- As a guy growing up in Australia,
one of the things that
was sort of thrown aside
in the society here
was your emotions aren't
really that important, Andrew,
you need to be strong, you can't cry,
you know, don't show your emotions,
you're showing your weakness.
- You look like you need a holiday,
a Fair Dinkum holiday
in the land of wonder,
the land Down Under!
- This was probably the greatest gift
and also the greatest curse
at the same time for me,
because what I realized in life
is that when you don't face your emotions
or when you don't give
them a face literally,
you don't give them an expression,
you don't allow them
the freedom to come out,
then you trap them inside
and you suppress them.
With that suppression,
with that repression
comes almost like a split personality.
If we look at "Dark Knight,"
Christopher Nolan's trilogy,
absolutely loved it,
one of my favorite comic
book, cinematic adaptions,
Christopher Nolan, genius
filmmaker explores the tale
of Bruce Wayne trying
to escape his destiny
by running out of Gotham City
and joining the League of Shadows,
where he explored the arts
of Ninjutsu and shadow work
and he learned how to breathe,
he learned how to face his
fears from years of discipline,
he learned how to
embrace his fear of bats.
(light melodic orchestral music)
- Breathe.
Breathe in your fears.
Face them.
To conquer fear, you must become fear,
you must bask in the fear of other men
and men fear most what they cannot see.
- And it's in this moment
we see all those years
of discipline and training
that Bruce Wayne went through,
then he starts embodying
Batman, his alter ego,
but in fact they're one
and the same person,
Bruce Wayne is Batman and
once we bridge that gap,
once we realize that our
emotions hold the treasure,
that hold the gold, that
hold the gifts to our life,
then we can start to take those gifts
and offer them to the world.
(somber orchestral music)
When we stop playing
the role of the victim
and telling the story of
this person did this to me,
when we stop blaming the other
and we claim like in "King Arthur,"
the wonderful movie by Guy Ritchie,
where he claims the sword,
he allows the power of the sword,
he receives the power
of the sword within him
and then he learns how to
wield the sword as King Arthur.
He faces the fear of does your past story
and your emotional wounds rule you
or do you wield them like King Arthur,
do you take both hands,
do you face the dragon,
do you face the fear of the bats
as we see with Bruce
Wayne in "Batman Begins?"
Do you have the courage to breathe in
and look at your fears?
All the treasures lie within, guys,
all the treasures lie within you,
you can't have the gold without the dragon
and as soon as you face your fears
and face your emotional trauma,
you can claim Excalibur,
you can claim Excalibur,
you can claim the king
or the queen archetype.
Once you start aligning
with your divine mission,
then you have the possibility
of living your purpose,
living your divine mission
and once that happens,
you have the opportunity to leave a legacy
and your legacy might
one day become a legend.
- And here we go.
