Joe Hudson

So I have a phrase that's, joy is the matriarch of a family of emotions, and she won't come into a house where her children aren't welcome.

And so how do you welcome your anger and your fear and your sadness so that you can welcome the harder things to welcome, which is like ecstasy and joy and excitement and exuberance and love.

And we think that those things are really easy to feel, but they're actually, I find people have a very hard time.

We'll do these retreats.

and we'll have a chance for people to really go into their anger and they'll get angry for like 40, 50 minutes just, and they, you know, maybe hadn't gotten angry for years, but they'll do it.

And then we're like, okay, now we're going to do some pleasure.

And everyone like five minutes later is like, okay, well, what are we doing next?

Because to actually allow that feeling of deep joy, deep pleasure, it's,

The way they say it is that you don't really exist in it anymore.

Like the you starts to dissipate because it gets so big, it gets so expansive that it gets scary.

And so you'll see people contract into fear when a great amount of pleasure or love show up.

And then what would be the gut awakening?

For me, the gut awakening is a nervous system awakening.

And so that is like the most difficult one to explain because it's just so hard.

The way I would say it is your capacity to hang out in like just the simple pleasure of being alive.

Meaning that you're not in fight or flight very often unless something real is happening.

There's like an experience of like the sensations moving through your body are just unbelievably pleasurable.

And what that's basically doing is it's telling you you're safe when you actually are safe and you're not safe when you actually aren't safe.

And most of us are walking around the world feeling unsafe even though we're perfectly safe.

And they're all linked.