Overcoming Anger and Negative Mindsets Through a Five-Day Intensive Process

Hey, my name is Ben. I'm shooting this video because for 40 Years of Zen, I was not in a good place and it wasn't so much that it was that I didn't know I was not in a good place. So I was getting a lot very angry and very irritated with things through the process and of course after 40 Years of Zen, I've changed my whole look. I mean, I'm still the same person but now I feel so much lighter and ready to face things more, much more and it's not that hard once you look at it. I highly recommend 40 Years of Zen of because as I mentioned it's a process and you need some people to help you get through the process and the other thing is you need to have the time so the five days is time that you take away from your life and I didn't mean to take away in a bad way but take for yourself to really to do the process. If you're trying to do this like through online thing or trying to do it, while you're working, you wouldn't be able to do it. So this is a great environment here, great people and they totally help you get it done. Well, I thought life was pretty good and life was going good but when I got here I found out that I really did have some issues with anger and getting irritated. So I read about 40 Years of Zen and I think it was headstrong by Dave Asprey and I put it on my bucket list this was a few years ago and at the time I thought there's no way I'll be able to ever afford this and it turned out that this particular year I was able to afford it, and that was the yes part. What made me appreciate the program the most is probably the group sessions, which was very helpful to me in sort of seeing how other people had their issues and how they were sort of overcame and that also helped me and the facilitator helping me to sort of realize that there was an issue and then making me be more curious about why this is so and then once you figure out the why then it's a little easier to figure out how to fix it. Moving forward, I'm most excited about being in joy and living that way and just being in the moment and not worrying so much about the future, not worrying about things that might happen or could have happened or that kind of a thing, just living in joy looking for the good in people and trying to find like that praise, trying to find the gift and everything. Having gone through the program, what shifted the most is really my mindset. Instead of being negative and looking at things sort of in a half empty sort of a way is looking at things in a half full way and realizing once I get into the sort of the negative whether it be self talk or that sort of a thing, any kind of negative thoughts or emotions that it's time to just step back and say, okay, this is going down a path that will be no of no use to you if not detrimental and looking for that gift and thinking okay, this is a positive, this is how I'm going to learn from this situation and move on and keep staying in that peaceful joy. I think going forward this will impact my life in a very positive way because it was some work and a lot of it was self realization and self recognition and I think having gone through that to be more like I said more positive, more in the moment and definitely more like just it's not that hard just to say that's bothering me or that's we need to try to fix this rather than just getting upset and figuring everybody else can figure out what I want or what's bothering me. My biggest takeaway is that there are many tools available and sometimes you just have to find the right tool once you realize that there's something that you want to try to fix and there are people out there, there are resources out there, but most of the time you or myself, I already know the answer or know what to do. It's just that I realize it might be work and I didn't really want to go down that road. So I think just saying once again it's not that hard just turn around face whatever it is and just move through it. The main reason I would recommend 40 Years of Zen is that at the end of the process and it's definitely a process, at the end of the process it will be life changing and you will have a much better understanding of yourself and realize that parts of yourself that you don't like or that you would rather that you would like to improve you can do that and this will set you on the path down that road to making yourself better and happier and carrying around a lot less baggage.