201 - Allowing the Breath to Guide You to Total Self-Acceptance with Samson Odusanya

Be You Podcast

Samson Odusanya is a husband, father, multidisciplinary guide, and spiritual catalyst with a mission of assisting people in experiencing the truth of who they are.

In this episode, Samson guides us through a powerful and awakening exploration of breath, the nervous system, survival patterns, how and why we store experiences in our tissue, and how to allow emotion to flow without fear of becoming that emotion.

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Show Notes:

[2:35] - Jill has been following Samson on social media for years and has wanted to ask him to be on the Be You Podcast for a long time.

[7:02] - Samson feels like a very safe space to those around him. It’s a gift, but Samson also believes it is due to the work he has done for complete self-acceptance.

[12:40] - It is a process of perpetual renewal.

[14:06] - Samson describes his childhood. It was full of love, but there was another side that forced him to internalize beliefs about himself.

[17:43] - As early as a year and a half old, Samson believed that he was too much.

[19:41] - Samson discovered personal development and began his journey.

[22:50] - Depth is generally feared.

[27:28] - Samson describes his first experience of plant medicine.

[31:24] - In this experience, he couldn’t protect the mask he was wearing.

[34:38] - The “in-between” is what mattered for Samson.

[37:15] - So much is hidden if you only stay with what is familiar.

[38:48] - Breath transcends it all. It is the one thing we all have in common.

[41:19] - There are multiple ways that we avoid the present moment. But when we breathe, we reconnect with reality.

[44:26] - The breath is a remote control for the nervous system.

[47:09] - These sessions are great, but what are you doing between them?

[51:25] - Our intuition is so powerful because it has access to information that our brain doesn’t have.

[56:15] - Samson tells a story about a time when the memory of something that happened 25 years ago popped up and what happened to his body.

[60:08] - Emotions give us data.

[62:50] - What is the difference between a line in the water, a line in the sand, and a line in a rock?

[64:24] - We are hindering the body’s ability to process emotions.

[67:48] - We fear certain emotions because we think that if we feel it, we are it.

[72:16] - There is a lot of lingo in the coaching and personal development community.

I know there was something in this episode that you were meant to hear. Let me know what that is. Thank you for being here today with me on our healing journeys.