are you here on your hero's journey find out this is life mastery gym I'm Damon
Cart and I teach people just like you cutting-edge NLP processes and
techniques so that you can master your life and take charge of your destiny so
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button right down here so you can get these videos on a regular basis I've
studied story for years and I've studied the hero's journey and what is amazing
to me is how well it fits with personal development and self-improvement so by
the end of this video you're gonna have a much better understanding of how these
things connect and how to take the hero's journey and take story and apply
it in your life so that you can go on that hero's journey you can transform
and become your true self and actualize your potential as you know I often give
away something free on my videos and I'll mention what that is
at the end of this video but if you're really impatient you can go down there
right now and check the description click that link and you'll see I saw
this really interesting video on YouTube and there was a man by the name of
Michael Hogg or Hague who was explaining how great stories are made or what is
the composition of great stories in screenwriting and in movies is a
theorist I suppose and he teaches theory of story making and and filmmaking and
he was talking about the hero's journey is really two journeys and everything
that he was explaining was so similar to what it is that we do in NLP or more
specifically what we do in self-concept and what I do when I coach clients it
was really amazing and I used to I went to film school so I used to study story
structure and I still really like to study it because it is it resonates with
what how we live how we see the world that's why we love great stories because
in a lot of ways we are living through the hero of the story that we're either
watching or reading and so there's a there's a resonance there we get it and
I think in some cases we might go too far in that instead of
living our own journeys we will tend to live it through characters in movies or
maybe even we live it through real-life people celebrities to the detriment of
our own journeys and so the way he described these these two heroes
journeys was there's the sort of outer journey of accomplishment there was a
goal we want to achieve and so we go after it and that's what is on the
surface level that's what we see in the movie but there's another journey in
going on inside of the hero and this is this is just like real life I mean this
is exactly what's going on with pretty much everybody so that with that inner
journey is really about is I have this facade that I put out to the world the
false self the self that is not real because I'm too afraid for other people
to see who I really am because if they see who I really am and then the world
rejects me then it's almost like I don't exist I don't have any any self-worth
however there is this untapped potential inside of me and if I I don't go for
that if I if I don't fulfill that untapped potential then I ultimately
live a very unfulfilled life but I can also say well it's at least comfortable
and familiar enough because I don't get I get to live within this facade I don't
I don't know I never get exposed but yeah you're never going to be fulfilled
and that's what the hero is going through and it's the outer challenge
that is there going after something that they want and so that sort of gets them
going that sort of gets some emotion and taking action and moving in that
direction and along the way then they realize they have to deal with this this
inner issue that okay if I I can get what I want but only after or only if
I'm willing to drop this the facade the fake self in risk people seeing me for
who I am for the first time I'll link this video right down below in the
description I highly recommend checking it out even goes into going into a
little bit of theory about the movie Good Will Hunting and this is so in LP
he talks about will they're in the main character in
Good Will Hunting he has been abuse since he was a child and he's living the
false self because he is basically a custodian at MIT when the truth is he's
smarter than any of the professor's there but he's not willing to show that
side of himself he's actually a little afraid to show that side of himself who
is who his true self is and that's only part of it there's a lot more within him
that he's not willing to put out there that he's protecting and when Michael
Haig was saying was that he is wounded he's been wounded since he was a young
child because his father was abusive and from that wound he creates a belief
about himself and a belief about the world this is actually reimprinting in
NLP this is how we identify when it's time to do a reimprinting and so they
form you formulate this belief from a deep inner wound and it's a belief about
the world but it's also a belief about yourself and it limits you it holds you
back it's also what keeps you trying to protect that false sense of self or
trying to protect your true sense of self putting that false sense of self
out there because that wound is still there and it hasn't healed and so in
reimprinting we go in there and we bring resources back to the part of you or two
that that younger self who is wounded so that we heal that wound and then grow
you back up again and this is what happens in story but it's also what
happens in real life so in story you can recognize that that hero's journey is
actually your journey in your life your life - and I say this to people all the
time about the outer journey that just achieving a goal just achieving
something that you want the accomplishment itself is not really
going to be what fulfills you it's nice you will enjoy it for you know a short
time a short period of time but it's not ultimately what's going to to fulfill
you not I don't think that you shouldn't go for goals I don't think you shouldn't
achieve things I think that's one of the things were meant to do we're meant to
actualize that potential but don't think that that will fulfill you and so here's
what happens is people don't really understand
that deeper journey that inner journey so what happens is they go and they go
after this accomplishment this goal whatever it is that they they they won
and along the way it gets hard and it gets hard not only externally but it
gets hard inside because what happens I have to face myself I have to face the
fact that I've created a false self and I have to make a choice here do I drop
the false self and ultimately fulfil internally my ultimate potential and
become who I truly am regardless of how people might judge me a lot of us don't
understand that a lot of us don't understand that that's what's going on
inside of us when we're pursuing something especially something big and
especially for men when it comes to career this is where we we think that
our existence is judged on it's our career if we're if we're not successful
in our career if we're not accomplished then we're a loser we're nothing and so
that might actually prevent us from trying because we're fear being judged
that way women tend to be more relationship and community oriented so a
lot of times their fears have to do with how they're judged in a community or how
they're judged by the relationships and their their lives that are most
important to them this is the reason why people quit a lot of times before they
achieve a goal it's not so much because it's so hard or that whatever they're
they're going after has a lot of obstacles or whatever they're going
after is sought after by a lot of people so there's a lot of competition
what really stops a lot of people without them even realizing it is that
having to face themselves is that having to allow themselves or to have to
finally accept who they truly are that's where the true hero's journey is the
journey is more inside than it is on the outside I've met people who have
accomplished a lot and there's a lot of people didn't accomplish a lot
without having to go through that inner journey there maybe they're talented or
it's just something that comes natural to them and oftentimes these people are
not very happy they're not very fulfilled because they're not really
taking that inner journey and so I guess that I've met a lot
these people they are extremely accomplished they have everything that
you could possibly imagine would make a person happy you even have people that
it goes to the extreme of say like Anthony Bourdain who to me he had the
best job in a world he got paid to travel the world and and eat every kind
of cuisine they could put in front of him you had Chris Cornell of Soundgarden
who had everything you could imagine he was extremely talented singer extremely
talented musician he had Fame he had fortune he had a wonderful family and
anthropogenic Chris Cornell killed themselves so those things don't
ultimately lead to fulfillment like I said they're there they're good to go
after I would never tell a person not to go after or a goal they want to achieve
or not to accomplish something that they feel like they wanted to accomplish but
if we don't take the inner journey we are robbing ourselves of our true
potential if we don't take that inner journey we are robbing ourselves of
discovering who we truly are some people will look at this as a self-absorbed
pursuit but I really believe that it is anything but people say oh well you know
you're it's great Damon that you have time to spend so much time working on
yourself what else really is there and when I when I say that I don't mean that
I'm everything or that you should think of yourself as everything but if you're
not discovering yourself and I don't mean that in a way of like yoga retreats
and and Bali or something like that what I mean is if you're not really
challenging yourself if you're not really tapping into your true potential
and and really breaking down that that false self finding out discovering who
you really are and finding out what the world is really about to you what else
is there and how else are you going to be there for other people how else
you're going to be your best self for other people if you're not doing that if
you're not going deep if you're not understanding yourself on the in the
truest way that you could possibly understand yourself so remember when
you're taking that journey which is anytime you're stepping out of your
comfort zone to accomplish something make sure you take that inner journey
along the way if you would like some help with there
a little bit of guidance a little bit of finding out a little bit of
self-discovery finding out what is important to you and what you do want to
work on what is your potential that's calling you what area of life you want
to put your focus on to improve there is a link down in the description you click
that link and you'll come to a set of questions and you answer those questions
and then it puts it together for you in an assessment and sends it to you so
that you can really find out what it is that your potential is calling you to do
and what area of life that would be good for you to focus first if you liked this
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