Join us for our very first episode where Carlos and Satch have one of their amazing conversations, recorded and airing for the first time! This one’s all about emotional mastery, what’s happening within us when intense emotion arises and how to deal with it more effectively. They cover things such as road rage, how to effectively manage yourself during an “amygdala hijack,” and how to apply some principles of NLP for more influential communications. Buckle up! (For in-page player, scroll to bottom below episode transcript)

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Oliver: 00:05 You’re listening to The Authenticity Show where you get to eavesdrop on great conversations about health, creativity, and the quest for excellence. Your hosts are Carlos Casados and Satch Purcell. First up, Carlos and Satch each share a personal story about road rage, how they dealt with the experience and what they learned from it.

Satch: 00:39 I think I might have shared this story with you. This is a true story, by the way. This really happened to me, right. And, uh…

Carlos: 00:39 Get out the popcorn.

Satch: 00:46 Yeah. This was one of those eye opening moments for me. It was, it started off with a case of road rage.

Satch: 01:00 This was many, many years ago. I was a much younger man. And I got really upset at somebody on the road as we all have at some point.

Carlos: 01:00 Yep.

Satch: 01:13 And, it was one of those arguments that…

Carlos: 01:13 Guilty as charged.

Satch: 01:16 Yeah, you know, it was one of those arguments that, that could have come to physical blows. It didn’t. Thank goodness, you know, thank goodness it didn’t. But I will admit that in my mind, I did beat the crap out of this guy, in my brain.

Carlos: 01:16 (echo effect) Amygdala Hijack…

Satch: 01:33 Right, right. Exactly. Yeah. My lizard brain completely destroyed this man. And in my mind, I remember just pounding this guy with my right arm, just beating him to a pulp. Now this didn’t really happen.

Carlos: 01:33 Right.

Satch: 01:49 It happened in my mind.

Carlos: 01:49 You strongly visualized it.

Satch: 01:54 Yeah, I very strongly visualized it, it was a very emotionally charged experience, and… BUT I want to, I want to point this out. I never physically did anything. I didn’t go home and beat up the pillow. I didn’t, I never physically… I didn’t punch the air. I was just really P.O.’d in my mind. And to my surprise, the next maybe three days or so, my whole right shoulder and scapula was unbelievably sore. Like I really did it. And I learned a powerful lesson from that experience is that even thinking tremendously violent thoughts caused the same type of delayed onset muscle soreness. And I’m talking real serious soreness. I was in pain the coming days, as though I really beat this guy up. So, you know, I mean, it’s like my brain caused my muscles to make lactic acid and making me sore as though I really had an intense workout. So I think, I think emotions and thoughts are also food and we need to process and digest them properly. We need to eat them properly in. And uh, this is a topic I think, probably deserves more discussion…

Carlos: 03:17 Strongly visualized, strongly pictured events are experienced as real to the unconscious mind,