Moment 7 - Joe Wicks On How To Forgive & Set Yourself Free

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. In this clip Joe Wicks shares his experience in forgiving his parents for a turbulent childhood. I think the point, which Joe raises, is something which is truly significant for many people in the world we live in today and holds the key to allowing ourselves to live free. Episode 37 - https://g2ul0.app.link/MgthxN9Qzgb Joe: https://www.instagram.com/thebodycoach https://twitter.com/thebodycoach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:05Speaker 00

  I think we've all had difficulties, but some people like really hold on to that and it affects them forever. Where other people can just let it go and let it just move on like it's done like that's that's what it was. Just love the person they are today. That's more important.

• 0:15Steven Bartlett?

  That's a really, really, I think, important point that um for me appears to be the answer to a lot of the energy, the negative energy I experience in like my direct messages from people is their like inability to like let go of someone that's wronged them. And the the real shame is because that person's wronged them once upon a time. They're then dragging that negativity through their life and letting it destroy their future and their present.

• 0:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 0:40Steven Bartlett?

  And like, you know, I've got a someone that's really close to me that um had a really bad experience with their dad when they were younger. Um, and they just won't let go. And I see it damaging their adult life now, even though they don't speak to their dad anymore. But because they just won't forgive that person. So how do you forgive someone more generally, not just your parents, but how do you forgive someone that's you know, harmed you or done you wrong in the past? What's the?

• 1:07Speaker 00

  I I totally, I can hear that message and I can see where that's coming from because, you know, my mum and dad have, they've had their own trauma to such to such an extent that they've been in, you know, therapy and for all their lives and also, you know, with addiction, it's manifested different ways, but it and it makes me sad. All you want, all you want is your mum and dad to be happy and they want people around you to be happy. But for some, sometimes I can see they've been struggling their whole life to let go of whatever it is just hurting them and, you know, um, holding them back. And for me, it's a case of, I just believe you have to live for the moment. You have to enjoy the day. Like, what's going on today? Like, what can you do today to make you feel happy? And what is, how is it going to serve you thinking about what you went through as a child? Like, you can have, my, my mum and dad have had all kinds of therapy, like,

• 1:47Speaker 00

  you know, regressive childhood hypnotherapy, you go back to the, you know, my dad's even started doing ayahuasca and plant-based. Medicine to go back and just to get it all out of him, but.

• 1:56Steven Bartlett?

  Um.

• 1:56Speaker 00

  I just think you have to just take ownership and control of yourself on a daily basis and. You know, that's going to be done through like exercise, um he eating healthy food. Being connected, like some people are so disconnected from their family and friends and their community, whatever that may be, and. That's the most important thing. They say that one of the key factors in success is are you connected? Are you helping other people? Are you giving? Are you giving or are you just taking off people?

• 2:19Steven Bartlett?

  Um.

• 2:19Speaker 00

  So, you know, don't focus on what you've been through and. Let that just be like the past and and what is happening today. You can't even deal with the future. Like, don't even get what. Some people are so. They're they're suffering anxiety from what could might happen in the future.

• 2:31Steven Bartlett?

  Um.

• 2:32Speaker 00

  But you have to just focus on today, you know, what? What what is the point of looking back? I just think it can it can really consume you and and you could you could you could go your whole life without ever truly being happy because. You're worried about the future or you're thinking about what happened in the past.