overwhelming

At first, this planning felt overwhelming.

Başlangıçta, bu planlama bunaltıcı hissettirdi.

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The humiliation when you acted dumb in front of your crush. The joy when you beat your dad at Mario Kart. The devastation when your dog died. The overwhelming love when you held your first kid.

Hoşlandığınız kişinin önünde aptalca davrandığınızdaki utanç. Mario Kart'ta babanızı yendiğinizdeki neşe. Köpeğiniz öldüğündeki yıkım. İlk çocuğunuzu kucağınıza aldığınızdaki o tarifsiz sevgi.

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Like it's an overwhelming amount of paperwork for me.

Benim için bunaltıcı miktarda evrak işi gibi.

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Owning can also be very empowering, but it can also become financially overwhelming if the mortgage is too high, the rates are too high, the repairs are constant, or the market changes really suddenly.

Ev sahibi olmak da çok güçlendirici olabilir, ancak ipotek çok yüksekse, faiz oranları çok yüksekse, onarımlar sürekliyse veya piyasa aniden değişirse finansal olarak bunaltıcı hale gelebilir.

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You survive them, relying not just on your own skills, but those of your partner, working together to bring down the most terrifying enemies with precision and timing, just as two highly trained operatives would do against overwhelming odds.

Onlardan sağ çıkıyor, sadece kendi yeteneklerinize değil, ortağınızınkine de güveniyor, en korkunç düşmanları hassasiyet ve zamanlamayla alt etmek için birlikte çalışıyorsunuz; tıpkı iki yüksek eğitimli ajanın zorlu koşullar altında yapacağı gibi.

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'Overwhelming consensus' that screen time harms children, top doctors say.

Ekran süresinin çocuklara zarar verdiği konusunda 'ezici bir fikir birliği' var, diyor önde gelen doktorlar.

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And that headline again from BBC News. 'Overwhelming consensus' that screen time harms children, top doctors say.

Ve BBC News'ten o başlık tekrar. Ekran süresinin çocuklara zarar verdiği konusunda 'ezici bir fikir birliği' var, diyor önde gelen doktorlar.

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This headline is about what the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have said about social media, that there is an overwhelming consensus that using screens and social media harms children.

Bu başlık, Tıp Kraliyet Kolejleri Akademisi'nin sosyal medya hakkında söyledikleriyle ilgili; ekran ve sosyal medya kullanımının çocuklara zarar verdiği konusunda ezici bir fikir birliği olduğu belirtiliyor.

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I've always said that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet every experience that your brain has literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain in my research what I found is that inability or frustration around manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life when you relate to Consciousness what are the possibilities of you thinking it existing outside of our own neurology I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect hello beautiful beings welcome back to the know thyself podcast where every single week we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind to learn more about the true nature of self and the world around us at deeper levels every single week Our Guest today is a leading neuroscientist a best-selling author a podcast host a medical doctor and in my eyes she's really bridging science and spirituality and the understanding of both in such a beautiful way when we use the words Law of Attraction intuition manifestation what do we literally mean and so we're going to be diving into that and the science that grounds it to Earth and how we can really choose the direction we want to go in life and be effective stewards in what we're creating in life so Dr tart thanks for being here thank you so much much for having me yeah my honor where I want to start today because this is the no they self podcast and it's very fitting is uh is actually about interoception uh and so I've always loved finding ways in which I can grow my own self-awareness so what is interoception and what have you found are the most effective modalities to really raise that self-awareness that is such a great one to pick for know thyself absolutely um so most of us know about the five senses that we have have um but less people know that we have a lot of other senses like thermoception for temperature proception is understanding where your joints are in space um notion is for pain and Inception is an understanding of the state of the physiology of the inside of your body so it's things like how do you know when you're hungry how do you know when you need to use the bathroom um and if you've got young children then you see that from zero to two they go from not being able to recognize those signals at all to being able to control their bowels and their bladder um and you can really take it further than that I think you're probably picking up on the piece where I said that I can tell about two days before I'm starting to get sick like a cold or flu um and I think the reason that I think there's two reasons that I have honed that skill one is obviously I went to medical school so I understand the body inside out but the other one is that I've had over 20 years of yoga practice now and in yoga you connect your mind and your body very much so you just become very aware of biof feedback from your body people who do a lot of sport I think would say the same thing and then there are just some people who are really good at reading body language and listening to their own body you know this may have been a thing since childhood and then of course there's all the people who have the potential to to grow that skill I'm so curious about all the different ways that we can grow awareness like you spoke to the many different facets in which we can um in arenas of our own physiology and mindset and uh I'm curious what you think about extra sensory perception like outside of just our five senses what people call the six sense what uh yeah what's the reality of that do you feel so I actually call inter reception the six sense um but yeah there is that phrase in like common you know pop language or whatever um so I've become much more interested in this recently for a variety of reasons and if we have a spectrum from science to spirituality I would say the reasons go along that Spectrum so much more on the science side of things we do know that some of our hormones are released into the atmosphere through our sweat so um the steroid hormones like cortisol estrogen and progesterone particularly so this is the reason that women who live together or work closely together synchronize their um menstrual cycles within two months it's because particles of those hormones are in our sweat and they're released around us and if we're interacting with each other closely then they will go into our skin and you know Al to the levels of hormones in other people and regardless of your gender this happens with cortisol the stress hormone so there's an evolutionary explanation to this which is that we needed to respond to the stress levels of the leader of the tribe and so in this day and age regardless of gender like I said depending on where you are in the hierarchy of an organization or a family or a group you know social group we do feel the stress levels of the um most senior person so it's like in a troop of gorillas the stress level of the silver back gorilla affects the other gorillas more than ones who are equal to each other and so if you think that we are communicating let's say non-consciously through the effect of hormones that may be in the atmosphere around us and that's already the physiology of communicating outside of our bodies right um and then I've always said I grew up in the 70s that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet so a lot of things that I watched on Star Trek and Star Wars when I was a kid are you know I mean the other day because we were in La I was walking down the road and this thing that looks like a shopping cart but it's a robot was walking towards me saying I am on delivery and it was just on its own and you know in London we didn't have those yet so I was a bit like wow that's very science fiction so you know if you've honed your interception if you've honed your intuition and let's add in if you're very close to someone so you know them really well I do believe it's possible to you know think of someone and then they message you or to like just have a sense someone's going through something and you should call them is that what you meant when you were asking sure yeah I just picking up on and we can dive deeper into intuition here and what that means in your eyes but having those gut feelings having those uh senses of a direction that you might move in you might sense danger you might sense opportunity and it's really your ability to pay attention to more subtle frequencies and energies that are happening all around us that are invisible to the naked eye and so uh yeah when people refer to gut feelings and intuition I'm just curious for you to break that down a little bit more what that really means so I actually want to pick up on something that you've just said which I think is really important which is noticing things that you may not have been conscious of or you may not have noticed you know if you're in a rush or you're distracted mentally the reason so basically there are a lot of things going on around us that we filter out and that's because we're bombarded with so much information continually that it's actually an advantage to us to filter out some of that information so the best example ex is that you're not aware of your clothing on your body all day cuz once you put it on and you felt that you don't really need to be reminded of that every minute of the day you're kind of overwhelming in a burden to exactly so that applies to other things and that's naturally filtered by the brain not necessarily with us directing it we can direct it but if we don't then the brain will filter out things that it doesn't think are important to us surviving that day and so you can imagine in the modern world where there's you know even more information now than there was let's say 100 years ago that the brain is filtering out those things but if you want to be really in tune with the people that you love or just your environment you want to be really present and mindful then you can certainly direct what gets filtered out and what doesn't so you can pay attention more um than your brain might naturally ask you to or let you because it's focused on your survival then I think it's a connected but slightly separate thing which is how much you listen to or tap into your intuition um so I do speak about six different ways of thinking obviously there are many more and we do them all and they combine but it's just a a very simple framework to break down the way that we we think which is mainly through logic which is you know data and things that we know then through emotions which are things that we feel um motivation is why we do the things that we do why we get drained by certain things and don't want to do them so just understanding what makes you really like keep going when things are tough and what kind of makes you give up physicality which is that brain Body Connection we've already mentioned due to interception um creativity which is thinking outside the box thinking of a you know a potentially different future different reality and then intuition and intuition Falls a lot between physical and emotional so the emotional centers of the brain are deep inside the brain and they're the size of your clenched fist so you know yours is slightly bigger than mine but it's proportional for your body and then around that about the same thickness we have the cortex which has more of the logical Pathways of the brain and because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in your whole life but everything that you've experienced has had an impression on your brain body system we believe that we keep our working memory up here these are the things we need to remember every day to do our job and live our life and then through a process called hean learning which is named after the neuroscientist Donald Hebb and is really simply explained by neurons that fire together wire together we believe that our wisdom and our pattern recognition get pushed deeper and deeper into the brain into the spinal cord and even into our gut gut neurons and that's why intuition is sometimes called gut instinct so basically the lessons that you've picked up in life the wisdom that you've learned through repeated patterns that could be as deeply held in your neurons as like deep down in your G so you're not conscious of it but it still guides the the decisions that you make now what I found over the last 10 years or so particularly the 10 years I've been teaching at MIT Sloan which is Business Leaders is that people would really rely on their logic and say things like well you know I'm not going to make a really important decision like hire or fire on intuition because you know that's not is it even a thing as we've been able to scan brains and learn more about how these neurons connect up and store information I really see particularly the older generation of leaders saying that is absolutely the main way that I will make my most important decisions and I'm I'm like that you know I will make my most important important life decisions based on intuition and the way that I have helped myself to understand how much that is the right thing for me is through journaling so if I journal and I'm I'm writing like you know what should I do in this situation my gut's telling me this but logic tells me that or my emotions tell me something else I basically plot out how things pan out depending on which modality I use to make my decision yeah it feels like the conscious thoughts that we have are just the tip of the iberg of our deeper intelligence and you spoke to something really important there which is the intelligence that gets stored in our spinal cord in our gut and that we can pay attention and start to listen to that deeper and deeper and that it's really important as we have tens of thousands of thoughts that are happening every single day in our brain that are for the most part kind of the same as we've been accustomed to and familiar with I'd love for you to speak into how it's really important to be mindful of The Impressions that we accumulate because then that does become stored becomes who we are and how we perceive reality which is then going to be a direct correlation to what we continually attract in our life yeah absolutely so every experience that your brain has which me you have so like literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain so um because of a field of research about neuroplasticity we understand how much more flexible and impressionable the brain is throughout our lives this may start to change I don't even want to use the word decline you know around the age of 70 where sometimes things like sequential memories can become a bit disordered but our wisdom and judgment becomes like a superpower so it it can change towards the end of life but really throughout most of our working life let's say um the brain is very open to being changed by everything that it experiences and the longer that an impression has been held in the brain the more deeply embedded it is into our neural architecture so particularly things that we experienced from the age of n to 7 but also 7 to 14 and then onwards but you know those periods really because they're the longest ago and if you had a repeated experience or a highly emotional experience then those are the two main reason that things get imprinted into your brain repetition and strong emotion and so it's funny I I am five and a half years older than my brother and I was telling my psychologist friend that I had a very strong memory of um speaking into my mother's belly button and then listening to see if my brother would answer me and in my memory that happened once and I just remember it really strongly but he said to me you must have done that many times for it you know for a 5-year-old to have to still have hold that memory so other things like that like the parental expectation societal expectation how competitive your school was the kind of people that you hung around with words that were used about you when you were a kid those things they run deep in your brain and they like you said they do affect your perception of everything else that happens in your adult life and you know one of the main areas of work around that is what's called Shadow work and psychology which is the things that you perceived as a child would mean that you wouldn't be loved and looked after by your main caregivers so those sorts of things whether it's like oh you know stop showing off or stop running around like that those things get put into your Shadow like you know I mustn't talk highly of myself I mustn't you know sort of like do things at speed if other people can't keep up those are the things we try to hide about ourselves and usually around the age of midlife crisis or whatever you want to call it you know those things can really like come up and have to be dealt with and integrated like a lot of those oppressions that we accumulated often in an unconscious state from like 0 to 7 7 to 14 uh they happen in a manner where we would where we don't fully have the memory of how how they happened and that then builds and accumulates into a stack of Impressions that are subconscious holds and becomes the Persona in which we look through the world and so I'd love to talk a little bit about identity because fundamentally we're going to continually attract what we believe we're worthy of what we believe we deserve which is kind of all on the Bedrock of who we think we are and so I'd love for you to share a little bit about uh identity the science of it and how that's uh really the the foundational pillar in which how we experience everything but then you know in particular um how we manifest in life so then there's an area of research called ghosts um the original research was ghosts in the Executive Suite because it was explaining how the leaders of today are affected by those childhood Impressions but my colleague at MIT um Professor Deborah anona wrote a really amazing article in Harvard Business review about ghosts in your neural architecture from your childhood and how they affect you you know whatever you're doing whoever you are um and identity is one of them so actually there are the other thing are the values that your family held or your social structure you know when you were growing up held boundaries that were held in in your family in your social structure secrets that were kept roles in the family and identification which in childhood tends to be comments like oh you're just like your father um and so those things are quite intertwined so for example if you have a secret in your family and the common example are you know someone that was an alcoholic or someone that was gay that wasn't talked about then you start to program shame around those things and so that affects your identity so the secrets that are kept in your family affect your identity the boundaries that were kept in your family so some families have a really open house and people can just drop in and they can stay over um they can just join a meal unplanned and some families everything's very planned and you know has to be like invited in advance and kind of um you know not spontaneous again those things also affect your identity because it's your ability to be flexible and spontaneous versus your you know inability to function in a world where that may be happening um and roles obviously also affect your identity so let's say now you're in the workplace and your role as a child was to be the messenger so let's say your parents had a lot of arguments and didn't speak to each other and said things like Andre go and tell your mother you know whatever um that's also going to play out in your adult identity um and you're absolutely correct you mentioned a few things but in my research what I found is that the inability or frustration or success around manifestation always boils down to your level of deservingness of the outcome that you're looking for so in terms of the way this works with neuroplasticity is that you have to perform a certain action in the material world to bring what you want into your life to perform that action with confidence you have to have a certain thought process that tells you if I go dating I'm going to meet someone really nice and be able to settle down and have a family versus if I go dating I'm going to meet a series of guys who are going to treat me really badly and it's going to damage my self-esteem even further you can see the path that you know those two people are going to go down and it's the same for asking for a raise asking for promotion setting out to start your own business any sort of health or fitness goals and so behind that thought process will be a set of beliefs that may be conscious but may be subconscious as well so you do not even know that that's what you believe about yourself that is starting off the thought process that is either either preventing you or allowing you with trust and faith you know to take a healthy risk so if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work to affect your manifestation and whatever the particular phrase tends to be it usually does equate to inability to manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing the secrets the boundaries the roles uh that values values so those things that we pick up because children you know they don't often do what their parents say but they become who they are inevitably and so I'm just I'm so fascinated in the Deep ways and I know you've studied Carl's Young's work uh quite extensively in the process of taking our unconscious material to our conscious awareness to be able to work with these things and I just think that's really important to get to the root of it cuz then you're kind of just swimming on the surface of think better thoughts and you know but like the root of it is still a rotten tree and so you're you're going to kind of keep finding yourself coming back to the same experience of Life attracting the same Partners um yeah so anything you want to touch on there before I move on yeah just really to reiterate what you've said but um so in the process of neuroplasticity the Practical process like day-to-day is Raising awareness of the thing that you wish to change or you know awareness around what it is that you want to attract into your life focusing attention on opportunities to bring that into your life deliberate practice is the action part which you know I'm really strong on you can't just sit there and think about what you want and not do anything and then the accountability piece but you're AB absolutely right that raising from non-conscious to conscious is is the absolute key if you can't do that you you you are you're skimming on the surface you might be able to change a few behaviors but you're not changing the underlying belief so I always just say raising awareness is 50% of that battle of change but the process for that is bringing from non-conscious to conscious what it is that's holding you back anything else you want to share on the neuroplasticity of being able to reinvent ourselves so we might have the desire of you know fill in the blank whatever it might be whether it's a partner career more money a general sense of well-being um and yet uh if we really struggle to bring the unconscious to the conscious um what are some of those tools that bring into people's action that uh you found most most transformative um I want to go with a bit of just like the philosophy around it first and then maybe get down to some tools but um so we have we've talked about not being aware of unconscious beliefs and and trying to raise that but the other piece that I think is really important is you know you've talked about something that we desire I actually call it magnetic desire which is a desire that is so strong that you will keep going when it feels like nothing's changing and you know the biggest reason that people don't change is that when it gets tough we think oh well this isn't meant to be so I'll give up and I'll move on to something else magnetic desire is when your head heart and gut so your logic your emotion and your intuition are fully aligned you know if any one of those things is saying I'm not sure if that's what I really want for myself then it's you can't like all three of them have to be aligned and the desire has to be very strong because it's too easy and what I see a lot is people say that they want things like a family or a certain job or a certain amount of money because that's what their peer group are doing and what you have to really work out is what you want for yourself regardless of what everybody else is doing that you really want for personal reasons and not for what I would call the wrong reasons which is that you know materialistic reasons or peer social comparative reasons once you find something that you really want and you've got that strong desire and it's well aligned in your brain and your body your ability to be patient which is part of the process will be much higher and the reason that it's part of the process is even if it's a psychological thing that you're changing physical work is going on in your brain new neurons are growing neurons are connecting up with each other pathways are being melinated which is insulating them for like faster conduction that is hard work you need to eat more you need to rest a lot um it's literally physical work and whilst that's happening you're tired your motivation is being challenged but then it reaches a Tipping Point where you have enough neurons and a strong enough pathway that you can do the new Behavior that's required to get what you want and get out of those old patterns and then suddenly you know you know that feeling it feels that everything's fallen into place but that can be after quite a long period of feeling like nothing's working out everything's falling apart and definitely not in place yeah yeah so that that process of head heart integration Mind Body Spirit unification I think is ultimately the evolution point of where we're headed as a human species but on an individual level is the goal you brought up a really important point of first you have to even know what you want right you have to know what you actually desire and often that's a byproduct of uh releasing all of these old stories and identities that we talked about earlier what do you feel like ultimately people Tru truly want it might manifest in however people look in their life and how they think they're going to get it but what are the core tenants of what humans um truly uh you feel need and want well as you mentioned I am a fan of car yung's work and so I believe that self-actualization and individualization are the ultimate goals in life and and what that means is you Reaching Your Potential you becoming the best version of yourself you you know for want of a better phrase living your best life um and I think it's very easy on with social media to think living your best life is a set of things that are determined externally um there is an idea of what a best life looks like but that may not be your best life or my best life um so you know really understanding your purpose I mean having a purpose that transcends yourself is really important in terms of your own mental health your physical health your longevity but it contributes to those things because it's the healthiest state for you to be in and if you're striving for something that is not authentic for you and is very externally validated that causes disease in the system you know and it can literally make you sick or it can just make you unhappy um and what happens in that scenario is that you may achieve the amount of money that you want to earn or the place that you want to live but deep down you're not actually happy so finding out what it is that will truly make you happy and and I'm not even really saying that you know like being super happy all the time is is the goal it's the thing that means that you are the person that you're meant to be in the place that you're meant to be doing the things that you're meant to be they're not completely selfish things that you are absolutely flourishing in gratitude which means that you know the the bonding hormones and the feelings of trust and Joy are um you know going around your blood and and um impacting your immune system and a positive way and really allowing you to be the best version of yourself that you can be you really just spoken into authenticity bringing ease in your life and I guess the opposite of authenticity whether it's pretense or just not feeling like you're expressing your true nature then would be the opposite which is disease right and so uh yeah and um and so I know we wanted to mention just a few action things as well on the other side of really coming back into that authenticity were there some practices that you did want to mention before we move on yeah so one which we've kind of touched on the theory of but it's important to actually do is to and I do think journaling is a great help for this is to try to be very aware of the repeated thought patterns that you are having and start writing them down start really noticing how often you are thinking this thing um there may be a few so whether there are themes um whether it's a particular recurring thought or themes to then really try to dig underneath that what must I believe about myself to be having that thought on repeated basis and there's a variety of things you can do here one may require some sort of external help like therapy or a coach or you know a really psychologically minded friend that can remain as neutral as possible that you can speak with or it could just be journaling by yourself but doing that work to understand what the underlying belief is and then using that belief to create a mantra or positive affirmation that is the opposite of that that belief so even if it feels like it's not completely true at the moment it does need to be quite bold so that every time you have the negative or the low self-worth thought you can replace it with the the positive affirmation and that actually comes from a Buddhist teaching which is replace every negative thought with a positive thought but it's very much backed up by neuroplasticity because in the brain you can't undo a pathway that's already there you can only overwrite it with a new desired pathway whether that's a thought or an action or a belief so if you immed as soon as you can and then eventually before you even really start fully having the negative thought you think of this positive manttra you say it out loud you write it down you share it with friends what as much as you can you have it you know maybe I have um affirmations written up on my bathroom mirror so that at least every morning and every evening I see them um you can start to overwrite that belief in your brain I really love the understanding of it's simply neural Pathways that we're strengthening right and if we've cultivated and accumulated Impressions to the point where we are very custom to having a pessimistic outlook on life we can eventually get to that point where we can have an abundant look outlook on life as we start to strengthen you know the neurons that wire together fire together so can you speak to mil and sheath and how we can really uh strengthen those so one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would and if not where are the gaps because that can help you start to identify what your purpose or your dreams might be and you know when we were kids before people said oh don't do this don't do that don't say this we actually genuinely had quite a strong idea of what we wanted to be who we wanted to be so maybe going back to some of your childhood dreams as well there are all ways of helping you work out your purpose um and it may be that let's say you want you wanted to paint and draw and you know you loved that maybe for various reasons you can't be an artist full-time as your profession but you could bring back painting and drawing into your life and just see how much joy that brings you and what else it opens up so that's an example um yeah so in terms of how deeply embedded all these impressions are that we pick up in life there's three ways that we embed information in our brain one is called neurogenesis and that is that the fact that we have little embryonic or baby nerve cells floating around in our brains now from 0 to two there's a lot of them in our brains and you know there's a massive amount of growth in the brain from 0 to two from being completely vulnerable and unable to even Survive by yourself to walking talking potentially up to five languages simultaneously in the first two years of your life um having opinions you know being able to control your bladder your bowels make choices Etc it is definitely less so in the adult brain but we know that those embryonic cells exist around the hippocampus part of our brain which is where we lay down memories so obviously for a large part of our lives a majority of Our Lives we are able to lay down new memories um and you asked me before about extrasensory perception so I do believe from what we know at the moment that we will find that there are embryonic cells in other parts of the brains but we we just don't know that yet the second and most common form of neuroplasticity in the adult brain is sinapic connection so neurons are you know they have a a long body and at either end they have what's called a a sinapse and it's kind of like a bud at the end of the neuron between two neurons there's a gap and when an electrical signal passes down a neuron it induces the release of chemicals into that Gap that are taken up by the other sinaps so there's a preoptic um end and a postoptic end and that's how messages pass down long neural pathways through from neuron to neuron and the ability to connect up with other existing neurons is quite strong in our brains and my favorite example is learning a new language so when you learn a new language you're using neurons that are already in your brain because you know how to speak um but you're just coding that for a new language and then the third part is myelination which you're right is a fatty sheath that coats some neural Pathways and it means that that pathway is more insulated so we have faster conduction of electrical and chemical messages along that pathway now there's a reason reason that we have some fast Pathways and some slow Pathways we don't want everything to be a fast pathway so if you put your hand into a fire your reflex to snatch your hand out of the fire is a fast pathway but your pain reflex is a slow pathway because if you felt the pain of your hand burning immediately you'd be incapacitated so what tends to happen is you snatch your hand out of the fire and then after a few seconds you're like wow that really hurts I can feel it now um and again that's an evolutionary mechanism to help us escape from predators yeah I just love the analogy that cultivating an abundant outlook on life is like learning how to play the piano like you're just creating these new Pathways and it's going to be a process and a journey and that's actually uh that's an inviting perspective yeah I actually did that during the pandemic because I don't know if you know but I take on a new neuroplastic plasticity learning every year and so in the summer of the pandemic I I was learning to play tennis again which I had up until the end of high school but then not since then and it was so interesting to see that muscle memory and just the kind of mental memory come back as well so my progress on that was quicker than if I had been trying to learn a completely new sport that I'd never played before and I could see that you know it's obviously very tangible um and then you know there was definitely a period of time during the pandemic where this is extremely privileged but I felt really depressed about the fact that I couldn't travel anywhere and I sort of thought you know I'm alive I'm healthy I'm actually in like nice surroundings you know for being locked up at home this is not okay and can I do here what I've seen myself do with tennis and so I basically did six months of being able to with less effort see all the positives in a day rather than focus on what wasn't happening that I wanted to happen and a little bit like I said with the whole Tipping Point thing I was working on it and it was fine and then there was literally a moment where I kind of stepped outside and I just looked around at the flowers and the sky and the weather and thought this is just so beautiful I'm so happy to be here and and immediately recognized this is quite different to the way I had been thinking for a few months and it it's important to share with um our audience that the strongest gearing of the brain is called loss avoidance or loss aversion and that is a survival mechanism which makes us two to two and a half times more likely to focus on loss or potential loss than the equivalent amount of reward or potential um you know gain and so it is really easy to focus more on the things things aren't going right than the things that are that's natural for us so just flipping ourselves to noticing more the positive things because they are there and even if they're not you know then to take it to the next stage and bring more positivity into our lives is the mechanism of abundance which is one of the six things you know that I mention in terms of um manifestation which is changing that gearing to being more abundant in your thinking rather than scarcity the magnetic desire that mentioned earlier um and the patience cuz sometimes it can take you know longer than you would like and you need to keep your motivation going and there's some other things around it but those three are the main ones to be really aware of so that proclivity to like perceiving what could be lost is that that's just like an evolutionary mechanism again that's kind of deep deeply embedded for you know fear is there a reason for that um I just I try to think of like as newborn babies come into into this world what are we biologically wired for what is nurtured through childhood um and then what we can do about it so yeah it's just uh because obviously having the fundamental Buddhist tenant of clinging in aversion and being uh aware acutely of what we could lose um is deeply within our psychology and biology uh anything else you want to share as to why yeah so when we lived in the cave we had threats from predators from the weather from tribes that weren't you know the same as us or aligned with us and so to survive we had to be at least twice as much on the lookout for things that could you know things that could bring in disease things that could bring in like scarcity of food we had to be mindful of those things in terms of things that we would consider to be rewards today they were complete luxuries you know you in cave times we would only really indulge in those activities if we had a massive store of food if the weather was really good if we fought off all of our enemies you know um so it just wasn't as important to our survival and that's a wiring that you know how I said wiring that's been in your brain from zero to seven is is really deep and affects like everything that you might think about a wiring that's been in you know in the human species for so long also runs deep some of these things do change so like a really sweet one is that in in those times when we lived in the cave and we lived in a nomadic hunter gatherer kind of way we didn't live in unit families the you know men's priority was to impregnate as many women as possible to make sure that their Gene survived and they didn't have to stay and look after them they just had to make sure that if they you know impregnated five women then one would probably surv one baby would survive is that linked to the testost on oxytocin balance to that we were talking about before yeah I guess it it would be but we can come to that later um in in this day and age most societies do ask that we live in a unit family that the father stays with the family like you know after he's impregnated the woman and for a long time men would be going against their you know testosterone profile to want to do that but what we've seen in the last let's say decade is that when a man becomes a father for the first time his testosterone levels drop and the lyic system which is the emotional part of the brain that I said was the size of your clenched fist that becomes rewired by oxytocin the bonding hormone so the father wants to stay around and protect the baby because he feels bonded to the mother and the baby rather than feeling competitive with his testosterone so that means that something that we have changed as a society has actually then created a biological imperative for men and families um but this survival mechanism it hasn't changed that much even though our threats now are primarily psychological for you know for most people in the modern world um and not so much physical we still have that tendency to focus on losses rather than gains but we are able to override it if we're aware of it amazing quick tangent then do you want to that one piece about find it so fascinating yeah yeah it's so it's less related to like families um but it's just to do with sexual interactions between men and women so when um and you know I just want to say that the research isn't clear on other genders and that's why I'm focusing on on the you know the heterosexual interaction is that in a sexual interaction between a man and a woman so the bonding hormone oxytocin that is involved in child birth in breastfeeding in bonding between newborn baby and mom so it's kind of like the love Bubble hormone that is released by women um and during sex during sex and similarly to the fact that women do have testosterone but men have about 17 times as much that they're circulating through their body during the day men also do release oxytocin but the way that The receptors respond to oxytocin is completely blunted by the testosterone so what that means in Practical life is that if a woman sleeps with a man enough times and keeps releasing these bursts of oxytocin she is going to bond to that man AKA falling in love for a man if they are not already in love with the women and they're having casual sex then the amount of testosterone that circulating at the time will minimize the effects of the oxytocin meaning that he will not NE necessarily bond with the woman and you know like I say whether it's reality shows or listening to your single friends we do tend to hear this story quite a lot that you know well you know he said we're keeping it casual but we were having sex and I hoped he changed his mind and he didn't kind of scenario yeah no I just think that it's really interesting to look into the biology of that because that is a common experience I think a lot of people have the male female relationship Dynamics especially with sex that people are having it casually um before we move on are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us because it's like it's so recent to have technology in the internet and what we've all become accustomed to but it's so new to how we've evolved and so is there anything that sticks out as to how that is a recipe for disaster in certain cases I want to slightly push back on the way that you phrased that cuz I am getting that feedback on social media and so what I really want to say is knowledge is power and I'm saying these things so that if people have experienced that in their personal life but they weren't aware of the science behind it that they can use that information to you know make it work for them so for example the scenario about as a woman you may Bond more than you would like to if you repeatedly have casual sex with someone knowing that could change you know what some people do so it's good to know right yeah and similarly we've mentioned a few other things like that like how the stress hormone cortisol leaks out of your body in your sweat and so you can get affected by the stress levels of people around you that could potentially screw with you if you didn't you know if you weren't aware of the fact that um be aware of who's draining your energy or making you feel super stressed and either go and sweat that out through aerobic exercise or get off your mind through journaling or speaking to a friend or therapist um but the main one that I really want to come to because I've been doing some research into neuro Aesthetics recently or neuro arts and I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it for all the reasons that you've just mentioned because we've got devices because we're switched on 24/7 we have artificial light um is the importance of nature to our health and our mental health so you and I might have different taste in music or art although having looked around your house we've got definitely similar taste in art but you know we might not um but nature is the one palette that we all agree on because we've all existed in it since the beginning of time and I'm obviously not going to say exactly where you live but when you invited me you know to come to the studio it's such a beautiful place that I've been to before I wanted to have the drive here and be in that place and see the views because I know that that will be good for me today um so what has tend what well interestingly during the pandemic we all maybe did actually consciously spend a bit more time in nature but I have to admit that since I've been able to move back to the city travel more again I'm not spending as much time in nature as I did during the pandemic and that's at the back of my mind that I regret it but equally you know priorities and just like the rush of life again has definitely had a negative impact on that so when we spend time in nature um we kind of know that it's got you know mental health benefits and health benefits and um there is research that shows that if you spend enough time in nature on a regular basis it actually can increase your lifespan and not just that you live longer but you live healthier for longer but um one of the areas of research that I've come across recently is so I love going on Safari and I learned quite a few years ago that if a tree gets nibbled a lot by by a giraffe and so it's kind of losing its ability to like send the seeds out and grow more of itself it sends chemical messages in the air to other similar trees around who make themselves bitter so the giraffes won't eat them who yeah so cool yeah I thought that was cool but wait till you find out my latest thing which is that trees and plants some more than others release chemicals called phytonides that actually boost our immune system they trigger the release of natural killer cells in our immune system that can fight off more infections and Cancers so we're constantly you know fighting off small infections and Cancers and not even realizing that that's happened obviously when they proliferate massively and the immune system can't keep up with them that's when we become sick but if you ideally you know Forest bathing as where this all came from but if you go out and spend time you know by the ocean or in the mountains or in the forest even if you have more plants in your house and you know if you have a garden rather than just a Terrace or a deck or whatever then you are getting the benefits of um those chemicals from trees and plants isn't that incredible just by being in close proximity to them yeah yeah I've always just felt the the benefit from keeping like life really it's just plants and um and now living where I live now which I moved here about six months ago I totally feel the difference I mean it's something that we all intellectually know when we go on Hikes or go in the water we just feel our nervous system be more regulated and suddenly our problems don't have as much of a grip on us um but that's wild to to see some of the science behind that as well oh I didn't know you'd only moved six months ago so yeah you've really you're in the kind of time period of feeling that difference yeah yeah and I also feel there's something inherently linked to our human creativity with that um I'm curious if there's anything that came up for you there there's so much that I want to dive into you with but I feel like the more that we find ease within oursel with which can come byproduct of being in nature more uh we get more access to just kind of like this effervescent creativity of of wanting to express instead of the alternative yeah so it's really interesting that you've come to that conclusion um intuitively because when we spend time in nature what we're essentially doing is beholding Beauty and there's two forms of creativity beholding and making and they're connected they're both good for you for different reasons but when you are consciously spending more time beholding Beauty which you're doing without even thinking about it by being in nature then it connects up in that pathway in your brain to wanting to make Beauty as well and so whether that's drawing painting singing chanting humming dancing um and again let's relate this back to when we were in the cave you know we were talking about how why we would look out for loss more than reward well even before we could speak we were like beating drums we were dancing we were humming we were doing cave paintings and we used to think that cave paintings were a way of demonstrating the success of a hunt but we understand now that it was much more planning the hunt because we couldn't speak to each other I couldn't say to you let's go and kill a woolly mammoth today because then we'll have loads of you know fur and fat to get through the winter um but if I could draw that with you and help you know get you to understand that's what my plan was but in those days it was literally all about survival we didn't really do things for fun everything had a reason so why were we dancing and humming and beating drums um and you know obviously we were walking barefoot in nature and we were looking at the stars in the sky so all of that mindfulness you know beauty stuff was happening but we had to be creative as well being creative was contributing to our immunity to our health to our longevity to our connections as a tribe in fact the authors of the book your brain on Art Ivy and they actually count being in nature as a creative activity so when they quote their research it's about the benefits of creative activities on your mental health your health and your longevity and being in nature is just another one of those yeah it feels like that switch I just love all that so much it feels like that shift of seeing creativity as a luxury that you know people who have free time can do to actually it's the necessity to having a healthy human psyche yeah beautiful I love that frame of beholding beauty being linked to expressing creating Beauty because I totally feel that intuitively I'm sure so many people do as well Chelsea who's our main girl behind the scenes right now actually goes out and Hikes and paints the mountain ridges that she sees in real time which is so cool like being able to merge those I think is so rad uh that's that's wonderful so I'm glad I asked that because I wasn't planning on it but that's that's good to know and hear um all right I want I do want to touch on the Law of Attraction a little bit more here because it's a big part of your work book and and your in your book The Source you you touch on this and all the podcasts that you go on quite a bit um I think a lot of people got exposed to the film The Secret when they were younger and it was great thing because it put a lot of people on their spiritual path they're like just into a different way of thinking and more open way of perceiving things uh it also served as really not doing a great job of actually explaining how that really works and kind of keeping it on uh uh more of the woooo mystical side of things and so I'm I'm curious just for you to ground in what the Law of Attraction means in your eyes cuz obviously we're constantly manifesting and attracting in our life what is the law side of it yeah so I looked into this before I 100% committed to writing the source and so you know what I want to say about the secret and Ronda is that she brought into massively into common culture the fact that you can do things to bring what you want into your life I think it was left at the level of less Agency for people because it was explained by the power of the universe and like vibrations that were outside of yourself and so I felt it was really important to add to that that cognitive science so that's the power of your mind and your brain and you using that in a directed way underlies your ability to bring into reality in the material world the things that you think about and desire in your mind um and also kind of more in retrospect realize that if it is the power of your mind if it's your mind if it's what you believe if it's what you think if it's what you then go out and do as a result of that then you can feel really empowered by that whereas even if you think it's I sit at home and I think about the house that I want or the job that I want and then you know I notice more things and certain good things happen it still feels very external and you know to me that's not being in the driver seat of your life and it's great if you know Wonderful coincidences and serendipities also happen but you've got to be feeling like there are things that I can do to make this happen and you know that what I'm really passionate about is people understanding how much potential they hold in their brain and so the more that people think I at least I'm part of this if not necessarily absolutely the driver of it yet um that is the start of a journey where you can minimum co-create with whatever might be going on around you but absolutely you know create like I said your best version of yourself and your ideal future so the laws of attraction I mean there's a lot of disagreement about actually what they are and how many there are so I looked as broadly as I could kind of wrote it all down and my mission was can any of these claims be backed up by cognitive science so psychology or neuroscience and literally 80 or 90% there was an immediate connection for me um some took a little bit harder work to prove if you like and then in the end I said look there are some which I can't explain by Neuroscience at the moment but it's not going to harm you so you can either leave it out or you can do it anyway just Bas based on like on faith but we've kind of already talked about it Andre it's literally about being able to notice and grasp opportunities that will take you closer to the things that you know you want in your life and being able to do those things because you have the thoughts that direct your brain to filter out the wrong things but pay attention to the right things and tag the right things in order of importance both emotionally and logically so that you're able to notice those in your daily life and that you have the you know underlying belief like we said that you deserve those things um it really just comes back down to that yeah that switch from lack mindset to an abundant Outlook that we spoke to earlier uh that's that's great now how does how does stress affect our ability to usefully take advantage of creating the life that we want because you know stress makes us stupid so totally I'm so glad you asked that actually um so when we are stressed our adrenal glands which are in our lower back above our kidneys are releasing more of the stress hormone cortisol so stress and cortisol are completely aligned they always go together and there are receptors in your brain that are constantly monitoring the levels of cortisol in your blood and we have an amazing adaptive stress response which means that you know if suddenly there was like thunder and lightning we would like be aware that there's potentially danger to this house and we might you know do some actions based on that and then as soon as we know we've secured the house and maybe the storm has passed we you know our body's reset to a healthy kind of nervous State when we're under chronic stress those levels of cortisol are higher than they should be more of the time as a baseline just constantly there higher so there's a normal range depending on your age and your gender and the time of day and The receptors in your brain and are aware of what that those levels should be when it sees that those levels are higher than that on a sustained basis it perceives an imminent threat to your survival and there's a lot of things that happen in response to that um but in the brain the blood flow will get re re-rooted so to be creative and think flexibly and regulate our emotions and manage any biases that we might have the blood needs to be flowing to all the extremities of the brain but under chronic stress those receptors will push the blood flow down to what I call survival mode which is the parts of your brain that you need to wake up in the morning um provide the basic needs for yourself and your family get yourself to your desk job and sit there and look like you shouldn't get fired but not actually be able to perform at your best be much less able to trust and collaborate so kind of at the time that you need your the highest functions of your brain the most your blood flow is literally working against you and that's why presentism which is when you go to work but you're not really productive costs businesses way more than absenteeism so my advice to people is when you realize that you're really stressed take a day or two off and try to like reset your nervous system because you'll be so much more productive if you're able to like release that blood flow around again um trying to work against your brain you know when your brain isn't working with you is like you know trying to push a heavy weight uphill it's it's it's kind of counterproductive so that's why rest and nature and you know kind of mindfulness and creativity are so important to just manage those stress levels yeah I think it's so important to speak into a little bit about physical and emotional Fitness as well because I could hear some people way in the back saying you know I need to I want to create this life and I have this desire I have a vision board we can talk about your action board and and some tips there in order to effectively manifest that I need to reduce my stress because all my blood is is not going to where it needs to um but on the flip side I gotta I got to feel less stressed to get those things and to get those things I will feel less stressed and it's like a a rat wheel it's kind of confusing U but uh but I would just love for you to speak into resiliency and also being patient along the process there because um often times in this culture especially in modern society Western culture we want things right away we don't like to cultivate and work towards it and uh yeah I think it's important just to remind people to give themselves compassion along the process of attracting what they want because it is a process so let's start by really backing up your question by saying that you know I said other things are going on when we've got high levels of cortisol as well so one of the other ones is that we because we talked about the blood flow in the brain when you've got high levels of cortisol going through the blood in your body it's actually eroding your immunity so in terms of resilience it's lowering your immune response which at the most basic level means you're much more likely to get colds and flu in the winter and that when you do get a cold or flu that it's more likely to last for longer than a few days and sometimes you know what we see now is that these colds and flu are lasting for weeks um at the other end of the spectrum people who are chronically stressed for a long time can end up getting heart attacks like I've personally coached people or had people in my class at MIT that have had stressinduced heart attacks even when you know they're in their 40s they don't have high blood pressure they don't have high cholesterol so really understanding that cortisol is the enemy of your resilience and that so in a way you know one of the things I say is that F you know do all the work that you need to do to manifest be clear on what you want like you know build up your selfworth and you know grasp the opportunities that you can but equally don't get stressed about it and like you said it sometimes does require patience it can become very frustrating I'm stressed and I'm stressed yeah I'm stress and like you know nothing's working out for me and like manifestation doesn't work and you know it's very easy to go down those paths especially if you're compromised physically and mentally so to realize actually that part of manifestation is managing your stress and building up your mental and physical resilience and that comes back to I have to repeat you know the basics as well as we can go into some other things but making sure that you're getting adequate length and quality of sleep and we don't know why exactly but regular sleep and wake times are really boosting the you know beneficial impacts of your sleep so within an hour going to bed and waking up at the same time each day um eating nutrition dense foods and do you remember I mentioned neurogenesis as the kind of most complex and least likely version of neuroplasticity in the adult brain well there are two things that really contribute to that one is aerobic exercise and one is um eating mostly plant-based but particularly dark skinned Foods so eating blueberries instead of strawberries black beans instead of calini beans um purple sprouting broccoli instead of of green broccoli all of those things are good but if you can add in like the darker colors then that um the um anthocyanins in the skin of those foods are super antioxidants that promote neurogenesis even further staying hydrated not being sedentary and then managing your stress and so under that falls things like mindfulness techniques whether that's meditation yoga time in nature um mindful eating um and then I think everything else that we've said like like you said understanding that it is a process that it is hard physical work even though it feels very psychological and intangible um that it does often take longer than you would like I mean and what I find personally is that it happens in sort of like rhythms and Cycles so there are times where I'm kind of feeling like be careful what you wish for because everything's happening at the moment and you know I have learned that when it feels like that that's when I will ask more for the things that I want and that equally there are weeks or months where it feels like nothing's happening and hard as it is I've kind of had to accept that and get used to that too I feel like for the most part I've kind of viewed wealth as just like an overall state of well-being and not just like Financial income which a lot of people attribute to and so yeah I think it's important obviously all those reminders of like taking care of our physical self because if you feel good about life then you're successful like that that that ultimately is what it comes down to so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance between being and becoming you know the the feeling of wanting to expand limitedly and create and and do better financially and expand our career and and express ourselves creatively but then also coming back into feeling completely fulfilled inherently within your presence in this moment you know so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect me to so the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life so if you think about there's two there's two circles there's current self and ideal self or current and ideal life if those two things are overlapping that's like 100% happiness the further apart they are the more unhappy you are so I'm not saying that you shouldn't have goals or want bigger or better things in your life but the way to get there is to be ultimately grateful for everything you have in your life right now and to look at those two circles and think about them in two ways one is that I could strive to change my current life to my ideal life and understand what it is that you have to do to a achieve that and go back to what we said at the start which is that why are you trying to achieve that is it because it's what you really want or is it because it's what everybody else is doing or you could say I'm going to make my current life I'm going to say that's my ideal life I'm I'm just going to be happy with the life that I have now so yeah you know I have an action board and it has things on it that I want and I look at it regularly and we mentioned a book that we both like before so you know it's part of what I learned from that I Master Key System Master Key System yeah which you know you have to go through it and do the exercises but what you understand at the end of that is believe in the truth of what you wish to manifest so part of my practice is looking at the things on my action board and visualize them being true feeling it in my body feeling it in every sense and then giving gratitude for the fact that they're true but and you know of course I work hard but not overly striving to get things in my life that are going to put my nervous system out of sync you know kind of being patient like being on that path but mostly just being very grateful for everything that's happening right now I mean I think you know if you're lucky enough to have come through the pandemic healthy and not having lost a loved one then what it made a lot of us realize that you know you can have a gr gratitude list that's 10 or 100 things long and it can have so many amazing things on it but really if you can wake up every day and say I'm alive and I'm healthy that's actually enough and it's it's a huge privilege cuz lots of people have really like had to sare that in the the face in the last few years not being true yeah it's you know I feel like it's it's important to have goals and like a vision of a future that excites us but if we always feel like we're not where we want to be that sucks yeah yeah yeah so I love how you just brought kind of the importance of the how good we feel about life around us is the unification of both of those to where we are living a life of alignment and who we are being is in the becoming process and we can still aspire to create things in life which is beautiful because we're all inherently creative beings and that's part of our nature but uh yeah always feeling like we're just never fully satisfied or we're not where we want to be that that doesn't feel like a joyful life to be experiencing no that's a really lovely summary of it and I think the reason that it's important is because when we are on this journey of becoming we're achieving things along the way but the natural tendency for a lot of people is to kind of say well I've ticked that one off so now I'll put that behind me and I'll move on to the next thing it's constantly moving on to the next thing and it's hardly ever really celebrating your successes so you know the Gratitude in every day but also celebrating your successes because all that's going to do is tell your brain that you know when I focus on what I want and I work hard around that and I you know live in gratitude and abundance those things happen and so that's going to move you away from the cortisol state of fear towards the oxy oxytocin state of love and trust and you know in which state do you think the Law of Attraction Works more abundantly it's so interesting to feel into that when we attract things or we have a desire to create a successful podcast or release a book that does well or you know whatever our goals are in a in a way for it to even come in we kind of have to expect it and so I feel like we oftentimes don't create the space for reflection to appreciate what has been created which is kind of sad because like you we're under the illusion of thinking that we're going to feel a certain way once we achieve the thing but then we invariably feel achieve the thing and then we think the feeling is in the next thing and it's just like this continual pushing off that feeling of a joyful presence into the someday in the future and so I think that's just such an important reminder to create that space for reflection there's actually another piece of research around that which I've never discussed before but it's called the hedonic treadmill MH yeah and it's the the most famous research around it is from lottery winners who you know let's say it's like a it's multi-millions you know life-changing that obviously you become ecstatic for a short while but it it's shocking how quickly your happiness levels revert to what they were before another more day-to-day example that might be more um what we're all used to is that if you have a really delicious meal when you eat the first bite of that you release like lots of dopamine and other Feelgood endorphin and hormones and you know you feel very joyful but each successive bite has less impact and it returns to to neutral very quickly so you know that's what we're doing that like like you said we're achieving things feeling happy for a short burst and then returning to normal so it's like we're constantly seeking that reward and so I'll just Loop that back to how I answered the question in the first place you can't be happy if you're constantly looking for something better and gratitud list many things that you speak to can allow you to just uh reflect on how probably for most people that are listening to this there are billions of people on the planet that would kill to switch positions in life with you right now you know like how grateful we are to have the basic luxuries that we have is uh we so easy to forget yeah I think going to experience in a third world country or like when I went to Nigeria I really got to see you know that one happiness is definitely not tied to material wealth often case there's an inverse effect that we see uh but uh but then also if somebody can be so grateful for so little um and of course they have their own various challenges but uh what does that say about what we can feel for the level of abundance that we're you know lucky to have yeah amazing that was really great uh is there any truth to like the the the thought of we only use 1% 5 5 10% of our brain I'm sure you've heard it a lot but we like I think we're always told that and what do people mean when they is there any truth to that yeah so funnny enough I was actually having this conversation with someone recently because they asked me about neurom myths that bug me yeah so I think the thing to say is that what exists as exist as neurom myths now are things that we used to think were true but we now know that they're not as scientists but sometimes those phrases they stay in popular culture for a lot longer um so since we been able to access sophisticated scanning Technologies to to look at the brain and the body we've understood some things differently to how we understood them before because prior to that the only way we really understood how the brain worked was if we looked at brains where something had gone wrong so if someone had a stroke or like a neurosurgery if someone had like a brain abscess or a brain tumor then as we felt around you know that area of pathology we might notice oh you know this is when we touch this part of the brain affects the way the person can speak or you even things about how we understand that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa so for that reason things like left brain and right brain became very overstated and once we understood that it doesn't work in the very you know hemispherical way that we had understood it before and that is probably the biggest one that stay you know the left brain right brain thing I remember when I was writing the source which came out in 2019 I said oh I'd love to do a a special box on the fact that you know left brain right brain is not how you know we understand that things work anymore and the editors said what do you mean and they said well no no readers are not going to agree with that and I said it's not for them to agree like I've got the research here and if you think that it's even more important to tell people that that's you know that's not how the thought that our logical and emotional sides are split between left and right yeah and that either you're right brained or left brained you know and I'm something else and so you know what we understand now is that there's a bridge that connects the two there are two hemispheres but they're much more connected than we thought before and if you think about two hemispheres like this we thought there was a bridge that just kind of went from the end of this one to the end of that one but actually it fans massively into both sides the Corpus colome yeah and so it's just much more complex than that and also it's it's not about the two sides it's about the lyic system with you know more emotional stuff and then the the cortex around it and how they interact with each other and that's different when we're stressed to when we're in a you know good State as well but the um I think I believe the neurom myth is that we only use 10% of our brains and that was the basis of a movie called Lucy with Scarlet H which is a great movie Morgan Freeman starts off incredible voice it would have been a good movie you hate it because of the but I liked the H there's just so many good parts of it but I hear you on the on the sprad I love the idea that we can access more potential in our brains um but it's just not true that we only use 10% of our brain we use all of our brain we use different parts of it at different times for different things sometimes it's much more interconnected than others um interestingly when we're um indulging in Creative activity it's the most connected music is like massively connecting different parts of the brain brain um you know when we're doing creative things we we're using the visual parts of the brain the auditory Parts the imagination centers the association Center which connects all of that up and you know we're probably moving as well so yeah I think rather than think about it like that to think that you know are there ways of thinking that I'm not accessing as much as I could we tend to focus on reusing our strongest pathway so you know for me that's definitely intuition and probably logic but like I said with my yoga practice I've definitely built up my physicality aspect much more um with age and wisdom I've regulated my emotions much more um always been pretty motivated and you know i' I've shared very widely now that building up the creative pathway in my brain is like the area that I'm really focusing on at the moment so everyone can do that exercise on themselves they can either put those six ways of thinking in order of preference or they can understand that there's like one or two or three that you use like most of the time because you're comfortable with that um one or two that you could use if you know had to in a different kind of scenario and then maybe one or two that you underuse that you could kind of try practicing more interesting very fascinating all right I want to try to take you into some Uncharted Territory I thought you've been doing that um so first off I do find it very interesting that you've been studying various different indigenous wisdom and so I would love for you to bring up what have been some of the most eye-opening uh pieces from indigenous wisdom and ancient wisdom Traditions that you found that are really applicable to modern times that would be most beneficial for people thank you so much for asking about that I've really enjoyed um digging into that and it's it's like literally in the moment changed my life each time I've you know sort of learned a thing a thing like that so are you're learning about conversations with indigenous individuals basically yeah and experts as well so um a bit of both um we've actually mentioned some of the things already because I have integrated them into my life so much already so you know time in nature making and beholding you know creative things and if we want to connect that to what I've learned from the um indigenous groups of people that I've spoken with things like adorning yourself so interestingly as we were setting up I asked you about your jewelry and you know a lot of men don't wear as much jewelry as you are wearing um but when we consider ourselves as Divine beings of course we're more likely to Adorn ourselves because it's that's what you would you know if you have a child or a pet that you love or you you know worship a deity then it is about having um flowers around the deity or putting jewelry on the child or you know a beautiful collar on the pet um so that is thanks for thanks for acknowledging I'm a deity that's clearly why I'm wearing my jewelry to be good with that's obvious obviously why you invited me podast um and you know all the things I mentioned already like humming chanting mantras singing dancing um and this episode hasn't come out yet but I I spoke to someone who's studying Sufi mysticism and so you know she very specifically talked about love and an exercise to like um kind of hum or chant the vibration that induces love which I would call oxytocin around your body and has an impact on the people around you as well so there might be certain words or sounds that people can use to do that um and another area that I've explored with which is more ancient cultures are more comfortable with than us are things like reincarnation near-death experiences past life memories terminal Lucidity and mindsight so terminal Lucidity is where people who have Dementia or they've had some kind of brain injury like a stroke and lost their levels of consciousness so you know either their memory or their ability to recognize people or understand the passage of time suddenly become completely Lucid towards the end of their life so this tends to happen in the last hour or day before death and when you say completely Lucid they remember everything so they go from having forgotten that they even have children to recognizing their children knowing their names speaking to them in the usual parental fashion that they used to and really getting to say goodbye and being very loving um I wish that for everybody I know I know so you know everybody who's lost somebody who whose Consciousness was altered that can happen and it can be like an amazing experience but unfortunately it usually also means that the person is very close to death um but still maybe not well everybody would rather have that period of Lucidity than not have it for but you know I mean we're not very good at death and loss so it's p it's painful um what the professor that I spoke to about that made me understand is that you have to prepare yourself for death throughout your whole life and it just comes back to the same things Andre that we spoke about being grateful being being kind being compassionate if you do that as much as you can throughout your life you're going to have less regrets on your deathbed you're you know I'm not the first person that's saying this but you're not going to be lying on your deathbed saying I wish I earned more money or I wish I gained higher status in life you know so that's one way of looking at it um mindsight is something really incredible which is a near-death experience erience but in a very smaller cohort of people who have been blind their whole life so they've never actually seen maybe the most that they've seen is they can distinguish light and dark but they haven't had Vision um and then where they have a near-death experience they can see so if you put all of these things together the fact that some children have seem to have memories of a different life that you can become very lucid even though you've got um you know a generative process in your brain or an injury to your brain that you can see if you've been blind um it does make you wonder about how connected Consciousness has to be to the physical form and the fact that they can maybe move apart and come back together again and of course it poses the question about what happens after physical death so in an you know different ancient cultures there could be a belief in reincarnation there can be a belief in the spirit world um there can be a belief in Reading signs um and so all of those things can help us to become more comfortable with death and therefore allow us to live our life in a better or you know slightly different way um and and just you know in summary because I do actually think we've covered most of the things it really does come back to a connection with with nature and the land and the cycle of nature the seasons um the you know eating seasonally and eating plant-based respect for Animals respect for you know vulnerable groups or marginalized groups um you know I guess all the things that actually make you happy in life rather than the things that we tend to think of when we talk about manifestation yeah incredible yeah I see you as somebody who's very much so like a doctor of the future I feel like in the direction we're moving it's really important to have the language of modern science but then also not neglecting the incredible intelligence that's been cultivated through these wisdom Traditions that have preceded modern society and have so much to share um and so when you're speaking to whether it's terminal Lucidity uh or mindsight you or ndes or uh and the upper I'm just so curious at the upper limits if there is one but the upper potential of of human um ious and what we can do for example in like Maha samadi where people can cultivate the ability to at will leave their own body whether or not people believe that there's these yogic claims of what becomes possible as you go on that path of the science of yoga being one of Union and so I'm curious what you make of the realm outside of what science is currently able to understand and dictate but nonetheless people have very real experiences and often don't feel the need to try to explain explain it logically yeah I would say that you you know you're absolutely right yoga the meaning of yoga is Union the meaning of ir Vader is the science of life and so and the Vaders are as far as we know the most ancient scriptures um that exist in the world and the the yogis the people who practiced um ayurveda and yoga and yoga is not just doing poses it's something like much bigger than that yeah um just one limb of what that's just one of eight limb of yoga um so there are reports of of people from those ancient times who you know meditated for hours and days and weeks in grottos and the Himalayas um being able well you know there are things we actually know about like being able to walk on hot coals being able to like not feel pain and then the other cities as well right which are like these spiritual superpowers yeah what we would call spiritual superpowers that are less explained but include things like like what you said of um your Consciousness or your spirit being able to leave your physical body um and understanding and potentially communication with people on a different plane so you know depending on what your beliefs are about what happens to someone when they die whether it's reincarnation or that their Consciousness from this life exists in a different astral plane and you know whether or not you can communicate with that there are so many things like that that haven't been proven by science but what I want to say is they keep coming up in Cycles I'm extremely flattered and you know grateful for you saying that I'm a doctor of the future but I already have icons in my life who are people who are doctors who are let's say 20 30 years older than me that I know they've gone there because they they talk about it maybe as much as I'm willing to at the moment but I think there are things that you know that they're not talking about so and they're well-known people Dr Bruce lip deac Chopra Daniel seagull these are people who before I was really on that path of of let alone being a you know being able to speak about this publicly but even exploring it for myself were you know MDS or scientists or both who were talking about really spiritual things and I was kind of like is that allowed can can you know can you do both are we supposed to be talking about this stuff um what bumps me out is not being open I know and that's why I am trying to be more open than definitely I was comfortable with a few years ago because what I have appreciated is that because I've got a PhD in neuroscience and a medical degree and a teach at MIT if I can't have the courage to talk about these things then you know how easy is it to just ridicule other people that do and what I have found is that when I have talked about things like life after death with people I so many people have opened up with stories about it and when I've said why have you never talked about this before they've said because people will think I'm crazy um but by giving people permission especially if you come from a background where people don't expect you to talk about that because they think that you wouldn't think it's true um by being more open about that I think you know we are hopefully as a society and a culture opening up those conversations which at minimum can be of so much comfort to people who've experienced loss and disconnection and that you know to me where we talk about self-actualization and reaching your Highest Potential if I can make any contribution to people feeling less lost and lonely and disconnected that would be me achieving you know that would be me self-actualizing so so if that means that I'm brave enough to talk about things that wouldn't be normal in my profession then I'm willing to try and I'm willing to see what the feedback is and if it's wrong then maybe I'll course correct but at the moment I'm just you know getting such gratitude and lovely feedback about it I'm just really excited and curious to see where this can go and and that's why you know when you invited me onto a podcast and I kind of checked you out um I you know I could just see that you were all about love and you're a lovely person and you're like open and spiritual and I wanted to speak with you yeah I feel like it's it would be ideal to have thought leaders who have a lot of credibility whether it's in modern science or our authority figures to be completely unex pregated and sharing their whole truth and right now we do live in a society that would often shame and try to cancel people that are sharing something that isn't scientifically valid and it's kind of a bummer that we have this materialist reductionistic view of just like just even being able to have the conversations and explore and talk about these things because some people seem to have very clear experiences and there's repeated studies you know especially with like ndes where people have these experiences and uh just to be open in the exploration of seeing what might be there and there's just the the the pursuit of science can be applied to spirituality because it's really just trying to truthfully understand how things work I'd love to mention two people in case you haven't um heard of them so Dr Bruce Grayson who's written a book called after and Dr Jim Tucker who's written a book called before they are brother they're not Brothers their colleagues at the University of Virginia they're both psychiatrists they were both absolutely not into spirituality um but as they were having their you know younger careers of Psych iatrist kept coming across so for Bruce he kept coming across examples of near-death experiences and for Jim he kept coming across examples of past life memories and children and at the start of their careers because they've been in their careers for like 50 plus years now there were very few documented cases of either of these things but now there are so many and it is absolutely true that there are more of them in the sort of Eastern cultures where people believe in reincarnation but there are enough now in the United States of America including in very Christian um families who that's not in keeping with their beliefs that um yeah it's now it's now an area of scientific research it's not an area of spiritual research um yeah there's a fascinating documentary on Netflix called surviving death that has episodes on um near-death experiences re Incarnation mediums signs all you know it's just I find it fascinating um and there is more and more science you know starting to be able to explain some of these things yeah it's so so interesting n Nicola Tesla has that quote I'm paraphrasing of when whenever we put the human Intelligence on uh discovering more about spirituality and that's where our energy and focus goes to then we'll make more discoveries in 10 years than we have in a thousand you know which is oh I love that yeah it's it's important you know we've had Dan seagull on the show as well yeah we talked about his he had like a trauma that affected his default mode Network and his perception of identity and self which gave him a more you know like a joyful experience of life and it's just you know I think it's important to keep that Fascination open I'm definitely going to listen to that because I interviewed Dan for my online program at MIT Sloan and I had the opportunity to say him that when I changed career so I'd been a doctor in the NHS and then um I did an Executive coaching course and I tried to start up a freelance practice as a coach and what I realized was that most coaches in the UK anyway fell into either the category of like a retired business person or um a former psychologist and because I was an MD psychiatrist I didn't fall into either of those categories I was actually rejected from um a group that was like the society for psychologists and Executive coaching they wouldn't let me join look at you now um they did later ask me to do a keynote that's funny that works I know um so I felt very alone at that time you know I'd left my former career all the stability and certainty of that I was starting out something new I didn't feel like I was accepted by any group and I read mindsight by Daniel seagull and I saw that he was an MD psychiatrist he' created this amazing model and that literally made me felt like there was somewhere that I belonged and I got to say that to him when I interviewed him years you know I was a professor at MIT by then um with a very successful coaching business so yeah I got to say that I mean he'd already agreed to be interviewed but when I said that to him it was a real little Bond it was really nice yeah yeah that's that's beautiful I'm curious what you know and I'm perhaps bringing you to the edge of what you might want to even Explore or share but when you relate to think about Consciousness what what are the possibilities of you thinking it being fundamental and existing outside of our own neurology is that something you're even willing to entertain like is a possibility do this feel weird to bring up as a as a neuroscientist I'm sure especially with your colleagues who often case think you know no brain no consciousness right um Eastern indigenous wisdom Traditions would say otherwise yeah where what say you um until very recently I would have said I'd be willing to like have that conversation but I probably yeah well I would definitely say that you know there was no evidence for it to be true until a little bit less recently than that I would have said absolutely not about 15 years ago when I changed career I had a conversation with a psychologist friend and this is actually known as the hard problem of Neuroscience you know this what does can you know Consciousness exist without physicality um and I said to him obviously all thoughts and emotions and everything that makes us human emerges from neurons and chemicals and he said Tara how could you say that he's a lot older than me he's a mentor of mine and I said how could you not and I completely believed that as a neuroscientist that the only way that anything to do with Consciousness can occur is that it emerges from these neurons and chemicals and electrical signals I have to say I have definitely moved you know way along from that so like I said probably like during the pandemic where I actually said that you know we're heading for a mental health crisis the only thing that can avoid that is some kind of spiritual Revolution and then since then because you know a lot of people that I know and myself personally experienced a lot of loss during that time I would I well I'll tell you I I have experienced it myself so I have experienced um evidence of Consciousness existing outside physical body it's like a neuroscientist AA meeting I have I'm coming out the closet and um but no that's beautiful because I know so many incredible AC people in Academia that have had experiences that like I'm sure you just are are so like tightly held of like even mentioning that which I think is is wild but I understand when your identity and career are wrapped up in it um but you're also speaking speculatively and saying this is just my experience and not like we can prove this and this is the absolute truth well it's it's my experience and like I've said once I've started sharing that with people I've heard so many stories like it and I've you know I've delved into like you know interviewing the the director of the Victor Frankle Institute whose research is on Terminal idity and um looked into the research from University of Virginia and stuff so it's very exciting you know and I think having said this on your podcast I would love it if your listeners would share any experiences that they've had like that because I think this is the only way that we can help each other um and let's not be another generation of people that nearly get there and then don't make it you know and everybody else has to start again from scratch so that experience that you had was it uh was it amidst like in a yoga practice was it do you want to share anything did it have Have you shared anything about that I mean so for me it was never during yoga or meditation it's experiences that I've had either like like sleep is obviously a bit of a transcendental State um yeah no I've I've I've had so many now it's like once you it's a bit like manifestation once you believe in manifestation you fit like I said you're like be careful what you wish for and it's the same with um you know whe whether you want to call it extra sensory perception or signs or communication across Plains it's the same once you understand it and recognize it it's it's happening all the time yeah I'm very fascinated obviously I have conversations like this on my show because I've had plenty of experiences where I have experienced myself like outside of my body I've experienced creating distance from my own thought and emotion and for individuals that are so closely identified with the body as themselves I could understand how that would be triggering but nonetheless it's it is what it is people take it take the experience for what it is but um I'm curious also what you think about the pineal gland because in eastern Traditions you know it's thought of the seed of the Soul potentially an antenna that connects you know through higher consciousnesses anything that you want to share on what the pineal gland is does yeah so just like as a segue into that it's probably worth mentioning although it's obvious that you know I come from an Indian culture from a Hindu culture so I was brought up absolutely being told that reincarnation was a fact so you know when you say you mentioned two things specifically being able to create a distance between your yourself and your thoughts and your feelings this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life you know it can affect your relationships it can affect your health so you know just to make it like really accessible all you have to do is look at the videos on the headspace app that that teach you that you know you you must not identify with your emotions you don't have to identify with your emotions you can have an emotion it doesn't mean you know if you feel anger it doesn't mean that you're an angry person it means that you can experience anger temporarily um and equally you know if you have a moment of gratitude it doesn't mean you're a grateful person it's something you have to cultivate all the time so that one is I wouldn't even consider that as an alternative thought the being able to you know the experience of of being outside your body probably because you know my parents were first generation immigrants from India to the UK I was you know brought up with yoga and ayurveda and reincarnation I was experiencing that as a child and then I think I lost that ability or because I probably lost the belief in it because I started you know questioning things like that um there are plenty of people that say they do that that one is a bit more spiritual but sure a lot of materialists would say well you're having the experience of being outside of yourself within yourself but how do you prove that so it's like yeah yeah exactly um and then there are things that are like you know way more difficult to explain than than those things and I have completely forgotten the question the P or gland okay the P so um like when I looked at the laws of attraction I've looked at the chakras of the body and been able to align them with like various glands throughout the body like kind of in similar places and um so the pineal gland is often calcified so it can um take on calcium from the body and just that kind of gets embedded around it so when we look at brain scans it actually appears as white in the area of your third eye and so that for a long time has led to people saying that it is your third eye um which is like the seat of your soul um and so again you know we don't know it's not proven but it does appear on brain scans in that sort of you know area and whether or not it is the and tenor or you know doesn't really matter I think you know what matters is that we perceive it potentially as a physical representation of the third eye it's more important to understand potentially what the third eye is and why it might be important in your meditation practice or you know in the way that you consider your spiritual health um yeah I can probably only go that far with that one right now yeah well there's also I mean it makes sense and we're again touching in areas here where we don't know but we're just exploring the potential um and also understanding that a lot of people have very interesting experiences with that in conjunction to a spontaneous remission or healing that that occurs also yeah I mean you know I'm just going to be really honest and not say something about an area that I don't know enough about and that's an area I don't know enough about and I think I think I've said more than I've ever said before because of you um yeah I just don't know enough about that but you you know I'm going to go down a rabbit hole with that now yeah it's great maybe I've been using all your cues with the you know we were talking about how warm tea can create bonding and make you feel more comfortable and then I heard you talk down the Diary of CEO looking into the left eye not that I've been intentionally doing that but I could see all these like spiritually Mak valan kind of you know techniques to to be able to connect with people um that's interesting uh well this whole conversation's been so fascinating for me and gave me a lot to think on with just our connection to Nature the reality of how attraction works and just a lot of grounded you know applicable things things I think for our audience to take home is there anything that you feel is like on your heart or mind that you want to share before we start to wrap up I think you know it always comes down to me to I I just really hope that people something resonates from this conversation that makes people realize how much potential they've got in their brain and that maybe there was something they always wanted to do or talk about or think about that this conversation would have given them the courage to do and that you know yes I'm a scientist and I very much believe in science and I love Neuroscience but at the end of the day I think the most important things in life are love and gratitude and and that actually I shouldn't have said but I should have said and because the science completely backs that up incredible thank you so much for sharing yourself you have a second season of a podcast book anything else you want to share promote we'll of course provide links for thank yeah I mean I'm very much focused on season two of my podcast at the moment but you're diving deeper into the indigenous wisdom side of things right yeah so cool thanks that's rad well I'm excited I feel like we'll run it back in the future and I'm excited to just connect with you more and thank you so much for sharing yourself definitely thank you yeah of course so everybody that's been tuning in to this episode of the know self podcast thanks and uh I would love for you guys to listen to Dr tera's advice and write in the comments below some experiences that you've had share and like you know activate this community and and let us know what particularly resonated with you and then also would love to hear more of your own personal experiences and uh until next time okay well thank [Music] you

I've always said that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet every experience that your brain has literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain in my research what I found is that inability or frustration around manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life when you relate to Consciousness what are the possibilities of you thinking it existing outside of our own neurology I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect hello beautiful beings welcome back to the know thyself podcast where every single week we get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind to learn more about the true nature of self and the world around us at deeper levels every single week Our Guest today is a leading neuroscientist a best-selling author a podcast host a medical doctor and in my eyes she's really bridging science and spirituality and the understanding of both in such a beautiful way when we use the words Law of Attraction intuition manifestation what do we literally mean and so we're going to be diving into that and the science that grounds it to Earth and how we can really choose the direction we want to go in life and be effective stewards in what we're creating in life so Dr tart thanks for being here thank you so much much for having me yeah my honor where I want to start today because this is the no they self podcast and it's very fitting is uh is actually about interoception uh and so I've always loved finding ways in which I can grow my own self-awareness so what is interoception and what have you found are the most effective modalities to really raise that self-awareness that is such a great one to pick for know thyself absolutely um so most of us know about the five senses that we have have um but less people know that we have a lot of other senses like thermoception for temperature proception is understanding where your joints are in space um notion is for pain and Inception is an understanding of the state of the physiology of the inside of your body so it's things like how do you know when you're hungry how do you know when you need to use the bathroom um and if you've got young children then you see that from zero to two they go from not being able to recognize those signals at all to being able to control their bowels and their bladder um and you can really take it further than that I think you're probably picking up on the piece where I said that I can tell about two days before I'm starting to get sick like a cold or flu um and I think the reason that I think there's two reasons that I have honed that skill one is obviously I went to medical school so I understand the body inside out but the other one is that I've had over 20 years of yoga practice now and in yoga you connect your mind and your body very much so you just become very aware of biof feedback from your body people who do a lot of sport I think would say the same thing and then there are just some people who are really good at reading body language and listening to their own body you know this may have been a thing since childhood and then of course there's all the people who have the potential to to grow that skill I'm so curious about all the different ways that we can grow awareness like you spoke to the many different facets in which we can um in arenas of our own physiology and mindset and uh I'm curious what you think about extra sensory perception like outside of just our five senses what people call the six sense what uh yeah what's the reality of that do you feel so I actually call inter reception the six sense um but yeah there is that phrase in like common you know pop language or whatever um so I've become much more interested in this recently for a variety of reasons and if we have a spectrum from science to spirituality I would say the reasons go along that Spectrum so much more on the science side of things we do know that some of our hormones are released into the atmosphere through our sweat so um the steroid hormones like cortisol estrogen and progesterone particularly so this is the reason that women who live together or work closely together synchronize their um menstrual cycles within two months it's because particles of those hormones are in our sweat and they're released around us and if we're interacting with each other closely then they will go into our skin and you know Al to the levels of hormones in other people and regardless of your gender this happens with cortisol the stress hormone so there's an evolutionary explanation to this which is that we needed to respond to the stress levels of the leader of the tribe and so in this day and age regardless of gender like I said depending on where you are in the hierarchy of an organization or a family or a group you know social group we do feel the stress levels of the um most senior person so it's like in a troop of gorillas the stress level of the silver back gorilla affects the other gorillas more than ones who are equal to each other and so if you think that we are communicating let's say non-consciously through the effect of hormones that may be in the atmosphere around us and that's already the physiology of communicating outside of our bodies right um and then I've always said I grew up in the 70s that science fiction is just science that hasn't been proven yet so a lot of things that I watched on Star Trek and Star Wars when I was a kid are you know I mean the other day because we were in La I was walking down the road and this thing that looks like a shopping cart but it's a robot was walking towards me saying I am on delivery and it was just on its own and you know in London we didn't have those yet so I was a bit like wow that's very science fiction so you know if you've honed your interception if you've honed your intuition and let's add in if you're very close to someone so you know them really well I do believe it's possible to you know think of someone and then they message you or to like just have a sense someone's going through something and you should call them is that what you meant when you were asking sure yeah I just picking up on and we can dive deeper into intuition here and what that means in your eyes but having those gut feelings having those uh senses of a direction that you might move in you might sense danger you might sense opportunity and it's really your ability to pay attention to more subtle frequencies and energies that are happening all around us that are invisible to the naked eye and so uh yeah when people refer to gut feelings and intuition I'm just curious for you to break that down a little bit more what that really means so I actually want to pick up on something that you've just said which I think is really important which is noticing things that you may not have been conscious of or you may not have noticed you know if you're in a rush or you're distracted mentally the reason so basically there are a lot of things going on around us that we filter out and that's because we're bombarded with so much information continually that it's actually an advantage to us to filter out some of that information so the best example ex is that you're not aware of your clothing on your body all day cuz once you put it on and you felt that you don't really need to be reminded of that every minute of the day you're kind of overwhelming in a burden to exactly so that applies to other things and that's naturally filtered by the brain not necessarily with us directing it we can direct it but if we don't then the brain will filter out things that it doesn't think are important to us surviving that day and so you can imagine in the modern world where there's you know even more information now than there was let's say 100 years ago that the brain is filtering out those things but if you want to be really in tune with the people that you love or just your environment you want to be really present and mindful then you can certainly direct what gets filtered out and what doesn't so you can pay attention more um than your brain might naturally ask you to or let you because it's focused on your survival then I think it's a connected but slightly separate thing which is how much you listen to or tap into your intuition um so I do speak about six different ways of thinking obviously there are many more and we do them all and they combine but it's just a a very simple framework to break down the way that we we think which is mainly through logic which is you know data and things that we know then through emotions which are things that we feel um motivation is why we do the things that we do why we get drained by certain things and don't want to do them so just understanding what makes you really like keep going when things are tough and what kind of makes you give up physicality which is that brain Body Connection we've already mentioned due to interception um creativity which is thinking outside the box thinking of a you know a potentially different future different reality and then intuition and intuition Falls a lot between physical and emotional so the emotional centers of the brain are deep inside the brain and they're the size of your clenched fist so you know yours is slightly bigger than mine but it's proportional for your body and then around that about the same thickness we have the cortex which has more of the logical Pathways of the brain and because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in your whole life but everything that you've experienced has had an impression on your brain body system we believe that we keep our working memory up here these are the things we need to remember every day to do our job and live our life and then through a process called hean learning which is named after the neuroscientist Donald Hebb and is really simply explained by neurons that fire together wire together we believe that our wisdom and our pattern recognition get pushed deeper and deeper into the brain into the spinal cord and even into our gut gut neurons and that's why intuition is sometimes called gut instinct so basically the lessons that you've picked up in life the wisdom that you've learned through repeated patterns that could be as deeply held in your neurons as like deep down in your G so you're not conscious of it but it still guides the the decisions that you make now what I found over the last 10 years or so particularly the 10 years I've been teaching at MIT Sloan which is Business Leaders is that people would really rely on their logic and say things like well you know I'm not going to make a really important decision like hire or fire on intuition because you know that's not is it even a thing as we've been able to scan brains and learn more about how these neurons connect up and store information I really see particularly the older generation of leaders saying that is absolutely the main way that I will make my most important decisions and I'm I'm like that you know I will make my most important important life decisions based on intuition and the way that I have helped myself to understand how much that is the right thing for me is through journaling so if I journal and I'm I'm writing like you know what should I do in this situation my gut's telling me this but logic tells me that or my emotions tell me something else I basically plot out how things pan out depending on which modality I use to make my decision yeah it feels like the conscious thoughts that we have are just the tip of the iberg of our deeper intelligence and you spoke to something really important there which is the intelligence that gets stored in our spinal cord in our gut and that we can pay attention and start to listen to that deeper and deeper and that it's really important as we have tens of thousands of thoughts that are happening every single day in our brain that are for the most part kind of the same as we've been accustomed to and familiar with I'd love for you to speak into how it's really important to be mindful of The Impressions that we accumulate because then that does become stored becomes who we are and how we perceive reality which is then going to be a direct correlation to what we continually attract in our life yeah absolutely so every experience that your brain has which me you have so like literally every memory that you recall every emotion that you experience every person that you meet every scenario that you're in is constantly molding and shaping your brain so um because of a field of research about neuroplasticity we understand how much more flexible and impressionable the brain is throughout our lives this may start to change I don't even want to use the word decline you know around the age of 70 where sometimes things like sequential memories can become a bit disordered but our wisdom and judgment becomes like a superpower so it it can change towards the end of life but really throughout most of our working life let's say um the brain is very open to being changed by everything that it experiences and the longer that an impression has been held in the brain the more deeply embedded it is into our neural architecture so particularly things that we experienced from the age of n to 7 but also 7 to 14 and then onwards but you know those periods really because they're the longest ago and if you had a repeated experience or a highly emotional experience then those are the two main reason that things get imprinted into your brain repetition and strong emotion and so it's funny I I am five and a half years older than my brother and I was telling my psychologist friend that I had a very strong memory of um speaking into my mother's belly button and then listening to see if my brother would answer me and in my memory that happened once and I just remember it really strongly but he said to me you must have done that many times for it you know for a 5-year-old to have to still have hold that memory so other things like that like the parental expectation societal expectation how competitive your school was the kind of people that you hung around with words that were used about you when you were a kid those things they run deep in your brain and they like you said they do affect your perception of everything else that happens in your adult life and you know one of the main areas of work around that is what's called Shadow work and psychology which is the things that you perceived as a child would mean that you wouldn't be loved and looked after by your main caregivers so those sorts of things whether it's like oh you know stop showing off or stop running around like that those things get put into your Shadow like you know I mustn't talk highly of myself I mustn't you know sort of like do things at speed if other people can't keep up those are the things we try to hide about ourselves and usually around the age of midlife crisis or whatever you want to call it you know those things can really like come up and have to be dealt with and integrated like a lot of those oppressions that we accumulated often in an unconscious state from like 0 to 7 7 to 14 uh they happen in a manner where we would where we don't fully have the memory of how how they happened and that then builds and accumulates into a stack of Impressions that are subconscious holds and becomes the Persona in which we look through the world and so I'd love to talk a little bit about identity because fundamentally we're going to continually attract what we believe we're worthy of what we believe we deserve which is kind of all on the Bedrock of who we think we are and so I'd love for you to share a little bit about uh identity the science of it and how that's uh really the the foundational pillar in which how we experience everything but then you know in particular um how we manifest in life so then there's an area of research called ghosts um the original research was ghosts in the Executive Suite because it was explaining how the leaders of today are affected by those childhood Impressions but my colleague at MIT um Professor Deborah anona wrote a really amazing article in Harvard Business review about ghosts in your neural architecture from your childhood and how they affect you you know whatever you're doing whoever you are um and identity is one of them so actually there are the other thing are the values that your family held or your social structure you know when you were growing up held boundaries that were held in in your family in your social structure secrets that were kept roles in the family and identification which in childhood tends to be comments like oh you're just like your father um and so those things are quite intertwined so for example if you have a secret in your family and the common example are you know someone that was an alcoholic or someone that was gay that wasn't talked about then you start to program shame around those things and so that affects your identity so the secrets that are kept in your family affect your identity the boundaries that were kept in your family so some families have a really open house and people can just drop in and they can stay over um they can just join a meal unplanned and some families everything's very planned and you know has to be like invited in advance and kind of um you know not spontaneous again those things also affect your identity because it's your ability to be flexible and spontaneous versus your you know inability to function in a world where that may be happening um and roles obviously also affect your identity so let's say now you're in the workplace and your role as a child was to be the messenger so let's say your parents had a lot of arguments and didn't speak to each other and said things like Andre go and tell your mother you know whatever um that's also going to play out in your adult identity um and you're absolutely correct you mentioned a few things but in my research what I found is that the inability or frustration or success around manifestation always boils down to your level of deservingness of the outcome that you're looking for so in terms of the way this works with neuroplasticity is that you have to perform a certain action in the material world to bring what you want into your life to perform that action with confidence you have to have a certain thought process that tells you if I go dating I'm going to meet someone really nice and be able to settle down and have a family versus if I go dating I'm going to meet a series of guys who are going to treat me really badly and it's going to damage my self-esteem even further you can see the path that you know those two people are going to go down and it's the same for asking for a raise asking for promotion setting out to start your own business any sort of health or fitness goals and so behind that thought process will be a set of beliefs that may be conscious but may be subconscious as well so you do not even know that that's what you believe about yourself that is starting off the thought process that is either either preventing you or allowing you with trust and faith you know to take a healthy risk so if you're able to dig down to that underlying belief that's when you can do really powerful work to affect your manifestation and whatever the particular phrase tends to be it usually does equate to inability to manifestation is because I don't believe I deserve that thing the secrets the boundaries the roles uh that values values so those things that we pick up because children you know they don't often do what their parents say but they become who they are inevitably and so I'm just I'm so fascinated in the Deep ways and I know you've studied Carl's Young's work uh quite extensively in the process of taking our unconscious material to our conscious awareness to be able to work with these things and I just think that's really important to get to the root of it cuz then you're kind of just swimming on the surface of think better thoughts and you know but like the root of it is still a rotten tree and so you're you're going to kind of keep finding yourself coming back to the same experience of Life attracting the same Partners um yeah so anything you want to touch on there before I move on yeah just really to reiterate what you've said but um so in the process of neuroplasticity the Practical process like day-to-day is Raising awareness of the thing that you wish to change or you know awareness around what it is that you want to attract into your life focusing attention on opportunities to bring that into your life deliberate practice is the action part which you know I'm really strong on you can't just sit there and think about what you want and not do anything and then the accountability piece but you're AB absolutely right that raising from non-conscious to conscious is is the absolute key if you can't do that you you you are you're skimming on the surface you might be able to change a few behaviors but you're not changing the underlying belief so I always just say raising awareness is 50% of that battle of change but the process for that is bringing from non-conscious to conscious what it is that's holding you back anything else you want to share on the neuroplasticity of being able to reinvent ourselves so we might have the desire of you know fill in the blank whatever it might be whether it's a partner career more money a general sense of well-being um and yet uh if we really struggle to bring the unconscious to the conscious um what are some of those tools that bring into people's action that uh you found most most transformative um I want to go with a bit of just like the philosophy around it first and then maybe get down to some tools but um so we have we've talked about not being aware of unconscious beliefs and and trying to raise that but the other piece that I think is really important is you know you've talked about something that we desire I actually call it magnetic desire which is a desire that is so strong that you will keep going when it feels like nothing's changing and you know the biggest reason that people don't change is that when it gets tough we think oh well this isn't meant to be so I'll give up and I'll move on to something else magnetic desire is when your head heart and gut so your logic your emotion and your intuition are fully aligned you know if any one of those things is saying I'm not sure if that's what I really want for myself then it's you can't like all three of them have to be aligned and the desire has to be very strong because it's too easy and what I see a lot is people say that they want things like a family or a certain job or a certain amount of money because that's what their peer group are doing and what you have to really work out is what you want for yourself regardless of what everybody else is doing that you really want for personal reasons and not for what I would call the wrong reasons which is that you know materialistic reasons or peer social comparative reasons once you find something that you really want and you've got that strong desire and it's well aligned in your brain and your body your ability to be patient which is part of the process will be much higher and the reason that it's part of the process is even if it's a psychological thing that you're changing physical work is going on in your brain new neurons are growing neurons are connecting up with each other pathways are being melinated which is insulating them for like faster conduction that is hard work you need to eat more you need to rest a lot um it's literally physical work and whilst that's happening you're tired your motivation is being challenged but then it reaches a Tipping Point where you have enough neurons and a strong enough pathway that you can do the new Behavior that's required to get what you want and get out of those old patterns and then suddenly you know you know that feeling it feels that everything's fallen into place but that can be after quite a long period of feeling like nothing's working out everything's falling apart and definitely not in place yeah yeah so that that process of head heart integration Mind Body Spirit unification I think is ultimately the evolution point of where we're headed as a human species but on an individual level is the goal you brought up a really important point of first you have to even know what you want right you have to know what you actually desire and often that's a byproduct of uh releasing all of these old stories and identities that we talked about earlier what do you feel like ultimately people Tru truly want it might manifest in however people look in their life and how they think they're going to get it but what are the core tenants of what humans um truly uh you feel need and want well as you mentioned I am a fan of car yung's work and so I believe that self-actualization and individualization are the ultimate goals in life and and what that means is you Reaching Your Potential you becoming the best version of yourself you you know for want of a better phrase living your best life um and I think it's very easy on with social media to think living your best life is a set of things that are determined externally um there is an idea of what a best life looks like but that may not be your best life or my best life um so you know really understanding your purpose I mean having a purpose that transcends yourself is really important in terms of your own mental health your physical health your longevity but it contributes to those things because it's the healthiest state for you to be in and if you're striving for something that is not authentic for you and is very externally validated that causes disease in the system you know and it can literally make you sick or it can just make you unhappy um and what happens in that scenario is that you may achieve the amount of money that you want to earn or the place that you want to live but deep down you're not actually happy so finding out what it is that will truly make you happy and and I'm not even really saying that you know like being super happy all the time is is the goal it's the thing that means that you are the person that you're meant to be in the place that you're meant to be doing the things that you're meant to be they're not completely selfish things that you are absolutely flourishing in gratitude which means that you know the the bonding hormones and the feelings of trust and Joy are um you know going around your blood and and um impacting your immune system and a positive way and really allowing you to be the best version of yourself that you can be you really just spoken into authenticity bringing ease in your life and I guess the opposite of authenticity whether it's pretense or just not feeling like you're expressing your true nature then would be the opposite which is disease right and so uh yeah and um and so I know we wanted to mention just a few action things as well on the other side of really coming back into that authenticity were there some practices that you did want to mention before we move on yeah so one which we've kind of touched on the theory of but it's important to actually do is to and I do think journaling is a great help for this is to try to be very aware of the repeated thought patterns that you are having and start writing them down start really noticing how often you are thinking this thing um there may be a few so whether there are themes um whether it's a particular recurring thought or themes to then really try to dig underneath that what must I believe about myself to be having that thought on repeated basis and there's a variety of things you can do here one may require some sort of external help like therapy or a coach or you know a really psychologically minded friend that can remain as neutral as possible that you can speak with or it could just be journaling by yourself but doing that work to understand what the underlying belief is and then using that belief to create a mantra or positive affirmation that is the opposite of that that belief so even if it feels like it's not completely true at the moment it does need to be quite bold so that every time you have the negative or the low self-worth thought you can replace it with the the positive affirmation and that actually comes from a Buddhist teaching which is replace every negative thought with a positive thought but it's very much backed up by neuroplasticity because in the brain you can't undo a pathway that's already there you can only overwrite it with a new desired pathway whether that's a thought or an action or a belief so if you immed as soon as you can and then eventually before you even really start fully having the negative thought you think of this positive manttra you say it out loud you write it down you share it with friends what as much as you can you have it you know maybe I have um affirmations written up on my bathroom mirror so that at least every morning and every evening I see them um you can start to overwrite that belief in your brain I really love the understanding of it's simply neural Pathways that we're strengthening right and if we've cultivated and accumulated Impressions to the point where we are very custom to having a pessimistic outlook on life we can eventually get to that point where we can have an abundant look outlook on life as we start to strengthen you know the neurons that wire together fire together so can you speak to mil and sheath and how we can really uh strengthen those so one of the questions that I ask people to consider is has your life panned out exactly as you always dreamed that it would and if not where are the gaps because that can help you start to identify what your purpose or your dreams might be and you know when we were kids before people said oh don't do this don't do that don't say this we actually genuinely had quite a strong idea of what we wanted to be who we wanted to be so maybe going back to some of your childhood dreams as well there are all ways of helping you work out your purpose um and it may be that let's say you want you wanted to paint and draw and you know you loved that maybe for various reasons you can't be an artist full-time as your profession but you could bring back painting and drawing into your life and just see how much joy that brings you and what else it opens up so that's an example um yeah so in terms of how deeply embedded all these impressions are that we pick up in life there's three ways that we embed information in our brain one is called neurogenesis and that is that the fact that we have little embryonic or baby nerve cells floating around in our brains now from 0 to two there's a lot of them in our brains and you know there's a massive amount of growth in the brain from 0 to two from being completely vulnerable and unable to even Survive by yourself to walking talking potentially up to five languages simultaneously in the first two years of your life um having opinions you know being able to control your bladder your bowels make choices Etc it is definitely less so in the adult brain but we know that those embryonic cells exist around the hippocampus part of our brain which is where we lay down memories so obviously for a large part of our lives a majority of Our Lives we are able to lay down new memories um and you asked me before about extrasensory perception so I do believe from what we know at the moment that we will find that there are embryonic cells in other parts of the brains but we we just don't know that yet the second and most common form of neuroplasticity in the adult brain is sinapic connection so neurons are you know they have a a long body and at either end they have what's called a a sinapse and it's kind of like a bud at the end of the neuron between two neurons there's a gap and when an electrical signal passes down a neuron it induces the release of chemicals into that Gap that are taken up by the other sinaps so there's a preoptic um end and a postoptic end and that's how messages pass down long neural pathways through from neuron to neuron and the ability to connect up with other existing neurons is quite strong in our brains and my favorite example is learning a new language so when you learn a new language you're using neurons that are already in your brain because you know how to speak um but you're just coding that for a new language and then the third part is myelination which you're right is a fatty sheath that coats some neural Pathways and it means that that pathway is more insulated so we have faster conduction of electrical and chemical messages along that pathway now there's a reason reason that we have some fast Pathways and some slow Pathways we don't want everything to be a fast pathway so if you put your hand into a fire your reflex to snatch your hand out of the fire is a fast pathway but your pain reflex is a slow pathway because if you felt the pain of your hand burning immediately you'd be incapacitated so what tends to happen is you snatch your hand out of the fire and then after a few seconds you're like wow that really hurts I can feel it now um and again that's an evolutionary mechanism to help us escape from predators yeah I just love the analogy that cultivating an abundant outlook on life is like learning how to play the piano like you're just creating these new Pathways and it's going to be a process and a journey and that's actually uh that's an inviting perspective yeah I actually did that during the pandemic because I don't know if you know but I take on a new neuroplastic plasticity learning every year and so in the summer of the pandemic I I was learning to play tennis again which I had up until the end of high school but then not since then and it was so interesting to see that muscle memory and just the kind of mental memory come back as well so my progress on that was quicker than if I had been trying to learn a completely new sport that I'd never played before and I could see that you know it's obviously very tangible um and then you know there was definitely a period of time during the pandemic where this is extremely privileged but I felt really depressed about the fact that I couldn't travel anywhere and I sort of thought you know I'm alive I'm healthy I'm actually in like nice surroundings you know for being locked up at home this is not okay and can I do here what I've seen myself do with tennis and so I basically did six months of being able to with less effort see all the positives in a day rather than focus on what wasn't happening that I wanted to happen and a little bit like I said with the whole Tipping Point thing I was working on it and it was fine and then there was literally a moment where I kind of stepped outside and I just looked around at the flowers and the sky and the weather and thought this is just so beautiful I'm so happy to be here and and immediately recognized this is quite different to the way I had been thinking for a few months and it it's important to share with um our audience that the strongest gearing of the brain is called loss avoidance or loss aversion and that is a survival mechanism which makes us two to two and a half times more likely to focus on loss or potential loss than the equivalent amount of reward or potential um you know gain and so it is really easy to focus more on the things things aren't going right than the things that are that's natural for us so just flipping ourselves to noticing more the positive things because they are there and even if they're not you know then to take it to the next stage and bring more positivity into our lives is the mechanism of abundance which is one of the six things you know that I mention in terms of um manifestation which is changing that gearing to being more abundant in your thinking rather than scarcity the magnetic desire that mentioned earlier um and the patience cuz sometimes it can take you know longer than you would like and you need to keep your motivation going and there's some other things around it but those three are the main ones to be really aware of so that proclivity to like perceiving what could be lost is that that's just like an evolutionary mechanism again that's kind of deep deeply embedded for you know fear is there a reason for that um I just I try to think of like as newborn babies come into into this world what are we biologically wired for what is nurtured through childhood um and then what we can do about it so yeah it's just uh because obviously having the fundamental Buddhist tenant of clinging in aversion and being uh aware acutely of what we could lose um is deeply within our psychology and biology uh anything else you want to share as to why yeah so when we lived in the cave we had threats from predators from the weather from tribes that weren't you know the same as us or aligned with us and so to survive we had to be at least twice as much on the lookout for things that could you know things that could bring in disease things that could bring in like scarcity of food we had to be mindful of those things in terms of things that we would consider to be rewards today they were complete luxuries you know you in cave times we would only really indulge in those activities if we had a massive store of food if the weather was really good if we fought off all of our enemies you know um so it just wasn't as important to our survival and that's a wiring that you know how I said wiring that's been in your brain from zero to seven is is really deep and affects like everything that you might think about a wiring that's been in you know in the human species for so long also runs deep some of these things do change so like a really sweet one is that in in those times when we lived in the cave and we lived in a nomadic hunter gatherer kind of way we didn't live in unit families the you know men's priority was to impregnate as many women as possible to make sure that their Gene survived and they didn't have to stay and look after them they just had to make sure that if they you know impregnated five women then one would probably surv one baby would survive is that linked to the testost on oxytocin balance to that we were talking about before yeah I guess it it would be but we can come to that later um in in this day and age most societies do ask that we live in a unit family that the father stays with the family like you know after he's impregnated the woman and for a long time men would be going against their you know testosterone profile to want to do that but what we've seen in the last let's say decade is that when a man becomes a father for the first time his testosterone levels drop and the lyic system which is the emotional part of the brain that I said was the size of your clenched fist that becomes rewired by oxytocin the bonding hormone so the father wants to stay around and protect the baby because he feels bonded to the mother and the baby rather than feeling competitive with his testosterone so that means that something that we have changed as a society has actually then created a biological imperative for men and families um but this survival mechanism it hasn't changed that much even though our threats now are primarily psychological for you know for most people in the modern world um and not so much physical we still have that tendency to focus on losses rather than gains but we are able to override it if we're aware of it amazing quick tangent then do you want to that one piece about find it so fascinating yeah yeah it's so it's less related to like families um but it's just to do with sexual interactions between men and women so when um and you know I just want to say that the research isn't clear on other genders and that's why I'm focusing on on the you know the heterosexual interaction is that in a sexual interaction between a man and a woman so the bonding hormone oxytocin that is involved in child birth in breastfeeding in bonding between newborn baby and mom so it's kind of like the love Bubble hormone that is released by women um and during sex during sex and similarly to the fact that women do have testosterone but men have about 17 times as much that they're circulating through their body during the day men also do release oxytocin but the way that The receptors respond to oxytocin is completely blunted by the testosterone so what that means in Practical life is that if a woman sleeps with a man enough times and keeps releasing these bursts of oxytocin she is going to bond to that man AKA falling in love for a man if they are not already in love with the women and they're having casual sex then the amount of testosterone that circulating at the time will minimize the effects of the oxytocin meaning that he will not NE necessarily bond with the woman and you know like I say whether it's reality shows or listening to your single friends we do tend to hear this story quite a lot that you know well you know he said we're keeping it casual but we were having sex and I hoped he changed his mind and he didn't kind of scenario yeah no I just think that it's really interesting to look into the biology of that because that is a common experience I think a lot of people have the male female relationship Dynamics especially with sex that people are having it casually um before we move on are there any other ways in which our hundreds of thousands of years human biology now living in modern times is screwing us because it's like it's so recent to have technology in the internet and what we've all become accustomed to but it's so new to how we've evolved and so is there anything that sticks out as to how that is a recipe for disaster in certain cases I want to slightly push back on the way that you phrased that cuz I am getting that feedback on social media and so what I really want to say is knowledge is power and I'm saying these things so that if people have experienced that in their personal life but they weren't aware of the science behind it that they can use that information to you know make it work for them so for example the scenario about as a woman you may Bond more than you would like to if you repeatedly have casual sex with someone knowing that could change you know what some people do so it's good to know right yeah and similarly we've mentioned a few other things like that like how the stress hormone cortisol leaks out of your body in your sweat and so you can get affected by the stress levels of people around you that could potentially screw with you if you didn't you know if you weren't aware of the fact that um be aware of who's draining your energy or making you feel super stressed and either go and sweat that out through aerobic exercise or get off your mind through journaling or speaking to a friend or therapist um but the main one that I really want to come to because I've been doing some research into neuro Aesthetics recently or neuro arts and I've realized the importance of this one thing that has been staring Us in the face for as long as we've been humans but we have become so disconnected from it for all the reasons that you've just mentioned because we've got devices because we're switched on 24/7 we have artificial light um is the importance of nature to our health and our mental health so you and I might have different taste in music or art although having looked around your house we've got definitely similar taste in art but you know we might not um but nature is the one palette that we all agree on because we've all existed in it since the beginning of time and I'm obviously not going to say exactly where you live but when you invited me you know to come to the studio it's such a beautiful place that I've been to before I wanted to have the drive here and be in that place and see the views because I know that that will be good for me today um so what has tend what well interestingly during the pandemic we all maybe did actually consciously spend a bit more time in nature but I have to admit that since I've been able to move back to the city travel more again I'm not spending as much time in nature as I did during the pandemic and that's at the back of my mind that I regret it but equally you know priorities and just like the rush of life again has definitely had a negative impact on that so when we spend time in nature um we kind of know that it's got you know mental health benefits and health benefits and um there is research that shows that if you spend enough time in nature on a regular basis it actually can increase your lifespan and not just that you live longer but you live healthier for longer but um one of the areas of research that I've come across recently is so I love going on Safari and I learned quite a few years ago that if a tree gets nibbled a lot by by a giraffe and so it's kind of losing its ability to like send the seeds out and grow more of itself it sends chemical messages in the air to other similar trees around who make themselves bitter so the giraffes won't eat them who yeah so cool yeah I thought that was cool but wait till you find out my latest thing which is that trees and plants some more than others release chemicals called phytonides that actually boost our immune system they trigger the release of natural killer cells in our immune system that can fight off more infections and Cancers so we're constantly you know fighting off small infections and Cancers and not even realizing that that's happened obviously when they proliferate massively and the immune system can't keep up with them that's when we become sick but if you ideally you know Forest bathing as where this all came from but if you go out and spend time you know by the ocean or in the mountains or in the forest even if you have more plants in your house and you know if you have a garden rather than just a Terrace or a deck or whatever then you are getting the benefits of um those chemicals from trees and plants isn't that incredible just by being in close proximity to them yeah yeah I've always just felt the the benefit from keeping like life really it's just plants and um and now living where I live now which I moved here about six months ago I totally feel the difference I mean it's something that we all intellectually know when we go on Hikes or go in the water we just feel our nervous system be more regulated and suddenly our problems don't have as much of a grip on us um but that's wild to to see some of the science behind that as well oh I didn't know you'd only moved six months ago so yeah you've really you're in the kind of time period of feeling that difference yeah yeah and I also feel there's something inherently linked to our human creativity with that um I'm curious if there's anything that came up for you there there's so much that I want to dive into you with but I feel like the more that we find ease within oursel with which can come byproduct of being in nature more uh we get more access to just kind of like this effervescent creativity of of wanting to express instead of the alternative yeah so it's really interesting that you've come to that conclusion um intuitively because when we spend time in nature what we're essentially doing is beholding Beauty and there's two forms of creativity beholding and making and they're connected they're both good for you for different reasons but when you are consciously spending more time beholding Beauty which you're doing without even thinking about it by being in nature then it connects up in that pathway in your brain to wanting to make Beauty as well and so whether that's drawing painting singing chanting humming dancing um and again let's relate this back to when we were in the cave you know we were talking about how why we would look out for loss more than reward well even before we could speak we were like beating drums we were dancing we were humming we were doing cave paintings and we used to think that cave paintings were a way of demonstrating the success of a hunt but we understand now that it was much more planning the hunt because we couldn't speak to each other I couldn't say to you let's go and kill a woolly mammoth today because then we'll have loads of you know fur and fat to get through the winter um but if I could draw that with you and help you know get you to understand that's what my plan was but in those days it was literally all about survival we didn't really do things for fun everything had a reason so why were we dancing and humming and beating drums um and you know obviously we were walking barefoot in nature and we were looking at the stars in the sky so all of that mindfulness you know beauty stuff was happening but we had to be creative as well being creative was contributing to our immunity to our health to our longevity to our connections as a tribe in fact the authors of the book your brain on Art Ivy and they actually count being in nature as a creative activity so when they quote their research it's about the benefits of creative activities on your mental health your health and your longevity and being in nature is just another one of those yeah it feels like that switch I just love all that so much it feels like that shift of seeing creativity as a luxury that you know people who have free time can do to actually it's the necessity to having a healthy human psyche yeah beautiful I love that frame of beholding beauty being linked to expressing creating Beauty because I totally feel that intuitively I'm sure so many people do as well Chelsea who's our main girl behind the scenes right now actually goes out and Hikes and paints the mountain ridges that she sees in real time which is so cool like being able to merge those I think is so rad uh that's that's wonderful so I'm glad I asked that because I wasn't planning on it but that's that's good to know and hear um all right I want I do want to touch on the Law of Attraction a little bit more here because it's a big part of your work book and and your in your book The Source you you touch on this and all the podcasts that you go on quite a bit um I think a lot of people got exposed to the film The Secret when they were younger and it was great thing because it put a lot of people on their spiritual path they're like just into a different way of thinking and more open way of perceiving things uh it also served as really not doing a great job of actually explaining how that really works and kind of keeping it on uh uh more of the woooo mystical side of things and so I'm I'm curious just for you to ground in what the Law of Attraction means in your eyes cuz obviously we're constantly manifesting and attracting in our life what is the law side of it yeah so I looked into this before I 100% committed to writing the source and so you know what I want to say about the secret and Ronda is that she brought into massively into common culture the fact that you can do things to bring what you want into your life I think it was left at the level of less Agency for people because it was explained by the power of the universe and like vibrations that were outside of yourself and so I felt it was really important to add to that that cognitive science so that's the power of your mind and your brain and you using that in a directed way underlies your ability to bring into reality in the material world the things that you think about and desire in your mind um and also kind of more in retrospect realize that if it is the power of your mind if it's your mind if it's what you believe if it's what you think if it's what you then go out and do as a result of that then you can feel really empowered by that whereas even if you think it's I sit at home and I think about the house that I want or the job that I want and then you know I notice more things and certain good things happen it still feels very external and you know to me that's not being in the driver seat of your life and it's great if you know Wonderful coincidences and serendipities also happen but you've got to be feeling like there are things that I can do to make this happen and you know that what I'm really passionate about is people understanding how much potential they hold in their brain and so the more that people think I at least I'm part of this if not necessarily absolutely the driver of it yet um that is the start of a journey where you can minimum co-create with whatever might be going on around you but absolutely you know create like I said your best version of yourself and your ideal future so the laws of attraction I mean there's a lot of disagreement about actually what they are and how many there are so I looked as broadly as I could kind of wrote it all down and my mission was can any of these claims be backed up by cognitive science so psychology or neuroscience and literally 80 or 90% there was an immediate connection for me um some took a little bit harder work to prove if you like and then in the end I said look there are some which I can't explain by Neuroscience at the moment but it's not going to harm you so you can either leave it out or you can do it anyway just Bas based on like on faith but we've kind of already talked about it Andre it's literally about being able to notice and grasp opportunities that will take you closer to the things that you know you want in your life and being able to do those things because you have the thoughts that direct your brain to filter out the wrong things but pay attention to the right things and tag the right things in order of importance both emotionally and logically so that you're able to notice those in your daily life and that you have the you know underlying belief like we said that you deserve those things um it really just comes back down to that yeah that switch from lack mindset to an abundant Outlook that we spoke to earlier uh that's that's great now how does how does stress affect our ability to usefully take advantage of creating the life that we want because you know stress makes us stupid so totally I'm so glad you asked that actually um so when we are stressed our adrenal glands which are in our lower back above our kidneys are releasing more of the stress hormone cortisol so stress and cortisol are completely aligned they always go together and there are receptors in your brain that are constantly monitoring the levels of cortisol in your blood and we have an amazing adaptive stress response which means that you know if suddenly there was like thunder and lightning we would like be aware that there's potentially danger to this house and we might you know do some actions based on that and then as soon as we know we've secured the house and maybe the storm has passed we you know our body's reset to a healthy kind of nervous State when we're under chronic stress those levels of cortisol are higher than they should be more of the time as a baseline just constantly there higher so there's a normal range depending on your age and your gender and the time of day and The receptors in your brain and are aware of what that those levels should be when it sees that those levels are higher than that on a sustained basis it perceives an imminent threat to your survival and there's a lot of things that happen in response to that um but in the brain the blood flow will get re re-rooted so to be creative and think flexibly and regulate our emotions and manage any biases that we might have the blood needs to be flowing to all the extremities of the brain but under chronic stress those receptors will push the blood flow down to what I call survival mode which is the parts of your brain that you need to wake up in the morning um provide the basic needs for yourself and your family get yourself to your desk job and sit there and look like you shouldn't get fired but not actually be able to perform at your best be much less able to trust and collaborate so kind of at the time that you need your the highest functions of your brain the most your blood flow is literally working against you and that's why presentism which is when you go to work but you're not really productive costs businesses way more than absenteeism so my advice to people is when you realize that you're really stressed take a day or two off and try to like reset your nervous system because you'll be so much more productive if you're able to like release that blood flow around again um trying to work against your brain you know when your brain isn't working with you is like you know trying to push a heavy weight uphill it's it's it's kind of counterproductive so that's why rest and nature and you know kind of mindfulness and creativity are so important to just manage those stress levels yeah I think it's so important to speak into a little bit about physical and emotional Fitness as well because I could hear some people way in the back saying you know I need to I want to create this life and I have this desire I have a vision board we can talk about your action board and and some tips there in order to effectively manifest that I need to reduce my stress because all my blood is is not going to where it needs to um but on the flip side I gotta I got to feel less stressed to get those things and to get those things I will feel less stressed and it's like a a rat wheel it's kind of confusing U but uh but I would just love for you to speak into resiliency and also being patient along the process there because um often times in this culture especially in modern society Western culture we want things right away we don't like to cultivate and work towards it and uh yeah I think it's important just to remind people to give themselves compassion along the process of attracting what they want because it is a process so let's start by really backing up your question by saying that you know I said other things are going on when we've got high levels of cortisol as well so one of the other ones is that we because we talked about the blood flow in the brain when you've got high levels of cortisol going through the blood in your body it's actually eroding your immunity so in terms of resilience it's lowering your immune response which at the most basic level means you're much more likely to get colds and flu in the winter and that when you do get a cold or flu that it's more likely to last for longer than a few days and sometimes you know what we see now is that these colds and flu are lasting for weeks um at the other end of the spectrum people who are chronically stressed for a long time can end up getting heart attacks like I've personally coached people or had people in my class at MIT that have had stressinduced heart attacks even when you know they're in their 40s they don't have high blood pressure they don't have high cholesterol so really understanding that cortisol is the enemy of your resilience and that so in a way you know one of the things I say is that F you know do all the work that you need to do to manifest be clear on what you want like you know build up your selfworth and you know grasp the opportunities that you can but equally don't get stressed about it and like you said it sometimes does require patience it can become very frustrating I'm stressed and I'm stressed yeah I'm stress and like you know nothing's working out for me and like manifestation doesn't work and you know it's very easy to go down those paths especially if you're compromised physically and mentally so to realize actually that part of manifestation is managing your stress and building up your mental and physical resilience and that comes back to I have to repeat you know the basics as well as we can go into some other things but making sure that you're getting adequate length and quality of sleep and we don't know why exactly but regular sleep and wake times are really boosting the you know beneficial impacts of your sleep so within an hour going to bed and waking up at the same time each day um eating nutrition dense foods and do you remember I mentioned neurogenesis as the kind of most complex and least likely version of neuroplasticity in the adult brain well there are two things that really contribute to that one is aerobic exercise and one is um eating mostly plant-based but particularly dark skinned Foods so eating blueberries instead of strawberries black beans instead of calini beans um purple sprouting broccoli instead of of green broccoli all of those things are good but if you can add in like the darker colors then that um the um anthocyanins in the skin of those foods are super antioxidants that promote neurogenesis even further staying hydrated not being sedentary and then managing your stress and so under that falls things like mindfulness techniques whether that's meditation yoga time in nature um mindful eating um and then I think everything else that we've said like like you said understanding that it is a process that it is hard physical work even though it feels very psychological and intangible um that it does often take longer than you would like I mean and what I find personally is that it happens in sort of like rhythms and Cycles so there are times where I'm kind of feeling like be careful what you wish for because everything's happening at the moment and you know I have learned that when it feels like that that's when I will ask more for the things that I want and that equally there are weeks or months where it feels like nothing's happening and hard as it is I've kind of had to accept that and get used to that too I feel like for the most part I've kind of viewed wealth as just like an overall state of well-being and not just like Financial income which a lot of people attribute to and so yeah I think it's important obviously all those reminders of like taking care of our physical self because if you feel good about life then you're successful like that that that ultimately is what it comes down to so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance between being and becoming you know the the feeling of wanting to expand limitedly and create and and do better financially and expand our career and and express ourselves creatively but then also coming back into feeling completely fulfilled inherently within your presence in this moment you know so I'm just curious how you navigate the dance I'm probably going to say something you wouldn't expect me to so the gap between being and becoming is the greatest source of unhappiness in your life so if you think about there's two there's two circles there's current self and ideal self or current and ideal life if those two things are overlapping that's like 100% happiness the further apart they are the more unhappy you are so I'm not saying that you shouldn't have goals or want bigger or better things in your life but the way to get there is to be ultimately grateful for everything you have in your life right now and to look at those two circles and think about them in two ways one is that I could strive to change my current life to my ideal life and understand what it is that you have to do to a achieve that and go back to what we said at the start which is that why are you trying to achieve that is it because it's what you really want or is it because it's what everybody else is doing or you could say I'm going to make my current life I'm going to say that's my ideal life I'm I'm just going to be happy with the life that I have now so yeah you know I have an action board and it has things on it that I want and I look at it regularly and we mentioned a book that we both like before so you know it's part of what I learned from that I Master Key System Master Key System yeah which you know you have to go through it and do the exercises but what you understand at the end of that is believe in the truth of what you wish to manifest so part of my practice is looking at the things on my action board and visualize them being true feeling it in my body feeling it in every sense and then giving gratitude for the fact that they're true but and you know of course I work hard but not overly striving to get things in my life that are going to put my nervous system out of sync you know kind of being patient like being on that path but mostly just being very grateful for everything that's happening right now I mean I think you know if you're lucky enough to have come through the pandemic healthy and not having lost a loved one then what it made a lot of us realize that you know you can have a gr gratitude list that's 10 or 100 things long and it can have so many amazing things on it but really if you can wake up every day and say I'm alive and I'm healthy that's actually enough and it's it's a huge privilege cuz lots of people have really like had to sare that in the the face in the last few years not being true yeah it's you know I feel like it's it's important to have goals and like a vision of a future that excites us but if we always feel like we're not where we want to be that sucks yeah yeah yeah so I love how you just brought kind of the importance of the how good we feel about life around us is the unification of both of those to where we are living a life of alignment and who we are being is in the becoming process and we can still aspire to create things in life which is beautiful because we're all inherently creative beings and that's part of our nature but uh yeah always feeling like we're just never fully satisfied or we're not where we want to be that that doesn't feel like a joyful life to be experiencing no that's a really lovely summary of it and I think the reason that it's important is because when we are on this journey of becoming we're achieving things along the way but the natural tendency for a lot of people is to kind of say well I've ticked that one off so now I'll put that behind me and I'll move on to the next thing it's constantly moving on to the next thing and it's hardly ever really celebrating your successes so you know the Gratitude in every day but also celebrating your successes because all that's going to do is tell your brain that you know when I focus on what I want and I work hard around that and I you know live in gratitude and abundance those things happen and so that's going to move you away from the cortisol state of fear towards the oxy oxytocin state of love and trust and you know in which state do you think the Law of Attraction Works more abundantly it's so interesting to feel into that when we attract things or we have a desire to create a successful podcast or release a book that does well or you know whatever our goals are in a in a way for it to even come in we kind of have to expect it and so I feel like we oftentimes don't create the space for reflection to appreciate what has been created which is kind of sad because like you we're under the illusion of thinking that we're going to feel a certain way once we achieve the thing but then we invariably feel achieve the thing and then we think the feeling is in the next thing and it's just like this continual pushing off that feeling of a joyful presence into the someday in the future and so I think that's just such an important reminder to create that space for reflection there's actually another piece of research around that which I've never discussed before but it's called the hedonic treadmill MH yeah and it's the the most famous research around it is from lottery winners who you know let's say it's like a it's multi-millions you know life-changing that obviously you become ecstatic for a short while but it it's shocking how quickly your happiness levels revert to what they were before another more day-to-day example that might be more um what we're all used to is that if you have a really delicious meal when you eat the first bite of that you release like lots of dopamine and other Feelgood endorphin and hormones and you know you feel very joyful but each successive bite has less impact and it returns to to neutral very quickly so you know that's what we're doing that like like you said we're achieving things feeling happy for a short burst and then returning to normal so it's like we're constantly seeking that reward and so I'll just Loop that back to how I answered the question in the first place you can't be happy if you're constantly looking for something better and gratitud list many things that you speak to can allow you to just uh reflect on how probably for most people that are listening to this there are billions of people on the planet that would kill to switch positions in life with you right now you know like how grateful we are to have the basic luxuries that we have is uh we so easy to forget yeah I think going to experience in a third world country or like when I went to Nigeria I really got to see you know that one happiness is definitely not tied to material wealth often case there's an inverse effect that we see uh but uh but then also if somebody can be so grateful for so little um and of course they have their own various challenges but uh what does that say about what we can feel for the level of abundance that we're you know lucky to have yeah amazing that was really great uh is there any truth to like the the the thought of we only use 1% 5 5 10% of our brain I'm sure you've heard it a lot but we like I think we're always told that and what do people mean when they is there any truth to that yeah so funnny enough I was actually having this conversation with someone recently because they asked me about neurom myths that bug me yeah so I think the thing to say is that what exists as exist as neurom myths now are things that we used to think were true but we now know that they're not as scientists but sometimes those phrases they stay in popular culture for a lot longer um so since we been able to access sophisticated scanning Technologies to to look at the brain and the body we've understood some things differently to how we understood them before because prior to that the only way we really understood how the brain worked was if we looked at brains where something had gone wrong so if someone had a stroke or like a neurosurgery if someone had like a brain abscess or a brain tumor then as we felt around you know that area of pathology we might notice oh you know this is when we touch this part of the brain affects the way the person can speak or you even things about how we understand that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa so for that reason things like left brain and right brain became very overstated and once we understood that it doesn't work in the very you know hemispherical way that we had understood it before and that is probably the biggest one that stay you know the left brain right brain thing I remember when I was writing the source which came out in 2019 I said oh I'd love to do a a special box on the fact that you know left brain right brain is not how you know we understand that things work anymore and the editors said what do you mean and they said well no no readers are not going to agree with that and I said it's not for them to agree like I've got the research here and if you think that it's even more important to tell people that that's you know that's not how the thought that our logical and emotional sides are split between left and right yeah and that either you're right brained or left brained you know and I'm something else and so you know what we understand now is that there's a bridge that connects the two there are two hemispheres but they're much more connected than we thought before and if you think about two hemispheres like this we thought there was a bridge that just kind of went from the end of this one to the end of that one but actually it fans massively into both sides the Corpus colome yeah and so it's just much more complex than that and also it's it's not about the two sides it's about the lyic system with you know more emotional stuff and then the the cortex around it and how they interact with each other and that's different when we're stressed to when we're in a you know good State as well but the um I think I believe the neurom myth is that we only use 10% of our brains and that was the basis of a movie called Lucy with Scarlet H which is a great movie Morgan Freeman starts off incredible voice it would have been a good movie you hate it because of the but I liked the H there's just so many good parts of it but I hear you on the on the sprad I love the idea that we can access more potential in our brains um but it's just not true that we only use 10% of our brain we use all of our brain we use different parts of it at different times for different things sometimes it's much more interconnected than others um interestingly when we're um indulging in Creative activity it's the most connected music is like massively connecting different parts of the brain brain um you know when we're doing creative things we we're using the visual parts of the brain the auditory Parts the imagination centers the association Center which connects all of that up and you know we're probably moving as well so yeah I think rather than think about it like that to think that you know are there ways of thinking that I'm not accessing as much as I could we tend to focus on reusing our strongest pathway so you know for me that's definitely intuition and probably logic but like I said with my yoga practice I've definitely built up my physicality aspect much more um with age and wisdom I've regulated my emotions much more um always been pretty motivated and you know i' I've shared very widely now that building up the creative pathway in my brain is like the area that I'm really focusing on at the moment so everyone can do that exercise on themselves they can either put those six ways of thinking in order of preference or they can understand that there's like one or two or three that you use like most of the time because you're comfortable with that um one or two that you could use if you know had to in a different kind of scenario and then maybe one or two that you underuse that you could kind of try practicing more interesting very fascinating all right I want to try to take you into some Uncharted Territory I thought you've been doing that um so first off I do find it very interesting that you've been studying various different indigenous wisdom and so I would love for you to bring up what have been some of the most eye-opening uh pieces from indigenous wisdom and ancient wisdom Traditions that you found that are really applicable to modern times that would be most beneficial for people thank you so much for asking about that I've really enjoyed um digging into that and it's it's like literally in the moment changed my life each time I've you know sort of learned a thing a thing like that so are you're learning about conversations with indigenous individuals basically yeah and experts as well so um a bit of both um we've actually mentioned some of the things already because I have integrated them into my life so much already so you know time in nature making and beholding you know creative things and if we want to connect that to what I've learned from the um indigenous groups of people that I've spoken with things like adorning yourself so interestingly as we were setting up I asked you about your jewelry and you know a lot of men don't wear as much jewelry as you are wearing um but when we consider ourselves as Divine beings of course we're more likely to Adorn ourselves because it's that's what you would you know if you have a child or a pet that you love or you you know worship a deity then it is about having um flowers around the deity or putting jewelry on the child or you know a beautiful collar on the pet um so that is thanks for thanks for acknowledging I'm a deity that's clearly why I'm wearing my jewelry to be good with that's obvious obviously why you invited me podast um and you know all the things I mentioned already like humming chanting mantras singing dancing um and this episode hasn't come out yet but I I spoke to someone who's studying Sufi mysticism and so you know she very specifically talked about love and an exercise to like um kind of hum or chant the vibration that induces love which I would call oxytocin around your body and has an impact on the people around you as well so there might be certain words or sounds that people can use to do that um and another area that I've explored with which is more ancient cultures are more comfortable with than us are things like reincarnation near-death experiences past life memories terminal Lucidity and mindsight so terminal Lucidity is where people who have Dementia or they've had some kind of brain injury like a stroke and lost their levels of consciousness so you know either their memory or their ability to recognize people or understand the passage of time suddenly become completely Lucid towards the end of their life so this tends to happen in the last hour or day before death and when you say completely Lucid they remember everything so they go from having forgotten that they even have children to recognizing their children knowing their names speaking to them in the usual parental fashion that they used to and really getting to say goodbye and being very loving um I wish that for everybody I know I know so you know everybody who's lost somebody who whose Consciousness was altered that can happen and it can be like an amazing experience but unfortunately it usually also means that the person is very close to death um but still maybe not well everybody would rather have that period of Lucidity than not have it for but you know I mean we're not very good at death and loss so it's p it's painful um what the professor that I spoke to about that made me understand is that you have to prepare yourself for death throughout your whole life and it just comes back to the same things Andre that we spoke about being grateful being being kind being compassionate if you do that as much as you can throughout your life you're going to have less regrets on your deathbed you're you know I'm not the first person that's saying this but you're not going to be lying on your deathbed saying I wish I earned more money or I wish I gained higher status in life you know so that's one way of looking at it um mindsight is something really incredible which is a near-death experience erience but in a very smaller cohort of people who have been blind their whole life so they've never actually seen maybe the most that they've seen is they can distinguish light and dark but they haven't had Vision um and then where they have a near-death experience they can see so if you put all of these things together the fact that some children have seem to have memories of a different life that you can become very lucid even though you've got um you know a generative process in your brain or an injury to your brain that you can see if you've been blind um it does make you wonder about how connected Consciousness has to be to the physical form and the fact that they can maybe move apart and come back together again and of course it poses the question about what happens after physical death so in an you know different ancient cultures there could be a belief in reincarnation there can be a belief in the spirit world um there can be a belief in Reading signs um and so all of those things can help us to become more comfortable with death and therefore allow us to live our life in a better or you know slightly different way um and and just you know in summary because I do actually think we've covered most of the things it really does come back to a connection with with nature and the land and the cycle of nature the seasons um the you know eating seasonally and eating plant-based respect for Animals respect for you know vulnerable groups or marginalized groups um you know I guess all the things that actually make you happy in life rather than the things that we tend to think of when we talk about manifestation yeah incredible yeah I see you as somebody who's very much so like a doctor of the future I feel like in the direction we're moving it's really important to have the language of modern science but then also not neglecting the incredible intelligence that's been cultivated through these wisdom Traditions that have preceded modern society and have so much to share um and so when you're speaking to whether it's terminal Lucidity uh or mindsight you or ndes or uh and the upper I'm just so curious at the upper limits if there is one but the upper potential of of human um ious and what we can do for example in like Maha samadi where people can cultivate the ability to at will leave their own body whether or not people believe that there's these yogic claims of what becomes possible as you go on that path of the science of yoga being one of Union and so I'm curious what you make of the realm outside of what science is currently able to understand and dictate but nonetheless people have very real experiences and often don't feel the need to try to explain explain it logically yeah I would say that you you know you're absolutely right yoga the meaning of yoga is Union the meaning of ir Vader is the science of life and so and the Vaders are as far as we know the most ancient scriptures um that exist in the world and the the yogis the people who practiced um ayurveda and yoga and yoga is not just doing poses it's something like much bigger than that yeah um just one limb of what that's just one of eight limb of yoga um so there are reports of of people from those ancient times who you know meditated for hours and days and weeks in grottos and the Himalayas um being able well you know there are things we actually know about like being able to walk on hot coals being able to like not feel pain and then the other cities as well right which are like these spiritual superpowers yeah what we would call spiritual superpowers that are less explained but include things like like what you said of um your Consciousness or your spirit being able to leave your physical body um and understanding and potentially communication with people on a different plane so you know depending on what your beliefs are about what happens to someone when they die whether it's reincarnation or that their Consciousness from this life exists in a different astral plane and you know whether or not you can communicate with that there are so many things like that that haven't been proven by science but what I want to say is they keep coming up in Cycles I'm extremely flattered and you know grateful for you saying that I'm a doctor of the future but I already have icons in my life who are people who are doctors who are let's say 20 30 years older than me that I know they've gone there because they they talk about it maybe as much as I'm willing to at the moment but I think there are things that you know that they're not talking about so and they're well-known people Dr Bruce lip deac Chopra Daniel seagull these are people who before I was really on that path of of let alone being a you know being able to speak about this publicly but even exploring it for myself were you know MDS or scientists or both who were talking about really spiritual things and I was kind of like is that allowed can can you know can you do both are we supposed to be talking about this stuff um what bumps me out is not being open I know and that's why I am trying to be more open than definitely I was comfortable with a few years ago because what I have appreciated is that because I've got a PhD in neuroscience and a medical degree and a teach at MIT if I can't have the courage to talk about these things then you know how easy is it to just ridicule other people that do and what I have found is that when I have talked about things like life after death with people I so many people have opened up with stories about it and when I've said why have you never talked about this before they've said because people will think I'm crazy um but by giving people permission especially if you come from a background where people don't expect you to talk about that because they think that you wouldn't think it's true um by being more open about that I think you know we are hopefully as a society and a culture opening up those conversations which at minimum can be of so much comfort to people who've experienced loss and disconnection and that you know to me where we talk about self-actualization and reaching your Highest Potential if I can make any contribution to people feeling less lost and lonely and disconnected that would be me achieving you know that would be me self-actualizing so so if that means that I'm brave enough to talk about things that wouldn't be normal in my profession then I'm willing to try and I'm willing to see what the feedback is and if it's wrong then maybe I'll course correct but at the moment I'm just you know getting such gratitude and lovely feedback about it I'm just really excited and curious to see where this can go and and that's why you know when you invited me onto a podcast and I kind of checked you out um I you know I could just see that you were all about love and you're a lovely person and you're like open and spiritual and I wanted to speak with you yeah I feel like it's it would be ideal to have thought leaders who have a lot of credibility whether it's in modern science or our authority figures to be completely unex pregated and sharing their whole truth and right now we do live in a society that would often shame and try to cancel people that are sharing something that isn't scientifically valid and it's kind of a bummer that we have this materialist reductionistic view of just like just even being able to have the conversations and explore and talk about these things because some people seem to have very clear experiences and there's repeated studies you know especially with like ndes where people have these experiences and uh just to be open in the exploration of seeing what might be there and there's just the the the pursuit of science can be applied to spirituality because it's really just trying to truthfully understand how things work I'd love to mention two people in case you haven't um heard of them so Dr Bruce Grayson who's written a book called after and Dr Jim Tucker who's written a book called before they are brother they're not Brothers their colleagues at the University of Virginia they're both psychiatrists they were both absolutely not into spirituality um but as they were having their you know younger careers of Psych iatrist kept coming across so for Bruce he kept coming across examples of near-death experiences and for Jim he kept coming across examples of past life memories and children and at the start of their careers because they've been in their careers for like 50 plus years now there were very few documented cases of either of these things but now there are so many and it is absolutely true that there are more of them in the sort of Eastern cultures where people believe in reincarnation but there are enough now in the United States of America including in very Christian um families who that's not in keeping with their beliefs that um yeah it's now it's now an area of scientific research it's not an area of spiritual research um yeah there's a fascinating documentary on Netflix called surviving death that has episodes on um near-death experiences re Incarnation mediums signs all you know it's just I find it fascinating um and there is more and more science you know starting to be able to explain some of these things yeah it's so so interesting n Nicola Tesla has that quote I'm paraphrasing of when whenever we put the human Intelligence on uh discovering more about spirituality and that's where our energy and focus goes to then we'll make more discoveries in 10 years than we have in a thousand you know which is oh I love that yeah it's it's important you know we've had Dan seagull on the show as well yeah we talked about his he had like a trauma that affected his default mode Network and his perception of identity and self which gave him a more you know like a joyful experience of life and it's just you know I think it's important to keep that Fascination open I'm definitely going to listen to that because I interviewed Dan for my online program at MIT Sloan and I had the opportunity to say him that when I changed career so I'd been a doctor in the NHS and then um I did an Executive coaching course and I tried to start up a freelance practice as a coach and what I realized was that most coaches in the UK anyway fell into either the category of like a retired business person or um a former psychologist and because I was an MD psychiatrist I didn't fall into either of those categories I was actually rejected from um a group that was like the society for psychologists and Executive coaching they wouldn't let me join look at you now um they did later ask me to do a keynote that's funny that works I know um so I felt very alone at that time you know I'd left my former career all the stability and certainty of that I was starting out something new I didn't feel like I was accepted by any group and I read mindsight by Daniel seagull and I saw that he was an MD psychiatrist he' created this amazing model and that literally made me felt like there was somewhere that I belonged and I got to say that to him when I interviewed him years you know I was a professor at MIT by then um with a very successful coaching business so yeah I got to say that I mean he'd already agreed to be interviewed but when I said that to him it was a real little Bond it was really nice yeah yeah that's that's beautiful I'm curious what you know and I'm perhaps bringing you to the edge of what you might want to even Explore or share but when you relate to think about Consciousness what what are the possibilities of you thinking it being fundamental and existing outside of our own neurology is that something you're even willing to entertain like is a possibility do this feel weird to bring up as a as a neuroscientist I'm sure especially with your colleagues who often case think you know no brain no consciousness right um Eastern indigenous wisdom Traditions would say otherwise yeah where what say you um until very recently I would have said I'd be willing to like have that conversation but I probably yeah well I would definitely say that you know there was no evidence for it to be true until a little bit less recently than that I would have said absolutely not about 15 years ago when I changed career I had a conversation with a psychologist friend and this is actually known as the hard problem of Neuroscience you know this what does can you know Consciousness exist without physicality um and I said to him obviously all thoughts and emotions and everything that makes us human emerges from neurons and chemicals and he said Tara how could you say that he's a lot older than me he's a mentor of mine and I said how could you not and I completely believed that as a neuroscientist that the only way that anything to do with Consciousness can occur is that it emerges from these neurons and chemicals and electrical signals I have to say I have definitely moved you know way along from that so like I said probably like during the pandemic where I actually said that you know we're heading for a mental health crisis the only thing that can avoid that is some kind of spiritual Revolution and then since then because you know a lot of people that I know and myself personally experienced a lot of loss during that time I would I well I'll tell you I I have experienced it myself so I have experienced um evidence of Consciousness existing outside physical body it's like a neuroscientist AA meeting I have I'm coming out the closet and um but no that's beautiful because I know so many incredible AC people in Academia that have had experiences that like I'm sure you just are are so like tightly held of like even mentioning that which I think is is wild but I understand when your identity and career are wrapped up in it um but you're also speaking speculatively and saying this is just my experience and not like we can prove this and this is the absolute truth well it's it's my experience and like I've said once I've started sharing that with people I've heard so many stories like it and I've you know I've delved into like you know interviewing the the director of the Victor Frankle Institute whose research is on Terminal idity and um looked into the research from University of Virginia and stuff so it's very exciting you know and I think having said this on your podcast I would love it if your listeners would share any experiences that they've had like that because I think this is the only way that we can help each other um and let's not be another generation of people that nearly get there and then don't make it you know and everybody else has to start again from scratch so that experience that you had was it uh was it amidst like in a yoga practice was it do you want to share anything did it have Have you shared anything about that I mean so for me it was never during yoga or meditation it's experiences that I've had either like like sleep is obviously a bit of a transcendental State um yeah no I've I've I've had so many now it's like once you it's a bit like manifestation once you believe in manifestation you fit like I said you're like be careful what you wish for and it's the same with um you know whe whether you want to call it extra sensory perception or signs or communication across Plains it's the same once you understand it and recognize it it's it's happening all the time yeah I'm very fascinated obviously I have conversations like this on my show because I've had plenty of experiences where I have experienced myself like outside of my body I've experienced creating distance from my own thought and emotion and for individuals that are so closely identified with the body as themselves I could understand how that would be triggering but nonetheless it's it is what it is people take it take the experience for what it is but um I'm curious also what you think about the pineal gland because in eastern Traditions you know it's thought of the seed of the Soul potentially an antenna that connects you know through higher consciousnesses anything that you want to share on what the pineal gland is does yeah so just like as a segue into that it's probably worth mentioning although it's obvious that you know I come from an Indian culture from a Hindu culture so I was brought up absolutely being told that reincarnation was a fact so you know when you say you mentioned two things specifically being able to create a distance between your yourself and your thoughts and your feelings this is a must this is not a spiritual belief if you can't do that you will be so emotionally disregulated it can ruin your life you know it can affect your relationships it can affect your health so you know just to make it like really accessible all you have to do is look at the videos on the headspace app that that teach you that you know you you must not identify with your emotions you don't have to identify with your emotions you can have an emotion it doesn't mean you know if you feel anger it doesn't mean that you're an angry person it means that you can experience anger temporarily um and equally you know if you have a moment of gratitude it doesn't mean you're a grateful person it's something you have to cultivate all the time so that one is I wouldn't even consider that as an alternative thought the being able to you know the experience of of being outside your body probably because you know my parents were first generation immigrants from India to the UK I was you know brought up with yoga and ayurveda and reincarnation I was experiencing that as a child and then I think I lost that ability or because I probably lost the belief in it because I started you know questioning things like that um there are plenty of people that say they do that that one is a bit more spiritual but sure a lot of materialists would say well you're having the experience of being outside of yourself within yourself but how do you prove that so it's like yeah yeah exactly um and then there are things that are like you know way more difficult to explain than than those things and I have completely forgotten the question the P or gland okay the P so um like when I looked at the laws of attraction I've looked at the chakras of the body and been able to align them with like various glands throughout the body like kind of in similar places and um so the pineal gland is often calcified so it can um take on calcium from the body and just that kind of gets embedded around it so when we look at brain scans it actually appears as white in the area of your third eye and so that for a long time has led to people saying that it is your third eye um which is like the seat of your soul um and so again you know we don't know it's not proven but it does appear on brain scans in that sort of you know area and whether or not it is the and tenor or you know doesn't really matter I think you know what matters is that we perceive it potentially as a physical representation of the third eye it's more important to understand potentially what the third eye is and why it might be important in your meditation practice or you know in the way that you consider your spiritual health um yeah I can probably only go that far with that one right now yeah well there's also I mean it makes sense and we're again touching in areas here where we don't know but we're just exploring the potential um and also understanding that a lot of people have very interesting experiences with that in conjunction to a spontaneous remission or healing that that occurs also yeah I mean you know I'm just going to be really honest and not say something about an area that I don't know enough about and that's an area I don't know enough about and I think I think I've said more than I've ever said before because of you um yeah I just don't know enough about that but you you know I'm going to go down a rabbit hole with that now yeah it's great maybe I've been using all your cues with the you know we were talking about how warm tea can create bonding and make you feel more comfortable and then I heard you talk down the Diary of CEO looking into the left eye not that I've been intentionally doing that but I could see all these like spiritually Mak valan kind of you know techniques to to be able to connect with people um that's interesting uh well this whole conversation's been so fascinating for me and gave me a lot to think on with just our connection to Nature the reality of how attraction works and just a lot of grounded you know applicable things things I think for our audience to take home is there anything that you feel is like on your heart or mind that you want to share before we start to wrap up I think you know it always comes down to me to I I just really hope that people something resonates from this conversation that makes people realize how much potential they've got in their brain and that maybe there was something they always wanted to do or talk about or think about that this conversation would have given them the courage to do and that you know yes I'm a scientist and I very much believe in science and I love Neuroscience but at the end of the day I think the most important things in life are love and gratitude and and that actually I shouldn't have said but I should have said and because the science completely backs that up incredible thank you so much for sharing yourself you have a second season of a podcast book anything else you want to share promote we'll of course provide links for thank yeah I mean I'm very much focused on season two of my podcast at the moment but you're diving deeper into the indigenous wisdom side of things right yeah so cool thanks that's rad well I'm excited I feel like we'll run it back in the future and I'm excited to just connect with you more and thank you so much for sharing yourself definitely thank you yeah of course so everybody that's been tuning in to this episode of the know self podcast thanks and uh I would love for you guys to listen to Dr tera's advice and write in the comments below some experiences that you've had share and like you know activate this community and and let us know what particularly resonated with you and then also would love to hear more of your own personal experiences and uh until next time okay well thank [Music] you

Leading Neuroscientist: How Intuition, Your 6th Sense & Manifestation ACTUALLY Work | Dr. Tara Swart

hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast this is episode number 97 and the idea with this one is that I'm going to share with you a couple of extracts from my most recent series of Luke's English podcast premium so I've been working on premium series 64 uh Parts one and two of that were published just a few days ago so if you are a premium subscriber then check them out um and so what I thought I would do with this episode actually is share on the free podcast some extracts from clips from part one and part two of this premium series that I've been working on what you'll get is uh the clip for part one which I'm going to play to you in a moment I recorded it just a few days ago at the end of last week in part one what I did was first of all I had a bit of a ramble so I talked about catching a cold and trying to recover from a cold and I talked about a recent trip I did to England with my two kids and the uh experience of traveling with little children and what that's like and then after that I went for this idea where I would randomly choose several books from my bookshelf here in my podcast room and just read a couple of pages from those books and then use them to teach you English it was a sort of like um an improvised uh rambling premium episode involving a little bit of reading from books and what ended up happening was I think quite interesting and quite entertaining and certainly valuable in terms of learning English so I'm going to play you about 10 minutes from part one and then in part two I'll play you the section where I go through lots of vocabulary that I used in part one so you'll hear me going through about 20 items of vocabulary words phrases that that came up sort of spontaneously in part one okay so as you listen to this clip which I'm about to play to you you can just try to perhaps predict which words and phrases I might be dealing with uh in the second part okay um that's it basically all right premium subscribers by the way you might have already heard this of course you might have heard this stuff already if you haven't you can go and check out the full episodes uh but of course you'll be getting part three part four and other parts of this series later on this week as well so you'll get the full load where I go through all the vocab and do all the other stuff the pronunciation and everything so you'll get the whole series premium subscribers but anyway this is a chance for my free subscribers to just have a little sneak peek a little taste of LEP premium so let's go back a few days now and listen to about 10 minutes of me talking uh at the beginning in part one of premium series 64 here we go hello welcome back to Luke's English podcast premium how are you doing listeners you're doing okay welcome back to to the show so first of all I need to say this that you're you're listening to me right you are hello you are listening hello you you're listening good pay attention um you're listening to me and you might be thinking what happened to your voice Luke right um well uh yeah I've I've been uh recovering from a cold I mean I'm still recovering from a cold so I caught a cold like five six seven days ago I can't remember uh sometime last week I woke up with that feeling at the back of my throat you know the feeling just that little I don't know what it is really just that Sensation that uh uh something's up like I've got a maybe a little tickle at the back of my throat or maybe just the hint of something uncomfortable at the back of the throat and I thought ah oh I think a cold is coming on now what do you do in that situation when you feel like you've got a cold coming on what do you do I mean is there anything you can do I suppose there are different remedies that I don't know about I mean what are they you quickly drink a cup of green tea with lemon and honey in it or something or you quickly you know dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions I don't know what what's what's the method for dealing with that I don't really know uh for me I do try to you know drink a hot drink keep myself warm um and stay positive and just get on with things but sometimes there is no denying the virus which uh has inadvertently infected the body your body somehow and you succumb to a cold why why did I say that in such fancy language what I meant was that in the end there's nothing you can do and you just have to accept that you're that you've you've caught a cold and uh you know there's no way to escape it so anyway I got a cold um and it was just kind of a head cold really this is an expression we use to describe just like a little cold that you catch that only affects your head it doesn't kind of make you feel especially tired it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that um it's just in your head so I got a kind of a blocked up nose I got a kind of a slightly sore throat bit of a cough I've still got a bit of a cough uh but I'm absolutely fine just in case you are worried because I know my listeners when they when you hear that I've got a bit of a sore throat people are concerned and they say to me please look after yourself please look after your throat um but I'm fine and uh in fact I quite like the sound of my voice don't you think don't you think it sounds good it's got a kind of uh slightly grally deeper quality to it which is perfect for recording an episode of this podcast so this is a a premium episode there is as usual there's a video version for this which hardly anyone will watch because um I mean premium subscribers I've got a certain number of Premium subscribers right and yet the episodes don't get the same number of listens so the audio episodes um video versions the com the combined number even is not is usually not as high as the number of Premium subscribers that I have which suggests to me that there are quite a lot of people who've subscribed to Le premium but just don't listen to the episodes or maybe don't know how to do it because it's slightly complicated um I mean I I would talk to those people now and say if you don't know how to listen to the episodes just go to teacher luke. co.uk / premium info but of course that's pointless to say because obviously those people who uh don't know how to listen are not listening so it's difficult to know how to get through to those people an email probably would would be the way to do it which I might do anyway um if you are watching the video version of this which you can find a link to the video in the show notes of this episode which I hope you are listening to in a podcast app on your phone just open up the episode in your podcast app and look at the episode description or show notes and there's a link in there for the video version so if you are if you end up watching the video version you might think that I look a bit tired and the reason for that is I am I am quite tired today uh because um uh well I spent five days uh I went to it's so it's the school holidays in in France at the moment so my kids are not at school and I went to England with them so that means it was just me my wife stayed here she had like lots of work to do so I took the kids to England to stay with my parents and it was a bit exhausting because well first of all my son my daughter's okay she can kind of like look after herself she's fairly self-sufficient these days entertains herself and stuff except when she pesters me to uh tell her a story and just you know just like please tell me a story tell me another story tell me a scary story and I have to tell her story then I have to and then she's like can you make it that wasn't scary at all can you tell me another story so sometimes she goes into this mode where she pesters me to tell her stories over and over and over again um but generally she's quite self-sufficient but my son is uh 15 months old now and he's you know W up on his feet walking around exploring everything climbing on everything and uh pulling every single object uh that he can find towards himself uh and so that means that he he needs to be monitored constantly um so that was a little bit exhausting for me and my parents you know I really don't want to exhaust them I think it can be a bit exhausting you know and they're they're they're you know fairly old these days um which means that so while I was there at my parents house I basically had to be constantly monitoring ing my son which was lovely of course but also quite tiring and uh I only got breaks to kind of have a shower very quickly go to the toilet sometimes do this that and the other but most of the time I was looking after him every time I had to go away one of my parents had to look after my son and that meant sort of following him up the stairs because he he was constantly climbing up the stairs so they had to follow him up the stairs so they were up going up and down the stairs picking him up bending over you know all the sort of things that I don't really want my parents to have to do very much because it makes them tired you know back ache arthritis and things like that so um so it's you know a wonderful uh little five-day trip but very tiring as well and um also you know dealing with having a cold at the same time and the journey really the journeys were perhaps the most exhausting uh so I had a big suitcase with all our stuff in it and it was quite a lot of stuff for three people you know and a lot of kids stuff nappies milk bottles all the rest of it in a big suitcase and then a backpack on my back full of stuff as well including my computer which I didn't even really use while I was there but I thought I'd bring it anyway just in case actually got a spare moment to do some work which I didn't uh anyway backpack full of stuff um and uh then obviously my daughter with her backpack and then a pram and uh my son as well so traveling like walking to the station or walking through train stations going up and downstairs uh just getting from one place to the next go you know getting through onto the train platform getting this getting onto the train all that stuff managing all those things was actually pretty exhausting especially when I've got this big pram with a person in it and a huge suitcase on Wheels and my daughter who's six trying to keep her keep an eye on her so that was also quite exhausting a lot of carrying heavy lifting and stuff and uh certainly on the train um I mean my son slept a bit I'm just rambling have you noticed this is a a rambling episode on Luke's English podcast premium and I'll explain I'll explain stuff in a moment all right but we just we've just jumped straight into full-on rambling here okay I hope you're all right with that I'll be explaining myself and justifying all of this uh in a moment and also explaining why um this is slightly different to the usual kind of Premium episode but anyway let me just continue and tell you why I might look a bit tired today U perhaps I always look tired these days because you know cuz you know I'm you know not getting any younger um anyway what was I saying so anyway yes luckily my son slept a bit in a carrier you know those things that you can use to carry your child so luckily he slept um quite a lot in the carrier in the on the first part of ah do I need to tell you all about it basically it's it's the journey from from here in the center of Paris to where my parents live involves two train Journeys the first going from Paris to uh to my parents place um uh involves a Eurostar that's the train that goes from Paris to London under the uh English Channel under the water that's 2 hours and 20 minutes and then after that we have to get from s panras Station in London to uh Marley Bone station which is um not too far away but still it's either a an underground Journey a a trip on the Underground plus a bit of a walk or two underground lines or we just take a taxi normally we just take a taxi then we have to get another train from uh Marley Bone station to uh a station about an hour and a half away um in the Midlands okay so that's kind of two possibly three train Journeys or a train journey a taxi ride a train journey and a bit of walking and stuff um so he he normally would fall asleep for about an hour on one of those Journeys but for the rest of the time he can't really be contained i' keep him in the pram right or keep him in the carrier but after a certain amount of time he just cannot be contained and he has a big melt down has he has a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing and you know scratching my face and stuff because you can't keep him in one one place like that contained for for too long so at that point I have to let him out and that means he's just loose on the train which means I have to follow him around while he kind of goes up and down on the Eurostar that's all right because there are spaces between sort of at the ends of each train Carriage there's a space with doors and you can kind of hang around there and you don't disturb the passengers too much the other train it's a bit different so anyway you can understand that it involves a lot of sort of improvisation uh for me as a dad trying to make sure that my son uh isn't just all over the floor kind of getting his hands dirty and and isn't disturbing the other passengers and isn't having a crying meltdown and I kind of was partially successful it's sort of like survival really survival parenting um in those situations so so you know two of those trips one there and one on the way back and as a you know that was we got back the day before yesterday so um anyway I'm just still recovering from that I'm a bit frazzled L from that meaning a bit sort of tired a bit worn out but I'm glad to be back doing Luke's English podcast here Luke's English podcast premium okay so that was as I said about 10 minutes I think uh of uh the episode that I did on LP premium just a few days ago and um the rest of that episode includes the moments when I pull a couple of books off the off the shelves here and read some extracts and teach Te You English from them now let me play you a longer clip uh this is about 30 minutes this clip and this is from part two which I recorded actually in the evening when the sun had gone down which is why if you if you're watching the video version of this you'll see that my room was much darker that's why you know cuz the sun had gone down you see my commitment to teaching you English is that I'll even do this in the evening when I should be sitting with my feet up and a nice cup of tea and a hot water bottle no I was was in this podcast room working a way to you know teach you vocabulary anyway right so which bits of vocabulary do you think I'm going to be explaining now which things well you can find out as I now let you listen to a longer clip from part two of premium series 64 with vocab explanations here we go so next you will see the full list with definitions and examples from the episode I'll talk about these things in part two of this series hello that's what I'm doing now after this you can try to do the vocabulary quizzes and any other tasks you find on this PDF below I will talk about all of this and give my answers and responses to the tasks in part two so let's go through the full vocab list number one to recover from something um I'm recovering from a cold I said so to recover from something as you probably can guess is or you may know already is you've been ill and then you get better or you recover right so to recover means to regain health or Str after an illness or a difficult experience okay sometimes it takes a long time to recover from a cold sometimes the cold lingers and it stays with you for ages sometimes you just recover quite quickly um so this phrase emphasizes the process of healing and can apply to both physical and emotional challenges so you can you can recover from sort of any an emotional experience as well you know like a trauma or something like that or uh if you get a shock you know you might need to sit down and recover from it number two to catch a cold okay to catch a cold all right uh for example I caught a cold last week and have been sneezing ever since I don't think I said that I've been sneezing ever since um like I said I've been using some AI tools to help me produce all this work which is why I was able to make this long PDF in quite quick time but using AI occasionally the AI starts to take sort of independent creative decisions and changes things slightly I don't remember saying I've been sneezing ever since maybe I did but I don't think I did anyway I caught a cold last week is the thing so to catch a cold you know um there's a joke there's there's a joke which you won't find funny now because I've already given you the punch line but the joke is what's faster hot or cold what's faster hot or cold well cold no what oh god I ruined it completely what is faster hot or cold well it's hot of course because you can catch a cold um to catch a cold it means just to become ill with a common viral infection like a not a very serious viral infection very common one the common cold characterized by symptoms like a runny nose and a sore throat and a cough and sneezing cough sneezing a chew yeah so catch a cold is a common expression used to describe the onset of this illness have you caught a cold oh I think I've caught a cold you would say I think I have caught a cold yeah I caught a cold last night because I you know I didn't I wasn't wearing my jacket number three a tickle in your throat I said I felt a tickle in my throat I have a little tickle at the back of my throat or I had a little tickle at the back of my throat so that was the feeling that I had um on Thursday morning last week when I felt like I was catching a cold I had a little tickle so a tickle to tickle can be a verb to tickle someone it can also be a noun meaning the feeling of being tickled um if you get a feather you know from a bird you know a feather um part you know a thing from a bird's wing and you take the feather and you rub it under someone's nose stop it it tickles it tickles it tickles stop tickling me right you can feel a tickle in your throat which is like just that little feeling like you you might be catching a cold so it's like a light irritating sensation often in the throat that may prompt coughing or the need to clear one's throats like oh I've just got the I think I might be catching a cold I've got a little tickle at the back of my throat you should have a warm cup of tea with lemon and honey and onion and whiskey and vodka in it just those things okay um yeah and Kuma and papuma and the essence of jinsang and uh tea tree and just everything put everything in the cup of tea literally everything um so I have a little tickle at the back of my throat this phrase is often used to describe the early signs of cold or allergy H okay moving swiftly on number four is a hint a hint of something I had a hint of a cold like little oh is that a cold I think I might be getting a cold little tickle it's just a hint of a cold a hint there's a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere I didn't say that that's AI again being creative but you could say that if you're in a situation where I don't know you've walked into a room and there are people in the room already and you come in and they they stop talking and they all just kind of look at each other and they look at you and then they look down at the floor you're oh uh sorry I didn't mean to interrupt um and they're like no no no no no no no no no fine it's fine it's fine um Can can we help you with anything at all um no no no it's all right never mind right okay okay um great oh okay well I'll just I'll see you later guys all right oh dear what was going on in there there was like a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere so a hint a slight indication or a sort of trace a little bit of a feeling or or condition of something a hint could be an indication something that that helps you realize something but in the case of a catching a cold a little a hint is like a slight clue or light indication that you that you might be catching a cold in the case of that room there was a a hint that something serious was going on or there was something else going on I could just pick picked up on some little Clues um so a hint of something a hint of a cold uh this phrase suggests a subtle presence of something that may not be overtly obvious there was a hint of uh tension in the room or I've uh I got a a little hint of a cold I think um or if you're doing a test and I give you a hint you know well it's a four-letter word starts with s ends in t it's a bit rude H oh is it yes that's the answer what kind of quiz is that I don't know but I gave you a a big hint there as well little clue that suggests something else in this case it was a hint of a cold like that little tickle at the back of my throat and I said I I I felt like a cold was coming on to feel a cold um I felt a cold coming on all right example what do you do when you feel like there's a cold coming on right you can say when you feel there's a cold coming on or when you feel like there's a cold coming on so this is the the the feeling that one is beginning to develop a cold I can feel a cold coming on When You Ah that's it when you can feel a cold coming on so I should change that to can can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on I think I can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on so this this expression is commonly used to discuss preventative measures for an impending illness like when you can feel a cold coming we often will say I can feel a cold coming on and then you would probably talk about things you could do to prevent the cold getting worse what do you do when you when you can feel a cold coming on do you dip your head in a vat of sulfuric acid I mean sure you your head will come off but you won't have a cold anymore um I don't know like there's different that's ridiculous of course um yeah uh but some people you know they do those things like yeah some people like drink a glass of Brandy that's what they would have done in the 19th century for sure or lemon and honey or you know other things inhaling lots of steam from a bowl with a towel over your head things like that so a remedy I'm talking about remedies for a cold a remedy is a treatment or medicine used to cure a disease or to relieve symptoms so what remedy what remedies are there for a sore throat you can get these little lozenges that you can suck which help to um make the the sore throat better that could be a remedy or you can take sort of cough medicine which you drink and it helps to kind of soothe your sore throat um or honey as well so remedies can be natural or pharmaceutical and often vary by culture and personal preference different people have different remedies number seven to dunk your head in a bucket of hot water this was a stupid remedy that I talked about dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions it's no one uses that as a remedy as far as I know that's not like a Trad traditional British Remedy or anything although it kind of sounds like it could be couldn't it drink a pint of cider and dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with old onions works every time in England uh uh to dunk your head so to dunk something in something means to to submerge something briefly okay now in basketball you dunk you slam dunk meaning put the ball in the basket right it's slam dunk but you can dunk other things in other things like you would dunk a Biscuit in your cup of tea and um if you were an idiot you would dunk your entire head in a bucket of hot water so you'd put your head into the hot water and then take it out again so to dunk your head in the water you quickly dunk your head in a bucket of hot water uh here's a comment while while often used in food contexts this verb can also describe a quick immersion for therapeutic purposes yeah all right food context you you might dunk a Biscuit in a cup of tea or you would dunk um um you know if you're frying if you're making tempora or something you would take a vegetable and dunk it in the batter and then dunk that in the in the hot fat or something uh number eight is to deny something to deny something um for example um there is no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body there's no denying it so sometimes you have to just accept that you're catching a cold and there's nothing you can do about it there's no denying the virus so to deny the virus would be to to refuse refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the existence of it it's like no no I'm not no I I I refuse to have a cold no it's not going to happen sorry not possible there it's not sorry you can't deny the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body there's nothing you could do you just have to accept it another example he continues to deny that he has a problem you know this is a person who maybe drinks too much or something or maybe it could have yeah 39 PS of Guinness uh every day 39 pints of Guinness every day but you know Guinness is good for you isn't it it's good for you I don't have a problem I don't you know it's not like I'm drinking 40 pints of Guinness a day so it's fine isn't it still denies that he has a problem I don't have a problem what are you talking about problem he does seem fairly he's he's quite under control and seems quite sober considering he's had 39s a Guinness I'm absolutely fine I tell you well you should see him when he has 40 it all comes crashing down anyway so to deny something this term can reflect emotional social or psychological resistance which is basically where he like no I refuse to accept it I deny uh that I have a problem nope no problem here and also no I don't have a cold no no no cold here you can't deny it sorry you have to accept that the that you've got a cold sometimes inadvertently is number nine so I said um there's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body I was using quite fancy sounding language but inadvertently it's inadvertently infected your body inadvertently just means without intention or just accidentally I mean you know I don't know if viruses are sentient and they're going hm Luke Thompson I will give him a cold now come on let's go party in Luke Thompson's nose um I don't think they're doing that I think it just sort of happens doesn't it um it just happens accidentally without anyone intending for it to happen like you didn't in choose to have a to catch a cold um so this this adverb inadvertently emphasizes that an action was not deliberate often leading to unintended consequences now I was just using fancy language you might say um when I was talking about catching a cold you could also say things like this she inadvertently revealed the surprise party oh uh it'll be fun at the party on Friday whoops oh Susan you gave away the party yeah okay Bob now you know we're having a surprise party for you thanks a lot Susan oh Susan inadvertently revealed the surprise party she did it by accident without intending to do it number 10 to succumb to something I said sometimes there's no denying the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body and you succumb to a cold which is where at the beginning you're like no I refuse to have a cold and I'll just keep calm and carry on and I'm sure I'll be fine and then after two days you're like okay all right I've got a cold and there's nothing I can do about it by the way listeners you can hear that I've got a bit of a blocked nose but again I'm I'm fine despite the way it's affecting my voice so to succumb to something then yeah to succumb to a cold like oh okay right that's it I've got a cold then there's there's no denying it um so this means to yield to a superior Force so basically the cold is like no no no I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it and then you just kind of go all right then I've got a cold so to yield to a superior force or overwhelming desire often resulting in surrender which is like that feeling of like all right then I'll stop fighting it all right I've got a cold I'm going to stay in bed um this phrase implies a sense of helplessness against an external influence you just succumb to it you can also succumb to other things you might succumb to a Temptation we like no I will not eat chocolate cake NOP no chocolate cake for me uh uh uh no way oh there's a chocolate cake no but I'm not eating chocolate cake no no no thanks maybe just a little bit um just a oh I'll go and have a taste M oh that is very good well all right I'll just have one piece that's one piece is all right if it's just one that's okay all right so Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum a I've eaten a whole chocolate cake not that that happens to me um and if you know I don't mean to make fun of that kind of compulsive eating situation which can be you know a problem but anyway I'm just giving an example of the phrase to succumb to a Temptation right um number 11 fancy language so this is language that is elaborate sophisticated or unnecessarily complex and I said why did I say that in such fancy language which was that previous sentence sometimes there is no denying the which has inadvertently infected the body and you succumb to a cold slightly fancy language why did I say it like that so a bit too complex and elaborate so this term often implies a critique of over complication in communication no need to use fancy language just keep it plain and simple so maybe I could have said sometimes you just sometimes you can't stop it and you have to accept that you've got a cold you know you know that would be more normal plain English sometimes it's fun to use fancy language that's all uh fancy is quite an interesting word as an adjective it can mean um it can mean elaborate sophisticated like oh this is a fancy restaurant isn't it oh look at this really Posh Restaurant look at this look at the look at what what they've done to the ceiling wow it's really a really fancy restaurant this so it could mean that which is a bit like fancy language and as a verb it can have sort of several meanings one is that it can mean that you find someone attractive right you think someone is attractive like oh I think she fancies me have you seen the way uh have you seen the way Sandra has been looking at me I think she fancies me I'm going to say I think so yeah do you think so yeah no you're wrong she just needs glasses yeah she that's why she's staring at you she doesn't know who you are oh oh all right okay so she doesn't fancy me she's just blind um yeah uh so it can be that to find someone attractive but also to fancy could mean to to want something which is related to the the previous example I just gave but to fancy a person normally uh but also you can fancy something else like you can fancy an ice cream oh who fancies an ice cream or anyone fancy a pint which is like would anyone like to have a pint of beer anyone fancy a pint there's a pub around the corner so fancy can be like oh elaborate and sophisticated and Posh fancy language could be elaborate sophisticated and maybe unnecessarily complex a fancy restaurant oh very nice and Posh and lovely gorgeous design uh does anyone fancy an ice cream would anyone like to have an ice cream and all you know what I think Sandra fancies you do you see the way she's been looking at you yeah she laughs at all your jokes yeah I think she fancies you mate all right number 12 a head cold if you remember this one it's like I talked about having a cold and I said it's just a head cold so a head cold is a cold that primarily affects the nasal passages that's your nose and sinuses that's like the you know the area the the parts of your nose on the inside causing symptoms like congestion that's where your nose is blocked and headache that's when your head aches for example uh having a head cold it it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that it's just a head cold so this term distinguishes between different types of colds highlighting where symptoms are primarily felt so it's just a head cold number 13 is a blocked up nose a blocked nose or a blocked up nose which you can kind of hear I've still got that's where someone speak like this hello my name is my name is uh whatever right blocked up no my name is Michael Michael Benson um sorry Michael Benson bichael banson no Michael Benson bichel banson who's called Michael banson no it's Michael banson anyway Michael Manson not bichael banson who's called bichel banson you idiot anyway a blocked up nose so this is nasal congestion that makes it difficult to breathe through the nose example I can't taste my food properly with this blocked up nose like oh I feel terrible i've got a blocked up nose and uh so this phrase is often used to describe a common symptom of colds or allergies you get a blocked up nose you get a sore throat get a headache blah blah blah cough number 14 a slightly sore throat can you say that a slightly sore throat a slightly sore throat sore sore throat I've got a slightly sore throat slightly sore if something is sore it means it's painful you know like if you uh if you're skateboarding and you wearing a pair of shorts just a pair of shorts it's a lovely sunny day you're on you're you're in your favorite shorts on a skateboard going down the road and then suddenly whoa whoa you get that speed wobble where the skateboard starts wobbling like I can't stop it wobbling and then you're flying through the air and then bam you land on the road and you scrape along the road and you end up grazing all of the you know you end up skinning your all the skin comes off your elbows and your knees and then you've got very sore elbows and knees similarly if you catch a cold you might get a sore throat I mean you wouldn't fall off a skateboard and get a sore throat or maybe I don't know if you land on your throat if that possible no it's not you could land on your neck which would be very bad news anyway a slightly sore throat like mild pain or discomfort in the throat often a symptom of illness I woke up with a slightly sore throat today uh so this phase suggests the onset meaning the the beginning of illness without severe symptoms um number 15 a gra voice I said um I said my voice has got a kind of slightly grally deeper quality to it which you can hear now hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast with a slightly grally voice so that describes this kind of tone of voice gravel is like little stones that might be put on a path or on a driveway you know when you drive a car uh and park it in front of a house driving over gravel or walking on gravel so that those little stones that might be on a driveway or a path that's known as gravel and so a grally voice is like a voice that sounds like it's got gravel in it a voice that has a rough or raspy quality a okay a comment this term often describes a voice affected by illness or fatigue but can also be a characteristic of certain individuals so it's and it's it can be described it can be kind of um I think it can be kind of an attractive equality in a person's voice especially uh on a night like this uh number 16 oh my God am I going to get through all the vocab well if I don't then so be it I'll just do the rest in another maybe I'll do 32 items and I'll do the rest in another part you know it is what it is isn't it number 16 self-sufficient I was talking about my daughter saying that you know when I travel with my daughter and with my son my son's 15 months old so he needs to be looked after and monitored all the time but my my daughter's like nearly seven and she's fairly self-sufficient these days so if you're self sufficient it means you're able to uh provide for yourself or let's say look after yourself without assistance um that's without assistance that's not without ass sister like she's okay she can look after herself without a sister whereas my brother he needs a sister I mean sorry assistants how many sisters how many assistants oh never mind she can look after herself without assistance without help right she's fairly self-sufficient so the phrase conveys Independence and self-reliance often in personal or financial contexts so she's you know she's able to go to the toilet on her own you can leave her sitting reading a book and you know that she's not going to get up and pull all the books off a bookshelf or pull all the plants out of the plant pots and spread dirt everywhere you know yeah she's fairly self-sufficient unlike my son who is not um number 17 to pester someone so despite the fact that my daughter is fairly self-sufficient certainly in comparison to my son at this moment in time she does pester me uh for certain things so to pester someone is to annoy or bother someone persistently often asking them can I have this can I have this could you do this for me can I do this can I can I watch something can I watch something on the ipad please Daddy please I won't cry I won't cry I won't complain I won't winch I won't pester you it's like you're you're you're already you you're already pestering me what do you mean you won't you're already doing it but I won't winge I won't I promise I won't you're already winging but please but please can I just just just just 20 minutes just just 30 minutes that's another thing she does she'll start negotiating but instead of like making concessions she goes the other way so she'll say just 20 minutes just 20 minutes please Daddy please and you go 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 40 minutes you're like you you can't negotiate like that you're going the wrong way you have to go you have to be like 20 minutes 15 15 minutes 10 just 10 she goes the other way so like you don't know how to negotiate you're 7 years old um but she pesters me me she entertains herself except when she pesters me to tell her a story can you tell me a story can you tell me a scary story please uh it's adorable I love telling her stories but sometimes I have no stories left um so to pester someone this verb often has a a playful connotation but can also Express frustration stop pestering me all the time can I have can I have a sweetie can I have a sweetie please can I have two sweeties number 18 backache and arthritis so I was talking about my parents and saying well I didn't really want them to have to look after my son all the time because they you know they suffer from little things well little things like back ache which is when you're back aches and arthritis which is a condition causing inflammation in the joints so the joints like the elbows the wrists the knees the hips ankles fingers and toes the they become inflamed they swell up this is arthritis it's a very common condition that affects many adults as they get older and uh my mom has arthritis um blesser um and it must be very uncomfortable and I don't want her going around sort of trying to having to climb the stairs after my son and picking him up and stuff my dad has a bit of back had a bit of back ache this weekend my mom's got arthritis so these are common health issues back ache refers to an ache hear it back ache headache ear ache tooth achee right ache um common health issues back ache refers to pain in the back while AR arthritis is a condition causing inflammation in the joints all right for example you know I've been dealing with a back ache arthritis and things like that so both of these terms highlight chronic pain this is pain that sort of doesn't really go away very easily and can be common complaints among various age groups but especially among elderly people older people let's say uh number 19 to have a meltdown to have a tantrum a meltdown or a tantrum so I was describing the behavior of my son when he gets tired if he's you know hungry or frustrated by something he might have a tantrum or have a meltdown uh a tantrum to be honest is the word that's more commonly used with toddlers that's little kids who have recently started to walk um they have a tantrum a temper tantrum or a tantrum you've seen it they throw themselves on the floor they kick their legs and they cry and and make a lot of noise right that's a tantrum I also call it having a meltdown as well although often meltdown is is uh applied to is used to describe the behavior of adults so you might see a sports player having a meltdown like a a tennis player might have a meltdown on the court where they suddenly get incredibly angry and frustrated and they lose control of themselves and they argue with the referee or they throw their their racket on the ground or scream at someone in the audience or something you know like this tennis player had a meltdown on the court this afternoon but um I use it to describe my wife and I use that word to describe what our son does sometimes he has a meltdown or he has a tantrum so to experience a sudden emotional Outburst a meltdown is often characterized by extreme distress while a tantrum is typically associated with children's Behavior but as I said my wife and I use the word meltdown normally used to describe the behavior of adults to describe what our what our children do sometimes for example he just cannot be contained and has a big meltdown he has uh he has he had a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing these phrases often imply a loss of control either emotionally or behaviorally yeah okay um yeah you know what I'm going to stop here okay so that is where I stopped and that was the end of part two of p64 and uh what's going to come next is part three and probably part four I haven't done those yet I'll be working on them this week and in Parts three and four I'll go through the rest of the vocabulary uh from the rest of my ramble where I ended up talking about lots of other things um but I hope you enjoyed that I hope you found it useful if you're a premium subscriber and you can access the PDF um you'll see that it's in sections and after all that vocab stuff all the the vocab list that you saw me going through there after that's done the next section is vocabulary quizzes and then this yeah so the section four is vocab quizzes and also memory prompts and section five is uh discussion questions that use all the vocab I'll just give you a a little look so um I'll just kind of like read through some of the vocab quizzes for the vocab that you've looked at just to give you an idea of what's involved so here are here are three vocab quizzes we'll look at the first one which covers items 1 to 22 in the list we actually only dealt with 1 to 19 I think in in this clip but anyway let's have a look can you can you get these questions right so first of all now some of these are going to be easy right some of them are going to be easy and that's fine you know that's absolutely fine some things you'll just get easily which is great when you get an answer you know an answer you just slap yourself on the back and go well done I know that great let's move on um the ones that you're less sure of this is where you can you know you learn if you don't get it right or you don't know you learn the answers are included on the PDF and you can go back and do these quizzes again and make sure you get 100% correct you know anyway do you know the answers so number one this is pretty easy but what does it mean to recover from something so these quizzes are in different there's different types of task this first one is a simple multiple choice what does it mean to recover from something is it a to lose strength B to regain health or strength regain right or C to ignore a problem I'm recovering from a cold obviously it's B to regain health or strength yeah okay now again when you do things like this right as a learner of English when you do deal with these sorts of tasks you might think oh I know the answer easy peasy but there's a lot more that you can do first of all you could make sure that you know all the other words in all the other options for example to lose strength right to regain Health to ignore a problem and another thing is that you should be able to also use the words in a sentence so you should be able to like say I'm recovering from a cold I've been recovering from a cold I'm going to recover hopefully I will recover uh I will hopefully I will have recovered by the end of next week I've got like a big a big presentation to do at work and hopefully I will have recovered by then you know so it's not just do you know the word do you know what it means but can you use it that's a whole other thing and there are some other tasks on the PDF that help you to do that number two if someone catches a cold that's also easy they a enjoy they're enjoying the weather developing a common viral infection or experiencing allergies So it's b again developing a common viral infection again with this one it's a it's a well-known collocation to catch a cold but in my experience working with Learners of English I've noticed people getting it wrong all the time and it's normally the tense that people get wrong what people don't say is they they don't say I have caught a cold or I'm catching a cold what they what people do is they get the the the grammar of it wrong and they end up saying I am catch a cold or I catch a cold right um and you know obviously it should be I caught a cold like when yesterday I think I caught a cold yesterday but often it's in the present perfect tense I have caught a cold cuz that describes you now present perfect I have caught a cold describes the present I caught a cold past simple describes the past so you might say I caught a cold yesterday I think I caught a cold last night so you'd say when cuz past simple describes the past I have caught a cold describes you now so how are you doing oh I'm all right but I'm feeling a bit under the weather I think I've caught a cold right you should be able to do it like that yeah so it's not just knowing the the word or collocation it's being able to use it right number three a remedy refers to a a type of food b a treatment or medicine or c a vacation the again the answer is is B I hope the answer is not B every time it might be God it is as well it is the answer is always B oh dear oh dear I used uh AI to help me do this and it seems that AI just like well I think I'll just make make this a really easy one and just make B the correct answer every time I don't know anyway maybe that's just chance maybe it's random and it's just chance that it happens to be the second option out of each out of five questions anyway a remedy is a treatment or medicine for example you know drinking a cup of tea with lemon or something is a kind of remedy for a common cold uh for if you have a blocked up nose it means a you can breathe easily B you're experiencing nasal congestion slightly fancy language for a blocked up nose or see you feel great obviously it's B again right and five fancy language is characterized by a simple terms B elaborate and complex wording like you are currently experiencing nasal congestion yes I have a a blocked up nose yeah that's fancy language uh is b b is the answer or is it C just casual speech how are you doing not so I'm all right but I've got a bit of a block sorry what I've got a blocked up note I've got a cold and it's affecting my English I apologize no uh how are you doing oh you know I'm all right just got a bit of a blocked up nose to be honest it's a bit annoying I think I might be coming down with a cold oh there's another one I might be coming down with a cold yeah um so that casual speech yeah elaborate and complex fancy language would be how are you doing I appear to be suffering from the onset of a nasal congestion which may be symptomatic of a common viral infection otherwise known in plain English as the common cold like okay is this one of those viruses that that that infect the grammar node in your brain causing you to speak like that this may be the case yes indeed imagine that if I mean maybe it's possible but imagine if there was a a virus which you could get that would affect your English and why is it also that viruses and things you know when we get sick the the symptoms are always bad I mean this is probably a very stupid observation but why is it always bad you know why don't why don't some viruses like help because if the viruses if what they want now I know that viruses don't think do they I don't think so if what they want is to spread among the human race that's what they want they want to proliferate right then they should probably try and ingratiate themselves with us somehow so instead of making us feel terrible they should make us feel great they should improve they should strengthen us and then we'd be like yes please you've got a cold quick cough in my face now you know I've got an English exam tomorrow quick sneeze on me if that was the case we'd be spreading those viruses around the viruses would be really successful instead it's the opposite and they do they're really horrible we hate having flu and stuff and covid and we do everything we possibly can to eradicate them you know we're injecting ourselves with vaccines we're wearing masks you know that are really annoying especially if you have glasses on your glasses get steamed up all these things that we try to do to avoid getting them they they would they would do better if they if they made us feel good just a little tip there any viruses listening just consider that maybe try and help out a little bit maybe we'll be more willing to accept you in that in that case rather than trying to destroy you I don't know H anyway um part two of the vocab quiz is fill the blanks so this is a little bit more difficult when you feel a cold you may want to take preventative measures when you feel a cold so when you feel like you're starting to catch a cold do you remember do you remember when you feel a cold coming on and it's yeah the ing form I can feel a cold coming on right I feel something happening I can feel a cold coming on yeah number seven two hm someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my lovely daughter constantly requesting stories daddy Daddy can I Daddy can I have a story can I have two stories can I have nine stories please you know I have to tell her I have to tell her I've told her every possible story could ever think of including all the stories I've ever done on Luke's English podcast and every movie plot that I can think of and she wants the scary ones she's like Dad tell me a scary story like should I tell her the plot of alien should I and then I give her like a sanitized child-friendly version of alien like there are some you know people on a spaceship and they've been working really hard and they're traveling back to Earth and there's a distress signal from another planet and they decide because they're helpful they decide to go and investigate cuz some people might be in trouble and when they get there they find all these weird sort of like green pods a bit like seed pods and uh I don't know how I one of them gets um like an alien jumps out and uh oh God Indiana Jones all the Indiana Jones films Back to the Future we actually watched Back to the Future the other day she's six right she's nearly seven we watched Back to the Future and at one point when he was in the 1950 50 s when he'd gone back in time she turned to me and she said dad did they did they really go back in time to make the film I was like what do you mean did they did they actually go did they go back to cuz everything looks everything looks old and I said no no no no they didn't actually go back in time when they made the film that's that's not possible we we can't travel through time no they just they just made it look like the 1950s they used old clothes and everything looked like it did then they just you know it's just a film you know they they they use special effects and then they use old clothes and stuff to make it look like he's gone back but he didn't actually go back in time and she was like all right okay um so to pester someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my daughter's always pestering me to have a sweetie or tell her a story it's adorable really even though it's a bit annoying number eight a throat May indicate the onset of an illness right a I've got a bit of a throat a sore throat or also a tickly throat or an itchy throat there was the word tickle as well to have a tickle in your throat um number nine if you have a h cold you mainly feel symptoms in your head and nose what kind of cold is that it's a a head cold number 10 he T he tends to hm to his emotions rather than address them he tends to something to his emotions rather than address them huh I can't remember that one what's the answer I could go down and check the answers yeah let's do that he tends to he tends to refuse to acknowledge the truth is it refuse to acknowledge the truth no no no no he tends to succumb to his problems he tends to succumb to his problems rather than address them so instead of like dealing with his problems he lets his problems um um control him right I said before to succumb to a cold when a cold is trying to infect you and you fight against it you fight against it and then eventually like oh okay and you just sort of surrender and allow the Cal to win you could you could arguably you could say you could succumb to your emotions as well for example if you are having negative thoughts you know you might try and fight against them try and find ways to stop them um flip them into more positive thinking but um maybe some people would succumb to those negative emotions and end up being kind of unhappy depressed demotivated yeah okay you get the idea right that that's that's um vocab quiz and there's different types matching exercises short answers uh and then also after that after that you you've got memory prompts because it's important to try to recall the words and phrases from memory and use them in sentences now this is difficult and if and you might not remember them all but that's okay the important thing is that you try so here's a memory prompt for example this imagine you've been sick for a few days how would you describe the process of feeling better and it's it's like I'm I'm uh recovering right I'm getting over it this is what you would say I'm recovering from a cold getting over a cold number two what phrase would you use to describe suddenly coming down with a runny nose and sore throat um uh catch yeah I've I've caught a cold I think I'm catching a cold three if you feel a slight irritation in your throat what phrase would you use I've got a tickle at the back of my throat or I think I've got a bit of a sore throat right and we could go on and move on to other so a lot of stuff about catching a cold there but the episode was full of loads of other stuff I mean this is the cold stuff is just the first 5 minutes um if someone is bothering you persistently what verb would describe their behavior they are pestering you what would you call common complaints involving back pain and Joint inflammation I was describing my parents you know they're getting old unfortunately it's a bit sad but you know it happens to the best of us of course uh arthritis is the joint inflam inflammation condition that makes your joint swell up and is painful back pain that's back ache okay what phrase describ someone having an extreme emotional Outburst that would be to have a tantrum right or to have a meltdown as well okay and there's there's loads there's uh memory prompt questions for all of the vocab in the episode series 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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast this is episode number 97 and the idea with this one is that I'm going to share with you a couple of extracts from my most recent series of Luke's English podcast premium so I've been working on premium series 64 uh Parts one and two of that were published just a few days ago so if you are a premium subscriber then check them out um and so what I thought I would do with this episode actually is share on the free podcast some extracts from clips from part one and part two of this premium series that I've been working on what you'll get is uh the clip for part one which I'm going to play to you in a moment I recorded it just a few days ago at the end of last week in part one what I did was first of all I had a bit of a ramble so I talked about catching a cold and trying to recover from a cold and I talked about a recent trip I did to England with my two kids and the uh experience of traveling with little children and what that's like and then after that I went for this idea where I would randomly choose several books from my bookshelf here in my podcast room and just read a couple of pages from those books and then use them to teach you English it was a sort of like um an improvised uh rambling premium episode involving a little bit of reading from books and what ended up happening was I think quite interesting and quite entertaining and certainly valuable in terms of learning English so I'm going to play you about 10 minutes from part one and then in part two I'll play you the section where I go through lots of vocabulary that I used in part one so you'll hear me going through about 20 items of vocabulary words phrases that that came up sort of spontaneously in part one okay so as you listen to this clip which I'm about to play to you you can just try to perhaps predict which words and phrases I might be dealing with uh in the second part okay um that's it basically all right premium subscribers by the way you might have already heard this of course you might have heard this stuff already if you haven't you can go and check out the full episodes uh but of course you'll be getting part three part four and other parts of this series later on this week as well so you'll get the full load where I go through all the vocab and do all the other stuff the pronunciation and everything so you'll get the whole series premium subscribers but anyway this is a chance for my free subscribers to just have a little sneak peek a little taste of LEP premium so let's go back a few days now and listen to about 10 minutes of me talking uh at the beginning in part one of premium series 64 here we go hello welcome back to Luke's English podcast premium how are you doing listeners you're doing okay welcome back to to the show so first of all I need to say this that you're you're listening to me right you are hello you are listening hello you you're listening good pay attention um you're listening to me and you might be thinking what happened to your voice Luke right um well uh yeah I've I've been uh recovering from a cold I mean I'm still recovering from a cold so I caught a cold like five six seven days ago I can't remember uh sometime last week I woke up with that feeling at the back of my throat you know the feeling just that little I don't know what it is really just that Sensation that uh uh something's up like I've got a maybe a little tickle at the back of my throat or maybe just the hint of something uncomfortable at the back of the throat and I thought ah oh I think a cold is coming on now what do you do in that situation when you feel like you've got a cold coming on what do you do I mean is there anything you can do I suppose there are different remedies that I don't know about I mean what are they you quickly drink a cup of green tea with lemon and honey in it or something or you quickly you know dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions I don't know what what's what's the method for dealing with that I don't really know uh for me I do try to you know drink a hot drink keep myself warm um and stay positive and just get on with things but sometimes there is no denying the virus which uh has inadvertently infected the body your body somehow and you succumb to a cold why why did I say that in such fancy language what I meant was that in the end there's nothing you can do and you just have to accept that you're that you've you've caught a cold and uh you know there's no way to escape it so anyway I got a cold um and it was just kind of a head cold really this is an expression we use to describe just like a little cold that you catch that only affects your head it doesn't kind of make you feel especially tired it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that um it's just in your head so I got a kind of a blocked up nose I got a kind of a slightly sore throat bit of a cough I've still got a bit of a cough uh but I'm absolutely fine just in case you are worried because I know my listeners when they when you hear that I've got a bit of a sore throat people are concerned and they say to me please look after yourself please look after your throat um but I'm fine and uh in fact I quite like the sound of my voice don't you think don't you think it sounds good it's got a kind of uh slightly grally deeper quality to it which is perfect for recording an episode of this podcast so this is a a premium episode there is as usual there's a video version for this which hardly anyone will watch because um I mean premium subscribers I've got a certain number of Premium subscribers right and yet the episodes don't get the same number of listens so the audio episodes um video versions the com the combined number even is not is usually not as high as the number of Premium subscribers that I have which suggests to me that there are quite a lot of people who've subscribed to Le premium but just don't listen to the episodes or maybe don't know how to do it because it's slightly complicated um I mean I I would talk to those people now and say if you don't know how to listen to the episodes just go to teacher luke. co.uk / premium info but of course that's pointless to say because obviously those people who uh don't know how to listen are not listening so it's difficult to know how to get through to those people an email probably would would be the way to do it which I might do anyway um if you are watching the video version of this which you can find a link to the video in the show notes of this episode which I hope you are listening to in a podcast app on your phone just open up the episode in your podcast app and look at the episode description or show notes and there's a link in there for the video version so if you are if you end up watching the video version you might think that I look a bit tired and the reason for that is I am I am quite tired today uh because um uh well I spent five days uh I went to it's so it's the school holidays in in France at the moment so my kids are not at school and I went to England with them so that means it was just me my wife stayed here she had like lots of work to do so I took the kids to England to stay with my parents and it was a bit exhausting because well first of all my son my daughter's okay she can kind of like look after herself she's fairly self-sufficient these days entertains herself and stuff except when she pesters me to uh tell her a story and just you know just like please tell me a story tell me another story tell me a scary story and I have to tell her story then I have to and then she's like can you make it that wasn't scary at all can you tell me another story so sometimes she goes into this mode where she pesters me to tell her stories over and over and over again um but generally she's quite self-sufficient but my son is uh 15 months old now and he's you know W up on his feet walking around exploring everything climbing on everything and uh pulling every single object uh that he can find towards himself uh and so that means that he he needs to be monitored constantly um so that was a little bit exhausting for me and my parents you know I really don't want to exhaust them I think it can be a bit exhausting you know and they're they're they're you know fairly old these days um which means that so while I was there at my parents house I basically had to be constantly monitoring ing my son which was lovely of course but also quite tiring and uh I only got breaks to kind of have a shower very quickly go to the toilet sometimes do this that and the other but most of the time I was looking after him every time I had to go away one of my parents had to look after my son and that meant sort of following him up the stairs because he he was constantly climbing up the stairs so they had to follow him up the stairs so they were up going up and down the stairs picking him up bending over you know all the sort of things that I don't really want my parents to have to do very much because it makes them tired you know back ache arthritis and things like that so um so it's you know a wonderful uh little five-day trip but very tiring as well and um also you know dealing with having a cold at the same time and the journey really the journeys were perhaps the most exhausting uh so I had a big suitcase with all our stuff in it and it was quite a lot of stuff for three people you know and a lot of kids stuff nappies milk bottles all the rest of it in a big suitcase and then a backpack on my back full of stuff as well including my computer which I didn't even really use while I was there but I thought I'd bring it anyway just in case actually got a spare moment to do some work which I didn't uh anyway backpack full of stuff um and uh then obviously my daughter with her backpack and then a pram and uh my son as well so traveling like walking to the station or walking through train stations going up and downstairs uh just getting from one place to the next go you know getting through onto the train platform getting this getting onto the train all that stuff managing all those things was actually pretty exhausting especially when I've got this big pram with a person in it and a huge suitcase on Wheels and my daughter who's six trying to keep her keep an eye on her so that was also quite exhausting a lot of carrying heavy lifting and stuff and uh certainly on the train um I mean my son slept a bit I'm just rambling have you noticed this is a a rambling episode on Luke's English podcast premium and I'll explain I'll explain stuff in a moment all right but we just we've just jumped straight into full-on rambling here okay I hope you're all right with that I'll be explaining myself and justifying all of this uh in a moment and also explaining why um this is slightly different to the usual kind of Premium episode but anyway let me just continue and tell you why I might look a bit tired today U perhaps I always look tired these days because you know cuz you know I'm you know not getting any younger um anyway what was I saying so anyway yes luckily my son slept a bit in a carrier you know those things that you can use to carry your child so luckily he slept um quite a lot in the carrier in the on the first part of ah do I need to tell you all about it basically it's it's the journey from from here in the center of Paris to where my parents live involves two train Journeys the first going from Paris to uh to my parents place um uh involves a Eurostar that's the train that goes from Paris to London under the uh English Channel under the water that's 2 hours and 20 minutes and then after that we have to get from s panras Station in London to uh Marley Bone station which is um not too far away but still it's either a an underground Journey a a trip on the Underground plus a bit of a walk or two underground lines or we just take a taxi normally we just take a taxi then we have to get another train from uh Marley Bone station to uh a station about an hour and a half away um in the Midlands okay so that's kind of two possibly three train Journeys or a train journey a taxi ride a train journey and a bit of walking and stuff um so he he normally would fall asleep for about an hour on one of those Journeys but for the rest of the time he can't really be contained i' keep him in the pram right or keep him in the carrier but after a certain amount of time he just cannot be contained and he has a big melt down has he has a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing and you know scratching my face and stuff because you can't keep him in one one place like that contained for for too long so at that point I have to let him out and that means he's just loose on the train which means I have to follow him around while he kind of goes up and down on the Eurostar that's all right because there are spaces between sort of at the ends of each train Carriage there's a space with doors and you can kind of hang around there and you don't disturb the passengers too much the other train it's a bit different so anyway you can understand that it involves a lot of sort of improvisation uh for me as a dad trying to make sure that my son uh isn't just all over the floor kind of getting his hands dirty and and isn't disturbing the other passengers and isn't having a crying meltdown and I kind of was partially successful it's sort of like survival really survival parenting um in those situations so so you know two of those trips one there and one on the way back and as a you know that was we got back the day before yesterday so um anyway I'm just still recovering from that I'm a bit frazzled L from that meaning a bit sort of tired a bit worn out but I'm glad to be back doing Luke's English podcast here Luke's English podcast premium okay so that was as I said about 10 minutes I think uh of uh the episode that I did on LP premium just a few days ago and um the rest of that episode includes the moments when I pull a couple of books off the off the shelves here and read some extracts and teach Te You English from them now let me play you a longer clip uh this is about 30 minutes this clip and this is from part two which I recorded actually in the evening when the sun had gone down which is why if you if you're watching the video version of this you'll see that my room was much darker that's why you know cuz the sun had gone down you see my commitment to teaching you English is that I'll even do this in the evening when I should be sitting with my feet up and a nice cup of tea and a hot water bottle no I was was in this podcast room working a way to you know teach you vocabulary anyway right so which bits of vocabulary do you think I'm going to be explaining now which things well you can find out as I now let you listen to a longer clip from part two of premium series 64 with vocab explanations here we go so next you will see the full list with definitions and examples from the episode I'll talk about these things in part two of this series hello that's what I'm doing now after this you can try to do the vocabulary quizzes and any other tasks you find on this PDF below I will talk about all of this and give my answers and responses to the tasks in part two so let's go through the full vocab list number one to recover from something um I'm recovering from a cold I said so to recover from something as you probably can guess is or you may know already is you've been ill and then you get better or you recover right so to recover means to regain health or Str after an illness or a difficult experience okay sometimes it takes a long time to recover from a cold sometimes the cold lingers and it stays with you for ages sometimes you just recover quite quickly um so this phrase emphasizes the process of healing and can apply to both physical and emotional challenges so you can you can recover from sort of any an emotional experience as well you know like a trauma or something like that or uh if you get a shock you know you might need to sit down and recover from it number two to catch a cold okay to catch a cold all right uh for example I caught a cold last week and have been sneezing ever since I don't think I said that I've been sneezing ever since um like I said I've been using some AI tools to help me produce all this work which is why I was able to make this long PDF in quite quick time but using AI occasionally the AI starts to take sort of independent creative decisions and changes things slightly I don't remember saying I've been sneezing ever since maybe I did but I don't think I did anyway I caught a cold last week is the thing so to catch a cold you know um there's a joke there's there's a joke which you won't find funny now because I've already given you the punch line but the joke is what's faster hot or cold what's faster hot or cold well cold no what oh god I ruined it completely what is faster hot or cold well it's hot of course because you can catch a cold um to catch a cold it means just to become ill with a common viral infection like a not a very serious viral infection very common one the common cold characterized by symptoms like a runny nose and a sore throat and a cough and sneezing cough sneezing a chew yeah so catch a cold is a common expression used to describe the onset of this illness have you caught a cold oh I think I've caught a cold you would say I think I have caught a cold yeah I caught a cold last night because I you know I didn't I wasn't wearing my jacket number three a tickle in your throat I said I felt a tickle in my throat I have a little tickle at the back of my throat or I had a little tickle at the back of my throat so that was the feeling that I had um on Thursday morning last week when I felt like I was catching a cold I had a little tickle so a tickle to tickle can be a verb to tickle someone it can also be a noun meaning the feeling of being tickled um if you get a feather you know from a bird you know a feather um part you know a thing from a bird's wing and you take the feather and you rub it under someone's nose stop it it tickles it tickles it tickles stop tickling me right you can feel a tickle in your throat which is like just that little feeling like you you might be catching a cold so it's like a light irritating sensation often in the throat that may prompt coughing or the need to clear one's throats like oh I've just got the I think I might be catching a cold I've got a little tickle at the back of my throat you should have a warm cup of tea with lemon and honey and onion and whiskey and vodka in it just those things okay um yeah and Kuma and papuma and the essence of jinsang and uh tea tree and just everything put everything in the cup of tea literally everything um so I have a little tickle at the back of my throat this phrase is often used to describe the early signs of cold or allergy H okay moving swiftly on number four is a hint a hint of something I had a hint of a cold like little oh is that a cold I think I might be getting a cold little tickle it's just a hint of a cold a hint there's a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere I didn't say that that's AI again being creative but you could say that if you're in a situation where I don't know you've walked into a room and there are people in the room already and you come in and they they stop talking and they all just kind of look at each other and they look at you and then they look down at the floor you're oh uh sorry I didn't mean to interrupt um and they're like no no no no no no no no no fine it's fine it's fine um Can can we help you with anything at all um no no no it's all right never mind right okay okay um great oh okay well I'll just I'll see you later guys all right oh dear what was going on in there there was like a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere so a hint a slight indication or a sort of trace a little bit of a feeling or or condition of something a hint could be an indication something that that helps you realize something but in the case of a catching a cold a little a hint is like a slight clue or light indication that you that you might be catching a cold in the case of that room there was a a hint that something serious was going on or there was something else going on I could just pick picked up on some little Clues um so a hint of something a hint of a cold uh this phrase suggests a subtle presence of something that may not be overtly obvious there was a hint of uh tension in the room or I've uh I got a a little hint of a cold I think um or if you're doing a test and I give you a hint you know well it's a four-letter word starts with s ends in t it's a bit rude H oh is it yes that's the answer what kind of quiz is that I don't know but I gave you a a big hint there as well little clue that suggests something else in this case it was a hint of a cold like that little tickle at the back of my throat and I said I I I felt like a cold was coming on to feel a cold um I felt a cold coming on all right example what do you do when you feel like there's a cold coming on right you can say when you feel there's a cold coming on or when you feel like there's a cold coming on so this is the the the feeling that one is beginning to develop a cold I can feel a cold coming on When You Ah that's it when you can feel a cold coming on so I should change that to can can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on I think I can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on so this this expression is commonly used to discuss preventative measures for an impending illness like when you can feel a cold coming we often will say I can feel a cold coming on and then you would probably talk about things you could do to prevent the cold getting worse what do you do when you when you can feel a cold coming on do you dip your head in a vat of sulfuric acid I mean sure you your head will come off but you won't have a cold anymore um I don't know like there's different that's ridiculous of course um yeah uh but some people you know they do those things like yeah some people like drink a glass of Brandy that's what they would have done in the 19th century for sure or lemon and honey or you know other things inhaling lots of steam from a bowl with a towel over your head things like that so a remedy I'm talking about remedies for a cold a remedy is a treatment or medicine used to cure a disease or to relieve symptoms so what remedy what remedies are there for a sore throat you can get these little lozenges that you can suck which help to um make the the sore throat better that could be a remedy or you can take sort of cough medicine which you drink and it helps to kind of soothe your sore throat um or honey as well so remedies can be natural or pharmaceutical and often vary by culture and personal preference different people have different remedies number seven to dunk your head in a bucket of hot water this was a stupid remedy that I talked about dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions it's no one uses that as a remedy as far as I know that's not like a Trad traditional British Remedy or anything although it kind of sounds like it could be couldn't it drink a pint of cider and dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with old onions works every time in England uh uh to dunk your head so to dunk something in something means to to submerge something briefly okay now in basketball you dunk you slam dunk meaning put the ball in the basket right it's slam dunk but you can dunk other things in other things like you would dunk a Biscuit in your cup of tea and um if you were an idiot you would dunk your entire head in a bucket of hot water so you'd put your head into the hot water and then take it out again so to dunk your head in the water you quickly dunk your head in a bucket of hot water uh here's a comment while while often used in food contexts this verb can also describe a quick immersion for therapeutic purposes yeah all right food context you you might dunk a Biscuit in a cup of tea or you would dunk um um you know if you're frying if you're making tempora or something you would take a vegetable and dunk it in the batter and then dunk that in the in the hot fat or something uh number eight is to deny something to deny something um for example um there is no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body there's no denying it so sometimes you have to just accept that you're catching a cold and there's nothing you can do about it there's no denying the virus so to deny the virus would be to to refuse refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the existence of it it's like no no I'm not no I I I refuse to have a cold no it's not going to happen sorry not possible there it's not sorry you can't deny the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body there's nothing you could do you just have to accept it another example he continues to deny that he has a problem you know this is a person who maybe drinks too much or something or maybe it could have yeah 39 PS of Guinness uh every day 39 pints of Guinness every day but you know Guinness is good for you isn't it it's good for you I don't have a problem I don't you know it's not like I'm drinking 40 pints of Guinness a day so it's fine isn't it still denies that he has a problem I don't have a problem what are you talking about problem he does seem fairly he's he's quite under control and seems quite sober considering he's had 39s a Guinness I'm absolutely fine I tell you well you should see him when he has 40 it all comes crashing down anyway so to deny something this term can reflect emotional social or psychological resistance which is basically where he like no I refuse to accept it I deny uh that I have a problem nope no problem here and also no I don't have a cold no no no cold here you can't deny it sorry you have to accept that the that you've got a cold sometimes inadvertently is number nine so I said um there's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body I was using quite fancy sounding language but inadvertently it's inadvertently infected your body inadvertently just means without intention or just accidentally I mean you know I don't know if viruses are sentient and they're going hm Luke Thompson I will give him a cold now come on let's go party in Luke Thompson's nose um I don't think they're doing that I think it just sort of happens doesn't it um it just happens accidentally without anyone intending for it to happen like you didn't in choose to have a to catch a cold um so this this adverb inadvertently emphasizes that an action was not deliberate often leading to unintended consequences now I was just using fancy language you might say um when I was talking about catching a cold you could also say things like this she inadvertently revealed the surprise party oh uh it'll be fun at the party on Friday whoops oh Susan you gave away the party yeah okay Bob now you know we're having a surprise party for you thanks a lot Susan oh Susan inadvertently revealed the surprise party she did it by accident without intending to do it number 10 to succumb to something I said sometimes there's no denying the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body and you succumb to a cold which is where at the beginning you're like no I refuse to have a cold and I'll just keep calm and carry on and I'm sure I'll be fine and then after two days you're like okay all right I've got a cold and there's nothing I can do about it by the way listeners you can hear that I've got a bit of a blocked nose but again I'm I'm fine despite the way it's affecting my voice so to succumb to something then yeah to succumb to a cold like oh okay right that's it I've got a cold then there's there's no denying it um so this means to yield to a superior Force so basically the cold is like no no no I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it and then you just kind of go all right then I've got a cold so to yield to a superior force or overwhelming desire often resulting in surrender which is like that feeling of like all right then I'll stop fighting it all right I've got a cold I'm going to stay in bed um this phrase implies a sense of helplessness against an external influence you just succumb to it you can also succumb to other things you might succumb to a Temptation we like no I will not eat chocolate cake NOP no chocolate cake for me uh uh uh no way oh there's a chocolate cake no but I'm not eating chocolate cake no no no thanks maybe just a little bit um just a oh I'll go and have a taste M oh that is very good well all right I'll just have one piece that's one piece is all right if it's just one that's okay all right so Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum a I've eaten a whole chocolate cake not that that happens to me um and if you know I don't mean to make fun of that kind of compulsive eating situation which can be you know a problem but anyway I'm just giving an example of the phrase to succumb to a Temptation right um number 11 fancy language so this is language that is elaborate sophisticated or unnecessarily complex and I said why did I say that in such fancy language which was that previous sentence sometimes there is no denying the which has inadvertently infected the body and you succumb to a cold slightly fancy language why did I say it like that so a bit too complex and elaborate so this term often implies a critique of over complication in communication no need to use fancy language just keep it plain and simple so maybe I could have said sometimes you just sometimes you can't stop it and you have to accept that you've got a cold you know you know that would be more normal plain English sometimes it's fun to use fancy language that's all uh fancy is quite an interesting word as an adjective it can mean um it can mean elaborate sophisticated like oh this is a fancy restaurant isn't it oh look at this really Posh Restaurant look at this look at the look at what what they've done to the ceiling wow it's really a really fancy restaurant this so it could mean that which is a bit like fancy language and as a verb it can have sort of several meanings one is that it can mean that you find someone attractive right you think someone is attractive like oh I think she fancies me have you seen the way uh have you seen the way Sandra has been looking at me I think she fancies me I'm going to say I think so yeah do you think so yeah no you're wrong she just needs glasses yeah she that's why she's staring at you she doesn't know who you are oh oh all right okay so she doesn't fancy me she's just blind um yeah uh so it can be that to find someone attractive but also to fancy could mean to to want something which is related to the the previous example I just gave but to fancy a person normally uh but also you can fancy something else like you can fancy an ice cream oh who fancies an ice cream or anyone fancy a pint which is like would anyone like to have a pint of beer anyone fancy a pint there's a pub around the corner so fancy can be like oh elaborate and sophisticated and Posh fancy language could be elaborate sophisticated and maybe unnecessarily complex a fancy restaurant oh very nice and Posh and lovely gorgeous design uh does anyone fancy an ice cream would anyone like to have an ice cream and all you know what I think Sandra fancies you do you see the way she's been looking at you yeah she laughs at all your jokes yeah I think she fancies you mate all right number 12 a head cold if you remember this one it's like I talked about having a cold and I said it's just a head cold so a head cold is a cold that primarily affects the nasal passages that's your nose and sinuses that's like the you know the area the the parts of your nose on the inside causing symptoms like congestion that's where your nose is blocked and headache that's when your head aches for example uh having a head cold it it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that it's just a head cold so this term distinguishes between different types of colds highlighting where symptoms are primarily felt so it's just a head cold number 13 is a blocked up nose a blocked nose or a blocked up nose which you can kind of hear I've still got that's where someone speak like this hello my name is my name is uh whatever right blocked up no my name is Michael Michael Benson um sorry Michael Benson bichael banson no Michael Benson bichel banson who's called Michael banson no it's Michael banson anyway Michael Manson not bichael banson who's called bichel banson you idiot anyway a blocked up nose so this is nasal congestion that makes it difficult to breathe through the nose example I can't taste my food properly with this blocked up nose like oh I feel terrible i've got a blocked up nose and uh so this phrase is often used to describe a common symptom of colds or allergies you get a blocked up nose you get a sore throat get a headache blah blah blah cough number 14 a slightly sore throat can you say that a slightly sore throat a slightly sore throat sore sore throat I've got a slightly sore throat slightly sore if something is sore it means it's painful you know like if you uh if you're skateboarding and you wearing a pair of shorts just a pair of shorts it's a lovely sunny day you're on you're you're in your favorite shorts on a skateboard going down the road and then suddenly whoa whoa you get that speed wobble where the skateboard starts wobbling like I can't stop it wobbling and then you're flying through the air and then bam you land on the road and you scrape along the road and you end up grazing all of the you know you end up skinning your all the skin comes off your elbows and your knees and then you've got very sore elbows and knees similarly if you catch a cold you might get a sore throat I mean you wouldn't fall off a skateboard and get a sore throat or maybe I don't know if you land on your throat if that possible no it's not you could land on your neck which would be very bad news anyway a slightly sore throat like mild pain or discomfort in the throat often a symptom of illness I woke up with a slightly sore throat today uh so this phase suggests the onset meaning the the beginning of illness without severe symptoms um number 15 a gra voice I said um I said my voice has got a kind of slightly grally deeper quality to it which you can hear now hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast with a slightly grally voice so that describes this kind of tone of voice gravel is like little stones that might be put on a path or on a driveway you know when you drive a car uh and park it in front of a house driving over gravel or walking on gravel so that those little stones that might be on a driveway or a path that's known as gravel and so a grally voice is like a voice that sounds like it's got gravel in it a voice that has a rough or raspy quality a okay a comment this term often describes a voice affected by illness or fatigue but can also be a characteristic of certain individuals so it's and it's it can be described it can be kind of um I think it can be kind of an attractive equality in a person's voice especially uh on a night like this uh number 16 oh my God am I going to get through all the vocab well if I don't then so be it I'll just do the rest in another maybe I'll do 32 items and I'll do the rest in another part you know it is what it is isn't it number 16 self-sufficient I was talking about my daughter saying that you know when I travel with my daughter and with my son my son's 15 months old so he needs to be looked after and monitored all the time but my my daughter's like nearly seven and she's fairly self-sufficient these days so if you're self sufficient it means you're able to uh provide for yourself or let's say look after yourself without assistance um that's without assistance that's not without ass sister like she's okay she can look after herself without a sister whereas my brother he needs a sister I mean sorry assistants how many sisters how many assistants oh never mind she can look after herself without assistance without help right she's fairly self-sufficient so the phrase conveys Independence and self-reliance often in personal or financial contexts so she's you know she's able to go to the toilet on her own you can leave her sitting reading a book and you know that she's not going to get up and pull all the books off a bookshelf or pull all the plants out of the plant pots and spread dirt everywhere you know yeah she's fairly self-sufficient unlike my son who is not um number 17 to pester someone so despite the fact that my daughter is fairly self-sufficient certainly in comparison to my son at this moment in time she does pester me uh for certain things so to pester someone is to annoy or bother someone persistently often asking them can I have this can I have this could you do this for me can I do this can I can I watch something can I watch something on the ipad please Daddy please I won't cry I won't cry I won't complain I won't winch I won't pester you it's like you're you're you're already you you're already pestering me what do you mean you won't you're already doing it but I won't winge I won't I promise I won't you're already winging but please but please can I just just just just 20 minutes just just 30 minutes that's another thing she does she'll start negotiating but instead of like making concessions she goes the other way so she'll say just 20 minutes just 20 minutes please Daddy please and you go 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 40 minutes you're like you you can't negotiate like that you're going the wrong way you have to go you have to be like 20 minutes 15 15 minutes 10 just 10 she goes the other way so like you don't know how to negotiate you're 7 years old um but she pesters me me she entertains herself except when she pesters me to tell her a story can you tell me a story can you tell me a scary story please uh it's adorable I love telling her stories but sometimes I have no stories left um so to pester someone this verb often has a a playful connotation but can also Express frustration stop pestering me all the time can I have can I have a sweetie can I have a sweetie please can I have two sweeties number 18 backache and arthritis so I was talking about my parents and saying well I didn't really want them to have to look after my son all the time because they you know they suffer from little things well little things like back ache which is when you're back aches and arthritis which is a condition causing inflammation in the joints so the joints like the elbows the wrists the knees the hips ankles fingers and toes the they become inflamed they swell up this is arthritis it's a very common condition that affects many adults as they get older and uh my mom has arthritis um blesser um and it must be very uncomfortable and I don't want her going around sort of trying to having to climb the stairs after my son and picking him up and stuff my dad has a bit of back had a bit of back ache this weekend my mom's got arthritis so these are common health issues back ache refers to an ache hear it back ache headache ear ache tooth achee right ache um common health issues back ache refers to pain in the back while AR arthritis is a condition causing inflammation in the joints all right for example you know I've been dealing with a back ache arthritis and things like that so both of these terms highlight chronic pain this is pain that sort of doesn't really go away very easily and can be common complaints among various age groups but especially among elderly people older people let's say uh number 19 to have a meltdown to have a tantrum a meltdown or a tantrum so I was describing the behavior of my son when he gets tired if he's you know hungry or frustrated by something he might have a tantrum or have a meltdown uh a tantrum to be honest is the word that's more commonly used with toddlers that's little kids who have recently started to walk um they have a tantrum a temper tantrum or a tantrum you've seen it they throw themselves on the floor they kick their legs and they cry and and make a lot of noise right that's a tantrum I also call it having a meltdown as well although often meltdown is is uh applied to is used to describe the behavior of adults so you might see a sports player having a meltdown like a a tennis player might have a meltdown on the court where they suddenly get incredibly angry and frustrated and they lose control of themselves and they argue with the referee or they throw their their racket on the ground or scream at someone in the audience or something you know like this tennis player had a meltdown on the court this afternoon but um I use it to describe my wife and I use that word to describe what our son does sometimes he has a meltdown or he has a tantrum so to experience a sudden emotional Outburst a meltdown is often characterized by extreme distress while a tantrum is typically associated with children's Behavior but as I said my wife and I use the word meltdown normally used to describe the behavior of adults to describe what our what our children do sometimes for example he just cannot be contained and has a big meltdown he has uh he has he had a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing these phrases often imply a loss of control either emotionally or behaviorally yeah okay um yeah you know what I'm going to stop here okay so that is where I stopped and that was the end of part two of p64 and uh what's going to come next is part three and probably part four I haven't done those yet I'll be working on them this week and in Parts three and four I'll go through the rest of the vocabulary uh from the rest of my ramble where I ended up talking about lots of other things um but I hope you enjoyed that I hope you found it useful if you're a premium subscriber and you can access the PDF um you'll see that it's in sections and after all that vocab stuff all the the vocab list that you saw me going through there after that's done the next section is vocabulary quizzes and then this yeah so the section four is vocab quizzes and also memory prompts and section five is uh discussion questions that use all the vocab I'll just give you a a little look so um I'll just kind of like read through some of the vocab quizzes for the vocab that you've looked at just to give you an idea of what's involved so here are here are three vocab quizzes we'll look at the first one which covers items 1 to 22 in the list we actually only dealt with 1 to 19 I think in in this clip but anyway let's have a look can you can you get these questions right so first of all now some of these are going to be easy right some of them are going to be easy and that's fine you know that's absolutely fine some things you'll just get easily which is great when you get an answer you know an answer you just slap yourself on the back and go well done I know that great let's move on um the ones that you're less sure of this is where you can you know you learn if you don't get it right or you don't know you learn the answers are included on the PDF and you can go back and do these quizzes again and make sure you get 100% correct you know anyway do you know the answers so number one this is pretty easy but what does it mean to recover from something so these quizzes are in different there's different types of task this first one is a simple multiple choice what does it mean to recover from something is it a to lose strength B to regain health or strength regain right or C to ignore a problem I'm recovering from a cold obviously it's B to regain health or strength yeah okay now again when you do things like this right as a learner of English when you do deal with these sorts of tasks you might think oh I know the answer easy peasy but there's a lot more that you can do first of all you could make sure that you know all the other words in all the other options for example to lose strength right to regain Health to ignore a problem and another thing is that you should be able to also use the words in a sentence so you should be able to like say I'm recovering from a cold I've been recovering from a cold I'm going to recover hopefully I will recover uh I will hopefully I will have recovered by the end of next week I've got like a big a big presentation to do at work and hopefully I will have recovered by then you know so it's not just do you know the word do you know what it means but can you use it that's a whole other thing and there are some other tasks on the PDF that help you to do that number two if someone catches a cold that's also easy they a enjoy they're enjoying the weather developing a common viral infection or experiencing allergies So it's b again developing a common viral infection again with this one it's a it's a well-known collocation to catch a cold but in my experience working with Learners of English I've noticed people getting it wrong all the time and it's normally the tense that people get wrong what people don't say is they they don't say I have caught a cold or I'm catching a cold what they what people do is they get the the the grammar of it wrong and they end up saying I am catch a cold or I catch a cold right um and you know obviously it should be I caught a cold like when yesterday I think I caught a cold yesterday but often it's in the present perfect tense I have caught a cold cuz that describes you now present perfect I have caught a cold describes the present I caught a cold past simple describes the past so you might say I caught a cold yesterday I think I caught a cold last night so you'd say when cuz past simple describes the past I have caught a cold describes you now so how are you doing oh I'm all right but I'm feeling a bit under the weather I think I've caught a cold right you should be able to do it like that yeah so it's not just knowing the the word or collocation it's being able to use it right number three a remedy refers to a a type of food b a treatment or medicine or c a vacation the again the answer is is B I hope the answer is not B every time it might be God it is as well it is the answer is always B oh dear oh dear I used uh AI to help me do this and it seems that AI just like well I think I'll just make make this a really easy one and just make B the correct answer every time I don't know anyway maybe that's just chance maybe it's random and it's just chance that it happens to be the second option out of each out of five questions anyway a remedy is a treatment or medicine for example you know drinking a cup of tea with lemon or something is a kind of remedy for a common cold uh for if you have a blocked up nose it means a you can breathe easily B you're experiencing nasal congestion slightly fancy language for a blocked up nose or see you feel great obviously it's B again right and five fancy language is characterized by a simple terms B elaborate and complex wording like you are currently experiencing nasal congestion yes I have a a blocked up nose yeah that's fancy language uh is b b is the answer or is it C just casual speech how are you doing not so I'm all right but I've got a bit of a block sorry what I've got a blocked up note I've got a cold and it's affecting my English I apologize no uh how are you doing oh you know I'm all right just got a bit of a blocked up nose to be honest it's a bit annoying I think I might be coming down with a cold oh there's another one I might be coming down with a cold yeah um so that casual speech yeah elaborate and complex fancy language would be how are you doing I appear to be suffering from the onset of a nasal congestion which may be symptomatic of a common viral infection otherwise known in plain English as the common cold like okay is this one of those viruses that that that infect the grammar node in your brain causing you to speak like that this may be the case yes indeed imagine that if I mean maybe it's possible but imagine if there was a a virus which you could get that would affect your English and why is it also that viruses and things you know when we get sick the the symptoms are always bad I mean this is probably a very stupid observation but why is it always bad you know why don't why don't some viruses like help because if the viruses if what they want now I know that viruses don't think do they I don't think so if what they want is to spread among the human race that's what they want they want to proliferate right then they should probably try and ingratiate themselves with us somehow so instead of making us feel terrible they should make us feel great they should improve they should strengthen us and then we'd be like yes please you've got a cold quick cough in my face now you know I've got an English exam tomorrow quick sneeze on me if that was the case we'd be spreading those viruses around the viruses would be really successful instead it's the opposite and they do they're really horrible we hate having flu and stuff and covid and we do everything we possibly can to eradicate them you know we're injecting ourselves with vaccines we're wearing masks you know that are really annoying especially if you have glasses on your glasses get steamed up all these things that we try to do to avoid getting them they they would they would do better if they if they made us feel good just a little tip there any viruses listening just consider that maybe try and help out a little bit maybe we'll be more willing to accept you in that in that case rather than trying to destroy you I don't know H anyway um part two of the vocab quiz is fill the blanks so this is a little bit more difficult when you feel a cold you may want to take preventative measures when you feel a cold so when you feel like you're starting to catch a cold do you remember do you remember when you feel a cold coming on and it's yeah the ing form I can feel a cold coming on right I feel something happening I can feel a cold coming on yeah number seven two hm someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my lovely daughter constantly requesting stories daddy Daddy can I Daddy can I have a story can I have two stories can I have nine stories please you know I have to tell her I have to tell her I've told her every possible story could ever think of including all the stories I've ever done on Luke's English podcast and every movie plot that I can think of and she wants the scary ones she's like Dad tell me a scary story like should I tell her the plot of alien should I and then I give her like a sanitized child-friendly version of alien like there are some you know people on a spaceship and they've been working really hard and they're traveling back to Earth and there's a distress signal from another planet and they decide because they're helpful they decide to go and investigate cuz some people might be in trouble and when they get there they find all these weird sort of like green pods a bit like seed pods and uh I don't know how I one of them gets um like an alien jumps out and uh oh God Indiana Jones all the Indiana Jones films Back to the Future we actually watched Back to the Future the other day she's six right she's nearly seven we watched Back to the Future and at one point when he was in the 1950 50 s when he'd gone back in time she turned to me and she said dad did they did they really go back in time to make the film I was like what do you mean did they did they actually go did they go back to cuz everything looks everything looks old and I said no no no no they didn't actually go back in time when they made the film that's that's not possible we we can't travel through time no they just they just made it look like the 1950s they used old clothes and everything looked like it did then they just you know it's just a film you know they they they use special effects and then they use old clothes and stuff to make it look like he's gone back but he didn't actually go back in time and she was like all right okay um so to pester someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my daughter's always pestering me to have a sweetie or tell her a story it's adorable really even though it's a bit annoying number eight a throat May indicate the onset of an illness right a I've got a bit of a throat a sore throat or also a tickly throat or an itchy throat there was the word tickle as well to have a tickle in your throat um number nine if you have a h cold you mainly feel symptoms in your head and nose what kind of cold is that it's a a head cold number 10 he T he tends to hm to his emotions rather than address them he tends to something to his emotions rather than address them huh I can't remember that one what's the answer I could go down and check the answers yeah let's do that he tends to he tends to refuse to acknowledge the truth is it refuse to acknowledge the truth no no no no he tends to succumb to his problems he tends to succumb to his problems rather than address them so instead of like dealing with his problems he lets his problems um um control him right I said before to succumb to a cold when a cold is trying to infect you and you fight against it you fight against it and then eventually like oh okay and you just sort of surrender and allow the Cal to win you could you could arguably you could say you could succumb to your emotions as well for example if you are having negative thoughts you know you might try and fight against them try and find ways to stop them um flip them into more positive thinking but um maybe some people would succumb to those negative emotions and end up being kind of unhappy depressed demotivated yeah okay you get the idea right that that's that's um vocab quiz and there's different types matching exercises short answers uh and then also after that after that you you've got memory prompts because it's important to try to recall the words and phrases from memory and use them in sentences now this is difficult and if and you might not remember them all but that's okay the important thing is that you try so here's a memory prompt for example this imagine you've been sick for a few days how would you describe the process of feeling better and it's it's like I'm I'm uh recovering right I'm getting over it this is what you would say I'm recovering from a cold getting over a cold number two what phrase would you use to describe suddenly coming down with a runny nose and sore throat um uh catch yeah I've I've caught a cold I think I'm catching a cold three if you feel a slight irritation in your throat what phrase would you use I've got a tickle at the back of my throat or I think I've got a bit of a sore throat right and we could go on and move on to other so a lot of stuff about catching a cold there but the episode was full of loads of other stuff I mean this is the cold stuff is just the first 5 minutes um if someone is bothering you persistently what verb would describe their behavior they are pestering you what would you call common complaints involving back pain and Joint inflammation I was describing my parents you know they're getting old unfortunately it's a bit sad but you know it happens to the best of us of course uh arthritis is the joint inflam inflammation condition that makes your joint swell up and is painful back pain that's back ache okay what phrase describ someone having an extreme emotional Outburst that would be to have a tantrum right or to have a meltdown as well okay and there's there's loads there's uh memory prompt questions for all of the vocab in the episode series and then also we've got you you got the answers and then you've got conversation questions for speaking practice so these are ones that you can use to just practice just trying to use the vocab in conversation now you can do this with a conversation partner if you have one someone that you can practice English with or you can do it on your own like this like the way I'm going to do it uh for example let's have a look at uh a hint of something can you recall a time when you sensed a hint of tension in a group what happened h a hint of tension can you remember a time when you when you sensed a hints a hint of tension in a group now you might not be able to think of an an example you might think oh I need to find a real example of when I sensed a hint of tension in a group you can't think of a real one don't worry just make something up it doesn't matter you're just trying to practice the language right it's not lying it's just creative practice so you'd say um I mean if you're with a conversation partner you would say I can't remember time but I'll just make something up and then they go okay and then you say yeah last week I went into um I went into a into a bank and I looked around and everyone was like really seemed really tense no one was moving some people were even like lying down on the floor with their hands over their heads and I was like what's going on here it was like a very tense atmosphere just like was a weird sort of hint of tension in this Bank why is everyone not moving and some people have got guns and they pointing them what's going on here anyway I'll get my money out have a nice day everyone H strange hint of tension in that bank obvious that's a ridiculous situation that I walked into in the middle of a bank robbery but anyway you could also say I walked into uh I walked into the staff room at work and there was a hint of tension in the room I think that maybe someone had just had a little disagreement or maybe that they're unhappy with our 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907. Catching a Cold 🤧 Travelling with Children 👶 LEP Premium Sample Episode [P64]

The central figure is shown covering its ears, recoiling in a moment of overwhelming sensory and psychological distress.

Merkezdeki figür, kulaklarını kapatmış, yoğun bir duyusal ve psikolojik sıkıntı anında geri çekilirken gösteriliyor.

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Its body seems to ripple and dissolve in the same way that the landscape does, suggesting that the figure is being consumed by the overwhelming feeling, which is coming to him through nature.

Vücudu, manzaranın yaptığı gibi dalgalanıp çözülüyor gibi görünüyor; bu da figürün, doğa aracılığıyla kendisine gelen bunaltıcı duygu tarafından tüketildiğini düşündürüyor.

The Trip to Norway 🇳🇴 Learn Vocabulary in Context [952]

We have an overwhelming amount of like, Jesus, you can call them baby making houses in Orange County where it's literally just a bunch of Chinese women in a house and they're just pregnant and they're giving citizenship to their kids.

Orange County'de, Tanrım, bebek yapma evleri diyebileceğiniz, içinde sadece bir grup Çinli kadının olduğu ve sadece hamile olup çocuklarına vatandaşlık kazandırdıkları inanılmaz sayıda ev var.

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