The Hidden Power of Tattoos With Veteran Tattoo Artist Franco Vescovi — Transcript
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- 0:00People say my biggest contribution to
- 0:01the tattoo world is these machines I
- 0:03invented. But what this what I would
- 0:06like my biggest contribution to be to
- 0:08the tattoo industry would be to get
- 0:10people to understand the blessings and
- 0:12curse aspect energetically of tattoos.
- 0:15Yeah, because tattooing is a ritual.
- 0:17Anytime there's blood spilled, we know
- 0:19this.
- 0:20It's a ritual. Anytime there's a ritual,
- 0:22it's a sacred space. Anytime there's a
- 0:24sacred space, that means it's really
- 0:26serious. That means the intention is
- 0:27going to be there, whether they know it
- 0:29or not, right?
- 0:31Look up.
- 0:33Breathe in.
- 0:40Say I feel safe and protected in my
- 0:41body.
- 0:42I feel safe and protected in my body.
- 0:48Thank you, Mother.
- 0:49Thank you, Mother.
- 0:50For all that you brought me.
- 0:51For all that you brought me.
- 0:53I'm detaching from you now.
- 0:56Detaching from you now.
- 0:58So that I can be a part of what why I
- 1:00came here.
- 1:01So that I could be a part of why I came
- 1:02here.
- 1:14It's going to burn a little bit. Give me
- 1:16some weight.
- 1:21Breathe.
- 1:25This is what we're doing is we're
- 1:26removing
- 1:30like the blockages that the tattoo goes
- 1:32in
- 1:33and creates blockages in the tissue.
- 1:36So as we
- 1:38basically move the tissue again, it will
- 1:41adapt. So
- 1:43there's nothing that we can that we've
- 1:44done to our bodies that's that's
- 1:46permanent.
- 1:49It's all right there.
- 1:52Breathe.
- 1:56What does that feel like?
- 1:58It's like some relief.
- 1:59Relief?
- 2:00like a like a heaviness leaving.
- 2:03Yeah. So, the tattoos bind like you said
- 2:06it binds you into the emotion.
- 2:08What restricts your body
- 2:11but as we open it up the body will
- 2:13process it. So, minerals
- 2:16um facial maneuvers or movements
- 2:19um breath eventually will take it all
- 2:21away.
- 2:23So, when I tattoo people it's like the
- 2:25healing aspect is different than if I'm
- 2:27just tattooing like uh
- 2:29your favorite team, right? There's junk
- 2:30food tattoos, right? And then there's
- 2:33organic grass-fed tattoos.
- 2:35about it. I want something. I'm called
- 2:37to do it.
- 2:38I'm not interested in the junk food
- 2:39tattoos. I've done it for many years and
- 2:41and it's interesting. I don't know why
- 2:42but I've always felt
- 2:44not that it was wrong but it just wasn't
- 2:46fulfilling. So, as I started tattooing I
- 2:48I I noticed I would always gravitate
- 2:51to certain tattoos. There's stories and
- 2:54then my dad would tell you that like he
- 2:57met a kid at the gym and this kid's
- 2:58like, "Oh, you're Franco's dad. Oh my
- 3:00god, I love your son. Like when I was a
- 3:03young kid I came to him and I wanted
- 3:04demons all over my body.
- 3:06And your son told me no. He's not going
- 3:09to do that on you. He's like, "Instead,
- 3:10let's do angels." So, I convinced this
- 3:12guy to get angels.
- 3:13Oh god, that's awesome.
- 3:15this spiritual guy later on. He goes,
- 3:17"I'm so thankful that he did that cuz I
- 3:19would have regretted that.
- 3:21And I just love these angels he's done
- 3:22on me and
- 3:23I was like, "Hey, good for you, man."
- 3:25Cuz my dad was never for my tattoo
- 3:26career. He was old school Italian guy.
- 3:28He was like, "What the fuck are you
- 3:29doing, man? Don't be a starving artist."
- 3:32But even early on I was always mindful
- 3:35of the tattoos. I never did swastikas. I
- 3:37never did the 666s.
- 3:39And the reason why is I always knew that
- 3:41it was a blessing or a curse when you're
- 3:43tattooing somebody. Yeah. You're either
- 3:44going to bless them or curse them. And
- 3:45and and and we know that people bless
- 3:47and curse themselves every day on
- 3:48accident without knowing it. But the
- 3:50spirit world doesn't care. It operates
- 3:52by certain rules, right? We give rights
- 3:54to spirits. We give rights to to good
- 3:56and bad without knowing, which is why
- 3:58they hijacked our our English
- 4:00vocabulary.
- 4:03I'm opening up my desires.
- 4:06I'm opening up my desires on on my
- 4:09feminine side.
- 4:10On my feminine side.
- 4:16Yeah.
- 4:25So, what the tattoo does mechanically is
- 4:28it
- 4:30blocks the flow of subcutaneous
- 4:32tissue or fascial tissue.
- 4:35When we
- 4:36do this, what we're going to do is
- 4:39reestablish the flow.
- 4:43Cuz it's like a cut. When the body has a
- 4:45ready input, it'll
- 4:47heal itself.
- 4:53I had a bonus.
- 4:58This tattoo is a phoenix. Do you Do you
- 5:00Do you feel any re-
- 5:03It's a phoenix.
- 5:03Yeah, it's a phoenix rising. So, the
- 5:05phoenix rises and it's on
- 5:09your left side, it's your heart.
- 5:11Okay, it's interesting you say that. So,
- 5:15the story of it, you see how it's He's
- 5:16blind?
- 5:17Yeah.
- 5:18But he What's He's holding a heart.
- 5:20Yeah.
- 5:20heart sees.
- 5:22So,
- 5:22So, basically the phoenix is rising so
- 5:25that you can see with your heart, not
- 5:27your eyes.
- 5:27Exactly. That That was my intention.
- 5:29Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
- 5:31So, that's what your body would say.
- 5:34Oh.
- 5:37Ooh.
- 5:39I was going to say I don't care about
- 5:40pain. I have tattoos, but that was
- 5:42painful.
- 5:43Ooh.
- 5:46Oh, wow.
- 5:49This is more stagnant and this is more
- 5:51open.
- 5:51Flowing, yeah.
- 5:52Yeah, so we're opening up the flow.
- 5:56Give me a little bit of
- 5:57Hold it Let me turn this way. Okay.
- 6:02Breathe.
- 6:06You got it. You're safe.
- 6:08Breathe.
- 6:10That might have been the most painful
- 6:12thing I've ever experienced in my life.
- 6:16It's like a nerve or something.
- 6:18How's it feeling now?
- 6:21Open.
- 6:22Really good that I'm not doing it.
- 6:24Yeah, that too. There's a sense of
- 6:26responsibility attached to our shit
- 6:27have.
- 6:28And early on I felt that, but as I've
- 6:30gravitated to 20 years in the business
- 6:33and 30 years in the business, where I'm
- 6:34at now, it's like I don't tattoo for
- 6:36money anymore.
- 6:37It's more like I'll give you an example.
- 6:40Some priests sought me out. He's just
- 6:42like, "You need to be the one that
- 6:44tattoos me. And I'm at this abbey over
- 6:46here and I can't believe I talked to the
- 6:48the main abbey. He's going to let me get
- 6:50the St. Michael tattoo.
- 6:52And I've researched everybody and you're
- 6:54the one. It has to be you."
- 6:56And turns out this guy's like this
- 6:58miracle worker. Every time he would come
- 6:59to the shop, he would perform some kind
- 7:01of miracle. It's so crazy. It was like
- 7:03the wildest thing. I won't get into the
- 7:05stories. Maybe we'll talk about it later
- 7:06cuz it's fascinating, but
- 7:08Father Vianney is his name.
- 7:10So, he writes me this long poetic email.
- 7:12It was It was so brilliant this email.
- 7:14It was so touching. And I showed it to
- 7:15like some of my co-workers and they were
- 7:17like, "You got to meet this guy."
- 7:19So, I meet him.
- 7:21I'm like, "I'm not going to charge you.
- 7:23Like this is just a gift from from you
- 7:25serving God and mankind."
- 7:27But these are the tattoos that So, I did
- 7:29the St. Michael tattoo on him.
- 7:31Then he brings me
- 7:33this St. Michael or he brings me this
- 7:35Pope Leo the 13th card. It's a St.
- 7:38Michael prayer. He's telling me all
- 7:40about this the saint St.
- 7:42not a saint but this Pope Pope Leo the
- 7:4413th, Papa Pecci.
- 7:46He said this one was this is a good Pope
- 7:48this Pope right here. He was around with
- 7:50the Black Plague and Saint Michael
- 7:51visited him.
- 7:53He wrote this prayer and I just I just
- 7:55felt called to give it to you and I'm
- 7:56kind of getting the chills cuz I'm like
- 7:58I got it right now. I'm like what what
- 8:00why'd you give that to me? I was just
- 8:01called to give this to you. I still have
- 8:02it it's a postcard.
- 8:04I'm like well I'm his sixth cousin. I'm
- 8:07Papa Pecci's sixth cousin. My grandma
- 8:09used to always
- 8:10I'm not Catholic but
- 8:11my grandma used to brag about I'm fourth
- 8:13cousin with Papa it was a family thing.
- 8:15I'm fourth cousin with Papa Pecci and my
- 8:17dad was sixth and five and I'm sixth.
- 8:19We're sixth. And so that's why we
- 8:22named our studio the Vatican and my
- 8:24other brand Bishop and my last name
- 8:27Biscovi means Bishop when you translate
- 8:30it to English.
- 8:31And then I I'm I always find Saint
- 8:33Michael things it's like oh my god
- 8:35what's Yeah everywhere I go there's this
- 8:37theme. I had some energy work come to my
- 8:39studio one day and he's like I feel
- 8:41Saint Michael vibes on me. I'm like it's
- 8:44interesting you say that. I have a
- 8:45tattoo right here of him.
- 8:48Now what you do is breathe and as
- 8:51Yeah right there.
- 8:53Imagine that there's yellow. Breathe in.
- 9:00It's going from the front to the back.
- 9:03Breathe in yellow.
- 9:05There it is.
- 9:08Say I accept my feelings and emotions.
- 9:10I accept my feelings and emotions.
- 9:12As a part of me.
- 9:14As a part of me.
- 9:17And I'm observing them.
- 9:19I'm observing them.
- 9:20Yeah.
- 9:20Now.
- 9:39Feels like it's moving.
- 9:41It's like
- 9:43It was a good one.
- 9:43And like power, right?
- 9:45Yeah.
- 9:46UH
- 9:47YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
- 9:47YEAH. YEAH.
- 9:49Like my like one of my energy is
- 9:51It's like breaking out of your body. So,
- 9:53the tattoos cause a constriction in the
- 9:55body.
- 9:57And then as we move the body through
- 9:59fascial maneuvers, which we're just
- 10:00advancing for you, but you can do this
- 10:02all yourself.
- 10:04You start to open up these layers.
- 10:07And then you start to feel the flow of
- 10:09energy again cuz what they're doing is
- 10:11they're blocking a flow in the fascia.
- 10:13Okay.
- 10:16And breathe.
- 10:22Breathe.
- 10:27Breathe.
- 10:32And good.
- 10:34It was a little pop there.
- 10:35That one, too.
- 10:36Okay, let's go for a walk.
- 10:38Okay.
- 10:39That's Mom's portrait right there.
- 10:40Oh, yeah.
- 10:42Okay, and
- 10:45Brett, I want you to twist his wrist.
- 10:50Say, "Forgive me, Mother."
- 10:51Forgive me, Mother.
- 10:52For holding resentment.
- 10:54For holding resentment.
- 10:55I'm letting it go now.
- 10:57I'm letting it go now.
- 11:03I want to know what you're doing to you
- 11:04just from this.
- 11:06Yeah, well, for me it's I feel the
- 11:09connection and flow of life.
- 11:11So, as I feel the flow of life, it just
- 11:14charges me. Like we go to events and
- 11:16we'll
- 11:17we'll touch 200 people and
- 11:20at the event.
- 11:21Yeah.
- 11:21And I used to get all drained and now I
- 11:23get all charged cuz you transmuted
- 11:25Yeah, naturally.
- 11:26Yeah.
- 11:27I felt that like on some of the first
- 11:29walks it's It's feeling like different
- 11:31walk.
- 11:32Yeah.
- 11:33Yeah, more natural.
- 11:35Definitely more more more of a more
- 11:37natural for sure.
- 11:38Okay, so let's get the
- 11:41the head and
- 11:44Okay.
- 11:46And help the hips, yeah.
- 11:49Okay, bring your shoulder to your ear.
- 11:52This shoulder?
- 11:52The other one.
- 11:53Yeah. And
- 11:55bring it higher
- 11:56and breathe.
- 12:02Okay.
- 12:06I'm dripping in sweat, huh?
- 12:12So, in your body
- 12:13you're holding weight and the emotions
- 12:16of all of these people that you've
- 12:17actually worked with.
- 12:19Mhm. Yeah.
- 12:20Yeah.
- 12:20Taking on their
- 12:22pain.
- 12:22Yeah, and and you're transmitting it
- 12:25right now. That's what we're doing
- 12:26today.
- 12:27Yeah.
- 12:29I had this weird download. I feel like
- 12:31my mother's using you to deliver energy
- 12:35to me.
- 12:35Yes.
- 12:36Like I just feel like even though I know
- 12:38it's your wife touching me, I'm like I
- 12:39just feel like it's my mother's touch.
- 12:42Yeah.
- 12:42Can I stop her face?
- 12:45She's an empath.
- 12:45when I met you.
- 12:46Yeah.
- 12:47Mom.
- 12:48Okay, hinge at the waist.
- 12:50Good.
- 12:51There you go.
- 12:51You got it.
- 12:53This is the blockage point that we were
- 12:55talking about. Breathe.
- 13:02Head trauma in the forehead, you know?
- 13:12Okay.
- 13:17So, when you're young, you got hit in
- 13:18the back of the head.
- 13:20Mhm.
- 13:23Okay.
- 13:28Do you feel like a
- 13:29Mhm. Yeah.
- 13:31Purple is reconnecting of your pineal
- 13:33gland.
- 13:35Your sense.
- 13:37Okay. You can walk when you're ready.
- 13:49We're reconnecting
- 13:51all of that flow.
- 13:53Here are the tattoos.
- 14:00Oh, there it goes.
- 14:08How does it feel to you when it when you
- 14:09feel the release of it just like that?
- 14:11It's a flow of energy.
- 14:13Feels like fluid moving, a flow of
- 14:15energy.
- 14:17How's it feel to you?
- 14:19Like a release of energy.
- 14:20Yeah.
- 14:22A release of stuck energy.
- 14:25Okay, walk and see how that feels.
- 14:27Yeah. It's almost like a little like
- 14:30like a micro dose.
- 14:31Yeah, it it it well, technically it is
- 14:33psychedelic.
- 14:34I see that now.
- 14:35Yeah, so basically drugs don't make us
- 14:38high, drugs stimulate a series of
- 14:39hormones and flow in the body through
- 14:42which we experience the psychedelic.
- 14:44Drugs are just stimulating our body to
- 14:46do it. They don't make us do it.
- 14:48There's other ways to
- 14:49Our body does it, yeah.
- 14:51Yeah.
- 14:51Whenever I sensed somebody didn't know
- 14:53what they wanted, I wouldn't do it.
- 14:55And that's really what it was.
- 14:56Fair enough.
- 14:57So when someone said, "I want my
- 14:58neighborhood on my stomach." And I say,
- 15:00you know, he really wants that, he's not
- 15:02going anywhere. This guy is sold to
- 15:04this, right? But yeah, anytime I would
- 15:06sense like my my friend Nick, they
- 15:08wanted all these demons on him. He
- 15:10didn't even know what he was asking for.
- 15:11He didn't understand the energetic
- 15:13imprint that would have been uh
- 15:15detrimental to his health and spiritual
- 15:17health and life force if I did that.
- 15:20So you understand selling?
- 15:21Yeah.
- 15:22Yeah, so like yeah,
- 15:23the content is if I if all my thoughts
- 15:27were tattooed on my body, yeah, you what
- 15:30would they be?
- 15:31So what happens in the human body? Okay,
- 15:33first of all, if I'm going to do
- 15:35something to the body,
- 15:37there's an intent behind it, whether I
- 15:39know it or not. That's what we talked
- 15:41about before.
- 15:42People
- 15:43will I I'm going to look at them I go
- 15:46um I look at their tattoos and I'm like,
- 15:48oh, so what happened to my life? I don't
- 15:51even have to think in your heart or your
- 15:53cuz I know where they placed it.
- 15:55Left side feminine, right side
- 15:57masculine. On the meridians tells you
- 16:00the organ that they're tattooing on.
- 16:03Mm. Okay. And that corresponding
- 16:06emotion.
- 16:06The emotions. That's like resentment,
- 16:09grief, like you you felt those.
- 16:11Yeah. And and and I believe there's a
- 16:13frequency for each of those emotions.
- 16:16And and and it's down to the decimal
- 16:17point, right? And so
- 16:20at when when somebody asks for a certain
- 16:22tattoo, let's go back to this negative
- 16:24idea. Someone says I want this these
- 16:26demons on me.
- 16:28I say
- 16:29God's given me a a level of
- 16:31understanding that that you that I see
- 16:33you don't have. And because I have that
- 16:35level of understanding, I I owe it to my
- 16:36creator
- 16:38to not do that for you.
- 16:40I there's a sense of responsibility
- 16:42every tattoo artist should have. But the
- 16:44more they know, the more responsibility.
- 16:46So that's why I've always said no
- 16:47because here's how I look at it.
- 16:49If I put that in in your body,
- 16:52you feel a certain way,
- 16:54so and so. And because of that feeling,
- 16:57you want me to you want to identify that
- 16:59feeling with pictures. And so you search
- 17:02for pictures that identify that and it's
- 17:04demons that are going
- 17:05cuz that's how you feel. These are
- 17:07things that are like I'm understanding
- 17:09right away.
- 17:10And I'm thinking like if I do that on
- 17:12you,
- 17:13I'm locking you in. This is where it
- 17:15gets interesting. I'm locking you into
- 17:17that frequency that God doesn't want you
- 17:20to stay on. We're here to elevate the
- 17:21frequency. So if I lock you into that
- 17:23frequency, here's where it gets crazy.
- 17:27Oh, it's just a tattoo. He can move on
- 17:29in life and and and become a higher
- 17:31state.
- 17:32No. Yes and no. Here's what happens and
- 17:34I need you to understand this or I have
- 17:35to break this down for me. Now I
- 17:37understand. I need you to break down
- 17:39this thing I'm about to say.
- 17:40Yeah, I'm
- 17:41They get a tattoo.
- 17:43They lock that frequency in.
- 17:45You ever smelled a perfume that takes
- 17:47you back to your grandmother 20, 30
- 17:49years ago?
- 17:50Yeah.
- 17:51We know why, right? Because it's locked
- 17:53into the subconscious mind. Certain
- 17:54things lock into the subconscious mind.
- 17:56Art, colors, scent, pain.
- 17:59So I'm going to tell you why all that
- 18:00happened in a second.
- 18:01Pain. Okay. So this is and and I want to
- 18:03talk about the correlation between pain
- 18:05and blood and why I think that
- 18:07locks it in, but
- 18:08to finish that part is
- 18:10if they get that tattoo, what I've done
- 18:12for them is
- 18:14every time they look at that demon,
- 18:15they're going to
- 18:16It doesn't matter if they're now in
- 18:17church and they're just, you know,
- 18:18family men. It's going to continue to
- 18:20just take them to that feeling of anger,
- 18:22pain, and frustration. And it's a curse
- 18:24if you really think about it.
- 18:25Sure does.
- 18:26So that's why I've always said, "No, I
- 18:27don't want to curse their body with a
- 18:29tat."
- 18:31Breathe.
- 18:34Keep pulling away. I got all of it.
- 18:37Pull away from me like your life depends
- 18:40on it.
- 18:41There you go.
- 18:45There it goes.
- 18:56All right.
- 18:59Okay.
- 18:59Okay, this is therapeutic.
- 19:01She's funny.
- 19:03She's funny, yeah.
- 19:05Yeah.
- 19:05So I don't ever take a break from
- 19:08doing this. This is how we when we go to
- 19:10the kitchen and I got a fork and might
- 19:12eat spaghetti noodles out of the thing.
- 19:15And then it was like something like you
- 19:16would pasta and the spaghetti from your
- 19:18mom, and it's making me laugh, and she's
- 19:20funny.
- 19:20So like I said we were poor growing up,
- 19:22so my mother would make spaghetti like
- 19:24three nights a week.
- 19:25Yeah.
- 19:25And then we'd have it for leftovers.
- 19:27Like we would make spaghetti tacos,
- 19:29burritos,
- 19:31Cuz it was just a cheap thing to make.
- 19:32Yeah, it's easy, yeah.
- 19:34So it's definitely spaghetti
- 19:35Spaghetti. I like spaghetti on
- 19:37sandwiches with cheese.
- 19:38I still like it.
- 19:39Yeah.
- 19:41when it is spaghetti.
- 19:42I know I'm sneaking out and like
- 19:43No, come on, baby. Do like everything
- 19:45else.
- 19:46No, you That's That's That's
- 19:47She grew up poor for a while.
- 19:49That's a big story in our family.
- 19:50That's spaghetti.
- 19:51So funny.
- 19:53Mom's spaghetti.
- 19:54There you go.
- 19:59That's pretty good right now, right?
- 20:00Yeah.
- 20:11Yeah, cuz there's like something going
- 20:12on here.
- 20:13Yeah.
- 20:14Thanks.
- 20:15That's cuz it's your solar plexus. It's
- 20:17your emotions.
- 20:18Yeah, I'm always touching myself there,
- 20:19sending myself energy there.
- 20:21Yeah.
- 20:22And then head up.
- 20:24And breathe.
- 20:27You're just naturally doing stuff, and
- 20:31as we unblock your crystal,
- 20:34open up your fascia again, you'll know
- 20:36you have it in your knowing of why you
- 20:38do everything.
- 20:41Definitely like a second half of
- 20:42feeling.
- 20:43It feels the same as like like half a
- 20:45gram.
- 20:46Yeah.
- 20:48Keep going.
- 20:52So I've I've always known that
- 20:54pain
- 20:56puts you in a state that we're all
- 20:57supposed to be in, which is the now.
- 20:59Yeah, cuz you can't escape pain, right?
- 21:01So pain keeps you in the now. You can't
- 21:04daydream about something like when, you
- 21:06know, you're in some pain, especially
- 21:07with a tattoo and a needle.
- 21:09So, I always knew there was some
- 21:11correlation, and I think you're helping
- 21:12me put it together is there's a
- 21:14correlation between the pain of the
- 21:16tattoo
- 21:17that's forcing them to deal with the
- 21:20reason why they're getting this tattoo.
- 21:22Correct.
- 21:23And so, in a way, they don't even really
- 21:25know
- 21:26that they've turned the tattoo artist
- 21:28into their psychologist.
- 21:29They have.
- 21:30And And so, say I'm doing a portrait of
- 21:32someone that lost like a son.
- 21:35And I'm I'm tattooing them, and they're
- 21:37getting really emotional.
- 21:39But yet, they weren't emotional the day
- 21:41before at the supermarket, right?
- 21:42Because we're going into a comparison of
- 21:44they're not in the now. They're
- 21:46oranges, bread, what do I need? They're
- 21:48not in the now, right? But the tattoo
- 21:50process is painful.
- 21:52Yeah.
- 21:52It locks them into the now. I believe
- 21:55like like Jose Silva talks about like
- 21:57the mind method where you
- 21:59he's teaching you how to install things
- 22:00into your subconscious mind, right? To
- 22:02operate on
- 22:04um
- 22:05When you get a tattoo,
- 22:07I feel the therapeutic part of it is
- 22:09that it's locking them into the now.
- 22:12They're forcing themselves to deal with
- 22:13the reason why they got that, and then
- 22:15get it That's why they get emotional.
- 22:17But when the tattoo process is done, I
- 22:19believe that the pain and the fact that
- 22:21they were forced to be locked into the
- 22:23reason why they got that tattoo is what
- 22:25creates the imprint in their
- 22:26subconscious mind.
- 22:27that's exactly what it is. So, the the
- 22:30body, the human experience is a learned
- 22:32experience.
- 22:34Because pain is actually fictitious.
- 22:37There's nothing that's actually
- 22:38technically painful because you just
- 22:40touched it, the pain went away.
- 22:42Yeah.
- 22:43Pain is about attention.
- 22:45Yeah.
- 22:45And the attention is all of the
- 22:47resources.
- 22:50And when you put it here, like this is
- 22:54this is about desire.
- 22:55Mhm.
- 22:57As an example.
- 22:58Mhm.
- 22:59And
- 23:00And so, it it's interesting because I've
- 23:02looked at pain from the perspective cuz
- 23:04I wasn't pain my whole life.
- 23:06Mhm.
- 23:06And all of a sudden I was out of pain.
- 23:07I'm like, "Wow, this is really good."
- 23:09And then the fear of pain
- 23:12was worse than the pain itself.
- 23:15Yeah, I I see that with tattoos. Oh,
- 23:16it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt.
- 23:18But you're still doing it.
- 23:19Yeah.
- 23:20Yeah.
- 23:21So
- 23:22So pain actually is a is a mechanism of
- 23:25releasing hormones in the body. We're
- 23:26addicted to the experience as human
- 23:28beings. And And even that experience is
- 23:31emotional.
- 23:33We're addicted to the emotions of being
- 23:35human.
- 23:36And remember we talked about the river?
- 23:39Yeah.
- 23:40Well,
- 23:41people
- 23:43if they're in the river, they're
- 23:44addicted to it. They just want to get
- 23:46bashed around and move and that's the
- 23:48emotions of life. But if I stand on the
- 23:50side of it and I observe it, I'm like,
- 23:52"Wow, that's really cool. I can even get
- 23:53in it for a second and get back out."
- 23:55Yeah.
- 23:56We're not supposed to be in that flow.
- 23:59We're supposed to observe the flow and
- 24:01then say, "I want to get in here or
- 24:02there." and get out. But what we do is
- 24:04we become addicted to the flow. And the
- 24:06reason why that happens in the human
- 24:08experience is because our crystal
- 24:10Mhm.
- 24:10gets blocked.
- 24:12And we can't get the signal from our
- 24:13field.
- 24:14Mhm.
- 24:15And we block the crystal by Well, first
- 24:18of all, by dehydration.
- 24:19Mhm.
- 24:19Everybody's dehydrated right now. The
- 24:21chemicals around us dehydrate us.
- 24:22Yeah.
- 24:23And then so we have the answer for that.
- 24:25This is how you rehydrate your body.
- 24:27Okay.
- 24:28I mean, literally the human body was If
- 24:31you go back 100 years ago, it was 80%
- 24:33water.
- 24:34Mhm.
- 24:34And then
- 24:3620 years ago, it was 70% water. Today,
- 24:39they're teaching in school it's 60%
- 24:41water.
- 24:42And is that accurate as well, too?
- 24:44Well, what they're doing is they're
- 24:46they're saying that's what it is.
- 24:47They're observing It's accurate to the
- 24:50observation. That doesn't mean it's
- 24:52healthy.
- 24:52Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:53Yeah, it's accurate to the observation,
- 24:55which is Yeah, we're the more water that
- 24:58we so you touched a lot of bodies,
- 25:00right? Okay.
- 25:01Yeah.
- 25:02Here.
- 25:03Touch my body.
- 25:05Like really go like this.
- 25:09Yeah.
- 25:10It's different, right?
- 25:11It's pretty pretty pretty loose.
- 25:12You grab it grab my ear.
- 25:17So you know what bodies feel like.
- 25:18That's interesting, yeah.
- 25:20It's like baby skin.
- 25:21Yeah, but baby skin but it also is like
- 25:25completely adaptable.
- 25:28Yeah.
- 25:32Yeah.
- 25:33My body acts like an 18-month-old baby,
- 25:37not like
- 25:39a 55-year-old man.
- 25:42And this is something you were able to
- 25:44work on, right? You weren't doing this
- 25:46uh 10 years
- 25:47no, no, this is all in the last 4 years.
- 25:49Okay, so this is
- 25:50This is a result of it and we've
- 25:51documented every part of the experience
- 25:53cuz cuz what happened is as a result I
- 25:55get younger, I feel better, I have more
- 25:57energy, I I'm able to adapt and perceive
- 26:01to my world differently.
- 26:03Mhm.
- 26:04Cuz I'm not in it.
- 26:05Cuz you clean the crystal.
- 26:06Yeah.
- 26:07Clean the crystal.
- 26:08You you are a master of the body. I I
- 26:10ask you like
- 26:12you you say tattoo artist but
- 26:14I don't think that's an
- 26:16I mean art art we call ourselves
- 26:18lifestyle artists but
- 26:19I've always not liked the term tattoo
- 26:21artist for myself.
- 26:22Yeah, so what what are you? A healer?
- 26:24Um you know, my mother used to always
- 26:26say I was going to be a healer. I think
- 26:29what she meant is something I'm learning
- 26:31about myself. Um
- 26:33I've always been able to
- 26:35use energy.
- 26:36Spiritual guide.
- 26:37Yeah, so I have like my sisters for
- 26:39example like
- 26:40in the family like me and my father are
- 26:42known to have healing hands. So like my
- 26:43sisters got a headache. She could you do
- 26:45that thing? They don't know what it is,
- 26:48but I'm going in.
- 26:49Um
- 26:50everything emits a frequency, right? So
- 26:52it's like for me it's like reading
- 26:53braille. I'm like, "Oh, I know where
- 26:54it's at. It's right there." "Oh my god,
- 26:56how'd you know?"
- 26:57It's It's not It's just like I I just
- 26:59see it, right?
- 27:01So, I think that's why I started
- 27:02tattooing because every time I would
- 27:04tattoo somebody, I would I would send
- 27:05them healing energy or I found myself
- 27:07counseling them through the process.
- 27:09You're You're You're You're a spiritual
- 27:12guide. So, another way to call it is
- 27:15your earth angel.
- 27:16Earth angel.
- 27:17And I've got royally screwed, too,
- 27:19because of this. See that? Like, I've
- 27:21opened myself up to bad people that were
- 27:23just takers and stuff and that was back
- 27:25when I didn't understand.
- 27:27That But, that's the education.
- 27:28Yeah, I I don't regret any of it. So, my
- 27:30big question is are they craving therapy
- 27:33more than the tattoo and they just don't
- 27:35know it?
- 27:36Well, so
- 27:38I I guess we're defining their craving
- 27:40We're We're trying trying to define what
- 27:42that that outcome is. We're naming the
- 27:44outcome.
- 27:45Yeah.
- 27:45But, what they're craving is a
- 27:46resolution to an emotion.
- 27:48Yeah.
- 27:48Now, if we call it a therapy, if we call
- 27:51it an addiction, if we call it a
- 27:53mutilation, whatever it is, those are
- 27:56different ways of solving an emotion.
- 27:58Mhm.
- 27:59That's all it is.
- 28:00And when you put it on the body,
- 28:03you start to block pathways. Let's see
- 28:05what it looks like, you dear.
- 28:08Beautiful energy.
- 28:12She is She is actually very humorous,
- 28:15known to be, too.
- 28:19Okay, you ready?
- 28:20Yeah.
- 28:21Okay.
- 28:23You're getting taller.
- 28:25That's pretty cool.
- 28:26Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 28:27Yeah. You're
- 28:28It's like
- 28:28between this area.
- 28:30You like squatting here through.
- 28:32Yeah.
- 28:35Oh, yeah. I feel that. I felt that. I
- 28:37felt that when you took that picture, I
- 28:39felt that.
- 28:40This new picture, I felt this. Yeah. I
- 28:43wasn't needing to like try to do it.
- 28:45So, here's here's the real art or
- 28:47puppets.
- 28:51So, take away your face. Like, if you
- 28:54were to categorize
- 28:56the emotion, the thoughts, the person
- 28:59see it.
- 28:59What do you uh much brighter?
- 29:02More dead, more alive.
- 29:04Yeah.
- 29:04More alive.
- 29:05Yeah.
- 29:05And then I just isolate the face.
- 29:08Oh, yeah. That's That's exactly what I
- 29:10felt.
- 29:12And when it was just like
- 29:12Bright eyes.
- 29:13And now it's like
- 29:15Oh, yeah. That's
- 29:15Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty cool, huh?
- 29:17That is pretty cool.
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