A spoken excerpt from Josh Trent's YouTube video "THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T RELAX" arguing that most thoughts are negative ("95%"), and that to reduce stress one must "become the signal above the noise"—reject external projections (phones, others' fears, intergenerational trauma) and deliberately nourish five internal parts (the speaker's "pentagon") to become a stronger, loving self.
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95% of the thoughts we think are inherently negative. How do we get out of that? We commit to being our own signal for our soul, for this young, beautiful child inside of us, for the adult man or adult woman inside of us, and we actually start seeing stress differently. We are inherently an electrical system. So what do I mean when I say we must become the signal above the noise? The noise is everyone else's projections, everyone else's fears. Our phones, our computers, our calendars, our responsibilities, our intergenerational trauma, our intergenerational narrative. It. It is vast, the amount of choking noise we get to say no to all day long. Then one must ask oneself, how do I train myself to be my own signal? Instead of using everyone else's projections and everyone else's distractions to literally guide the course of my life? How can I put my hand up and say no? I'm actually going to nourish these five parts of my pentagon. And in the process of me nourishing that, I become this incredibly strong, valuable, loving version of myself.