Conversation from a Wellness Force podcast episode (SOUL Upgrade) where Josh Trent and another speaker discuss why men struggle to adopt new ways of being. They frame the difficulty as biological and programmatic resistance (citing Steven Pressfield’s "resistance"), describe core beliefs/‘holodynes’ as systems that oppose change, and advocate for spiritual and emotional rites of passage to update those programs and allow new ways of being to emerge.
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Why is it so hard when we're presented as men with a new way of being? It's so hard because we are fighting biology. Steven Pressfield calls it the resistance. So what is resistance's number one job? What is a holodyne's number one job? What is a core belief that got installed almost like a microchip in a computer? What is its core job? Its core job is to function without change. When I am presented with new information that goes against the construct of the programs that were installed in my mind that activate the holodynes and the beliefs and the way of being, there is going to be a system error. They say error. This is not our way of being. What are you doing? Like this is not real. I understand that. This is a new way of being. I'm going to pause for a moment. I'm going to learn about the art of masculinity. I'm going to learn what it means to truly be a man right now.
The world is always changing. Technology is always changing. Humanity is always changing. Human evolution is always changing. We must meet the demands of the modern world in the current moment. Dude. The word love is found in evolution. The love is always calling us forward. If we are willing to change the programs and update our programs and really let go of the holodins and the belief systems that are holding us back. But what I'm talking about is a spiritual and emotional shift that can only be done through rites of passage, through. Through direct spiritual work, through emotional intelligence work. This is not heady. This is heart.
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That's what men need to do right now. And that's. That's what's going to make the old.
