybe what was familiar. And the thing is, is what that requires is it requires a certain level of courage, a certain level of presence, and a certain level of, embracing a new way of being. Now, even these live events that were, you know, these live events that I've been running for like probably the past year, I've been going much heavier into running these live events. And I remember the very first live event I did where I started doing the hot seat coaching, which how many of you have seen online the hot seat coaching through, yeah, like social media or YouTube? We're gonna be doing that over the next 3 days. And if I think about my journey, I can remember when I was working my 9 to 5 job and it was equal to my identity to be at that job, going to work every day, not wanting to be there. At one point, it was out of my comfort zone for me to start making YouTube videos. It was out of my comfort zone to be staring into a camera, to be talking about things that I was passionate about. And I remember all the blocks that came up. It felt cringy. I was judging myself. I cared what people thought. And what happened was I started doing it, I kept doing it, I put in the repetitions, blocks came up, that fear was there, it never went away to where it was like, "It's not there anymore, now I'll move forward." But what happened is it started to go, it started to just transform because I was taking action, because I was being that quote-unquote YouTuber version of myself. Well, then what happened is I did that for like 7 years. I was making daily videos on YouTube and what used to be something I was afraid of became something I was just passionate about. There wasn't as much blocks coming up, but it was just something I did consistently. Then for 6 or 7 years making YouTube videos, it was equal to my identity to film videos, record videos, post them on YouTube. But it was something where I started to feel stagnant with it. Any of you ever felt passionate about something and then eventually it kind of just ran its course and you're like, maybe there's something else I could be doing, right? That's what happened to me. And I had my identity so attached to this being a YouTuber because this identity over here of working a 9 to 5 job I did not like, over here making YouTube videos, I bought my freedom back, I bought my time back, I got to live an abundant life, I got to travel the world. This brought me a lot of happiness and security. At the same time, there was then a moment where I was just forcing YouTube videos, forcing myself to be this old identity just because it brought me so much success. And I was afraid that if I stopped doing it, I would lose everything that I created. So that was something that I had to work through. And about a year and a half ago was when I had been telling myself for years I'm gonna just commit to more live events. And it was funny 'cause like for 2 or 3 years, I'd be talking about content. Like, I'm gonna start live events, I'm gonna start live events, I'm gonna start live events. But then it was like, it was just always this thing that was off into the future. I was waiting till I felt ready. I was waiting till the fear went away. And even though I had done live events before, it was like there was a new way I wanted to do them where they were more interactive with the crowd, where I'd bring people up and I would be working with people on stage. And that was the big unknown and that was scary. So then what happened is, as the YouTuber identity, I was like, this is like feeling stagnant to me. I felt like my business was, it was still successful, but it just felt kind of like it was losing its oomph, like its passion. So then about a year and a half ago, what I did is I just said, screw it, I'm committing to live events. So I was in LA at the time. I committed to a 2-day live event. And at that live event, I remember it was about, It was about 100-ish people. It was like a few weeks notice and it was just something I threw together 'cause I knew that I had to like just get into that energy. And I remember doing it and I remember how much nerves I had. There was that fear there, like in the unknown of running a live event and coaching people. What if I don't know the answer or I don't know where to bring someone that I'm coaching? That would come up. And then what would happen is there's other blocks would come up and it was like, it was all there. And I was for a long time waiting for it to go away, but I decided about a year ago, I'm gonna commit to like way more consistent live events. So I did a live event in LA and I look at that live event now and it was such a different energy than the way that I run live events now, but I had to start somewhere. Now, every time I would run a live event, I did one in LA, I then did one in either Sedona or Miami, then I went back to LA, then I went another one in, like I've been doing live events kind of like popping out over this last year. And every time leading up to it, there'd be like a certain level of nerves. And the nerves were in a way like a signal to my ego that didn't wanna mess it up. There was like a part of my ego that didn't wanna mess it up. And what I realized is that my ego was trying to figure it out. It was trying to like avoid pain. So I would do and research and have like all these things I was gonna talk about. I'd write them all down and I have a little piece of paper just in case something went wrong. But what I realized is that that was like a survival mechanism my ego was using that was robbing me from just being present to the moment. And what would happen is 95, 90%, 99% of the time, whatever I prepped and I brought up, I wouldn't talk about anyways, but it was there just in case. It was my safety mechanism. But what I learned is every time I would run these live events, it wasn't my ego that had to do anything. It was the allowance of a divine energy to flow through that through the space of working with the people that come to my live events, it's like there's an intelligent energy that flows through where the insights come. The insights come through the people that are being coached. It comes through the different awarenesses of people's interaction with each other. And what it did is it took the pressure off of my ego because I don't have to do anything. All I have to do is show up and allow that divine energy to flow through. So it's the space, it's the people that come, that's where the magic happens. All of you being here, if you're here, you're here for a reason. Think of everything that had to happen for you to even make it here today. Think of all the things that you went through, maybe a spiritual awakening, Maybe childhood trauma growing up that created pressure for that awakening. Maybe you had to see certain videos or certain things or certain synchronicities led you to eventually deciding to come here. So I believe that if you're here, you're here for a reason. And I believe that over the next 3 days, you're gonna find out what that reason is. It's gonna come through the interaction with each other. It's gonna come through the interaction of the space. And what I've learned from running these live events is that all I have to do is show up and facilitate the experience of the insights that are within the group. So that awareness has allowed me up until this moment now where every live event that I've run over the last like 3 or 4 months, and I've done a few pop-up live events with just like a week notice, just to wire in that identity. 'Cause remember when I was making daily videos, something shifted eventually. And it was equal to my identity and it wasn't this nervous thing, right? So the idea behind these live events is running them consistently has allowed me to this point today, it was almost trippy to me because leading up to today, I've had no nerves at all, no nerves at all. Like literally traveling to London, I've been excited to be here. I've been sleeping good every night, sometimes before a live event just because of the, like the ego's desire to like control and figure it out. There's like sometimes sleep is a thing that's a little bit more challenging, but it's like the first one where it wasn't there at all. And I remember my friends Patty and Victor are here. You guys will meet them a little bit later today and tomorrow. I was telling them, I was like, I feel like I don't know if I'm supposed to be. Like it's interesting because I was really contemplating it. I was like, I'm gonna talk about this because many times the things that might make you nervous, the things that you might feel fear about, the things you might be worried about. It's just that you're expanding your comfort zone for what you know, but once you do it with repetition, it eventually becomes a part of your identity. Does this make sense? It becomes equal to your identity to where now it's like, well, I just run consistent live events and I recognize that my ego doesn't have to figure everything out. My ego doesn't have to know. It's not even my job to know the answers that are already inside of you. My job is mainly to ask questions. My job is mainly— you have all the answers inside of you. I'm not up here to tell you anything you don't already deep down know about yourself. And when you come to events like this, what it creates is it creates a pressure of energy that allows that information to come to the surface. Does this make sense? So this is what this kind of work is about. I'm not here to tell you any specific way to believe, any way to think. I'm here to offer different perspectives for understanding you and your relationship to you, understanding how your relationship with you colors and filters the things that you experience in your external reality, And through the interaction with everybody else here, this will begin to become clear. Now, with this kind of work as well over the next 3 days, what might happen is you might go on a break and someone else might trigger you in the hallway. And then you might say, "This is not part of the experience. Why did this thing happen?" But here's the thing. Whatever triggers are happening inside of you, Where are they happening? Inside of you. So they're yours. Now, these things that are happening over the next 3 days, whether it's through the breathwork, whether it's through the coaching, have you seen other people being coached? Whether it's in the group work where you're around other people in your group, things will come up. You may see things. And the thing that I wanna encourage you to know is that that is also a part of the process. When you go home at the end of the night or to your hotel or wherever you're staying, What you experience there is also part of this process. How many of you maybe had stuff come up prior to even coming today? Any of you? Yeah. Even just the synchronicity of coming here, this kind of work, it's all about creating a space where this information can come up because the goal is that by being surrounded by other people that have the intention of regulating their nervous system, that have the intention of being present and doing deep inner work, by having that connection, it can allow a level of safety to happen in the body where the awareness is now more easily being able to be looked at. Does this make sense? So that's the power of this kind of work. So what we're gonna be doing over the next 3 days, I'm gonna kind of lay it out for you a little bit. A lot of what I've been learning and, kind of gearing towards recently is really understanding or connecting more to love or the divine or God, whatever name you wanna give it. You'll hear me at moments use the word God or the term God, or think of it as the universe, the divine, whatever you believe. But I believe there's an energy that's greater than ourselves that we're all connected to. And when we become of service to it for other people, it flows through. And every single one of you has that version for you. It could be when you're in a flow state, it could be when you're following your passion, your purpose, it could be when you're interacting with certain people, but it's finding that energy flow inside of yourself. And a lot of the work that I do is about becoming aware of the attachments to the stories, the beliefs, the identities, the labels, and the subconscious blocks that might be keeping you in familiar territory, keeping you replaying similar things over and over again without the awareness that it's on autopilot, or maybe with the awareness but still continuing to live in it, which is why a lot of what we do is become aware of this and then letting go and allowing a divine energy to flow through. To allow God to flow through, whatever term you want to give it, to come through. Because ultimately, that's what I believe we all are. We're all love. We're all connected to something greater than ourselves. And our attachments are what keep us in familiar territories. Our attachments to how all women are, how all men are, how our relationship with our parents was growing up tends to filter different aspects of our life in a powerful way. So a lot of the work we're gonna be doing over the next 3 days is about first off, becoming aware of these subconscious stories, beliefs, identities, labels, et cetera. Once you become aware of it, you can then see that it's something that's there. Whereas before it's just the way reality is. Like it's different if you have a story that all men are trash. And if you have that story, you're like, that's just the way reality is. Well, what kind of men are you gonna meet, right? Trash, exactly. It can't show you anything other than that 'cause it's what you believe to be true. And our ego wants to be right about reality. You guys call it rubbish here, huh? Yeah, you guys are, what is this trash word you're speaking of? We call it rubbish. I'm like, okay. I was at an Airbnb and it was like, put the rubbish outside. And I'm like, what?
Okay.
Okay, I will. But nonetheless, that is like when you own the story, you can then see that that story is something that might be there 'cause it's familiar. You may get payoffs for believing it too. You're like, "Yes, all men are rubbish." And then all your friends are like, "Yes, rubbish, rubbish, rubbish." You're like, "Yes, I feel right." Our ego wants to be right about reality. It kind of sucks, but it's like, it's something that subconsciously we want to be right about reality. I know for a long time growing up, I had a story that, you know, 'cause of my ex-stepmom situation of having someone that was controlling in my life, I had a story, I have to fight for freedom. And I always had an authority figure that was a controlling woman in my life. So as when my ex-stepmom left my life, when I was like, you know, 17 years old, I then had a manager that was that same way, almost like so similar. And I always wondered how much of this is my projection, how much of this is, like actually true, but it was something where there was like a whole group of us that were trying to get out of the situation. But it was a very interesting thing where I recognized, oh, this is a direct reflection of what that— and I got, we all, all of the coworkers I worked with got to like complain about it. And it was this thing where we all got to be like kind of trauma bonded together in an interesting way. But until I became aware of that story, there was some healing that happened as well. Which is the second step of the process. The first day or so, a lot of it is about becoming aware of these patterns. That's what we're gonna be doing today. Towards the end of today, we will be moving into breathwork. How many of you have done breathwork with either me or Victor or someone in my 21-day challenges and stuff? Awesome. How many of you have never done breathwork before? Awesome. Cool. Whether you've done it or not, it's totally okay. It's one of the most powerful things that we do at my events, retreats, et cetera. Is the breathwork. It is so powerful. It's a process that I'm certified in. It's called somatic release breathwork. But I bring Victor and his wife in to do it just to kind of balance the energy and like he just does such an amazing job. So they're gonna come in and do that at the end of today. And then tomorrow the focus is more on healing. So we're gonna be focused on healing. We're gonna be focused on, there'll be a focus on some guided meditations for bringing up energy. It's a focus on letting go, and it's a big focus with the hot seat coaching. It's kind of like seeing what comes through. Even what I'm sharing with you all right now, this is like the structure of kind of the philosophy behind the 3 days. You'll see very quickly, they kind of take on a life of their own. So the second day is more about healing the subconscious blocks, different somatic practices for feeling it and healing it. And that's something that's a focus there. And then as you, clear that energy and you feel it and you heal it, the third day is a day of more embodiment. It's a day of embodying that transformation inside of your body. What does it actually feel like to be in this new energy? Whether that's you wanna bring in courage, more presence, you wanna bring in vulnerability, whatever you want to experience on the external reality, you must first experience in your internal reality, in your body. So on the third day, there's a focus on that. And if I had to summarize the entire theme of this specific live event here in London, I would say that it's about letting go of the old and trusting the universe, trusting God, learning to trust more, learning to trust the unknown. The whole idea that I wrote down I didn't bring my book or my little paper thing just outta principle, but it was like trusting the unknown. And when I thought about it, I was like, what is the unknown? And I can see very clearly in my life, if you think about it, working a 9-to-5 job selling women's shoes, I was in the known, stayed there for a long time. I worked with people that were selling shoes for like 20, 30 years. Nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't my passion. But I knew if I didn't do anything, that was my future. Then I stepped into the unknown. Magic happened, expanded. Now I live, I do what I love. Now I get to travel the world. Now I live in a new version of myself. Did that for a while, 6, 7 years, and then eventually felt stagnant. What'd I do again? Stepped into the unknown again and expanded my sense of identity. So at each level, the unknown required a certain level of trust and a certain level of like leaping forward with courage. So what my intention behind this event or the theme that I was kind of feeling into all of you, you know, the surveys, thank you guys for filling those out, that could help. And there's certain themes throughout the surveys that I was reading. And it seems like there's a lot of people that are going through shifts of wanting to let go of old patterns from childhood and wanting to learn to trust more, learning to trust and to allow. And that's something that we can begin to do inside of our body And that's what we're gonna be focused on in this 3-day experience. So who's excited for that? Yes? Let's do it.
All right.
Okay, so another couple quick things. So this session today is kind of like this very first session. There is gonna be that of a lunch here in a few hours. So until then, this is kind of like laying the groundwork. I'm gonna go over logistics here in a minute. Some group agreements that are necessary for creating a safe space. We're gonna do a guided meditation to wire in the energy of the space. And then there's gonna be groups that we're gonna get into and we're gonna break off into those, do a quick intention setting thing. It's not gonna take long, but it's gonna be something that we do to start wiring in the safety of the group. Okay, so that's the first session. Gonna go to lunch, we're gonna come back, then we're gonna open it up to more so the hot seat coaching. We're gonna be doing that. I'm gonna be answering questions, doing that, and then after that, the later session is gonna be breathwork, okay? So breathwork is, for that, we're actually gonna be flipping the room and moving the chairs out. It'll be something that's done lying down. Sometimes we do it in the seat. It's a shorter thing, but I wanted, since we're coming all the way out here to England, I thought we're gonna do the works. So we're gonna go all in. How does that sound? Instead of just the, we're gonna go all in. So with that being said, what I would like to do now is move into a guided meditation. How many of you guys wanna do guided meditation?
Yeah?
Let's do it. Let's real quick, let's take a deep breath in through the nose. Let it go. Take another deep breath in through your nose. Let it go. All right, Max, if you could put on some, One of the, maybe a soothing caress. And you'll go and start to bring that energy into your body. Now understand with these meditations, there's no correct or wrong way to do it. When I'm talking, and maybe that's sometimes visual, and I'm giving visual cues, if you don't see it visually, it's okay. We all have a different way of interacting with energy. Some people are very visual, some people are not. Some people are more so can just feel.
Some people can hear, maybe clairaudient. Some people just might feel like a trusting that whatever it's meant to be doing, it's doing.
But allow yourself to just observe and just be open to whatever experience is here for you. Let's set the intention now. Let's go and take a deep breath in through our nose.
We're gonna close our eyes.
Let it go.
And with every breath you take, imagine your body becoming more and more relaxed. Imagine now a ball of energy, any color you like. And imagine that ball of energy going to behind your forehead. And imagine any tension melting away. Imagine that ball of energy behind your eyes. Loosening up, relaxing more and more. Bring that ball of energy down your jaw, your neck, into your left arm, your left hand. To your right arm, your right hand. Imagine that energy now coming into your heart. If there's any tension around your heart or any energy at all, imagine any resistance melting away, softening. Bring that energy down your spine to your hips, your left leg and foot. Your right leg and foot. And imagine any excess energy leaving through the heels of your feet. I'll bring that energy back into your heart and imagine building up the energy of love, gratitude, and imagine any love and energy you have for the planet, maybe even the Divine Mother energy. Imagine a ball of energy going from your heart. Don't send it down to the core of the earth, and imagine roots going through your feet, going ground in you, into the planet. And anytime you send that energy down to the earth and always return back. Imagine that energy coming back, amplified with love, the bottom of your feet to your hips, back into your heart. Now, using your intention, send that energy up through your neck, up to the top of head out into above you, to the sky. Imagine it going up more and more towards the stars. Now, in this expanded state, connected to the Divine Father. See if there's any insights from your spiritual guides, any words that come to you. What is your intention for what you want to receive over the next 3 days? See if there's any message.
What do you want to receive?
And now take that energy with you, begin to bring it down through the sky, back down into the top of your head, down through your neck, and into your heart. Now in this energy, go and imagine yourself connected to the Divine Mother, the Divine Father, resting in the inner child inside of your heart. Feel the love for your inner child. Maybe begin to see them, hear them, soothe them. And imagine now A version of you that is the most integrated, the most present, with courage, the most loving, the version of you that trusts life, that trusts the divine. Begin to tap into that version of you now. What does that look like?
What does that feel like?
Imagine this version of you with courage, passion. It's able to be assertive and present. Set the intention that over the next 3 days you wire this version of you in. Set the intention that you embody these characteristics and ask for your assistance from your higher self, your spirit spiritual guides, and just simply hold that vision and knowing that that's who you really are.
And I set that intention for everybody else here, everyone else tuned into this.
Set that intention for them too. And as you do it for them, they do it for you. Now, to activate this energy of the space, let's set an intention to set the energy of a safe space. Let's set the intention for everyone here, or people tuning in, that they're able to experience more confidence in their life, more love in their life, more presence in their life. Let's set the intention that the flow of everything goes smooth and and that we all get whatever insights are available for us, for what's best for the space. Let's realize that when you see other people, don't see them as broken, needing to be fixed. See them as powerful, already having the answers inside of them.
Hold that vision for them. And as you do it for them, they do it for you. Set the intention to open your heart.
Let's set the intention that many people come into more acceptance with their bodies, their hearts, and their minds, their soul. Let's set that intention for this space, and let's imagine now a ball of energy around this space that we're in now. Let's imagine all of our higher self spiritual guides sending energy into this space using the power of group energy. Let's imagine a ball of energy spinning spinning all around us. Imagine it spinning faster and faster. Be open to allowing the divine to flow through from the heavens down into the top of our head and into the ground. And imagine it lighting up our hearts. Let's take in a couple deep breaths, and on the out-breath in a moment, what we're going to do is an OM activation. It's a simple frequency of OM that we'll all do together here in a moment, and imagine that energy activating your hearts and allowing you to then activate this love inside of your body and the love inside of this space, setting that intention for the next 3 days.
Take a deep breath in through your nose.
On your out-breath, you can OM with me. Take a deep breath in. Imagine that energy rippling out from your heart, going all around you, filling up the space with the intentions that we've set. Good. Now take another deep breath in through your nose, and on the out-breath, you can Om with me again. Let's set the intention again to create a powerful 3 days, to trust the process, to let go of the known and then to embrace the unknown, to connect more to that divine energy, to connect more to flow, to courage, vulnerability, and presence. Breathe that into your cells now, and on the out-breath, we'll own together. I go and feel into the space all around you, the space in between you and the walls. You and the people around you. Feel the space in front of you and behind you.
Feel centered inside of your heart.
Begin to bring your energy back into the present moment I'm gonna count down from 5 to 1. By the time I reach 1, you'll feel alert, present inside of your body. 5, bring the energy back down to your arms and your legs. 4, in your spine. 3, to your fingers and your toes. 2, 1, open up your eyes now.










