Beyond the Belly takes you beyond the personal narratives in Belly of the Beast Life Stories to bring to life the wisdom found in the overall patterns of transformation.

For our third episode, master healer Artie Wu of PresideLife.com talks about his own transformative journey going through his "own phases of being a caterpillar." Those phases include a prestigious academic background at Harvard and Stanford and then building and exiting two startups in Silicon Valley prior to finding his bliss as a healer. The practice of healing is a process of self-discovery and reconciliation with the parts of you that have been stuffed down throughout life. Realigning with those parts is how you start to "follow your bliss."

Artie is a healer to more than 120,000 people throughout the world via PresideLife.com, and an advisor to both of my podcasts. He is a friend, and has been instrumental to help me develop these concepts and in helping me spiritually grow as a man.

Be sure to check out episodes 1 and 2 to hear more of Artie's wisdom.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

- In this episode, Artie shares his "own phases as a caterpillar" and his transformation journey and finding his bliss as a healer

- Artie answers an important question: what is healing?

- Artie talks about the mask that society gives girls of being "good girls" and boys of being "strong and competent" (and getting a pass on being "good")

- We stuff parts of who we are down into the Belly - and healing is the act of going down to recover that lost part of you  

- Artie connects how most will refuse the "call" to recover this part of who they are and then life magically "puts them through the tumble cycle" to reconcile with that part of them in the belly

- Pain from a traumatic experience, like getting hit hard on the football field and crying has a secondary and deeper wound when the boy is in the car getting screamed at by his dad for crying and that "boys don't cry"

- Boys have learned to cut off their ability to express emotion

- Artie shares his 7-day healing program as a way to learn the tools to go back and recover these missing parts of you on your own 

- What is "following your bliss" and why it's so crucial for you right now

- Artie ends our story with this beautiful quote, "But when you know the meaning of pain you're going through, almost anything is bearable," reminding you that you too are a butterfly and your bliss is calling you -- but it still requires going into the cocoon phase of life

 

QUOTABLES by ARTIE WU

"You know, I've went through my own phases of being a caterpillar. Jumping through the hoops of going to the right schools and doing sort of industry work and professional stuff that would be acceptable to the expectations that I had coding in my own mind and heart."

 

"So the quick view of how I think about healing is that within every single one of us as we go through life. There will be parts of us that are valid, genuine card carrying parts of who we actually are as people just as we're born. That we will feel are unacceptable to the world around us. And that's an issue. An extreme if I'm in a society where being, say, divorced or homosexual or whatever will cost me my life because I could be executed under the law of that country, then if this is part of me that is like my sexual orientation or my religious affiliation could cause me to die or be killed, then that's a part of me if I want to survive that, I have to stuff down."

 

"And where you've stuffed that part of you is down in the belly, down in the deepest level of Guantanamo prison. And it can be argued that - healing is basically the act of going down into the lowest levels of the prison to recover that lost part of yourself."

 

"And so there's a sort of mysterious connection between healing as this whole natural process, this spontaneous process, if you will, of going into the belly of the beast that we all experience. I don't believe there's any master sort of torturer triggering all these things -- it happens from our biology; Like a bird builds a nest and it's beautiful."

 

"And the whole healing process that I teach that I take people through is this journey of like, OK, so let's figure out what it was? Where is it now? And how do we recover it back? Actually, teach this 7-day healing program where in 7 days. Oh, we don't do the full recovery, But we teach you all the tools in that seven day workshop for you to do the recovery on your own."

 

"And by day three (of the 7-day healing program), they find the missing part of them. They're having this conversation with it and they've already started the recovery process."

 

"That is where that road leads you is to finding and following your bliss. The thing you love to do natively even before you were born for no good reason. But when you follow it, you know it makes you happy. It unlocks all this power in you. It also, in hindsight, ends up being like you realized the meaning of purpose in your life. The reason why you're on the planet in the first place. And as a happy byproduct, it rains down blessing on the life of the world around you."

 

"A caterpillar, armies of caterpillars are just like hanging out on the tree leaves and they see butterflies fly by and they're like, what the hell is that? And someone's like and some butterfly stops , Picasso stops. Where are you? Oh, that's fine for Picasso, but not for me. But that's fine for Jonah, but not for me. It's fine for Chip Conley, but not for me. Chip looks at you like, don't you get it? You are me."

 

"But when you know the meaning of pain you're going through, almost anything is bearable."

 

TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE

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RESOURCES

• Artie's healing website:http://PresideLife.com
• Preside Life on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/presidelife
• @wu_artie on instagram:https://www.instagram.com/wu_artie/

 

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