YouTube interview (Josh Trent + guest) exploring non‑traditional trauma release and personal growth. Key claims: trauma can be stored in the energetic body/fascia and be released through bodywork combined with flower essences (illustrated by a Special Forces veteran who re‑experienced wounds and was transformed); flower essences can produce measurable shifts in mood, reactivity, and habits over days; personal blocks include over‑responsibility and reluctance to pursue joyful creative work (e.g., making YouTube/social media content) which can limit business growth; social media both exposes inauthenticity ("spiritual commodification") and eventually reveals true integrity as audience/real‑world interactions test claims; speaker values lineage, long practice, and humility in spiritual teachers.
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I worked with somebody who was in the Special Forces, and he had been shot multiple times. He had been stabbed. He had been. Had, like a bomb go off in between his legs. He'd been trapped under a burning car and couldn't escape because he'd be shot. So he had all this, like, experiences. And if you asked him, he's super masculine, like, super strong, super settled, calm. If you asked him, did you experience trauma from being in the Special Forces or being overseas, he would have said, no. Like, I'm. He would tell you what's traumatic is sitting at a desk in an office, like, I just want to get back and do what I was doing. Right. That being said, like, that's his conscious mind, right?
Yeah.
But then when you. When we tapped into his energetic body, all of those experiences were trapped in his fascia and wanted to be released. So with, like, an hour of body work and the use of a lot of different flower essences, he re. Experienced each of those experiences. Like, and I sat with him as he felt the heat of the bullet going in and the coldness of the knife going in his belly. And we went through each experience, and it. I watched as something as subtle as, like, a flower essence mist pulled all of these memories out of him. Big guy, you know, in a fetal position. And pulling all that out of his system radically changed his life. Because all that stuff is running in the background consciously. He was like, no, I have no trauma. I'm not one of those guys who comes back home and I have trauma. I don't have it. Yeah, but it's running in the background. It's like running in the background of your computer. So to liberate that kind of information. And I saw it with my own eyes, you know, and then I see it in myself. You. You work with a particular flower essence regularly and then give it a few days, and you're like, damn, I'm thinking differently about this, or I'm feeling differently about this, or this thing used to really piss me off, and now I'm like, super even keel. Or gosh, it used to be really hard to express something, and it just, like, fell out of my mouth and everything's fine. So you see it in yourself sometimes at a shocking level.
By the volume, you just mean that record player in the background, it just turns down. Does it ever go away fully?
Yeah, for sure. It takes a long time and probably, yeah, a lot of work. But I would say. But yes, if you look at a particular strain of something, like you were talking about your resentment or you people have grief or they want to be more like creatively fulfilled, or they have a habit of like, not eating when they're hungry. There's so many things, right. You can definitely. I think of them as like threads. You can pull those threads out and they're gone forever. There are things, there are things in ways that I used to be, that I am not anymore.
What's one of those ways?
And there are things that I'm still working on today. Like there, it's almost like layers, like things come to the forefront that like, are next, you know? Oh gosh. What's one of those things? I don't know. I don't look back. I'm thinking more about like, what, what's my next step?
Oh, okay.
Next step is like this sense of feeling overly responsible for things that makes me take on too much.
Yeah. Like that moment in the pool you had.
Yep. And then the other one is not allowing myself to do the things that really bring me joy. So like, when I first started my business, like the actual flower essence business, I had, you know, done the 10 years of consultations and knew all the stuff and collected all the flower essence. And now it's like, how do I bring this into the world? What I really wanted to do was do YouTube videos and social media. Cuz I just thought that'd be so fun. Oh my God. But I could not allow myself to do that. I was like, at that time, you know, in that space of history, it was like, oh, that's crazy. I should go to trade shows and do what everyone else is doing. So I took that route. Our company would probably be so much bigger by now. If I had just allowed myself to do the fun thing and do the YouTube videos and just keep hacking at it. We'd probably have a massive audience by now, you know. So I look at myself in, in the now and say, oh, shoot, I'm still in that position. And then I look at multiple members of my organization who also have that same pattern of doing the things that we know we gotta do and we gotta crunch down and do these things. But like, ooh, this would be really fun. And my theory is that if we let ourselves do the thing that would be really fun and joyful, we'd actually make more money, be more successful, reach more people. People and impact more.
Yeah.
So that's one of the things I'm going to, as an organization, instill as a group that we can hold each other accountable and like check each other on, like, are you doing what makes you Feel wild and free for the 80% of the time. Okay, 20% can crunch down.
Yeah, that's where we do emails and the 20%. Cuz spirituality and spiritual growth at times if we don't check ourselves can be serious. It's so serious. And it doesn't have to be. I mean there's moments where it is, it is what it is. But this seriousness, my. My friend Luke Story is like, I think seriousness is a mental disorder. We're so fucking serious all the time. It's like, can we all just take a breath and have this pattern interrupt? It's so. There's so much medicine in it. So is this fun for you? Is this. Is being on a podcast and doing this? Is this fun? Does this feel super fun? Light? It's what you wanted to do back in the day and you're doing it now.
Super fun. I love it.
What, what is the. What is the medicine that you being out there in the world digitally and all that, what are you receiving from that?
What am I receiving?
Yeah.
Oh, that's a great question. I was thinking more broadcasting. What am I receiving? Connection, understanding and also vulnerability and seeing how. Where people are human. Seeing where I'm human. Seeing where you're human.
Yeah.
And it's really disarming, you know, like to see how human you are to feel how human I am. It's like there's so much strength and power in that.
We're in this time of like Instagram influencers, which is such a paradox because if you have the right strategy and if you have the right money, you can present yourself as someone you're not. And it's real. It's. I call it the spiritual commodification of spirituality.
Yeah.
And it's sad, but then I'm like, well, wait a minute. We need these characters in the play. We need, as we grow, our intuition through the pattern interrupts and the essences and everything else, any kind of adaptogen, anything that we take in that allows us to achieve greater homeostasis or balance. As we achieve that balance, we can see people for who they are more. It's almost like we can remove the filters and the veils from how people are wanting to be received versus how they actually are. Dark. You sense this?
Yeah, more and more and more and more. I mean, I think humanity is waking up in a sense, and we can see through the. Much more now than we could five, 10 years ago.
Social media makes you, I think, more of what you are eventually. Maybe not up front, but if you're Doing something that's out of integrity with who you are, eventually there's going to be no place to hide. You eventually have to get on a stage, you eventually have to work with people, and you eventually get called out. Do you find this to be the case?
For sure? Yeah.
Does it. Does it bring up. What does it bring up for you when you see this, this part of the theater?
I mean, I was just having a conversation with my business partner yesterday. All of us were. Because we were talking with her, and she's. She's got 25 years of meditation under her belt. She spent 10 years in Asia, living in Asia, studying with meditation masters and doing solitary retreats and caves. I mean, this woman, you look at her, she's so humble and she's did a fucking retreat in a cave by herself with, like, a rat and cooked her own food. And I mean, it's just like, it's. And. And if you ask her, she'll tell you that was the happiest she was in her life. Like, so free and so wild and so liberated. And, you know, then I see. I just see all the depth of that realization and wisdom and experience. And then, you know, there's like, the folks who, like, learn something in a way. Weekend workshop.
Yeah.
And. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with the weekend workshop. We all gotta freaking start somewhere.
Sure.
But. But that's what that makes me think of is, like, when I'm listening to somebody, do I want to be like them? What is their lineage? Where did they come from? How long have they been studying? How long have they been in the trade? How much experience do they have? What is their knowingness? How many people have they helped? Who was their teacher? What was the realization level of their teacher? Like, what. Where is the lineage here?
Yeah.
And do. Do I want to be like that? And if I do, then I'm all in.
Yeah.
And then if there's something that just quite. Isn't quite clicking or something just doesn't quite feel right, then I just pause.
Right? Yeah. I always, whenever I receive wisdom or guidance from someone I like, you always ask myself, do I want a portion of their life or does their wife or husband love them? Do their children want to spend time with them? Are they mentally sharp? Are they physically. Well, can I sense they have a connection to something that created them? Are they broke? Are they. You know, I want to know all their stuff. Whoa, whoa. So you love that episode. You'll love the one on the screen. Click it and enjoy.
