This is a podcast hosted by Adam Parr (thank you Adam for the invite) where we discuss the increasing mental health issue in the UK and the benefits of positive thinking from a neurological and behavioural point of view.
0031: Mental health fist aid training, the mental health recession, cost of living and increasing interest rates, the increasing amount of people on prescription drugs.
0041: How Mental health issues are related to restraint, 'The Universal Human Phobia' and the increase of violence in numerous industry sectors and the need for resilience.
04:00: 'The Way In Is The Way Out' - Many people need external stimuli to cope (which can increase the problem) when they should be going internal. The benefits of meditation and mindfulness and when I meditate.
06:00: Corporations getting involved more with mindfulness and meditation and mental health first aid, the problem with mental health first aid as reported by the Health & safety Executive and the impact of the problem in corporations with regard to 'burn-out'.
08:32: Going back thousands of years - 'What you give your energy to you help create' and the development of Quantum Thinking.
09:22: 'It's not my fault' - People not taking responsibility for what they can control and 'reacting' instead of 'responding'.
11:40: 'Things that Wire Together Fire Together' - how every behaviour is linked to a network in our brains and how those networks grow - 'Practice Makes Permanent' - and how we get addicted to our emotional states and the benefits of positive thoughts for cell communication.
13:55: The Viktor Frankl Story - 'Man's Search For Meaning' and how the brain doesn't know the difference between perception and reality.
18:08: Impermanence - Everything changes, right down to our basic subatomic structures, why everything is made up of 'empty space', which is actually energy.
19:50: The root of all suffering.
20:30: The 'Miracle' of living in the present moment to be truly alive, coming to terms with death and the first law of thermodynamics.
23:30: Two people who possess nothing who are now the happiest people I know and Chris' story (@ChrisWalksTheUK) and MaJa's story @mausn_arts.
25:50: How society conditions us to become 'commercially happy', like an addiction and how to break that pattern.
27:20: Meditation and mindfulness is free. If you can breath you can do it and it's one of the only things you can consistently fail at and get better at it.
30:10: Most people are being used by social media as opposed to social media using you.
31:02: I hate perfume ads!
31:40: If you not conditioned commerce wouldn't work!
32:30: Becoming seriously awake!
34:52: The importance of the environment in training, in cell biology and to us as human beings.
36:21: My heart attack and survival.
40:50: We are in the most technically advanced ear yet we have more sickness, illnesses, diseases and wars than ever before.
