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Interview #35 Damien Culhane. Male eating disorders, Brexit, your intuition…What else is there to talk about!

Episode Summary

Amazon best selling author Damien Culhane and I cover all the basses. Male eating disorders, Brexit, and intuition. Becoming awake/waking up, co-creating with the universe and more :). His greatest bitch slap moment is in 2005 when his son was diagnosed with MS (Muscular Dystrophy). It is the catalyst for massive change. There are so many powerful nuggets in our conversation you should give a listen!

Episode Notes

Amazon best selling author Damien Culhane and I cover all the basses.  Male eating disorders, Brexit, and intuition.  Becoming awake/waking up, co-creating with the universe and more :).  His greatest bitch slap moment is in 2005 when his son was diagnosed with MS (Muscular Dystrophy).  It is the catalyst for massive change.  There are so many powerful nuggets in our conversation you should give a listen!

Episode notes:

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Find Damion Culhane and his best selling books here:

Ignite Your Life for Conscious Leaders: Elevating and Transforming the Way We Lead Ourselves and Others in a New and Conscious Way https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1792306687/ref=cm\\\_sw\\\_em\\\_r\\\_mt\\\_dp\\\_C8QKE7T350Q3M890N1A1

Ignite Your Life for Men: Thirty-five outstanding stories by men who are supporting other men to become the powerfully- enlightened, courageously-awakened, conscious role models they were born to be https://www.amazon.com/dp/1792306679/ref=cm\\\_sw\\\_em\\\_r\\\_mt\\\_dp\\\_TBHPA0F3TYMFP3CA9Q16

Ignite Your Adventurous Spirit: Inspiring travel stories by individuals whose lives have been deeply transformed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083LGWY6K/ref=cm\\\_sw\\\_em\\\_r\\\_mt\\\_dp\\\_GCD776WNPQ9M8TM8MT8D

www.Damianculhane.co.uk

His podcast the Self Sabotage show.  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-sabotage-show-with-damian-culhane/id1538003861

Regarding bitch slaps from the universe…  And noticing things that he hadn’t noticed before.  The first one when he was completely asleep to all of this, when he was a kid, something wasn’t right and something was up at a family gathering.  He was 7 years old and aware that his father wasn’t there.  His parents were divorced and he didn’t have the maturity to talk about it.

When that event happened and it went by unnoticed. It created a tension, a universal tension and I was able to mask that by over eating…  His first example of when he was over eating and binge eating even at that young age.  As an ego centric 7 year old.

I ignored that one and it caused me a significant amount of emotional suffering and psychological harm that perhaps if I’d have paid attention may never had existed.

So he his binge eating disorder starts at that age.  An air of secrecy and a whole load of stuff mixed up in that.

He did not get to the point of bulimia or anorexia which seem to be a whole another level.  The binge eating was absolutely like an addiction for him.  It turns into other addictions.    

Damian and I meet through JB Owen.   Damien meets her at a 2019 event “Mind Valley University” in Pula Croatia.  Probably about 1000 people there.  Best selling authors…  (Btw Damien lives in Italy).

We get on Brexit.  Which is perhaps a conspiracy he says.  His decision to move to Italy was based on his ability to be able to continue to move about freely through Europe post Brexit.

The way that Brexit was posed by both sides…  There was a lot of mis information.  “Take back control” was some of the propaganda he believes.   He likes the melting pot of Great Britton.  The richness of it.  Brexit is taking that away.  It was pitched as a utopia and is more of the government ceasing control of their agenda and the people.  

It’s about control of peoples behavior.  What they can and can’t do.  Re lock down.  How to wash your hands for example.  So reliant on the government telling us what to do.  So many businesses in the UK hang on every word of the prime minister and that is not a great place to be.  The main stream media.  Gov policy.  etc.  That’s not always the best thing for the people but perhaps just the best for a few.  Not necessarily the best thing for the nation.

People will agree and disagree and that’s ok.

Money has been given to VIP organizations and companies aligned with the ruling party.  Defective equipment, little oversight, little audit.  Brexit has affected food distribution to the negative into Great Britton.  

Tapping into that higher source or intuition.  AKA “awake”, my own impact on the world.  As soon as you are awake, and out of the matrix…  You can stand back and see what’s going on…  Maybe there’s something more to life than what is being offered by the government and and the mainstream media.

The people who have the biggest influence in the media, politics, and in finances are almost becoming drunk on their own power.  They are blasé about it, to the point where they are doing it anyway.  People are waking up and saying “wait a minute”.  

Now he’s an international bestseller thanks to his working with JB Owen and contributing to her books.

Some of the organizations I work with are involved in that market place.  I’ve got to the point now where if they don’l like my view point…  That’s ok.  Two or three years ago I wouldn’t have been like that.  I would have been much more worried about what people think.

What became obvious to me was my vision.  Two or three years ago…  The purpose for my suffering and why it happens.  I want to help others heal from their suffering. The suffering was there for a reason.  I had to experience it, I had to get through it, I had to work out how to overcome it.  And now my role in life, my vision, is to help others heal their suffering.  

I do that through helping them understand where they sabotage their life, where self sabotage shows up in their life, why that exists, what they can do about it, how they can overcome it, and not be defined by their past, and create a future they love.

Men, generally are not aware of their emotions or how they can deal with it or the impact it has had on them.  Women are much more tuned into somethings not right and I need to get to the bottom of it.

The Ignite series is a very powerful series of books.  Ignite Your Life For Men which was the first book I contributed to.  And also Ignite Your Life For Adventurous Spirit.  And there is “Ignite Your Life For Conscious Leaders.

The process of working with JB and her Ignite team of editors has helped me to really clarify my writing and make it more engaging and interesting for the reader.

Lifestyle is more important to me instead of accolades and status.

JB was the catalyst for taking his writing to the next level.  His biggest break through was a few years before…  Sabotage ect.  JB helped him articulate that to help other people.

When I was younger I loved material things and I liked to have nice cars and gadgets and things.  And so when I was younger I was much more interested in that and led by those choices.  If it meant I could change jobs and get a better car with better salary I’d have done that through my carrier.  I guess I would have put that down to ambition and striving for something more than I had.


Now the focus is much more around relationships are much more important, the ability to be able to travel and hang out with people on a similar vibration.  

I would rather create opportunities to walk on my favorite beach rather than being the number one coach in the UK.  That’s not even in my field of vision.

Do you have 12 step stuff in your life to transcend your addictions and compulsions?  His great aunt in Ireland, was one of the founding members of AA in Ireland.  But I have never been through the 12 steps.  (It sounds like he’d call them addiction light.)

The turning point for him: In 2005 his younger son was diagnosed with a life limiting condition.  “And that was truly truly a bitch slap moment you would never want anyone to experience”.  I was being strong resilient and emotionally strong but on the inside I was crumbling I was crushed.  And the addictions became worse at that point.  I was making really poor choices.  

It worsened when I separated from my ex wife now.  In the end I became so addicted to my own negative emotions…  etc etc.  Anger, sadness, fear.  I got to the point where I was addicted to that.  I was effectively long term sadness was a big impact for me.  It took me a few years to get beyond that.  Recover and heal my suffering.  12 steps my have helped accelerate that.  And the opportunity to develop a relationship with a higher power.

But he does that anyway.  Higher powers, gratitude, the abundance of the universe.  

When I first go this and I was awakened and got a different perspective.  At first I was setting about trying to convince others and it became obvious that you cannot wake people up if they are not ready for it.

Look there is  this whole world of possibility around love, around abundance, around creativity, around what you want to create in the world… there is an abundance of everything you need.  You can tell people about that but you can force people to want it or have it they have to choose it.  I love it that it is an active choice that people have to make.

A mentor tells him, 90% of the people that are completely asleep to their possibility of what they could create or what their potential is.  There’s about 9% that are awakened to it but haven’t achieved it yet.  And there’s 1% of people that actually step through go into threshold and create what they love.  Tapping into that 1% of people…is a joy to experience and watch and see people do that.

“I’d say I’m in the 9% definitely” “Occasionally in some areas of my life I’m definitely in the 1%”.  Moving counties was definitely and intuitive choice.

Some cryptocurrency shenanigans…

Astrology wise - He’s got people who are tapped into that and use the astrologies rhythms and planets to tap into their intuition.

His 5 year go mentor?  Ryan Pinnick.  A South African guy based in the UK. His choices with addictions resonated with Damien.  Damien was all in with Ryan.  He has been very good at helping Damien heal from his suffering.  Ryan is gifted at teaching you how to tap into your own intuition.

His son has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

The coincidences of seeing a few bricked up windows…  What’s the universe trying to tell me?   A vision of healing suffering?  What was obvious was…I couldn’t see beyond what was in front of me to see my vision.  These messages are coming through all the time, everyday, you just have to be present.  You can tap into amazing choices, opportunities.  

A cool mediation.  Go in with innocence, ego stripped away.  What am I to create?

Breathing techniques.  You go into a different state.  You change your state of consciousness  as a result of your breathing.  

Suss out some topics, make choices from those ego free topics.  And what you can do to honor that.  

Are you still focused on the vision you want to create?  In my relationship “I choose a beautiful loving relationship where are hearts touch together to create magic.”  If I’m in the relationship from that choice you can’t do it from anger.

The scientists, what are they trying to do?  Well, they have a true belief that they have the ability to cure incurable diseases.  They work inside structures that suppress that.   Lots of red tape.  

When you look at the purpose of a biopharmaceutical company…is to create customers for its product.”

Scientists are incredibly intellectual and incredibly clever.  In some respects that’s probably their biggest barrier. Getting out of their brain and into their heart that they would love.

Perhaps bridging eastern and western medicine is a worthy utopia to head for.

Just because your inelegant does not mean you can tap into your intuition.  A great thought.

Albert Einstein talking about shifting your level of conciseness back in the 1930’s.

Steps to tap into intuition - Starting points are always to get out of the head and into the heart and one of the quickest ways to do that is to get into nature.  Remove your shoes and socks and walk barefoot on the grass or the sand.

Book recommendation: The Kybalion.  It’s a great way to tap into what’s possible for the universe.  There’s some principles of the universe almost.  Hermetic/Hermes.  Hermetic Philosophy.  Listen to it on YouTube.  It’s quite a complex piece of work but it is worth it.

The big point from the Kybalion from him.  “The all is mind.  And the universe is mental held in the mind of the all.”

What could people do if they were on stage one of their wake up?  I would love to share some more things around that.

Understanding your uniqueness in the world is very very important.  Your odds of being born are ridiculous.  We can get trapped in this rat race in this matrix.  Waking up from that…

Get out in nature.

Tap into what are your talents and what are you really really good at they have fun and pleasure doing it.  Then you can have fun and make money doing that…

Ikigai - Japanese - What are you here to do, what is your purpose.  We can see things from a different perspectives.  Alan Watts was genius at this, bringing eastern philosophies to the west.

There is ancient wisdom that is there, all we need to do is remember it.  

Don’t be attached to your own identity, be prepared to strip yourself down to the bear nothing…  Psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, to then really start to layer on who am I and what am I here to create in the world.  And that’s a beautiful thing if more people could understand that journey and be on the journey that is a rewarding place to be.

Nature is very powerful at creating things, maintaining things, and destroying things.  What are we here to create and what are the things that we need to destroy and leave behind.  

It is around you you’ve just got to pay attention to it.

He encourages you to check out anything by Joe Dispenza!

Find Damion Culhane here

www.Damianculhane.co.uk

His podcast the Self Sabotage show.  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-sabotage-show-with-damian-culhane/id1538003861

Ignite Your Life for Conscious Leaders: Elevating and Transforming the Way We Lead Ourselves and Others in a New and Conscious Way https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1792306687/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_C8QKE7T350Q3M890N1A1

Ignite Your Life for Men: Thirty-five outstanding stories by men who are supporting other men to become the powerfully- enlightened, courageously-awakened, conscious role models they were born to be https://www.amazon.com/dp/1792306679/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_TBHPA0F3TYMFP3CA9Q16

Ignite Your Adventurous Spirit: Inspiring travel stories by individuals whose lives have been deeply transformed https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083LGWY6K/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_GCD776WNPQ9M8TM8MT8D

The book he’s working on How To Pivot Your Mindset Post Lockdown.

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