Welcome to the Man Talk Show, Training for Men, Answers for Women.

I'm Connor Beaton, and today we're going to talk about the function of numbing out and what purpose

it serves, how to get through it, and why it's actually important data.

So recently, I was reading a book called The Secret of the Golden Flower.

And the book is basically an old Buddhist text that has been translated and commented on by Carl Jung.

But the text was really like an instruction manual for meditation, an instruction manual for cultivating awareness

and for cultivating consciousness. And it's a little bit esoteric. It's a little bit, in some

spot, sort of hard to really get what the author was speaking to. But there was this one part that really stood out to me

and I felt was so applicable for men. And it said, strength is in visioning the empty. Strength is

envisioning the empty. And so the idea here is that the more that we can cultivate a connection to emptiness,

the more that we are actually able to cultivate a sense of awareness, a sense of groundedness,

a sense of peace, et cetera.

And I realized that this is sort of at odds with a lot of what modern men, a lot of us as modern

men are really dealing with.

And this is true for women as well, especially women that are much more masculine in their energetic

bodies.

And so I wanted to dive into this.

So the masculine really seeks freedom.

So the masculine within us seeks freedom.

And it wants to cultivate that freedom by creating external lives, relationships,

businesses, et cetera, where we have or have designed a sense of freedom within ourselves

in our lives.

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