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20/05/2026

Day 7: Energy Explosion, Midnight Forest Walk & Finally Feeling Dad’s Death | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 7 in the forest is when s**t really hit the fan. I woke up with this massive surge of energy ripping through me — it felt like I was going to explode or straight-up die.

For hours it just kept building. I couldn’t stay in the van anymore, so I grabbed my head torch and went walking around the forest in the middle of the night, trying not to completely lose my mind from how overwhelming it all was.🤯

Eventually I calmed down enough to get some sleep. When I woke up again, it was like a dam had broken. Years of pushing down the grief about my dad finally hit me full force. 😓

And right after that, this really ugly, unlovable part of me showed up — my hatred. All the stuff in life I’d been carrying resentment for came pouring out. It was brutal and messy, but weirdly beautiful too, just letting it be seen and released like that.🤬

I’m still sitting with a lot of it, but reading this one back feels important. It was raw as hell.

Tune in to Day 7 if you want to hear what it sounded like when everything finally exploded.

Link to the full episode in the bio 🙏

14/05/2026

Managed to catch S2 Ep15 of Who On Earth? with yet? 🎙️ 🌍

In this clip from the episode Leo is inviting you to reflect on the judgement you may be holding onto about a person of thing. That this very judgement is actually strengthening the connection.

And the way to truly cut the cord and liberate yourself is by removing the judgement, by taking away the thought pattern that the person or thing is better or worse than you. ✂️

Instead you can reframe that person or thing as an opportunity to allow that trapped emotion to move through you and be released. ✨

Catch the full episode in the bio or at www.meditationwithmichael.co.uk

12/05/2026

Day 6: Alien Abduction...Maybe?, Hellish Purges & Total Surrender | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 6 in the forest took things to another level. I was already raw from the day before when this wave hit me harder than anything I’d experienced.

Oh and I totally forgot to tell you, but the other night I became completely convinced aliens were coming for me. No exaggeration — the feeling was absolute.

Back to day 6! A purge erupted out of me like nothing before. Sounds came from deep in my body that I didn’t even know I could make. They were guttural, horrible, straight from hell. I was shaking and retching while these noises tore out of me.

Then my body started moving on its own. It felt like something else was guiding it, twisting me into positions that brought intense, crippling pain. It felt like it was going to break me in two it hurt that much, but I didn’t fight it. Strangely, it felt right to surrender. So I let it happen.

I stayed with it through the whole thing — the fear, the sounds, the pain, and that eerie sense of being worked on by forces I couldn’t see. It was one of the most surreal and brutal days of the entire trip.

I’m still processing everything that came up in Galloway Forest, but sharing it exactly as it felt in the moment is part of the reason I’m putting this out there.

Tune in to Day 6 to hear what it was like when everything intensified.

06/05/2026

S2 EP25 of Who On Earth? Out Now 🎙️

Becoming No One: on Ego Death, India & the Quiet Shift into Fatherhood 🌍

Somewhere between India 🇮🇳, stepping away from facilitating 🧘 , and facing himself without the usual roles to hide behind, something loosened. Not a dramatic reinvention—more like parts of him quietly fell off 🍂 that were never really his to begin with.

We circle ego death (more than once) 🌀, what it actually feels like when identity starts slipping through your fingers 🫥, and the strange calm that can follow . There’s a shift here—from doing the work to living it—and it’s not as polished or performative as you might expect.

At the time of this conversation, Leo was also on the edge of becoming a father 👶. There’s something subtle but weighty in that—like life asking, “Right, who are you really now then?” 🤔

As always, we wander 🚶‍♂️. India , masculinity , truth 🧭, illusion 🎭, presence… the kind of tangents that don’t feel like tangents once you’re in them.

A small note—this was recorded before my own run-in with chronic pain, fatigue, and panic disorder. Life’s moved since then, for both of us 🔄. Still, this one felt worth sharing exactly as it is ✨

Link to video & audio available in bio & at www.meditationwithmichael.co.uk 🙏

04/05/2026

Day 5: Nearly dying, exorcism & the First Real Panic | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 5 in Galloway Forest hit different. I was parked up on a high exposed spot, tucked into my van Michelle for the night, when the storm rolled in hard.

The wind picked up so fierce I genuinely thought it was going to shove us right off the side of the cliff. I lay there in the dark, gripping the bed, listening to Michelle creak and rock like she might take off. Sleep was out of the question.

I had to get out of there!

The next day I attempted to settle my system with some TRE (Trauma Release Exercises). That opened the floodgates. Huge waves of energy ripped through me — massive shaking, trembling, the kind that takes over your whole body. It felt like something deep was finally breaking loose.

But then came the first of what would become many brutal panic attacks. The kind that grab you by the throat and don’t let go. My mind started fracturing. I felt like I was losing it, like my psyche was hanging on by a thread.

In the middle of it all, this strange sense came over me — that inter-dimensional beings were working on me, pulling out old demonic forces or whatever you want to call them. It sounds wild saying it now, but in that moment it felt completely real.

The storm outside, the storm inside, and the beginning of the panic disorder that would follow me for months after. I share exactly how it felt when everything started to unravel and how close I was to completely breaking.

I’m still recovering from the chronic fatigue and pain, and thankfully the panic attacks are under control these days.

Tune in to Day 5 to see exactly what went down.

29/04/2026

Day 4: The Most Violent Energy Release – Wailing, Shaking & Wanting to Quit | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 4 in Scotland’s ancient Galloway Forest began with an explosion of energy unlike anything I’d experienced before. 🤯

I woke up and was immediately hit by two hours of intense wailing, crying, screaming, and shaking. What followed was a deep wave of utter sickness that left me feeling completely broken.

For the first time on this trip, I seriously considered ending the journey early and heading home. My body felt too weak to continue. 😣

In this entry, I share the intensity of that primal release, how awful it left me feeling, and the real internal battle about whether I could actually keep going.

This was messy, overwhelming, and pushed me right to my limit — both physically and emotionally.
If you’ve ever experienced powerful trauma release, felt your body hit its edge, or questioned whether you could keep going through deep healing… you’ll get where I was at.

I’m still recovering from chronic fatigue and pain, and I’ve managed to get the panic attacks under control.

Tune in to Day 4 to hear how I navigated one of the toughest moments of the entire trip.

22/04/2026

In episode 15 of season 2 of Who On Earth?, Leo Oppenheim returns and takes things even deeper. 🌍

In this clip, Leo opens up about how he learned to tap into the unconscious during his breathwork sessions — that quiet inner guidance that moves him through the work and often leads him straight to the places where people are carrying old tension or unresolved issues. 🌬️

It’s subtle, powerful stuff, and Leo explains it with the kind of clarity that comes from real experience.

Episode drops next week. 🎙️

20/04/2026

Day 3: Naked in the Freezing Stream + Nearly Falling to My Death | Ancient Forest Journal 🌲

Day 3 of my solo immersion in Scotland’s ancient Galloway Forest finally pulled me out of the safety of my van (Michelle) and straight into the wild. 🌲❄️

In this journal entry, I share how I stripped off and bathed naked in the freezing November stream… only for the day to quickly spiral. I hit multiple stumbling blocks while trying to find my next base camp — sneaking past a “no unauthorised access” sign, nearly falling to my death when a fallen tree collapsed under me, and then watching my sensitised nervous system completely lose it as darkness swallowed the forest. 😱

My creative imagination went into full overdrive, painting demons and monsters lurking between the trees while my fractured mind battled to stay grounded.

Tune in to Day 3 to hear exactly how I navigated the chaos, faced the terror, and somehow survived to see Day 4.

I’m now recovering from chronic fatigue and pain, and I’ve managed to get the panic attacks under control.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by anxiety, a hypersensitive nervous system, or the primal fear that darkness in the wild can bring… this one’s for you. 🫨

Link to the episode in bio





17/04/2026

3 Things that Aren’t Insanity 😵‍💫

1. Take aligned action
2. Remove yourself from the situation
3. Can’t do 1 or 2, the accept reality

Anything else is insane and you’ll only make the situation worse, the more you resist it.

Trust me I speak from personal experience. Have faith that you are enough for this moment and it’s happening for your highest good.

This too shall pass 🙏

14/04/2026

Day 2 hits harder in Scotland’s ancient Galloway Forest 🌲

Disturbing dreams, muscle spasms, full-body shaking, and intense anxiety leave me frozen — too scared to even step into the forest. I’m clinging desperately to present-moment awareness as my only anchor, completely unaware this is the start of a rapid psychotic and physical breakdown.

In this raw journal reading, you’ll hear the unfiltered struggle of a sensitised nervous system trying to survive deep nature immersion.

Part of my honest 10-day solo forest series. I’m now recovering from chronic fatigue, pain, and panic attacks — reading these entries back feels intense but powerful.

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have your mind and body unravel at the same time, especially in solitude or nature, this one’s for you 💭

Link for the episode in bio 🙏

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