The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“a lot of very intellectual people get into meditation and they will still stay in their heads and be almost like ignore everything in the…”
“it's not technically true that the body keeps a score but the body is the scorecard I think that's a better way of framing it”
“I think people are afraid they're going to lose their Edge because up until now they have been driven by that like anxiety or fear…”
“the nervous system of an organization is is a mirror or is a reflection of the nervous system of the leader”
“what I would offer is that there's actually no amount of money that will make you feel safe internally”
“money becomes this thing if I get enough of it I'll feel safe and that story is bollocks”
“there are these physiological levers that we can use to upshift or downshift our state depending on what is appropriate”
“we have what's known as a window of tolerance so everyone's tolerance is you know bigger or smaller depending on our capacity to be with…”
“one way is like people will go towards anger frustration like aggression and the other is more like collapsing shut down withdrawing and just becoming…”
“it is very rare for me to get angry mhm but it's very common for me to get more into that state where I'm just…”
“what happens when we make any of these emotional experiences bad or wrong is that kind of cuts it short so it's like this mobilization…”
“she's mad at a teacher she's not releasing it at the teacher cuz that would be destructive she's really releasing it in a safe place”
“my teacher said to me you are loved in your anger and I just like I like rage came through”
“people who have a like a healthy relationship to anger there's also more aliveness more capacity to set boundaries more capacity to say no”
“if something actually lands in you that's that's it's like it's like a signpost that there is something in there”
“the feeling that we think is bad is actually our resistance to feeling it it's not the feeling itself”
“I was engaged uh to an amazing actually Junior medic Junior doctor her name was Sophie she had bipolar disorder and on October 23rd 2017…”
“I felt so much like joy and Bliss and love and I was like I was confused I was like but wait I meant to…”
“free diving really connected me to interception which is this word we were talking about where you take a a huge breath of air you…”
“in order to get deeper you have to tune into your internal experience and just like soften and relax”
“there's a belief that I feel strongly about I have conviction in that Joy is actually our default State”
“the word anxiety the the root or the atmology of that word is to constrict”
“what is the feeling beneath that that this goal you think this goal would give you but you can actually give yourself in a much…”
“the first word that comes to mind is safety interestingly because I have in my mind the idea”
“traditionally yoga was the ASAS was seen as a means of creating the conditions for meditation to be easy”
“back bends can be activating they stimulate the sympathetic nervous system forward folds especially if they're held for like two or 3 minutes they're very…”
“when you're with the sensations the life cycle of these emotions is between 10 to 20 seconds it's really it's short”
“Joy comes from or emerges on the other side of of being willing to welcome and feel the full spectrum of our Human Experience”
“there was this sense of like ambition but it was really me trying to prove myself to other people”
“it's almost like the fuel source got got changed so like when I was younger the fuel source was mostly if I'm honest oriented towards…”
“keep running those experiments for yourself tracking how it changes your internal State”
“there's actually four times more neurons going from my body to our brain then from our brain to our body”