 Who has ever watched a commercial? The, you know, I'm whoever, whoever, and I approve this message. We're after you, like, man, I feel really good after watching that. Yeah, I'm very hopeful. I'm hopeful for the future, right? Never. Today, I'm gonna be talking about something exciting. I'm gonna talk about how shame, guilt, and fear are used as a weapon to control you. And I'm gonna talk about how it's used to control you, but also how you may unintentionally use it to control other people as well. And to join me today, I have my best friend, Dean DeVries, to talk about this very special shame, guilt, and fear. So thank you for being here. Thanks, brother, for having me. It's great to be here. We're in the lovely Sedona, and there's a lot that's happened in the world right now. There is. We have an election coming up, which I don't really talk about. We have COVID that's here. I don't really talk about it. And there's a lot of shame, guilt, and fear that's being used right now to try to control people. And you and I, we're not gonna give our stance on anything. We're not gonna give our stance on the election. We're not gonna give our stance on COVID. That's not our, no one can shit about our opinions. So we're not gonna give it. What we are gonna do is look at it objectively and talk about how the news and media and everybody else are using these three things, whether they know it or not, to try to control people. Yeah, I think that's like the biggest part of this is just building the awareness. Because if somebody, like we say, we talk about it all the time, if we could give everybody one superpower, it'd be awareness, right? So self-awareness, awareness of how our actions create consequences, how everything that we do somehow affects the environment around us and the environment all over the world. So I love this topic and I think it's super meaningful to build some awareness around it. For sure, so, you know, obviously there's the election, there's COVID, but even if you get outside of those things, things that are always around, there's always parents shaming and guilting their children and putting fear into them. There's always people in relationships with other people that are shaming and guilting and fearing them in order to control them. And this is happening all over the place. People do it with their friends, people do it with their parents, their parents do it with them. Everyone does it with each other and it's more of like, let's bring the awareness to it. So number one, we can stop shaming, guilting and throwing fear into people, but also we can recognize when people are doing it to us and become very aware so that we can talk about and be like, hey, listen, I don't really like how you tried to guilt me in to doing this one thing, right? And so if you think about it, there's going to college. Sometimes children are guilted into going to college and shamed if you don't go to college or how much fear they put into them of, if you don't go to college, you're never gonna get a good job. You're never going to, you're gonna be poor your entire life and they can throw fear into somebody. There's professions of who you should be. There's a lot of people that I know whose parents said, hey, you're either a doctor or a lawyer or a failure and that's it. And they throw the fear into them that they're gonna be a failure and then if they don't go to school for what they want them to, they shame them, they guilt them until they try to get them to be fully controlled by everything that they have. So in this idea came up because I was taking a drive with yesterday, we were driving to go to Home Depot to pick up lights for this event that we're throwing here in Sedona. And Chris, my videographer and I were talking about people that we know and how a lot of their parents use fear to control them and how they use that fear to make them do what they want them to do. And a lot of times they don't do it on purpose but they do it because that's just all they've ever known. And it's because of their own fears. And oftentimes they're not trying to be malicious. Like I don't want to control my son or daughter to do something in their mind. They're thinking they're doing them a solid. Like, hey, I'm taking you out of harm's way when really that's just the manifestation of their own fears. And the best way to communicate that is to instill that same fear within them. Exactly. And to get you, because I'm so afraid of what could possibly happen to you, I want to scare the shit out of you so that nothing happens to you. And a lot of people, whether they realize it or not, with their parents do this to them, they do this to people that they love, people that they're in a relationship with, they do it to their children as well. So for people out there that have children, is a lot of people will disguise their fear as love. I love you so much that I want to make sure that you stay safe. No, you're trying to keep this person in the nest because they're jumping out of the nest makes you uncomfortable. Right. Right, how often does that happen? I mean, people listening have a parent or a friend or someone in their family or someone that they love that tries to say, no, no, no, I'm checking on you. I have to text you every single day because I love you so much. No, you have to text me everything because you're fucking terrified. Think about that. Let that one sit in for a little while. If you're needing to check up on me because you're so worried that there might be something wrong with me, you won't even let me be my full autonomous sovereign being that I am. And if you don't let my wings, like let me spread my wings and fly, they're gonna be weak. And I'll never know how to be fully sovereign being. Yeah, and that's the thing is that you never see somebody that's like woke, right? Or somebody that is like really in their authenticity or somebody that is free and just like really authentic in their expression. That's usually the type of person that wants to have other people experience that as well. So, I mean, I feel like we've said it a few times already, but like the way that people treat others especially when it comes to shaming somebody, guilting somebody into something, using fear to manipulate, control them, it's because they're not free. They are being controlled by that very same thing. And that's just their normal, that's the life that they're living, that's their experience. And they're just projecting that. Right, yeah. And so, if we talk about a couple of things, once again, let's come in from a completely just objective standpoint. We have no opinions in these matters. If we look at the election that's happening right now, how much, just everybody think about this for a second that's listening. How much fear, guilt, and shame do you see out there that people are using to try to get you to believe what they believe, right? Fear, if you don't vote for this person, your life is gonna be really screwed up. You're going to lose all of your money or you're going to lose all of your freedom or you're going to lose your sense of self or the economy is gonna go down or the environment's gonna go down. Like how many different areas do you see fear mongering to try to control you to do what they want you to do? Hmm. Think about that for a second. Yeah. And in spirit of awareness, like an easy way to just tell, like, is this a manipulation tactic? Is when you hear that, does it make you feel good? Right? Who has ever watched a commercial? The, you know, I'm whoever whoever and I approve this message. We're after you're like, man, I feel really good after watching that. Yeah, I'm very hopeful. I'm very hopeful for the future, right? Never. It's always this person does this, this person does this. And if you don't vote for me, this person's gonna ruin your life. Yeah. Right? It's gonna ruin your life. It's fear. It's all fear that's in them. Now, let's talk about it from another standpoint of how guilt and shame are using those exact same things for the election as well. How do you use guilt and shame? I mean, if you literally scroll through Facebook, you can see guilt and shame everywhere. Oh, you're putting this post up? Right. Oh my God, you're a disgusting human. Yeah. Oh yeah, do you not care about this? Do you not care about that? Do you not care about this? Do you not care about that? How dare you talk about that? How dare you feel that way? How dare you have a different opinion than I have? Hmm. I'm, I can't even deal with your opinion that doesn't even match up with mine. That causes so much cognitive dissonance that my world is shook and up that I need to get mad at you because you don't see the world the same way that I do. How about this one? There's two examples here. How dare you talk about that? Example one. Example two. How dare you not talk about that? Right? You know? I mean, that's like, wow, what is the objective here? It's to, you know, is to bring in shame and guilt of like, you know, don't go there. Right. And then there's a shame and guilt. Why won't you go there? Right. Oh, you don't see the same world the way that I do. I'm gonna try to guilt and shame you into thinking the same way that I do. Yeah. Right? So you have the election side of it, which there's that whole thing that's going on. Then we have the whole COVID side of it where it's like fear. Okay, let's dive into the fear of it. There's a lot of fear that's out there. Right? Death. If you want to scare people, talk about death. If you want to really control people, talk about how they might die. Yeah. Right? There's a whole lot of fear that's out there. Right? Then there's the guilt and the shame side of it as well. Oh, you are wearing a mask or you're not wearing a mask. If you wear a mask, this could happen. If you don't wear a mask, this could happen. How dare you have your opinions of what is right and what is wrong when we're all just trying to figure out what the hell's going on? Because we've never lived through anything like this before. Yeah. And again, I mean, we don't take a position on this, but one thing we do take a position on is how we treat each other, how we respect each other, how we honor each other's perspectives and opinions. And how we started this off was, the goal of this isn't to change anybody's opinions because we love and appreciate you as a human so much that we respect your opinion and we know that we're not gonna change your opinion and we also know that you're not gonna change our opinion. But what we can be intentional about is honoring each other in that. Yeah, one thing that I would challenge people to do more often instead of going into a debate, whether that's in person or online or any of that, is to actually sit there and listen to somebody else's perspective and go, hmm, I've never thought of it that way. Yeah. And see if you can not be offended. See if you can not get pissed off at someone. See if you can look at it and go, okay. This person, like Dean, you've had a completely different life than I have. I've had a completely different life than you have. You have different beliefs than I do. I have different beliefs than you do. Chris, our videographer is over here. She has a completely different view of life than we do. You know, she was raised in a different country. She's a woman, right? She's from Puerto Rico. We're from America. We're both males. We all have completely different views of the world. Different things that have happened to us. Why don't I just look at your view with love and compassion and go, yeah, I guess I kind of do see why you could view the world the way that you do. Yeah. Okay. I don't think the same way that you do, and I actually don't support it in any sort of way, but I can still love you through it, can't I? Right. And isn't that the most important thing? Yeah. Versus me trying to control you and trying to change your mind on whatever it is that you're thinking about. Yeah. 100%. Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. And so you have, you know, those two things, the election and COVID. Let's go a little bit deeper. Let's go talk about things that will be around forever. Like we're talking about college, we're talking about profession, we're talking about, you know, how many people have been guilted or shamed for not having kids yet? How many people listen to this? I've tried to guilt or shame their kids into having their children so they can have grandkids. Right? How many people have gone? Yeah, you might wanna hurry up because you might need to freeze your eggs or because, you know, there is a plan of magical clock. You know, how many people out there have heard that from someone that they know and someone that they love? That's someone that's trying to control you in some sort of way. Now here, just let me take a step back before we dive deeper into it. Most of the time, someone's not doing this maliciously, they're doing it unconsciously, right? They're doing it from their own state of fear. If somebody says, hey, you should be having children by now because I want grandkids, it's that they fear that they'll never be able to meet their grandkids. Okay, I understand the fear. But it doesn't mean that someone should change their life trajectory to meet your needs or what you want to have happen. Yeah, and the thing that's kind of shining through for me right now is like, the objective of this is to build an awareness of how these forces of fear, guilt and shame are manipulating or trying to manipulate you into being somebody that you're not. And the true message here is be who you are because that's who you are, who you are, not who somebody told you to be or do the things that you want to do that you feel inspired by and passionate about because that's what resonates with you and your heart. Yeah, for sure. And, okay, so now we've talked about how people are trying to go forward. Actually, one thing I wanna add. So in our household, we talk about, there's really two motivations, right? You're either motivated by fear or you're motivated by love, right? And so we have this saying in our household that we don't work for fear. We can either make a decision from one of those two places. It's either out of love or out of fear. And usually when we make the decision out of love, it always guides us to our highest potential and our highest possibility and our highest state of joy. And when we make the decision out of fear, usually we're fearful going into it and it usually isn't the outcome. We're gonna look back on that decision and be like, man, I should've listened to my heart or I should've listened to my gut. And so the thing that's shining through here is fear is a motivator and we have to realize that. And when we can realize that, we can build an awareness of how we are being motivated with whether we're motivating ourselves with our own fears or other people are trying to motivate us into certain actions or into certain ways of being because of their fears projected onto us. So we have fear, we have guilt, we have shame in how they're used on you. And to be aware of that. Now, let's go ahead and flip it because most people aren't thinking about this. Think about how often you use fear, guilt and shame on other people to control them based off of your fears. How often do people go into a relationship with someone and when something happens, they retract love from them because they want to control them. They don't want them to do that thing that didn't make them happy so they try to put the fear of my love is leaving and it's not gonna be around anymore or guilt and shame you into actually knowing that, hey, you know what, this whole thing that's going on, I'm gonna guilt and shame you so that you can change the way that I want you to be, not the way that you truly are. Yeah, how about this pattern? I've definitely lived this. I haven't received a call from you all day. Therefore, I will not pick up your call, right? Right? So it's like, I'm gonna punish you with the thing that I've been punished by even if you didn't think you were punishing me. You could have totally been busy but I'm gonna just receive it in this way because I am so fearful of you not loving me. Correct. And so how many people are out there listening to this and hopefully waking up to the fact that, oh my God, I do use this in relationships. I use this with my parents. I use this with my spouse and a lot of people out there listening to have children. How many people out there are using this on your children for them to be the way that you want them to? How many of you are instilling fear into your children because of your own fears that were given to you? And we were on a mastermind call today. We ran a mastermind, you and I did. Our Kai's a mastermind. And one of the things that we were talking about is how it can go through literally generation to generation to generation, right? And someone's great grandmother can be very fearful and then their grandmother is very fearful and then their mother is very fearful and now they're very fearful and now they're noticing they're passing their fear on to their children. So as much as certain things that can be hereditary, you can pass on to your children through your genes, you can pass fear on to your children in your genes. You can pass guilt and shame on to your children outside of your genes. And then what happens? Your children go, oh, this is the way, cause I'm taught to love for my parents. Oh, this is how I'm supposed to love. I'm supposed to love this other person through guilt, shame and fear and try to control them in every aspect that I possibly can. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, the, you know, as I, I mean, if you just take a step back and look at everything in our human experience between the people that we interact with, just the way that things are, like everything kind of responds the same way. And like one of the basic laws of this universe is that energy is neither created nor destroyed. It's just transferred, right? So when we are speaking something or when we're, you know, emitting some sort of energy and we're acting a certain way or acting out on a certain emotion, that's energy that we're putting outward. And if we are the recipients of that, we unconsciously absorb all that. And so to learn, it's like the nature versus nurture, right? So there's like predispositions and we're not doctors or anything. So it's not like we're like trying to school you on genealogy if you're listening to this, but like, you know, there is that, that case of nature versus nurture and the nurturing side is like what, what are the experiences that shape who, who you are, what you believe in, how you, you know, ultimately how you manifest. And sometimes that can get, can turn into you manifesting through manipulation using guilt, fear and shame. Yeah. And the thing about it is as much as we want to sit here and most of my podcast episodes are like, here's the solution to everything. There's no real solution that's set for self-awareness to notice when you are trying to be manipulated, when someone is trying to manipulate you through fear, guilt and shame, right? Notice when you are trying to manipulate somebody else through fear, guilt and shame. Cause here's the one thing that I do know is that you are your own being and it's really, really hard to control somebody else. Do you wanna know how hard it is to control somebody else? Think about how hard it is to control your freaking self. Right? And people are trying, in order to change yourself. And now you're trying to change somebody else and you can't even make yourself wake up earlier like you want to, whatever it is that's going on. And so think about how hard it is to change yourself and how hard it is to change everything that you do and then go, oh my God, if I can't even change myself, how hard is it gonna be to try to change somebody else? And to be self-aware, as I say over and over and over again, just, you know, you can't read the label unless you take yourself out of the jar. Take yourself out of the jar of your life and go, oh my God, I am trying to control my children through fear. I am trying to manipulate my children to do what I want them to do versus what their life truly should be through guilt and shame and be aware of it. That's all that there really is to it. You know, you don't have to believe what someone else believes. It's completely okay to have your own beliefs and you don't have to feel guilty for not having the same belief as somebody else. And you don't have to shame somebody else for not having the same beliefs as you. And you definitely don't have to put fear into everything and try to instill people in fear into everyone that you know, because as you just said, you're either in loving, in love or you're in fear. And I'm gonna ask the question, everybody that's out there listening, do you wanna be more in love or do you wanna be more in fear? And then I'm gonna ask you a question. Do you want everyone around you to be more in the state of love or the state of fear? Because every action that you take is going to dictate how they're going to feel, especially if they're your children or someone that you're in relationship with that you're spending a lot of time with. So just allow people to exist, allow people to be who they are. Someone's opinions might not be the same as yours. And I'm gonna tell you what, if you try to force your opinions onto them, they're going to resist it way more. So if you're actually trying to change someone's mind, shut up and just be the best version of you. And then they might go, oh yeah, that person's really inspiring me the way that they live. Maybe I should start looking at some of the things that I've been doing lately. Maybe I should start paying attention. Maybe, you know what, they've been doing a lot of work on themselves. Maybe I should start doing more work on myself. My view of the world is not the same as someone else's view on the world, right? White guy raised in America. Not gonna be the same as a lot of other peoples. But other peoples aren't gonna be the same as mine. But it doesn't mean that I should guilt them. They should guilt me. I should shame them. They should shame me. I should put fear into them or they should put fear into me. How about we just look at each other and go, we're different. I still love you. I still love you, which is all that matters. So be aware, everybody, that's what we have for you. Be aware of when you are guilting and shaming people and putting fear into them. And be aware when someone's trying to manipulate you through the same because you don't have to do what other people tell you to do. You don't have to be that way. And as long as you're not injuring anybody or harming people based off of your actions and you're trying to improve and trying to get better in your life, you're doing your best. And that's what I think. Awesome. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as they're looking at the exact same thing, but they're seeing it completely different because they're looking at it through a lens of Democrat or Republican.