Hey what's up it's Josh Trent this is Wellness Force. This is a special solo cast show.

Today it's just me and you I'm gonna talk with you about things that we are both dealing with in life and they really relate to us

climbing our own mountain.

This past week, eight days I got to hang out in the Sierra Nevada's

with four of my really great men, couple from Men's Group,

and I wanted to share my experience because I think you can really relate to this.

Now this is not necessarily easy for me to share, but I really am feeling the deep calling today,

and it's about us climbing our own unique

individual mountain. I spent eight days in the eastern Sierras. I originally went out

there for nature therapy, you know hiking movement connecting with friends,

but I wound up almost dying and at the time even though it felt like dying which I'll talk about here

but it really allowed me to feel this

gift of the polarizing contrast that all of us are going to die one day and that's

the ultimate truth we're all going to wherever it is we go, that outer realm, that other dimension, that other place when we leave this existence in our meat suits.

And that's what I felt at 12,000 feet. This was actually the second time this year. I was gifted with a near-death experience.

First time was from some of the podcast that I recorded I shared from Rhythmia, but this time it happened and the Mount Whitney Trail. So it was crazy. It was like a

full moon at night. We had hiked up there. I was trying to sleep and I was on the cold

gravel and a little small tan and the Mount Whitney Trail Camp and all of a sudden I felt my heart pounding fast and it's 30 degrees outside.

I'm in this little bivisac and this mummy bag and I felt like I couldn't breathe. So I got out of the tent, I tried to call myself down after like 45 minutes of walking around sucking oxygen from a canister from my friend Sean and just really trying to calm my nervous system telling myself

positive affirmations. I finally got to accept really what was happening.

The truth was I had acute mountain sickness so I made the call at the middle of the night at 12.30,

1 o'clock. I turned to my friend and I said it's time to go and this is where most of us really struggle. It's making the choice when our life is on the line.

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