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All right, this is round two of this
episode.
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I recorded it last night and I totally
messed it up.
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So let's see if we can get a better job.
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I'm gonna be looking all different places.
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I don't know.
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I did some research.
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I'm supposed to look at the camera, but I
got notes right here and then the fucking,
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I don't know.
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I said that before.
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Anyway, this video thing's weird to me, so
I'll get used to it.
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But anyway, so I'll start off with a
couple updates.
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I remember saying this.
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I think it was on the live.
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If you're not checking it out, I'm going
live on Instagram at machine studio every
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Thursday at 3 .30 PM Pacific and every
Sunday at 2 PM Pacific.
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Just answering questions is talking to
people about whatever they want to talk
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about.
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So if that's of interest to you, hop on
there at machine studio.
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What I mentioned there was just a quick
update on, you know, I'll move the notes
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over here.
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So at least the.
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Now I'm looking at my notes.
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Now I'm looking at you.
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Look at that.
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Okay.
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Well, fuck it's harder read them.
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I'm a mess.
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The updates, I got, I got three interviews
lined up.
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So I wanted to get a few done before I
start putting them on the weekly rotation.
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And so we have a guy from graffiti
archive.
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I still don't know how he's going to be
referred to maybe his first name or I'm
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not too sure, but.
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graffiti archive at on Instagram, the
graffiti archive.
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He's got tons of cool photos from LA
graffiti from the dating back to the 80s
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up until recent times.
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So it'll be really interesting to talk to
him and see kind of like how he sees, you
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know, the the cult how he saw the culture
unfold over the years and all this kind of
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stuff.
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He's also he was a writer.
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I don't know.
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I'll let him tell the story.
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So then also got skill from UTI and the
host of classic burners podcast.
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I'm really excited to talk to him.
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There's going to be, I don't know, we'll
see what kind of topics we get into, but
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he's done a lot of cool things.
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And I don't know, we'll see what the
conversation goes.
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And then Kyle from Devastator is going to
be on at some point.
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So I'm thinking if I get a few of those
recorded, then we'll be consistent every
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week and I'll be doing these every week.
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And then the interviews.
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I don't want to call them interviews
because I'm hoping there'll be more like a
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conversation like how Cub and I used to
be.
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So we'll see, see how that goes.
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But I want to get a few lined up before I
get too far into it.
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All right.
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So I'm already wasting time.
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So let's get into the topic.
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I was thinking about this idea of, and I
don't know if it's the right terminology,
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but it's like being addicted to different
types of thought patterns.
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And I was researching this because I'm
kind of stuck in this.
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I was kind of stuck in this negative
pattern, you know, and I talked about this
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a little bit a couple episodes back.
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And the sort of idea is, I'm gonna be
looking over here at my bullet points.
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So I got bullet points I wanna get
through, but.
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One of the things that I think is
happening is one, I've created a habit of
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thinking this way.
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And this is how it affects me personally,
but I think other people can relate to
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this.
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It's like when you set a thermostat in
your house, and I've used this analogy a
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long time ago, but you set a thermostat in
your house, let's say you set it to 70
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degrees.
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As the temperature outside changes, it's
gonna keep either heating or cooling the
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house to keep it.
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at that level.
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So you're always going to end up back at
70 degrees.
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So if you're continuously thinking certain
types of thoughts, like my, my thing is
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like, I worry a lot.
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So I worry about all this kind of stuff
about like my business, you know, having
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problems.
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I worry about my dogs getting sick.
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I worry about something happening to Jesse
when she's out.
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And, and a lot of times it's irrational.
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You know, I just, I'm just that that's how
I've always been.
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And so what I think has happened is I've
created a habit of having those kinds of
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thoughts.
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And so, for example, I've mentioned this
before, like I pretty consistently wake up
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in the middle of the night and I start
stressing out about shit.
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And I think it's, I think I've wired my
brain right now to think that that's the
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baseline.
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Like I've set the thermostat at like
stressed out about shit.
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And so whenever I wake up or whenever, you
know,
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I'm just going about my day.
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I feel like my brain is trying to get me
back to that baseline that it thinks I'm
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supposed to be at.
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So I started researching some other
concepts along these lines to see if there
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was some truth to being addicted to this
kind of stuff, because I was thinking
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about it and I was like, like, I know I
have a phone addiction.
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Like I don't, I don't doom scroll a whole
lot, but I do.
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I'm posting.
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content across all these different
platforms.
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So I post on Instagram, I post on
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok.
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So like, I always have this compulsion to
like, go and look at all those things and
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see like, messages and, you know,
notifications and respond to comments and
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all that kind of stuff.
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And well, I'm, you know, I feel like it's
what I need to do.
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to grow my business and grow the brand and
all that stuff.
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but there is a compulsion to like grab the
phone all the time when, you know, I think
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it'd be health more healthy to maybe have
set times a day where I'm like, okay, I'm
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gonna post at this time and then I'll
respond to comments and respond to stuff
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within this timeframe and then leave it
for a while.
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And then, you know, so go in and check in
and clear out all the messages, clear out
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all the comments and do all that kind of
stuff all in one shot, but.
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What's happening now is like I'm just
picking up the phone all the time like
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anytime I have downtime I'll pick up the
phone and I'll I'll check the DMS.
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I'll check the messages check the
Notifications all this kind of stuff
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respond to comments I'll do all that stuff
like over and over again throughout the
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day So I've formed this habit of always
grabbing the phone anytime, you know,
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there's downtime and I don't think that's
a healthy habit.
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I I'm Fairly certain that it isn't I mean
it doesn't make sense.
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I
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to do that.
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So I'm trying to limit that and trying to
use the phone that, you know, the phone
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has the shit on there where you can see
how much time you spent on it in a day.
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So I'm trying to get those numbers down,
but I kind of got off lost track of where
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I was going, but I feel like, I know what
I was talking about.
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So the same feeling that I get when I'm
sitting there and I'm not doing anything,
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the same feeling I get like the desire to
grab the phone.
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it's kind of the same pull that I feel to
start stressing out about stuff.
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So for example, when I wake up in the
middle of the night, a lot of times when I
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wake up, if I catch myself early enough,
the first thing I do is try to tell
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myself, don't think about anything and
like try to kind of maintain control over
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my mind so that it doesn't start going off
on a tangent of worrying about something.
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And so I feel like those things feel the
same to me.
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So that's, that's where I kind of thought
maybe that is that it is sort of a form of
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addiction.
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So one of the things I came up with, I
didn't come up with, I came across it.
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It's, I'll just read it to you.
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It's, it says, that there's biological
factors in this.
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So stress and negative thoughts can
trigger the release of certain chemicals
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in the brain, like cortisol and
adrenaline, which can become addictive
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over time as the body gets used to
functioning with these elevated levels.
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So doesn't that kind of seem like, you
know, you're creating this habit of
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stressing out.
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I am, but I'm sure other people do this.
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I know other people do this.
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I've had this conversation before.
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So when you do that, your brain releases
these chemicals because my understanding
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of it is like, even though I'm stressing
out about stuff like my dog getting sick
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or, or my business having problems or
Jesse, something happened to Jesse, like
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she got in a car accident or something.
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Those are pretty irrational thoughts to a
certain extent.
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I mean worry isn't really gonna solve any
of those problems not like I Don't know.
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So there's there's not a lot of
rationality instead of word rationality be
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around all that stuff but what I
understand is that your brain is wired to
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react to those kind of thoughts because It
it it believes you're in danger so it's
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gonna reduce
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it's going to release these chemical neuro
chemicals, I think they're called their
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neurotransmitters.
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It's going to release these things to help
you overcome that situation that you're
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in.
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So it's my understanding is it's from like
back when we were out in the food chain.
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So when you start to stress out your
brain's like, okay, fight or flight mode,
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you know, let's get ready to run or fight
or whatever.
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So it's releasing things to
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to kind of strengthen you and get you
prepared for whatever it is that you're
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about to get into.
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So if you're sitting here just having
those thoughts, then you're kind of
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putting your brain in that mode.
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And so that's why I think, that's my
understanding of why it releases those
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chemicals.
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And then when it does that, the way I see
it happening is it's like you're setting
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the thermostat that like, this is where we
need to be.
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This is our baseline.
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So if you...
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You get super stressed out.
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It's going to want to take you back down
to that level.
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But if you're like calm and relaxed down
here, it's going to want to pull you back
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up.
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So, I, I find that pretty interesting.
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And I also find it a little bit empowering
when you think about it, because like any
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other habit, you can, you could choose to
form that the habit of the other side, you
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know, of, of maybe having more positive
thoughts and calming, you know, relaxing
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thoughts or something like that.
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So I'm gonna go through some of these
other things.
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I got my pointer here, but these two
monitors are kind of screwing me up a
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little bit.
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So I can scroll down a little.
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One thing I came across and I'll just read
this.
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It says there's psychological comfort.
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So...
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This isn't a word I use paradoxically.
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I think that's it.
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Paradoxically, negative thoughts can
provide a form of psychological comfort or
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familiarity, even if they are harmful.
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This familial, how are we done with that
word?
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This familiarity can make it difficult to
break the cycle.
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So I kind of see that as like, you know,
your comfort zone when you think about it.
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So.
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You know, we, we have that in all of these
different things.
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Your comfort zone of like speaking in
front of people or, or graffiti is like a
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good example.
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Like I have my comfort zones of different
styles that I like to do.
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And when I, when I think about trying to
venture out, of those, of those comfort
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zones, it's, it's kind of stressful.
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You know, I think about, you know, going
on the, on a wall and just kind of like
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free styling and trying to come up with
some new shit.
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it's kind of a stressful thing because you
put it out there in the public and then,
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you know, it might look like shit and you,
you know, you might not be happy with
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that.
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But, I think the same could be said about
if you're sort of conditioned to have
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these kinds of different thought patterns.
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And for me, it's like worrying all the
time.
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Maybe that is my comfort zone.
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And I just need to kind of get
uncomfortable and form the habit of, you
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know, kind of breaking into a different,
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do a different way of thinking.
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Because I know I...
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I'm not like stressed out 24 hours a day.
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It's just when I do get into those phases
where I am more stressed than normal,
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it's, it's pretty problematic cause I'm
not as productive.
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And then that stresses me out, you know?
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So.
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So I have some bullet points here on how
to overcome it and some of the things that
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I'm doing.
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It's pretty similar to a lot of the things
I talk about, but I'll try to.
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I'll try to cover it in a way that's very
specific to this.
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So one thing I talk about all the time is
meditation and mindfulness.
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So.
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There's two ways to look at, at this.
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And so for me, I started meditating
probably around 2009, 2010.
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And I used to do it very consistently
where I would set time aside and meditate
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for like 20 minutes.
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And then eventually it sort of turned into
something that I think is not, optimal.
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I think, I don't know.
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It's, it's not ideal.
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I don't think, because now I find myself
just using it when I need it.
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And I think I was better off when I was
doing it consistently.
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So the way I see it is like, if you're
doing it consistently, I see it like
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physical exercise.
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So when you're, when you're exercising
consistently, your, your body is just
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operating better.
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And I think like you're releasing
endorphins and, you know, the more
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consistent you're up, you're, exercising,
the better your health is overall.
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So the better your heart health is your
resting heart rate may go down.
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to a more healthy level.
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All these kinds of things happen with the
consistency.
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It's not like you just exercise every now
and then when you think you need it.
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And I feel like meditating is similar to
that.
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So you're gonna...
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It's similar, but different.
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So like, let's say you're on a consistent
schedule by doing that, you automatically
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lower your stress levels because you're,
first of all, you're giving, depending on
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the kind of meditation you do, the kind of
meditation I do is mainly given your mind
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a break and you try to focus on, you know,
different things.
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There's, there's lots, lots of other ways
to do it.
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So you can, you can choose a mantra that I
think that's, how the transcendental
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meditation works.
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Well, you don't.
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I don't know.
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I don't know enough about it to say but my
understanding is you don't choose a mantra
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you have to have some paid guy do it but I
don't know.
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I don't do that.
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Not saying it's bad.
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I just never really.
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I never really looked into it.
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So the type of meditation I do is just
like focusing on your breathing.
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And there's some other ones too.
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I won't get too far into it, but it's
mainly just drawing your focus onto
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something else other than just letting
your mind run wild.
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And by doing that, you're giving your mind
a break.
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And I think by doing that consistently,
you're automatically sort of introducing
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more calm and, I don't know, stillness or
whatever into your life.
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So the consistency of doing that.
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The other thing that, that, that's really
powerful about it is when you do it a lot,
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like when you first start, it's really
hard to, to turn your mind off and quiet
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your mind.
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It's still, I mean, it's, I think it's
always hard unless you're really, really
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good at it, but it's, in the beginning,
it's especially difficult and it almost
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seems impossible for, for a lot of people.
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So over time, the more you practice.
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So the idea is like, let's say you were
going to do the breath one.
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If I would say if you're going to do it,
start, start small, just, just maybe two
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minutes or something like that.
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Don't try to do 20 minutes all at once.
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Cause it might, might be frustrating.
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So if let's say you set a timer for two
minutes and your whole goal is to focus on
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your breath for that whole two minutes,
what's going to happen for most people is
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your brain is immediately going to start
just thinking about all kinds of stuff.
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And then you got to keep reeling it back
in and bringing your focus back to the.
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your breath.
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And so the more you practice that the
better you get at it to the point where
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like you can shut your your thoughts off
immediately and I can do that now it's
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just the trick is keeping them off.
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So like I can I can just shut everything
off like like if a song is stuck in my
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head I can just completely stop it you
know immediately but then it creeps creeps
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back in it's it's hard to keep it all you
know calm and quiet in there.
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but that's the skill you can develop.
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So if you're getting really stressed out
about something, it's a pretty powerful
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thing to be able to, to quiet your
thoughts.
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And I learned to do that through
meditation.
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So another thing I've talked about before
is gratitude practice.
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There's a lot of different ways to do
that.
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A lot of people, you know, do gratitude
journaling where it has you list like
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several things to be grateful for and, you
know, be grateful for the good things in
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your life.
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But I choose to do a different one.
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And I've talked about it before.
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I got it from that, the guy, Marcus
Anderson, the host of the Octa non -verbal
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podcast.
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And so he, he talks about.
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The way he refers to that gratitude
practice of being grateful for the stuff
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that's good in your life.
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I think he calls that like bullshit
gratitude or something.
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Cause his idea is that it's easy to be
grateful for the things that are good
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because those are the good things in your
life.
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Not so much saying that you shouldn't be
grateful for those things, but at the same
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time, being grateful for the things that
are hard, I think is more powerful.
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And that's what I got from him.
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That's the kind of practice that I do.
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So when I practice gratitude, I try to, I
try to focus on all the things that are
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bothering me the most and be grateful for
those things because I know that's where
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all the lessons are.
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I know that that's where all the growth
is.
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You know, you grow through adversity and
hardships more than you grow through
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things, you know, being easy.
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It's like, it's like if you go to the gym
and you, you kind of just do like a, a
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real easy.
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workout, you don't really push yourself at
all, you're not going to make you're not
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going to gain as much.
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I don't know, whatever your goal is,
you're not going to improve whatever that
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is as fast as if you really pushed
yourself and put yourself into a more
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difficult situations.
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So when I do practice gratitude, I do I do
try to find great gratitude for those
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things that are hard.
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And I immediately start to feel a little
better.
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I think.
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For everything, the trick is, is when you
do these things, the stuff starts creeping
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back in.
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And that's the hard part.
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Okay, so the next one I have is a physical
activity.
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So I talk about this all the time.
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That I think for my mental health, the
best thing that I ever did was get get in
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shape and create more healthy habits as
far as eating healthy and working out
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regularly.
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I'm always
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I'm always struggling with consistency.
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So I need to get better about that for
sure.
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But when I was living very unhealthy and I
was on antidepressants and I was doing all
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this extracurricular stuff that was
fucking with me, I didn't really feel like
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I had a chance to get out of this mess,
you know?
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And I'm not saying my mental health is
like perfect now, but it's way better than
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it used to be.
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And so getting myself healthy, creating
more healthy habits in my life,
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around physical activity and food.
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I was able to get off the antidepressants.
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And I know there's people that should be
on it no matter what you do.
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So I'm not trying to give any advice.
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Whatever it is that you need to do, that's
up to you to figure out.
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But for me, I was kind of like, I don't
think I'm supposed to be on these things.
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I think the only reason that I am on them
is because I'm living an unhealthy
00:20:24
lifestyle and these things are kind of
helping, you know, not.
00:20:29
be so fucked up in the head when I'm not
treating myself well.
00:20:34
So there's a lot of research around how
physical activity really helps your mental
00:20:41
health.
00:20:41
And I think it's probably one of the best
things you could do.
00:20:43
So another thing I've been working really
hard on is sleep hygiene.
00:20:46
I don't know.
00:20:47
That's not my word.
00:20:48
That's something I came across.
00:20:51
So establishing regular sleep routines
and.
00:20:54
trying to make your environment more sleep
friendly, I guess you could say.
00:21:01
And so a couple of things that I've been
doing is, lately I've been reading before
00:21:06
bed.
00:21:06
I find like it calms my mind.
00:21:09
I also did what's called a sleep
chronotype test.
00:21:13
And when you go on there, you answer a
bunch of questions and then it tells you
00:21:16
sort of what your ideal bed and sleep and
your ideal bedtime and wake up time is.
00:21:23
And I remember I was trying to get up
really early, like five or six, five or
00:21:27
five thirty in the morning.
00:21:29
And I would crash around one thirty or two
o 'clock.
00:21:32
And after I did the sleep chronotype test,
it said that it classifies you as an
00:21:38
animal.
00:21:38
And I think it classified me as a bear.
00:21:40
And it said that bears are supposed to
sleep, you know, around bedtime, around 11
00:21:47
p and wake up around 7 a So.
00:21:50
It was, it was a little bit later than I
was normally waking up, but I tried it and
00:21:54
it was one of the best things that I ever
did for, for a lot of things, honestly,
00:21:59
because moving my bedtime and wake up time
to what it suggested actually found I
00:22:07
didn't crash in the afternoon anymore.
00:22:09
So I still have some trouble sleeping in
terms of waking up.
00:22:12
I can fall asleep real easy, but I, I wake
up, in the middle of the night pretty
00:22:19
regularly.
00:22:19
So.
00:22:21
But anyway, so even though I do wake up in
the middle of the night, I still find I
00:22:27
have energy throughout the day.
00:22:28
So I think finding that sleep chronotype
is something that can help a lot of
00:22:33
people.
00:22:33
The other thing I did was...
00:22:38
Was I bought one of those sleep masks?
00:22:40
It feels really weird to wear it, but like
in the morning about five in the morning,
00:22:45
it starts getting light and then the room
gets light.
00:22:47
I know I can put blackout curtains up, but
part of me wants to have the sun come in.
00:22:53
I don't know.
00:22:55
I feel like if I had blackout curtains,
like I would never want to get up.
00:22:58
So at least with the sleep mask, I can
raise it up and based on how light it is
00:23:06
in the room, I'll know.
00:23:07
you know, it's about time to get up.
00:23:10
But I found that really helpful because if
I was if I if I had woke up around four o
00:23:16
'clock in the morning and I was having
trouble falling asleep, then it starts
00:23:20
getting light out.
00:23:21
That would be very challenging to get, you
know, to sleep until seven or at least lay
00:23:26
there until seven.
00:23:27
So the sleep mask was really helpful for
me.
00:23:30
So the other thing is breathing exercises.
00:23:35
I used to do box breathing and a lot of
people find it super helpful, but I never
00:23:41
really felt like it was working for me.
00:23:42
I don't know if maybe I was doing it
wrong, but the box breathing, my
00:23:46
understanding of it is you inhale for four
seconds, hold it for four seconds, exhale
00:23:52
for four seconds, hold for four seconds,
and you do that cycle several times.
00:23:57
And it's supposed to...
00:23:59
can't remember what the terminology is,
but it sort of shifts your brain into
00:24:03
slight like a different mode.
00:24:04
And it reduces your stress levels.
00:24:07
I used to do that a lot when I would get
really stressed out, especially when I
00:24:11
wake up in the middle of the night, I just
didn't find it worked for me.
00:24:14
But I, I came across this video, like just
a couple days ago.
00:24:21
What's his name?
00:24:22
David Huberman, something Huberman, I
can't always forget his name.
00:24:28
I don't know, I'll link it in the notes.
00:24:30
So if you're on YouTube, it'll be in the
cap or in the, yeah, in the description or
00:24:34
caption.
00:24:35
I don't know what they call them on audio.
00:24:38
It'll be in the show notes, but this, this
breathing technique, like the way he
00:24:44
described it, he said, it's going to
immediately reduce your stress levels.
00:24:47
And I was like, yeah, yeah, right.
00:24:48
But it, the shit works so fucking well.
00:24:51
So like what you're supposed to do is
you're supposed to inhale.
00:24:57
like a full inhale and then you kind of do
a sharp inhale at the end to like kind of
00:25:03
sneak in a little bit more air and then
you exhale slowly and you do that three
00:25:08
times.
00:25:09
And it's amazing how fast your stress
levels go down.
00:25:12
So I use it all the time.
00:25:14
Well, I forgot about it.
00:25:16
So I didn't use it for a few days.
00:25:18
And then when I was getting ready to
record this episode, I came across it
00:25:21
again and I was like, shit, I forgot about
that.
00:25:24
And so I started doing it again and it is
just so helpful.
00:25:27
The video is only four minutes long.
00:25:28
So I'll link it.
00:25:29
I would suggest taking a look at it
because this was like really, really
00:25:33
helpful for me.
00:25:36
back to the idea.
00:25:37
The another thing in the, in my bullet
points here is journaling.
00:25:40
So, the way that I find it helpful is when
I'm even when I'm not really stressed out,
00:25:47
but my mind is just,
00:25:49
going over all of these different things
that I have to do.
00:25:51
Like I have to contact this person.
00:25:53
I have to do this.
00:25:54
I have to do that.
00:25:55
And you know, I do the power list.
00:25:58
So I write down what I need to do that
day, but then there's always all these
00:26:01
little things and.
00:26:03
And like problems that I'm going to have
to address at some point, but there's no
00:26:06
like bullet point or, you know, task that
I need to take care of, but it's something
00:26:11
that's occupying space in my mind.
00:26:14
And so the former journaling that I find
helpful is doing kind of like a brain
00:26:19
dump.
00:26:19
So if my mind is going through all that
stuff, I just sit down at my desk and I'll
00:26:23
just write all of that shit down.
00:26:26
And once I'm done clearing everything out,
I find, that I'm a lot calmer because I
00:26:32
feel like.
00:26:34
By doing that, you're sort of giving your
brain permission to not run through all
00:26:39
that shit.
00:26:39
It's almost like your mind knows, okay,
all this stuff's written down.
00:26:43
So now I don't have to like hold on to all
this shit anymore.
00:26:46
So I find that really helpful.
00:26:48
trying to keep these two things that I
already do.
00:26:51
But I think this one that I came across
is, is, is important and it's seeking
00:26:57
professional help if you need it.
00:26:59
So, you know, if you're really struggling
and you can't get ahold of it, then I
00:27:07
would, I would highly suggest seeking
professional help.
00:27:11
I can't speak from experience cause I
don't really have any, I've
00:27:15
Talk to people like a handful of times
over the years, but it's been a really
00:27:18
long time and it's not something that I
do.
00:27:21
But I do know that, you know, I've lost
some people in my life that, you know, I
00:27:30
have to wonder if they, if they had, you
know, if they had reached out, you know,
00:27:36
maybe they would still be here.
00:27:37
So if you're really struggling, I would
say like, just drop any.
00:27:43
I don't know.
00:27:44
I don't know what holds people back.
00:27:45
I would assume they're like maybe some
shame or some embarrassment or or
00:27:50
something.
00:27:50
I don't know.
00:27:51
Maybe it's money.
00:27:51
There's probably some
00:27:55
There's probably there's probably all
kinds of resources if you just Google it.
00:27:58
But if you're really struggling, you know,
I don't see any problem with doing that.
00:28:04
And maybe I don't know, maybe I could
benefit from that.
00:28:06
I don't really know.
00:28:07
It's not something that I've done, but
came across it and I thought it seemed
00:28:12
well.
00:28:13
I mean, it's obvious.
00:28:14
Yeah, do it.
00:28:15
Do it if you need it.
00:28:16
The other thing, visualization techniques.
00:28:19
I talked about this in the focus episode,
so I won't go too crazy about this.
00:28:24
But.
00:28:25
One thing that I don't do this, but what I
found when I was researching is people
00:28:30
were talking about visualizing peaceful
scenes or positive outcomes, you know, so
00:28:35
like the peaceful scenes, I've never tried
that.
00:28:37
So I don't really know, but I have seen
that before where people have talked
00:28:42
about, you know, when you're really
stressed out, if you visualize a place
00:28:48
where you were happy.
00:28:49
So like, maybe there was like some fucking
river that you went to as a kid or
00:28:52
something like that.
00:28:54
If you kind of visualize, visualize
yourself there and do it in great detail,
00:29:00
like hear the water, you know, feel the
ground that you're sitting on and just
00:29:04
look around, you know, see little rocks
and all this kind of shit.
00:29:08
See if you can see shit in the water, like
really get super detailed about how you're
00:29:13
visualizing.
00:29:14
I would imagine that would take you into a
more calm and peaceful state.
00:29:19
Although I've never done it.
00:29:21
But I do do the other kind of
visualization where I picture like things
00:29:25
that I want in the future.
00:29:26
So like I had said in the focus episode
about going to the facility that machine's
00:29:31
going to have in the future.
00:29:33
And so, I mean, that calms me down, but I
think it's a lot of it has to do with
00:29:39
you're taking your mind out of whatever
stressful kind of thoughts that you're
00:29:43
having and you're focusing on something
else that's positive.
00:29:47
So I'm a big fan of that.
00:29:49
So that's all I have that I just got to
the end of my bullet points.
00:29:53
So I'll, I'll do a quick recap and then,
then we'll get out of here.
00:29:58
So we started off with the concept that
maybe you're creating a habit of whatever
00:30:04
kind of thought patterns you have.
00:30:05
So for me, it's kind of like worry or this
kind of impending doom type of shit.
00:30:09
So what I feel like I've done is created a
habit.
00:30:11
So whatever that is for you, you may be
creating these, these habits of different
00:30:16
thought patterns that maybe you don't want
to have.
00:30:18
So start to create.
00:30:19
habits around the positive stuff.
00:30:22
And then we talked about biological
factors and we went over some strategies
00:30:27
to overcome the addiction.
00:30:29
I don't know if you, I don't even know if
it's really addiction.
00:30:34
I guess it, I don't know.
00:30:35
What do I know?
00:30:36
But there's lots of different things you
could do.
00:30:38
Physical activity is a big one for me,
meditation, all this kind of stuff.
00:30:43
So anyway, I'm going to get going.
00:30:45
Really appreciate you guys supporting the
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00:30:53
There's video there.
00:30:54
I'm going to be doing other stuff on that
channel.
00:30:56
Some different graffiti type things,
probably painting.
00:31:01
And then like I said, there's, we're going
to bring some guests to have conversations
00:31:05
and we'll see what those are like.
00:31:08
I'm assuming they're going to be cool, but
anyway, appreciate you supporting the
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podcast and yeah.
00:31:14
I guess that's it.
00:31:16
That works.