Discover what a Marine experienced in Guantanamo. For real. And I can tell you that I have sat down with Adam and an older man has walked past us, and he takes a moment of silence.
Adam tells me that this guy walking by has PTSD and has served in the military.
Hear the story of a Veteran who has lived many lives. And helps many enjoy there life at higher levels. He is a healer of people with trauma, and a teacher for professionals wishing to take their sales to the next level.
Join Adam Goodson of Impactful Changes as he shares with us his life journey and how that impacts those who call on his help.
Adam also works with Max Persuasion and Kenrick Cleveland and can help you choose which program of Kenrick’s best fits your outcomes. You will recall that we interviewed Kenrick last year in a football coaching context and he taught his famous value elicitation.
Which I have watched Adam use to cause huge influence.
“What is it that I do ? So I do sales as well I love doing persuasion. ….and then I also do another thing where I do hypnosis where I sit down with people who are dealing with trauma.
Specifically trauma, emotional pains and they’re looking for nine times out of ten… and I say nine times out of 10 because they’re usually dealing with a negative emotion they have not resolved and so they’re looking to resolve it.
And they’re looking for clarity.. they’re looking for a clear purpose why am I here?.. what am i doing in my life?.. what do I want to do with my life and so that image that idea of their purpose. This is very foggy and unclear because they have anger and sadness and guilt and judgment and fear.
And they are grieving and they’ve all these losses and they simply haven’t resolved it so once they have that resolved they start finding out that they can think clearly without the idea of that traumatic event being in the background.
They can actually move forward instead of looking backwards so so how does how does me being having trauma first of all what is trauma and then how does me having it stop me from getting done what I want to get done exit question so I’ll say this a lot of people like right now we’re seeing with the military PTSD and people are saying well you know 20% of people in the military have PTSD of some sorts and ok I hear that I’m gonna say something is totally ridiculous and a lot of people will say I disagree with that and I’m gonna say 99% of the entire planet is dealing with trauma.
…hmm ok so instead of trouble using that tag word trauma we’re gonna say it’s a significant emotional event so and if you’ve lived on this planet more than five years you would have witnessed something traumatic at some level.
Even if it’s say a young man who came to see me several years ago he
had a problem where he couldn’t get any dates.
It’s like I keep going on dates I can’t get a girlfriend. I know I can meet women. I know there’s nothing wrong with me. But for some reason I can’t keep a girlfriend.
…ell I dig a little deeper find out that he’s dealing with the negative emotions of anger and sadness which are secondary and most people feel hurt or pain or embarrassment and then they feel that.
And like well I don’t want to feel that…. I’m just gonna get pissed off I’m gonna block it out or I’m gonna get really sad and depressed and block it out so they’re not really dealing with a core issue… … and that’s why we see men now who are in their 40s have anger problems with depression and they’re going why am i depressed? and why do I have heart disease?
Well your blood pressure’s all screwed up because you’re an angry ball of rage! Hang up the cell phone pull over and breathe!
He’s working at a marketing firm and he’s also working with a world
his tennis coach to get his product out there even more so and so that’s that that’s my typical client… unresolved trauma in the
youth doesn’t always have to be a explosion in Baghdad. But I think that with with military veteran clients.
I did nine years in the military I was married I went to Guantanamo Bay. I saw a bunch of crazy stuff it really messed me up they were throwing literally their feces at me.
I had to make peace with that. I had to forgive those people in the cages …they are people. I learned a lot about where I was at as
a human being back then and I had to forgive a lot and I had to like look
past it and go hey you know what I on some level I signed up for this I made the agreement to come here and to do this and to learn and what am I gonna take from it? Because I know I’m destined for something better or grander. It’s more meaningful to me so seeing you know
people who were you know clearly picked up off the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan around the world. Putting them in cages.. and
you’d have suicide attempts.. you’d have people throwing urine and piss and ..and semen and blood.
And so that’s common and some correctional facilities. As well sure so and you know then on top of that these guys were trained by the CIA in the 80s and you’re like oh no you fought against the Russians in 1988 and yeah oh this is okay.
It’s quite an intimidation thing so instead of me being allowed to be afraid I instead allowed the fear to motivate me to be more courageous and I kind of lost a little bit of my humanity in that.
To where it was okay to be a jerk.. it was okay to be violent.. it was okay to be aggressive… and I never tortured anybody. I know it’s a common thing that a lot people ask me.
I never tortured anybody I saw some questionable methods that
were authorized and saw some interesting things and people said you should write a book about this stuff but I mean we had a guy who came in and found out that when he first arrived in Guantanamo he weighed 98 pounds and he was just really intelligent and he was making bombs.
And they said well instead of torturing this guy just give him McDonald’s and he was 300 pounds when I showed up. …and he’s
talking because he gets big macs and McFlurry z.
This guy’s very well college educated spoke three different languages.
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