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The speaker emphasizes the universality of emotional experiences and the emotional language that we all share. They point out that everyone, regardless of their personal story, can relate to emotions such as loss, fear, abandonment, and love. Negative experiences tend to have a deeper emotional impact than positive ones, and people often suppress and bottle up their struggles. The speaker's self-revelation is that our emotional aspects and language are universal, and they emphasize the importance of relating to others from an empathetic standpoint. This perspective highlights the common denominator of human emotions, suggesting that we all share similar struggles and trials.

GDL Steven Benedict

So like that you found out the meditation , uh I think , you know , one of the biggest things that I speak on , there's , there's two aspects that I've kind of had self revelation on is one is that our emotional aspects and our emotional language is a universal language . It doesn't matter what my story is , what your story is , or we can all relate to emotional pieces , whether it be loss , fear , abandonment , love , you know , those things correlate to everybody . And you know , our stories are just a platform in which we can express that depending on how we're expressing it , whether we're expressing it from a victim mentality , we're expressing it from , you know , which I've been in that position and I've had to shift the way I've talked about my story and not come out from that perspective to make an impact .

GDL Steven Benedict

So is there like a common denominator you would share with others that are going through or might go through what you've gone through ? So like that you found out the meditation , uh I think , you know , one of the biggest things that I speak on , there's , there's two aspects that I've kind of had self revelation on is one is that our emotional aspects and our emotional language is a universal language . It doesn't matter what my story is , what your story is , or we can all relate to emotional pieces , whether it be loss , fear , abandonment , love , you know , those things correlate to everybody .

GDL Steven Benedict

Instead of trying to find , we're very good at finding the negative spots because our brains , our brains are shifted to find out , you know , for every negative thought we have , we have to have three or four positive thoughts to override that , right ? And our negative experiences wind up striking us emotionally deeper than our positive because we let them go quicker like , oh , that's great . Like , hey , we get a promotion right now .

GDL Steven Benedict

And like you were saying , everything is relative . Like we all share pieces of everything in a way you could find relative experiences in almost anything . And if we don't share the same past , right .

GDL Steven Benedict

And then once they hear the back like pull the curtain from that story , then it's like , oh he's human , you know , he's just like it . So it's a humanistic standpoint and being able to relate to people and understanding from an empathetic standpoint with them . Uh and then being able to portray that and be like , hey , you know what ?