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Published: March 28, 2021, 12:17 p.m.

In this podcast, we interview Kurtis Lee Thomas, Corporate Mindfulness Trainer, and the book’s internationally bestselling author, The World is Yours, The Awakening - The Secrets Behind the Secret.

Starting, Kurtis gives a message to the listeners of the podcast, “Whatever you want for yourself, you must do for other people first.” He also talks about the universe and the power it holds. 

Next, Kurtis explains breath-work as a healing mode and the process of dealing with emotions, stress, drama, trauma, and the emotional intelligence of dealing with things. He also discusses his experience with breath-work as compared to numerous techniques that he has tried. He explores the spiritual awakening concepts from his 3-D world and how to get a bigger picture of this world. 

He talks about his best-selling book, which he wrote after going through some unhealed trauma. 

He also talks extensively about the art of manifesting and the fact that we need to know what we want to achieve. 

Next up, Brendon and Kurtis talk about the factors holding us back. Self-sabotaging by focusing on what we don’t want and holding on to something from the past that we don’t need. Then they continue to discuss breath-work and letting go of things. Kurtis says, “you need to let go if you want to let in” and explains how stored emotions create stories. 

Kurtis discusses going from having zero spiritual experience to actually experiencing everything in a span of a month which then led him to research for 10-12 hours a day. He talks about his experiences from the spiritual world, the law of attraction, and cosmic consciousness. 

He then explains how the earth is not our home but our mission and continues with the power of breathing and its techniques. He explains how when you breathe full, you are living your life to the fullest and when you breathe shallow you are living a shallow life. 

Moving on, Kurtis talks about the idea of letting go of things and how it all comes down to comfort. He explains his idea of negative energy having consciousness and the greatest fear of its being destroyed. 

He then goes on to talk about how we live in the age of anxiety and the idea of this population being scared of the future. 

Next, they talk about the game of integration. Kurtis talks about the learning from Buddha and Jesus and integrating knowledge into this 3-D form of life. 

Towards the end, they talk about Kurtis’s experience with fatherhood and the blessing he had to raise a daughter. Ending the podcast, they discuss Kurtis’s new book.

Podcast Outline:

[00:00] Introduction 

[01:06] One message to the listeners

[02:53] Talking about the present

[06:06] The technique of breath-work

[07:54] Introducing breath-work into regimes 

[10:28] Self-sabotaging and holding on

[14:30] The power of breath-work

[16:07] The wakening experience 

[18:40] The significant personal experiences

[24:20] The power of breathing

[27:40] Letting go

[31:16] Breath-work and anxiety 

[37:15] The game of integration

[43:05] Fatherhood

[46:00] The new book: Breathwork Detox: How to Thrive in the Age of Anxiety 

Connect with Kurtis on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/manfromthestars/

Transcription below is machine generated:

Kurtis Lee Thomas 1:06
Oh, man, you know, I will say every year, I have like one message, one mantra that I live by. And, you know,

Brandon Handley 0:00
4321 Hey, their spiritual dope I'm on today with Curtis Lee Thomas. He is a corporate mindfulness trainer and a number one best selling author of The World Is Yours. The secret behind the secret. The book has been seen in the hands of mega influencers, like Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins, Steve Forbes and Kanye West. Curtis is the founder of breathwork detox and just released his new book titled How to thrive in the age of anxiety and curse before we even get started. Man, I want to what what is your what's your Instagram?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 0:36
handle? Man from the stars? What's that all about? Man from the stars?

Brandon Handley 0:41
Yeah, so

Kurtis Lee Thomas 0:42
I am, you know,

Brandon Handley 0:43
I love it. I love it.

Unknown Speaker 0:44
I love it.

Brandon Handley 0:45
So, before we get started, how I like to get these going is Look, man, you and I are creators, right? And the universe creates through us and creates moments delivers messages, yada, yada. There's only one message that can come through you right now, at this time for one of the listeners, what is that message today?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 1:18
I'd say the first rule of karma states that whatever you want for yourself, you must do for other people first, you know, so that was like a big realization, you know, for me, and like, I was looking for a mentor, like I wanted, like, this billion dollar, you know, big business mentor to help me you know, you know, build my success. And I sat there and looked in the mirror. I'm like, you know what, I'm not even helping anybody. I'm not mentoring anybody? How am I going to expect to attract that if I'm not even willing to do that for somebody else. And then, so I agreed to bring somebody on, as soon as I started mentoring somebody, boom, the mentor popped in my life. So it's like, you know, we all want we all want why, but like, you know, learn to like, learn to use the natural ebb and flow of the universe and to, you know, give and receive, you know, we got, you know, a left and a right hand, and we get a take as much as we were willing to give, you know,

Brandon Handley 2:09
that's great. I mean, it sounds like, sounds like you get what you give.

Unknown Speaker 2:13
Yeah, you know,

Brandon Handley 2:15
and, you know, I love the idea of you know, you're you're big in law of attraction, if I'm not mistaken. Obviously, you know, we're talking about the secret a little bit today. If you look at the idea of like, the tourists, right, the tourists in the field, right? And like how starts off kind of small from the inside. But as it goes out, boom, it gets bigger, and it comes back to like, no matter what, so like the universe's force multiplier, am I right?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 2:40
No, yeah, it is. Yeah, like magnetic beings, man.

Brandon Handley 2:44
Yeah. Well, so let's, let's, I mean, let's start off with me a little bit, a little bit more about, like, where you're at today, and then we'll just kind of talk about how you got there. Right. So you just finished up, like, this new book on breathwork. And, and you're, you know, you're leading the field by doing like, even corporate training with breathwork. Let's talk a little bit about not that what's going on there.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 3:06
Yeah, man, just I just found breathwork to be, you know, literally, like the most powerful healing modality on the planet right now. You know, and through my own journey, you know, I've done a lot of stuff, you know, many things that were, you know, invasive, you know, like, combo, you know, putting frog poison inside of us. So you can projectile vomit out toxins, like does pretty invasive, and then go into the jungles and you know, drinking Ayahuasca for, you know, seven days, you know, seven times in a row and within nine days, like some intense stuff, and, and, you know, other modalities, healing modalities, like ozone therapy, and like, you know, pretty still biohacking stuff. And like when I found breathwork, like it was the secret sauce, because I had a five year stomach issue that doctors could not tell me what was wrong with me. I'm talking dozens of doctors, and I went to one breathwork and eradicated my stomach issue. And to the point, I was flabbergasted of like, how that was even possible. And then I hit me, I'm like, wow, the reason why these doctors couldn't tell me what was wrong with me, is because my issue wasn't physical. It was energetic. It was emotional. And you know, and this was at the time where, you know, I'm holding on to a certification for life coach, hypnotherapy, NLP, Reiki Master, like I have all these, these tools. And still, I was never taught how to deal with emotions, you know, how to regulate emotions, how to, you know, release the suppressed trauma and all the stuff that we all have from childhood, then, you know, we didn't have the emotional intelligence back then to learn how to deal with it and started becoming compounded because it kept coming in. But we were figuring out how to deal with the old stuff. And I was one of those people and I got messed up. And you know, it started messing me up physically. So, you know, to me, breathwork was the Trojan horse. Like I actually was taken executives and see To the jungles, the drink I Alaska because I love to give people an experience and I want to give people their results that are immediate and undeniable. You know, and in, you know, I Alaska does that. But it's you know, you got to take time out, you got to go to the jungle, you got to get a shaman, but breath works like the Trojan horse, you go in there, just say, hey, let's breathe today, you know? And then these have these profound cathartic releases. And you know, you got dead metal tryptamine Yes, accreting and people are like, you know, dreaming while awake and having these epiphanies and realizations and healing traumas, all from breathing. So I'm like, okay, the world needs to know about this man.

Brandon Handley 5:39
No doubt. You know, I recently, within the past, probably six months, maybe the past year, right? Because I can't I can't understand what happened with the timespace contain with 2020. The breathwork, right. You showed up in my life? No, first, you know, I think most people right now. It's like Wim Hof The Iceman. Right and his story. And then um, you know, another place that it showed up for me was, and I was actually a little disappointed I'm not gonna lie I looked at you know, you listed out these breathworks need to add one is the Japanese breast called like hora h A Ra. And I was reading this book by like, you know, some German dude. And then next thing I know, I got a buddy of mine who's who's just started doing some breath work and, and I had my hands out, I was like, just like everything else, right? Just like everything else, right? Like in this self development phase. Now, I'm cool. I'm gonna be good. I'm gonna be over here. I breathe in pretty well, my entire life. I don't need what you got, right. But what happened was a buddy of mine. You know, he's like, I've been going to the saint is awesome. I was like, Alright, I'll fucking go. It'll be fine. And I went, and mind blown dude. I'm like, Mind blown. I don't have I lost experiences. But I had plenty of other like you call them evasive experiences, or? We'll call it that and plenty of them and many different varieties. And the beauty of this, this breath work that you're talking about is just that right? It's clean. And it's comes from breathing. Exactly.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 7:16
Everybody's everybody's holding pain, how we all

Brandon Handley 7:20
first, sir, for sure. The breath works pretty amazing. And so you were already kind of out on the, in the front end of kind of like this exploratory space, though. With your life coaching with Reiki and the doing the law of attraction, right?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 7:41
Yeah, yeah.

Brandon Handley 7:44
Just so you know, bring that up, because you're kind of already out there in the forefront and having these conversations so what happens like when you when you when you start bringing breathwork to it?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 7:53
Yeah, well, I realized like, once, you know, my whole first book, The world is yours. The Secrets Behind the secret was all about awakening, spiritual awakening. And, you know, it could help anyone at any level, you know, awaken, awaken from their slumber of what's really going on in the world, you know, the 3d world, the spiritual world, it kind of just really gave a good breakdown of the overall bigger picture. And I realized once you start waking people up, you know, the next thing, they're like, Okay, I'm awake. Now I can see all my stuff my lights turned on. Now, what do I do? I mean, like, life isn't all peaches and cream, after you wake up. And I was like, wow, we can always people up and you know, their lifes are better. You know, they're there. Because, you know, when you wake up, you start researching crazy, go pretty much insane, you know, for a good phase of your life. So I'm like, I need to come up with a tool. And of course, like, you know, I didn't, I found it through my own pain and suffering and, and then I found that tool. And that's why I wrote the second book because I was like, it was meant to be like a gift for all the people that I woke up Okay, now, here's how you can like work through all the traumas and stuff and you know, in in the crazy information that you have to disseminate now that you're awake, and but I did realize something like I realized some super important and powerful from teaching breathwork for the last decade, I'm sorry, I'm teaching the law of attraction for the last decade, and I realized that the majority of people self sabotage their manifestations. And what I learned is that you know, I really don't have to teach anybody how to manifest because they're already manifesting. Everybody right now listening to this in this very moment you are manifesting the mechanics are

automatic.

I can remind you that you get to have some clarity you have to remember and know what you want because what you want is up to you but how and when you get it is not okay and then you got to be able to you know, be able to feel the will see the visualizations of it. If you can't see yourself achievement achieving that, then who else can and then if you're able to see yourself achieving Then you're able to feel the emotions. And that is what activates it and sends that beacon out into the universe, you know, and then you have to become aligned with that and take some sort of action that's going to give, you know, be the breadcrumbs to you achieving what you need to achieve. That's the mechanics of it. We do it every single day, the small things and big things. But the reason why people say I want this, I want this, I want this and they're not getting that is because they're self sabotaging. Now, they're doing that for two reasons. One, they're focusing, they're really focusing on the things that they don't want, instead of the things that they do want. And we just kind of do it naturally, because our brains are hardwired that way. And I read a study that said, you know, 80% of our thoughts, humans are negative in nature. And 98% of our thoughts every day are the same thoughts we had the day before. So we're on this shitty hamster wheel, recycling these crappy thoughts every single day. And most of it is worry, doubt fear, lack scarcity. And we're focused on the things we don't want to happen. We're not tapping in to the vibration, of visualizing and feeling the feeling of already achieving and having what it is that you want. That's the secret. It's easier said than done. I get it. But why is that the wise important? Why do we keep doing that? And it leads me to the second thing, and that was the game changer as far as manifesting. And what I learned is that people are self sabotaging because they're still holding on to the junk, to the old limiting beliefs to the old trauma to the past breakups to the partner screwed them over all the stuff that they weren't given the tools of how to emotionally heal and to let go and forgive. Yeah, we know forgiveness is the root of all healing. But How the hell do you forgive? Where's the booklet on that? You know, it's like, I didn't learn that stuff. And it wasn't until breathwork that I realized, wow, I'm my own healer on my own everything. And that's what I want to do. I want to empower people to do the same because that breathing technique goes into literally every Nadi in your system 72,000 Noddies in your system, and clears out all those emotional blockages. This is why you got a roomful of 100 people in a breath work, and you got 85 of them breaking down in tears. I don't care who you are, how bad acid you are. I've done this in prisons, I've done this for NFL players, I've done this for war veterans, you get the baddest people on the planet, you show them this breathing technique, they're going to break down. And they're going to do it gladly, because it's stuff that they've been holding on, that's just so heavy that you just can't hold on to no more because it's weighing you down. I mean, it's it's literally blocking your manifestations. And once you clear out all that stuff, I know you're able to land or take off, like think about it, we all want to take off somewhere, but you cannot take off the you know, those people will not let you take off unless you clear the runway, you know, air traffic control would not let you take off unless you clear the runway. And if you try to land somewhere in life, then that runway has to be cleared. You need to let go so you can let in. And what happens is when that junk still sitting there, you know, occupying the space that you're the good stuff wants to come in. Right? What does that airplane do? It starts circling it circles, it circles until the runway is clear. And that's why we feel like we're going in circles and we're on this hamster wheel. It's not because the the why the reason why people are self sabotage is because you got to let go of the stuff that's blocking the way for the good stuff that you want. That's it, release and let go.

Brandon Handley 13:33
Who cares? I work so hard for all these, you know, emotions and all these things, right? This is my story. You know, this is this is, uh, you know, I am this way because of the breakup, I am this way, because, you know, he kept all my CDs, I am this way, you know what I mean? So,

Kurtis Lee Thomas 13:53
let me say this off of that, that is important, and what you what you're hitting on, and it's the cause of it, actually. Because you know, and the reason why people don't heal isn't because of their biology. It's because of their biography, the same bullshit story, they keep telling themselves over and over again, you know, even if it's true, that's what's weighing them down. That's what's holding them back. And, you know, stored emotions create stories. And when we learn to get rid of those emotions, the stories go with them, and we learn to get rid of the stories, those stored emotions go with it. But I realized, the key with the breath work is it gets the emotions out. And then the stories come up and you realize that bullshit and you stop saying them and you create a new narrative

Brandon Handley 14:42
in your life. That's awesome. So you get I mean, you know, through through the power of breath work, you've got a kind of a release mechanism, a recharging mechanism. And, you know, if you did it right, then you know, your head was supercharged. Right and And, you know, you kind of you got these visualizations and you haven't experienced that. Even if you've done iosa even if you've done copious amounts of shrooms or anything else like that, in your life, this experiences is wholly different than that, right? And it's, um, not a big one to say, elevated, it's an elevated experience, though, right? And, and all senses of the word because again, it's something that you just did just by breathing, you elevated your whole sense of being just in that moment, right? And, and you super, super, really got past your stories and your bullshit, right? And again, um, so you know, what I'm really curious about, though, too, is you talked about your awakening experience, right? I think that what's what's kind of interesting about these awakening experiences is that they can happen at any time in your life. And it sounds new, you're younger than me. But that doesn't mean like, you can't, you can't have that experience, right? It doesn't matter how old you are, you can it can come at any time. So I'm curious to hear kind of about what your awakening experience was. because like you said, when you have that you're like, I gotta go figure out what just happened to me. What just happened to me, and they like, you got to go learn so much stuff, right? Like, alright, well, this, you know, it's totally real, because it just happened. right to you. Right? And so, tell us a little bit about that. And then like, you know, kind of what you did to get your, your sea legs back, right.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 16:33
Man, I'll say that I had the most because I'm a very stubborn minded, Capricorn logical, analytical, so the universe had a knock me upside the head in every direction. And I went from having zero, you know, spiritual experiences, nothing like that would ever stand out. And within a matter of three months, I had every single spiritual experience you can imagine. And because I believe that they happened all at the same time, it caused me this, like, shattered my world, my reality, my life went upside down. But really, I later found out it was turned right side up. And I started researching and, you know, luckily, I had a little money saved where, you know, it shook me so much. I didn't work, I think, for that for the rest of that year. And I was researching literally, probably 10 to 12 hours per day, every day, while I was getting headaches and migraines, it was pretty bad. And, and yeah, I became obsessed, because I have that obsessive, you know, personality. And when I need to learn something, it's like, I got to go all in. And at the time when I was when I was awakening, which is probably 1010 years ago. I remember searching stuff on YouTube. And I searched at all like all the spiritual alien, weird stuff that was there. I got I consumed all the content, literally, all of it, where I was waiting for people to post I had notification I'm like, like, when's people going to post like, I'm searching for that I couldn't find the information. Now, today. I mean, I'd have to live, you know, 1000 lifetimes to be able to watch all the videos that are out there.

Brandon Handley 18:11
Yeah, no, amen. Man. I mean, I saw I saw on your pictures too, like you're hanging out with Bruce Lipton. He was definitely part of my, you know, experience of like, hey, I've got to go out there and learn everything, all the all those all of his videos, and all that kind of content. So what would you say? Like, what were some of those specific experiences that if you could share any of that?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 18:35
Sure. I'll give me like the top the top one. So, you know, one was, I had no idea about the spirit world. And my brother had passed away, and it was sudden, nobody knew who did it. It was a homicide. And I ran into a psychic. And she, you know, I didn't believe in psychics at that time. And long story short, she connected to him, I had a conversation. I didn't, I was very skeptical, then all of a sudden, I'm like, Whoa, this is him. Like his personality was coming through. He was telling me things that only only me and him knew. And I was like, wow, like, how does this How is this all possible? And then he told me like the like, What happened to him? You know, and who did it? And it was pretty wild. And you know, Nobody. Nobody knew. And I was the only person that then you know, had this conversation. And then two weeks later, they ended up catching the people that kill them. And it was the same names he told me in the session. And I was like, What in the world? Like, how is this possible? So now, I'm like, want to learn about like the spirit world. So that was like one part. And then you know, I I started learning about the law of attraction, I read the secret. So now I started becoming more empowered. like wow, like my thoughts can really turn to things like oh yeah, this happened. And then the universe shows you more synchronicities and some weird stuff started happening and then The railway stuff started happening where I started astral projecting. So at nighttime was like, I didn't know your soul can leave your body without dying. Like, nobody taught me that I didn't read that in the manual. And I started having those lucid dreams. And then I actually seen a UFO, several UFOs. And then I learned about something called sci fi, which is Close Encounters of the of the fifth kind where these people from around the world, they'll go to undisclosed locations, and they'll call in extraterrestrial ships. And I'm like, this is a thing, like, like, Where's the How much is it? 300 bucks take my money, like, I just, I'm going like, even if it's like, just to prove myself. And sure enough, Bro, I went to this training in Joshua Tree. And there was a three day training and every single day the ship showed up. And I was like, wow, is this not in the news? How I was not people talking about this, I got a cool little certification, C five, certified basler that I you know, I don't think I can show that to too many people. But like, This all happened in like, three months, you know, it's like, and so now my life is like, completely. And you know, what, and I've mentioned the ET thing, because what really happened is when I when I saw the UFO, you know, it was like, from one moment to the next I was changed person. Because what happened in my brain, if I can articulate it is I was like, wow, you know what? Anything is possible. Anything is possible. And like I realized at that moment, oh, this is why this is the most top secret thing in the government that they don't want you to know is because if people knew the truth about ETS, it literally expands your consciousness faster, and more efficiently than any other truth that I ever had. It's like you just shattered this glass ceilings. And next thing you know, you got cosmic consciousness. So I started to stop thinking in 3d. And earlier you asked me, Why do I call myself man from the stars, is once once I started researching and understanding the totality of who I am, why we're here, what's really going on the you know, the greater narrative of galactic history because, you know, people whose there's people out there still believe Christopher Columbus discovered America. I mean, the guy was given a map that was already drawn out. And when he got there, people were already there. So How the hell did we buy this when we were kids, you know? So it's like, they don't we don't even know. And if you look at the history here in the United States, and you go to China and Russia, you're looking at completely different histories. You know, it's written by the victors. So forget about we don't even know world, US history, nevermind world history, forget about galactic history. And what I learned about it is that, you know, Earth is, is not our home. It's our mission. There's a lot of light warriors, you know, in lightworkers, who came here with a very specific mission. And right now people are stepping into their power. This is why you're here, this is why you have this podcast, this is why you created the space. This is why you have these listeners, this is why we do what we do. And it's been culminating and building up to something bigger,

Brandon Handley 23:04
which is right around the horizon. And, you know, this is this is why we do what we do. Now, that's powerful, right? It's great that you say that right? When you when something is shattered, right? And the illusion of something shattered like that, then that opens up a whole bunch of other possibilities. It just says, Well, if that's not real, if everything that I've been told up to this point, you know, in this one moment, this is a pretty big moment for you. And if that's not real, then your mind blown, right? But the the other part of it, too, is what you do right now with the breath work. You don't even know how to breathe, what else have you been doing wrong? And that's the thing that you do every single day of your life. Right? I mean, that's, I mean, that's Sorry, I got to it that it sort of was like I was like, we're not even breathing, right? I mean, when we're not.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 24:00
When you say that, it's literally like, like, we actually do something called paradoxical breathing. So like, if I have a room and I'm teaching like 200 people in a room and I say, Hey, everybody on the count of three, you know, put your hand on your belly, put your hand in the chest and the count of three, everybody take the deepest breath, and they everybody goes through that. And you see all that chest fills up and not one belly moves. But guess what, if you ever watch a fish or dog or a baby, if you watch them breathe, when they take a breath in, the only thing that moves is their belly. Hmm. And that's how we're supposed to breathe, posted, breathe through the diaphragms and, and hit that power center because the belly is where 80% of our serotonin is produced, is where 80% of our immune system, you know, is so it's like the two things we crave the most is what held that happiness, right? And it's located in the guy without even breathing in there. And we actually do it on purpose. Subconsciously on purpose, if that makes sense, is because the stomach is where we house our emotions. And so what happens is we store a lot of trauma there. So people subconsciously don't want to breathe into that area because they don't want to feel the pain of life. But what happens is, when you do that, you also stop the pleasures and the joy of life. And that serotonin production in your immune system, and you know, we got to breathe full, because when you breathe full you out, you live a full life. And when you breathe shallow, you're living a shallow life. Like, it's all everything is connected to everything else, that how you do anything, is how you do everything. So it's like, you know, when people come to my breathwork sessions, that we talked about this earlier, I said, you know, life life and breath work is like an ATM. You know, you're going to get out of it, what you put in, you know, so we got, we got to do deep breathing, we got to do conscious breathing, and I know it sounds so like, like flimsy. wimzie. Like, oh, yeah, come and breathe with me. It's gonna change your life. Or, hey, come take this walk with me, brother. You know, Brandon, come take this walk, I'm gonna change your life. It's like, Come on now. But when you go to this breathing venue, like we have just socks get knocked off. You don't know what the heck hit Yeah. And your life changed? And, you know, 30 minutes?

Brandon Handley 26:07
Yeah, no. 100 100%, right. You know, just like kind of like all these other things like where you set an intention for the those breathwork sessions and you come out of it. And some of that stuff's already been done. you couple that with the power of, you know, kind of law of attraction and thoughts create things. And when you couple that with know, the emotional outlet and the visualization of a breathwork session, you're like, not hyperdrive, right, like, I mean, it's Yeah, it's gonna happen one way or another. And that's, um, you know, I just think another, another tool that I, you know, I, you know, I'm curious. Now. Now, of course, I'm like, none of us good enough. Now. I'm like, now I'm like, Alright, well, what's next? Right?

Unknown Speaker 26:53
Because Yeah, the law

Brandon Handley 26:54
of attraction, things is pretty well figured out. Right? Like, you've got that pretty much nailed down. I think one of the things that's important too, is like, you talked about it kind of in the earlier right, let go stuff so so you can let other stuff in. Right. And that's kind of like another piece of the law of attraction, like people are holding on to what they've got what already is, right? versus like, you know, the possibility of what could be and they're so afraid to let go of all the things they don't even want. Exactly, right. There'll be like telling you like, oh, that thing, I hate that this thing, I hate this, I hate this, that the other thing, but I'm, I'm afraid to let go of it to get what I actually want. I mean, talk to me a little bit about through that, and like kind of how you get people past that.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 27:41
I mean, that is like the ultimate paradox of life, right? It's like, you know, we want all these things, but we're afraid to let go of the things. And it really comes down to the emotion, if you'd call it that of comfort. We become comfortable with the pain in the brain, the brain is not designed to make you smart, and make you all this money. The brain is designed to keep you safe. And it keeps you safe by keeping you comfortable, it keeps you in a comfort comfort zone. That's why whenever you venture outside your comfort zone, the brains like Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing? It's like, you know, fear, doubt, failure, all these like little missiles coming at you trying to prevent you. And you got to overcome that, you know, and even with breathwork, you know, the hardest part of breathwork is the first, you know, eight to 10 minutes, and all the things that's going on behind the screen of your awareness comes to the forefront, and the brain literally tries to prevent you from continuing the breath work, being to have a breakthrough, because it's afraid, you know, that it's going to be eliminated, you know, you can kind of connect this to ego, we can get a little bit deeper, because I had this philosophy that negative, heavy and negative energy has consciousness, you know, it's a dense consciousness, and its greatest fear that it holds is the fear of destruction, fear of elimination, and I learned this taking people to the jungles of Peru. And when I noticed, you know, to 23 people, you know, you'd have almost every single person would have these stories of how it was almost impossible for them to get there. And it was because, you know, all these things came up that tried to prevent them from getting to the jungle to have this experience. Because that energy inside of them, which is a part of them was had consciousness in it knew it was going to the jungles to be eliminated. And it did everything to prevent that person from having that breakthrough because it feared death. Right. So I think that the two reasons is is one that energy that that's in us, it we're comfortable with it and went to the point where well we're willing to hold on to it because we're afraid of the unknown. We're afraid what's next, even if it could be good you You know what whatnot. And then the other thing is, you know, the consciousness of these energies that are inside of us that are living that we're looking to get out. You know, these traumas have have stone stories in personality. And you know, they don't want to leave. So you got us the comfort, the comfort, and you got the the energy of that that does not want to leave. And when you take those two together, a watch is why it's so hard for people to let go. And the reason why the breath works so powerful because all you got to do is sit down, lay down and breathe. And you push that stuff out of you. It's like, Oh, you Listen, don't worry about just breathe, and it's gonna come up. It's gonna release. You might cry. You might laugh, but it's coming out.

Brandon Handley 30:43
Yeah, man. It's like a second neuro blast. Right. I love that. That idea, though, of kind of negative energy having its own kind of lifeforce, right? It's kind of like, Hey, I'm going to show up no matter what you do. And you have to try like hell to get rid of me, like a grease stain stuff worse. But um, yeah, I think that one of the stories that, you know, you talked about, yeah, I think that's really interesting. But one of the things that you talked about, too, was, you know, how does breathwork help out with anxiety? I think you've got a little bit of a story about that as well.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 31:17
Yeah, you know, they say that we right now we live in the world of anxiety. You know, this is the age of anxiety. And I remember five years ago, I read an article that said, By the year 2020, anxiety, depression will be the number one disabilities worldwide, not even United States. And right now we're in 2020, what are we in 2021. And that has fully manifested that prophecy. And, you know, anxiety is the number one, this was pre COVID these when they these statistics came out. So imagine like, now we got suicide at all time rape, and how I feel why breathwork So, so powerful. Well, let's look at anxiety because I had anxiety and I had panic attacks. And I feel like they're connected. Because, you know, I tell people that make sure you kill the monsters while they're small. Because what happens is stress is what you really need to look out for, because stress, when it goes unchecked, turns into anxiety. And when anxiety goes unchecked, it turns into panic attacks. And, you know, all, you know, kind of stress and anxiety in particular, what is anxiety? Why do we have it? It's fear of the future. You know, so the body, the body tends to live in the past. Right? The minds tend to live lives in the future, you know, the soul wants to be present. So when we have anxiety, it's because our brain is going somewhere in the future. We keep going in the future. We go, here we go. We're overthinking. We're overthinking. And, you know, those thoughts kind of just circulate us. They're, they're around us. 24 seven, and with the breath work, you know, when you go in and start like meditation. Meditation is to me, is an advanced practice. And why do I say that? I say that, because if you try to, in the age of anxiety, if you try to get somebody, which is almost everybody who's stressed out, you know, to sit down, sit still, and don't think about for the next 20 minutes, you're going to be more stressed out the fact that you can't do it. So and what are you trying to do in meditation, you're trying to take all these 55,000 thoughts that you had during the day, and you're trying to calm them into the from the frantic ocean into a calm you know, peaceful Lake without a ripple in it. Cool. If you can do that by praise you great job. Now breath work, you take in this crazy, you know, thoughts, and every going through your head, and you stop breathing and you're pushing them out of your energy field, instead of waiting for them to settle. You're literally taking an action which is great for OCD people, you know, all these like overachievers, and people who can't focus and your ATD ADHD like those people breathwork is great. Because you give you some self something to do. And you just pre Breathe, breathe, and you push those thoughts out. And that clears away a lot of the the anxiousness that people have. And then a lot of the things that have been trapped in the body because the issues are in the tissues that does traumas we store them in the body. And when you start to clear that stuff out, which is causing a lot of the anxiety, it's all it's all connected. And you know, I see people, you know, completely eradicate, you know, their their anxiety or panic attacks, you know, from breathwork. And I was, you know, I was one of them. This is why this is why I'm here. Yes.

Brandon Handley 34:37
I mean, it's all part of what you do. I know you shared on another show the straw method. What's another one that you like, for somebody that's anxious or maybe just trying to get a little bit of focus on the day?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 34:50
You know what the one that I like, is that sounds stupid to everyone but it's actually my favorite is the sigh it's the most over Like underrated, you know, a tool is because if you're just in the insane your car, you just take a deep breath, right? And just let out this loud obnoxious sigh. And you do that, like, let's say three times in a row, your energy state is going to change. Because you have to look at the body like, why does the because we side naturally, you know, why does the body sign naturally, when we sign naturally, it's to relieve pain. And stress from the body it releases is the pressure valve to release pain and stress, have you experienced something really stressful the body. When it's all done, it's like the pressure valve. So release. Now, if you can consciously do the psi, and utilize that pressure valve release, it's like you're gonna change your state throughout the entire day, just by doing that one breathing exercise every single day through three sides at a time, three times throughout the day, nine sides a day, and you will notice a difference.

Brandon Handley 36:04
That's perfect. Because it doesn't take a long time. No, it's not hard to remember. And and, you know, you can do it just about anywhere, right in between. I know, for myself on my day job, right? I mean, I've got today for mattify as on calls from 10am to 6pm. Right, back to back. All right, but there was enough time in there for me to make a bagel sandwich. And I could have also, you know, side three times if I needed to, right. So I could have, you know, just kind of brought myself back to just like, just a couple of times, I'm sure that like I might have done it on calls. And that might not that yeah, that's not cool. So make sure you get an in between calls. So I think that that's, you know, that's really practical, something you can apply, like, anywhere, anytime. So thanks for sharing that. You know, again, a big part of this, too, is like, you know, we talked about, you know, pulling all the spiritual stuff and and integrating it right, I talked me a little bit about your practice on how you, you've been able to do that for yourself.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 37:07
I truly feel that integration is the name of the game. And being able to integrate is the game. Like ultimately, if you look at like, let's say the most spiritual people to ever walk the earth, you know, you call them avatar masters, you know, enlightened avatar masters, you know? And what are these people do? Right? Oh, let's start with an ego Why didn't they ever have Native Americans love the eagle as a powerful Totem because it can fly superduper high. And what that represents is the ability to go up in the higher esoteric metaphysical realms and, and see life from a higher vantage point, higher consciousness, and then also that animal that can fly higher than most birds, it can land the ground, and walk the ground with the creepy crawlers. You know, and that is the integration that is, you know, the avatar, what do they do, you know, they, they get enlightened, you know, they ascend, you know, and they can, you know, they can ascend to heaven, they get all this information of you know, who they are, they don't have to come back. And when they choose to come back and embody in physical form, you know, that's truly where they're, where their power is to take that higher knowledge and integrate it into, you know, physical form and deliver it in a way where the people can understand, because you don't have to talk circles around people, you don't have to act super smart, like look at all the parables and, you know, the metaphors, the simple ones, you know, that Jesus and Buddha used, and as they're around now, because they're so simple, you know, it's because people can understand them, people can relate to them, but they went all the way to those, those higher planes, but they were able to integrate, integrate that knowledge back into, you know, this 3d 3d form. And that's the value that I see around integration. So like, you know, how do I personally, you know, integrate a lot of things I think I do, kind of like, naturally that I don't even, you know, realize, you know, my daily practices, you know, are the breath works, you know, that that's the, you know, that's what kind of brings me up, but it also grounds you, when you start breathing into the belly as well, it does be grounded to the earth. There's things I do outside, I go outside and barefoot on the grass, and I put my feet in there, you know, and I just ground myself I connect to the, to the light in the in earth, a lot of people, you know, they know we have the sun, but they don't know that there's a light in the center of the earth. And I connect to that light and that helps ground me, you know, to Earth consciousness because I used to just focus on like, Oh, you know, I can open my crown chakra I could open my third eye chakra I need these spiritual gifts, you know, and you just focus on all the Shockers and like, I realized that's not what the power is. It's like when you want to manifest, you can't manifest unless your root chakra is grounded. And this is why you see these all these spiritual people they say, you know, they're all in the heart and they like lie in love and you know, the third eyes open but You're broke. And the reason why they're broke is because their root chakra, they can't manifest they're not connected to the earth. Well,

Brandon Handley 40:09
I mean, I think I think it's a number of things, right? Like, it's not being grounded, right, just like you're saying, right now. It's not being grounded and just just not not integrating, right? Yeah, they've gone up. But then you come back now,

Kurtis Lee Thomas 40:25
yeah, you gotta come back down and get back down to everyday life. And you know, what part of that is being human. And, you know, I know you meet some people, and they get a spiritual stick shoved up their ass. You know, and I never wanted to be the that person and even like, the work that I do, and I'm teaching, I'm on stage, and you know, I never want to be put on a pedestal. You know, and the reason why I do is because, well, first of all, there's only one way to go from there. That's down. And, you know, I feel like I make a practice of myself of I won't say humiliation, because I don't I don't like that. humility, humility, humble, I'll say I'll say, transparent, you know, I just try to keep it real. I try to show people, my, my humanity, you know, at all times, and you know, I take this facade of like, Oh, you think I'm this, you know, I'm human. I'm just as messed up as you are, right now. And when I do that, it makes me human. But yet, I'm still I still have all the gifts and all the research and all the things that I'm doing to get me up there and let the shoppers but i don't i never think I'm better than anybody. And I don't think anyone's better than me. You know, I just kind of stay in this place of neutrality. And I think that is that is the Yin Yang. That's the place that you want to be, you know, between, you know, the five, you know, the five D and the 3d, you just stay stay neutral, stay grounded, stay present, and stay real.

Brandon Handley 41:53
Right? Yeah, no, I mean, look, have you seen the website yet? Right. But I mean, it really, it says that, right? It's like, you know, don't come at me with your patchouli, your sandals and your wooden beads were cool. You know, because there's, there's other things going on. And that's that, that crowd, you know, I say that crowd, you know, I'm not trying to say that, that we don't need them or that or this. But it can also happen in another way. Right? Like you and I are talking about right now just kind of like there's a grittiness to spirituality and life, there's a reality to it. And, you know, kind of not forgetting where you came from, right? And everybody, you know, the person behind you could be, you know, more advanced and a different state that you don't recognize, and since you can't recognize that you don't think they're advanced, but they're like, way beyond you, right? And you like, you know, they like No, man, you gotta eat kale or whatever type of thing. So, so, you know, I get it. So one other question too, as we kind of wind this down, I know that, you know, you were showing me your, your drink that your daughter brought him? How is a? How are you sharing this? As a father, you know, as a parent, your children?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 43:05
Yeah, you know, um, so, you know, I'm a single father and my daughter's 14 now, and I will say, because, I think because the chunk of my greatest awakening when I was kind of like obsessed was when she was really young. So she actually grew up around crystals and sage smoke interface, you know, and, believe it or not, she, you know, she has her own connection to angels. And, you know, I used to ask her for like, advice, like, kind of just, like, kind of desperate. And she would give me the best advice that I've ever got. And then she's like, literally, when I started asking her, then she'd be like, okay, I can ask her something, and she closed her eyes. She'd look up, and she'd get the information and she'd come back. And she would say some things that was way beyond her years. And I was like, Whoa, this girl's like channeling some some good stuff. So I kind of had my secret weapon here, you know, the entire time. And to shoot, you know, it's been a blessing to be be able to raise her that

Brandon Handley 44:08
frickin mute button. So, the, what's cool about that is, you know, like, You're, you're not, you're not helping, you're not diminishing her gifts. Right? I you know, I think, I think you probably agree that what you and I have gone through an awakening process is more or less coming back to ourselves, right? Whereas, you know, we weren't shown who you were or allowed to be ourselves growing up, right? Like, Hey, shut up, be quiet. You know, don't do this. Don't do that. And oh my god, you stop dancing like that, or whatever, right? You know, or you can't think this and you can't say those types of things. So what you're doing though, is you're saying Alright, look, come out with your angel stuff. I mean, we've all got something right. What's yours and we Got a connection? How's it going to express itself? And that's how she's expressing her connection to the divine. Right. And, and your instead of you saying, You better not tell anybody about that. You maybe do, right. But like, at least you've got an open dialogue between the two of you with that, right. And I think that that's really important. That's awesome that you're doing that.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 45:19
Yeah, man, it's great. You know, and a lot of the things like, should give me advice on business. And, you know, she told my one of my buddies, would I do book signings, she would come in, she'd set up a little table, and she'd say, $5 for reading, she's got a good making, making money and like, eggs is totally cool. But you told one of my buddies, he need more confidence, you have lack of confidence. And the girl you're with, she's no good. And he's looking at me like, dude, I wasn't ready for that. I talked to him the other day. And he was like, dude, man, your daughter blew me away that day. She was so right. And you know, he, he never forgot that he used that to, to help him. You know,

Brandon Handley 45:56
nice, man. That's cool. Very cool. So man. So the latest book is called,

Kurtis Lee Thomas 46:01
The latest book is called breathwork. detox, how to thrive in the age of anxiety.

Brandon Handley 46:07
And your book prior to that?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 46:10
The world is yours. The Secrets Behind the secret?

Brandon Handley 46:13
Yeah, and where can I get those?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 46:14
Those are both on Amazon. So you can go on Amazon, you can. The first one has an audible, they both have Kindles, and they both have paperbacks. Who is your ideal client? My ideal client? Great question. my avatar, let's say I, you know, I, I love people who are skeptical at first. And then they come in and their world gets rocked, you know, they heal. And, you know, then they they're fully committed there they awaken, you know, and then they start to step into their power. And, you know, then they start to, you know, do what I do, whether it's you know, you know, teacher trainings, or, you know, writing their own book and telling their own story and all the things that they always wanted to do, but never thought that knew anyone would listen or everyone anyone cared. I just like empowering people.

Brandon Handley 47:14
Perfect, man and then the website and where can they reach you?

Kurtis Lee Thomas 47:17
So they go my website man from the stars.com or they can go to my Instagram, which is man from the stars, and I'm pretty active on it. So you can send me a DM and, you know, hopefully, I can get to it.

Brandon Handley 47:34
Awesome. Paris. Thanks for stopping on spiritual dope today.

Kurtis Lee Thomas 47:37
Thank you so much great for having me. And yeah, that website is awesome that you have and I was

Unknown Speaker 47:41
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