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 second episode, master healer Artie Wu of PresideLife.com helps unpack the pattern of transformation coming up across all Belly of the Beast Life Stories. We use a few excerpts from Season One to help bring the stages of transformation to life. By design, every episode in Belly of the Beast Life Stories follows this same pattern.

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.

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Season 2: For Love of My Child are true stories of a parent's transformation when faced with acute challenges, chronic ills, and early endings of their child or children. 

 

EPISODE SUMMARY

- In this episode we're discussing the overall pattern of transformation which follows the same pattern in all Belly of the Beast Life Stories.

- The first stage is 'forced change' which is the event which triggers the process of transformation

- We use Dr. Julian Gold's diagnosis of cancer where he was diagnosed and days later was in the hospital for treatment

- Artie notes that a health event is one category of forced change that "truly cannot be stuffed down anymore"

- In the actual forced event itself -- and in your own forced change in your life -- understand the overall meaning in the event itself

- Artie discusses allegory (finger wagging -- forced change must be teaching me a lesson) vs symbol to rise above wny it's happening and understand that it is happening and how will you respond to it

- From forced change, the caterpillar goes into the cocoon stage, and we use an excerpt from Chip Conley's story to illustrate the "dark, gooey stage" which for Chip was from ages 45 to 49

- Jobi Manson's story is used to help show the surrender stage - necessary as the final stage before climbing up into being a butterfly

- Holocaust survivor Martha Sternbach's story of erupting as a buterfly 50 years after the Holocaust ended and once she told her story, she never stopped is used to discuss transformation

- Artie recalls Chip's story of spending five years in the cocoon phase and for Martha it was nearly 50 years -- but there is no judgement passed 

- Artie answers the question "Will everyone become a butterfly?"

 

BELLY OF THE BEAST LIFE STORIES SOURCED

- Dr. Julian Gold:

https://inourbelly.com/season-1/episode-2-dr-julian-gold/

 

- Chip Conley:

https://inourbelly.com/season-1/episode-13-chip-conley/ 

 

- Jobi Manson:

https://inourbelly.com/season-1/episode-11-jobi-manson/

 

- Martha Sternbach:

https://inourbelly.com/season-1/episode-1-martha-sternbach/

 

QUOTABLES by ARTIE WU

"And I think that health, kind of issues, health conditions. In my experience and the people I've worked with that really sort of reaches that category of things that truly cannot be stuffed down anymore. And the one thing I want to say here is that a big sort of health diagnosis is just one of many different ways you can be triggered to go into the belly of the beast."

 

"The question that's more interesting and relevant to me and ultimately helpful in my experience is what is the overall meaning of this event?"

 

"Part of you that is in cocoon phase. Even know the rest of your life, he didn't stop breathing, he didn't stop making money and living life, paying his taxes and being with people. To all outward appearances, life continued moving. But a part of him was in this cocoon stage and he knew it."

 

"The true transformative surrender is always forced. It always feels forced. If you willingly do it and try to maintain control, it's not quite the real thing."

 

"So when that transformation happens... Your narrative about your self changes. And then you, in your essence, also changes."

 

"I think the answer is the natural pattern is that yes, yes. You know, everyone is a caterpillar does go down to cocoon phase and does come up the butterfly. The process can be aborted, can be forced back backward even or like completely stalemated and halted. Because there are other forces within you that will say this entire shape is invalid. I reject this entire shape. I demand that I be a caterpillar and a damn good looking one driving a nice car for the rest of my life with no change whatsoever. All I want is no change. And those forces in a person can be very powerful as well to the point where they abort any cocooning that happens."

 

TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE

https://inourbelly.com/beyond-the-belly-episodes/episode-2-pattern-of-transformation-with-artie-wu/

 

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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