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Everything that we do that is impacting us negatively is coming from something we ve experienced.
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Everything.
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So it s essential that we live lifestyles of mind management so that we can observe ourselves.
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So if I, for example, I ve trained myself to do this, if I start noticing a certain pattern in my behaviors and I notice that there s maybe some jealousy emerging or some envy,
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I m very quick to observe it now and I m not saying I m a saint at all or from it.
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I m just saying I ve trained myself and I m proud that I ve trained myself and I m saying it because you can do this.
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Welcome to the School of Greatness.
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My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
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And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
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Thanks for spending some time with me today.
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Now let the class begin.
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I m excited about having you here because I feel like people are struggling in relationships right now.
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There s a lot of confusion and I feel like a lot of it has to do with the way we think and how our minds and our brains are wired around love.
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So I m curious, can you start us off by talking about why and how we are wired for love as human beings and why it is so challenging for so many people to find and attract healthy love?
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Yes, it s such an excellent question and such an important question and one that I ve actually written about quite often.
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And there s actually a Nobel-winning scientist who talks about the fact that we re wired for love.
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And so it s a good term, it s a really great way of explaining things.
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So in a nutshell, I m a psycho-neurobiologist as you know, so I look at mind-brain-body connection.
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So what we, what myself and other scientists have found is that your brain and body
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are basically wired for love, and your mind, because they re three separate things.
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So that means that every single cell, every single organ, every single system is wired for love, which means survival, which means that we are geared towards loving each other, connecting with each other, supporting each other, helping each other.
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We are really made to make love and not war, and that s really how we function.
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But free will and choices in life happens, and that can mess with that.
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And an interesting kind of way of understanding this also is if something bad happens, like politics or whatever, we re drawn to that, not because we have bad wiring in us or that we have a natural sort of evil wiring, which is what often people talk about, that we have this sort of
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the dark side, it s we are drawn to it because of being wired for love.
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So if something is toxic in whatever form, we re drawn to that to fix it.
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It fascinates us and it grabs us because it s throwing love off balance.
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So if, okay, so wait a minute, let me write this down.
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So if we see someone that maybe has toxic tendencies or behaviors or thoughts or energy, maybe not all the time, but we see like something, a part of them is broken, right?
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Does that mean we re broken also and we re trying to fix them and us, or we re not broken, but we re trying to fix someone else?
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We re drawn, not so much trying to fix each other, we re drawn to try and support return to balance.
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And so it could be that we are very drawn because it reflects our own brokenness and we can recognize the similarities.
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It could be for a multitude of reasons.
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There s going to be so many reasons why someone s broken.
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It could just be that you just love that person so much and you see them broken and it just touches you.
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So many reasons.
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But we re drawn to try and restore the balance.
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Interesting.
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And, you know, what s interesting is like if you take a political kind of situation where people are doing conspiracy theories or the things that are happening in our country at the moment, where there s so much divide and so much hate as opposed to love.
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And while people are so fascinated with that negative news and that kind of thing, very often it s pitched as because you ve got this dark side, as I mentioned.
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But people are caught up in that because it s so not normal.
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Now they don t know that sort of consciously people are talking about it like that, but that is part of our wiring.
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So essentially when people get sucked in and then they get down the rabbit hole of the negative toxicity and really get caught up, what happens is that your brain will merge with your environment.
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But your brain is driven by your mind.
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So where your mind drives your brain, your brain and where you keep the focus, that s what your brain will merge with.
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So where people stay and become more and more and more and more toxic is because their mind, they haven t managed their mind so their mind is now kind of just messy minds just kind of got into this pathway and then they ve wired that functioning, that way of thinking into the brain and it s
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counter to our natural functioning.
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So there s literally, that wires in a toxic thought into the brain.
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And I know your audience has seen these trees when I did a conference or whatever.
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So that is in your brain and that toxic vent or whatever that you re getting sucked into.
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Can you explain it?
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What s in the brain?
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Absolutely.
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So this does whatever we tell it to do.
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The brain can t do anything on its own.
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When you re dead, your brain just disintegrates.
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So the thing that s making the brain work is your mind.
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So your mind is your sentience, your aliveness, your ability to have this conversation, to appreciate a rainbow, to love Martha, to you do.
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All the different things that we do as a human, that s what our mind is.
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And it s actually a biofield that s in and around us that makes us work, makes your heart pump, it makes you see the meaning of a sunset, the meaning behind a painting.
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It s all of those things.
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So to the basic biology of making your brain work, the energy waves and the chemicals and your heart pump, to us experiencing our humanity.
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to experiencing, feeling and perceiving these things.
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The mind allows us to perceive our environment.
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Exactly.
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And experience it.
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The experience of a conversation and enjoying each other.
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All of that.
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No mind.
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You and I couldn t do this.
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We d be dead and we d have a disintegrating brain.
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So the brain s not doing any of that.
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So because the nature of the brain, every
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Every part of the brain and the body, right down to the level of, if you go with the structures, down to the cells, down to inside the cells, everything s geared for survival.
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Everything s geared for, wired for love.
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So survival and wired for love are basically in the same pathway.
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So if you hate each other, it doesn t lead to survival.
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Hatred leads to death.
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And dissension leads to death in stages and breakdown and disease and all that kind of stuff.
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So if, and in terms of ourselves, if people get caught up in hate, hating each other, envy, jealousy, dissension, that each of those experiences is becoming a physical thing in the brain.
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So let s say that you are watching something on TV that s working you up and it s very negative and you get into conversations, you start fighting with family members and
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You know like the vaccine or the COVID for example, I broke up family members.
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That experience is your mind is listening to all the stuff processing you with your mind and it lands up becoming a physical structural change in your brain.
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Really?
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So that energy goes into your brain, your brain responds electromagnetically, electrochemically and genetically.
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And it s happening very fast.
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It s like waves of energy that you re putting in your brain.
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And they, like a way, build, collapse, build, collapse.
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Every time you collapse, you make proteins.
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And those proteins hold that information as a vibration.
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And those proteins build together to grow these things.
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And what are these things?
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Thoughts.
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So basically this is the mind?
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This is thought?
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This is what the mind looks like in the brain.
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Aha, gotcha.
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Does that make sense?
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So every experience that we have with our mind, which is life, is built into these thought trees into the brain.
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And they have this structure where there s a source, a root system, and then there s a processing, how we uniquely process that experience, and then there s our interpretation of that experience as a unique human being.
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How we create meaning around it.
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Our interpretation of meaning.
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Exactly.
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That s what this is.
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Exactly.
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So those are in the brain.
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Good and the bad.
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Hopefully more of these.
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Now we wired for these.
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This brings health to the brain.
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This is the bad thoughts?
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That s the toxic thought.
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They very much align and that s the healthy thought.
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That s the healthy thought.
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Okay.
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And that s very much what they look like.
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They look like these broad things and the roots, the source.
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And so essentially we, this is what we wired for.
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This is wired for love and applies into our relationships.
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We want a beautiful garden.
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That s what we want.
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We want a forest garden, rain forest.
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All those things.
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Exactly.
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And at the core of who we are, this wide, full of nature that we see as these healthy trees in the brain, healthy functioning of all the cells and the organs and so on of the body, and also in the actual cells of the body, right down into the depths of the cells, health and love and survival kind of all go together.
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So as soon as something happens like a toxic relationship or a toxic focus of whatever, whatever it may be, is we build these instead of these.
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We build negative thoughts, toxic thoughts, over healthy thoughts.
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Exactly.
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And the thought, you can see, there s lots of branches and roots.
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So that thought is made of a lot of memories.
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Memories are the data.
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So this is the whole conversation or the details is the data.
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And the similar data classes together to form thoughts.
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So if you think of it, the data are the memories.
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So memories are the details of the thoughts.
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So thoughts are made of root memories and interpretation memories.
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Does that make sense?
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Okay, so these then, this is what the brain is designed for.
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So if these go into the brain, the immune system of the brain says, hey, that s a pathogen, that s like a pathogen, that s like the COVID virus.
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It s toxic.
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So it sends out immune factors in exactly the same way as if it was a COVID virus in your body or whatever, in any kind of virus or bacteria or something that s threatening your survival.
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Your immune system kicks in, we all understand that, and sends out immune factors that create inflammation around that area.
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In the brain.
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in the brain and the body, depending on where.
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So if it s toxic thought first in the brain, so let me, good question, let s reverse this.
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Here s the toxic experience, lands up in the brain as this, in the mind it s a field, but it s not a nice sine wave, it s a crazy chaotic energy wave, and in the body it s a change inside the actual structure of the cell in an area called a microtubule.
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and the microtubules inside the cell and those microtubules are made of proteins and those proteins hold the vibrations of information.
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They hold the memory.
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They hold the memory.
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Right.
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So you build the main memory in your brain and that works very closely with your mind and then as it builds in your brain, your brain sends instruction and it builds in all other 37, 200 trillion cells or however many we have in your body.
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So it s a slightly different type of memory, but the data is built into every cell of our body.
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That s why we have body memory.
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We can feel the pain, and not just in our mind, but in our body.
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And when we say, I feel the pain in my mind, you are.
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Those waves will give you a headache.
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The actual physical damage in your brain that this is causing, you feel it.
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So what I m hearing you say is the mind is an energy field.
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Yes, we call it a biofield.
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A biofield.
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And it s, how far does it expand from the body?
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Not sure, but... Like an arm s length, maybe, or a few feet?
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I think at this stage in science, we re not sure, but it s probably kind of our arm s length.
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Yes.
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And so it s a biofield, an energy field.
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The mind is there.
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Yes, and it s embodied.
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It goes around and through.
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Around and through you.
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Yes.
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And when we experience something, we see an event, someone says something to us, we interpret it.
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It could be a bad thing, but we could interpret it good and it could have a positive effect, or it could be a bad thing and we really hold on to this negative thought, right?
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We build one of these kind of negative thought trees.
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When that happens,
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then it s not going to have a frequency in this biofield that is calm and peaceful.
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This harmonious frequency is going to be a chaotic frequency.
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It s going to be chaotic.
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And when we have a chaotic frequency in the mind or biofield, it will also penetrate the physical field.
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Exactly.
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And it ll cause stress, it ll cause overwhelm, it ll cause fear, scarcity, lack, defensiveness, all these different things.
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All these different things.
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Got it.
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That s brilliant.
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You did that brilliantly.
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No, that was brilliant.
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Thank you, you made it simpler than what I did.
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And it was really good.
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So that also, what these research, I mean there s mind-blowing research out there, but there s research that s been done that shows that these thought trees, if you go inside, these are the dendrites, this is the neuron, if you go inside, that s where you find these, what we call these microtubules that are made of these proteins that actually store the little, when they release the vibration, the data.
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So it s basically inside, not the outside of the neuron, you go inside, you find these special proteins that roll up, they re like beads, and they roll up into these sheets.
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And inside there you ve got this vibration which is like an aromatic ring.
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And that s what s the memory.
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And it can constantly change, they build and rebuild.
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Now they do this building and rebuilding in the brain, in the body they re more like a railway track.
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So they re kind of fixed and then they go through a different process of change.
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Now I know I m going into detail, but they found resonance that is similar to music, that these vibrations in the microtubules produce resonance like a harmonious resonance or non-harmonious resonance.
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So this would be a harmonious resonance, unique to the individual, and this would be a non-harmonious resonance.
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And what they ve even found, and this is research that s like still pretty new, is that it kind of lines up with the universe in terms of planetary movement of stars.
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Wow.
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And I mean, they are drawing lines through.
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The frequencies, yeah.
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Sir Roger Penrose, for example, is a mathematician who s won Nobel Prizes, and I mean, he s phenomenal.
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He s actually been doing, showing how this kind of works.
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Sure.
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And whatever.
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So that s another whole.
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So if we have a lot of the
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Toxic thoughts stored in our our minds our memories and ourselves from experiences events Childhood previous relationships that maybe didn t end well, and we have these memories that are these toxic thoughts.
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Yeah How can we heal those thoughts to attract healthy love moving forward I
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Exactly, perfect.
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So, great question.
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So essentially what will happen is if these are unresolved issues from a toxic relationship, so let s say that you had a really bad marriage or you ve had a really bad whatever, and all the experience is stored in this, so that s the source as it s happening in natural interpretation.
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And there s a great strong chance that your interpretation of things like, I don t deserve love, or I ll never have love, or I can t trust that person.
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Is it too good to be true?
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Looking for the shoe to drop, and then holding back and hesitating to commit, and all those kinds of things.
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So that s what s in here because of that.
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And there s this distorted processing.
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This not only is it affecting your actual relationship, but you are actually increasing the vulnerability of your brain and body to disease by 35 to 98 percent.
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Wow, really?
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Over time, yeah.
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It s cumulative over time.
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Now I know you ve interviewed Lisa Eppel, so I and her and I
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communicating and going to be doing some work together hopefully in the future.
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And I ve done work on telomeres as well based on her research and I ve shown that with mind management you can actually grow telomeres and make them healthy within nine-week cycles.
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And an unhealthy telomere is what you re going to see in this kind of tree.
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A healthy telomere is what you can see in here.
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So if you ve got a toxic issue you haven t dealt with, not only is it affecting the relationship, but it s shortening your telomeres.
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It s changing your inflammation.
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It s affecting your hypothalamic pituitary axis.
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It s affecting everything.
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So that over time, the weakened telomeres make weakened cells, which make weakened systems, which make weakened bodies.
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So it s not something that, what I m, the point I m making Lewis is that we can t actually sit with those issues.
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We ve got to deal with them because we are shortening our telomeres.
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We are increasing our vulnerability to disease and illness over time.
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So, wow.
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You know, how can we, I mean, if we don t, if we don t manage these toxic thoughts,
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and memories from previous relationships that have hurt us or caused us harm or frustration.
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And sometimes when we end a relationship, it can be devastating.
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It can take years to recover sometimes.
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If we don t learn to heal these toxic thoughts,
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You carry that into the relationship.
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Is it possible to create a healthy relationship in the next one?
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Yes, it is.
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If we don t heal these thoughts... No, not if we don t heal them.
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It s always going to stick.
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Yeah, so if we don t heal these toxic thoughts from a previous relationship, is it possible to have a healthy relationship in the future if we don t heal them?
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No, that s a straight, it s going to affect us.
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So the person isn t going to change in front of us, the next person and be better than the previous?
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No, we ve got to change ourself.
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We ve got to change ourself because what will happen is if we don t heal that, we re going to always look for that.
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We re going to externalize this and we re going to be looking for the lack that this has created in that person.
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And because it s not their issue, it s yours.
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They re never going to satisfy that.
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So you re going to go from relationship to relationship looking for something that s missing in you.
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Wow.
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So you have to change your relationship with yourself before you can change your relationship with someone else.
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So you re not going to fix everything before a relationship because there s certain triggers in a relationship.
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That you have to process and go through.
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It ll be triggered.
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Mac and I have been married 35 years and we re still working through things.
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And then we realize, hey, that s actually coming from
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Just the other day we talked, you know, that issue has actually come from like way back when.
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That s something that, you know, in his childhood, that kind of clash with, you know what I m saying?
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But we, so we didn t heal everything before we got married, but we healed a lot before we got married.
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And that, you know, so you, the biggest issues that we will, obviously the most obvious ones you ll work on first.
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But a lot of people don t even want to work on those.
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And a lot of people s coping mechanism is one of, you know what, it s not me, that s the problem.
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Right, it s the other person.
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Or they say, I need that from that person, and I m looking for that from that person.
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So that s why I say, if you go into a relationship like that, it s not going to work.
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It s going to be very challenging.
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It may last, but it s never going to.
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You may even get married.
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You may even find that you stay married, but at some point, things crash.
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But it may not be healthy.
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It may be toxic.
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Exactly.
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And then if you have kids along the way, you know, they get impacted.
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More stressful.
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It s more stressful.
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So you mentioned this in the beginning,
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Why do we attract certain people?
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You were saying like we attract, what were you saying?
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Like we attract someone that might have something broken inside of them so we can bring harmony or balance?
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What were you saying?
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So basically it s humans, humanity, or the way we are because of a wide front of nature in the mind, brain, and body.
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When something is off, we re drawn to that to restore balance.
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So that s why very often you ll see, you may recognize your brokenness, which is one of the comments you made in someone else and that could draw you to them.
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Or it could be that you just see something that s
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that you didn t really experience, but it could have triggered something or didn t trigger something, but just the mere fact that you re human, there s a desire to help.
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That s what people go in, that s what people, look at what you ve done with your life.
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You help people.
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Your whole biggest, one of your biggest features about you as a person is you have a desire to constantly help others.
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You know, that s very authentic and very real.
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People see that very clearly in you.
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But when it happened, here s the interesting thing.
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You hear this in
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Uh, sometimes you hear women who will try to find a guy who maybe has a deficiency or is broken or something s off, right?
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And they see the potential and they re like, okay, I want to go help this person overcome this challenge or this pain or the struggle and fix them.
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Um, and they struggle for them, that guy to change or transform or heal or grow.
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Or when they do transform, then there s nothing else to fix.
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Or they try to reinvent new problems to fix in them.
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So what happens when a woman who is not healed finds a healthy man?
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A man who s working on himself, who wants to grow, who s doing it independently, but doesn t need like all this fixing.
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Why is she unable to be okay and happy in a healthy relationship?
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Because there s brokenness in her and what she s trying to fix is herself, externalizing it.
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And you ll see that male to female, you ll see it in male to male relationship, female to female relationship, whatever.
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In any kind of relationship, it s not just a male to female thing, female to male thing.
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It s also in any kind of gender relationship.
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So it s the unique person.
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So first we must look at the person, see ourselves as a unique human being, and then we look at what our gender is.
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And that s really important because otherwise we re going to have this sort of sexist thing that s done in one side or another kind of thing.
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And it s very, I m not contradicting what you re saying, it s totally, it could be a female, whatever.
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Well, it s all, yeah.
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So essentially, this brokenness is the first comment that you question that you make.
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We can be attracted to, and it s not the law of attraction, we are not talking about that, absolutely not.
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Okay, that s not what I m talking about.
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That s a whole different story and a whole different, very unscientific story too.
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But there s elements of truth in everything.
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What we re talking about here is
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the essence of what I have missing in my relationship, I need to either see in someone else and want to fix, or I want to, because I m trying to fix my own thing.
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What I have missing in my relationship to myself?
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Self, yes.
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I need to find someone else that I can fix.
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Yes.
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And there s two key things over there, is instead of me fixing myself, I m trying to fix someone else.
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And you can t fix anyone else.
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The only person you can fix is yourself.
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All we can do is support other people.
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That s when it gets even more challenging in relationships when you re constantly trying to change someone.
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You re constantly trying to fix them or change them.
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I just feel like that s where a lot of stress and chaos happens.
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It s conflict.
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Because you re not accepting them.
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Exactly.
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You re not choosing them based on acceptance.
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Exactly.
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I can give you an example.
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Yes.
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I can give an example of a relationship of people that have been married for quite a few years and the male, I m not obviously mentioning names, I m going to protect people s identity, but the male, the husband in the relationship, used to get incredibly irritated with his wife and switch off.
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and found her just demanding and always nagging.
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They had just kind of got into this pattern of very unhealthy and it got to the point where kids are out of home and all that kind of thing and this person is basically at a point where this is like, do I carry on with this?
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Which is very often what happens.
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After the kids are gone.
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Then you realize that and this person started doing the neuropsycho.
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I mean they were sort of working through this process and started initially very skeptical because and basically the neuropsycho is just mind management.
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It s the scientific way that you get your mind, messy mind to listen to a wise mind to change your neuroplasticity.
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So it s mind driven neuroplasticity.
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So it s a science of how do I find
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how I m showing up, and how can I change that?
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Which is your question you asked right in the beginning.
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Can we change this?
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Or do we have to live with all of this?
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Yes, we can change it.
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So that person, that husband lived with that relationship for years, but you don t have to live for whatever, 40, 50 years of marriage.
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It was long that they were in.
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You don t have to live with it.
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You can train your kids to start looking at these things in yourself so that you can become healthy and pick up things quickly.
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and change them.
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Long story short, after a period of initially being very skeptical, suddenly a connection was made around about three weeks into the process of, oh, I m actually blocking off to my wife and she is just trying to get me to connect with her.
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That s what sounds like the nagging.
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And me seeing her as just wanting everything to be perfect all the time and finding that really irritating is actually triggering my poor relationship with my dad.
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Wow.
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And my dad was one who required complete and utter perfectionism.
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Oh my gosh.
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And used to constantly
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So as soon as it sounded similar, I shut off, I protect, coping mechanism, and the realization has transformed and saved a marriage.
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I mean, I ve left a lot of detail out, but that s the essence of the story.
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So there s an incident of years of this growing, there s the initial incident as a child growing up with a parent that loved the child, but had a way of dealing that made that child feel not good enough.
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How much does our love as adults in relationships reflect based on what we witnessed our parents love like as kids?
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Huge.
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Huge, Lewis.
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Really?
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It s really huge.
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Having said that, if you didn t witness a good relationship, it doesn t mean you can t have one.
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But it does mean you re going to have to overcome a lot of obstacles, and that is definitely... It s harder.
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It s harder.
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It s definitely harder because it generally leads to a lot of mistrust.
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As an adult in relationships.
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Exactly, and what very often happens is that when you ve seen that you haven t had a good model, you don t get into deep enough relationships and then you can get hurt very easily, or you kind of end up maybe sort of almost using people without even consciously using people, and you meet people that are also broken, so you use each other, so it creates a lot of distrust.
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and sort of fear and lack of commitment and you know, you look for, things will trigger you much more quickly and that kind of thing.
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So it s really important to, you know what I always say when it comes to parenting, because I m a parent of four kids as you know, and awful work with us, which is quite a miracle too, which is amazing if you think of it.
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But I always tell my kids this,
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I was someone s daughter, and I have a mom and a dad, and they were someone s daughter and son.
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And each person had baggage.
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So you cannot go into a marriage, a relationship, and parenting without baggage.
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We know that.
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It s logical.
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So you ve got all this come down.
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It s in these networks, and it plays out and it s triggered.
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And whatever isn t resolved will be triggered badly.
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And whatever is resolved, well, you ll handle it.
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You ll see, oh, I could be like that, but I m like this, or my mom did that, but I m not going to do that.
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And so in other words, that s where you ve worked through something.
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So, what we need to do as daughters and sons going into relationships is to say, okay, I know what my parents went through.
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They maybe didn t have a great relationship.
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I don t know the ins and outs.
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It s not really a child s responsibility to know all the intimate details of why a marriage broke down.
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There s a certain amount that they should know and a certain amount that they shouldn t know.
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and recognize that, you know, sometimes things don t work out.
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And to honor these stories, but at the same time, you have the right to honor the impact it had on your life.
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Right.
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So it s to kind of, so it s not... There could be good impact and bad impact at the same time.
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Yeah.
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You can hold both in your hands.
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You can hold both in your hands at the same time, but very often what will either happen is you ll swing to suppressing the negative because you feel you ve been disloyal to a parent or to the parents.
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Really?
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So yeah, very often happens.
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So you ll almost suppress it for years,
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And act like what it didn t happen or wasn t that bad or... Yes, that it wasn t... You diminish it.
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You deny it, you diminish, you suppress and you don t...
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deal and then suddenly something will trigger you one day and this happened with a conversation that I had with someone working in clinical practice where a very successful person, parents went through a very traumatic marriage and the one parent said way too much to the child.
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And there s got to be boundaries, there s got to be an amount that you do say because otherwise the child will think it s their fault.
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That s another thing we need to realize.
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Children will immediately, if there s a broken marriage, a child will think it s their fault, that they re the cause.
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So it is important to say, hey, listen, this is not you, this is between us.
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If someone watching or listening has parents who have been divorced, whether it was traumatic or not traumatic as a child with their relationship, watching the relationship, but they went through a divorce, what are the percentages or how does that,
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indicate how successful you will be in a marriage or in a relationship if you don t learn to create new healthy meaning around their model of love and relationship and their divorce and if you don t heal and process that.
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What are we setting ourselves up for if we re not aware of it and make sure we really work on these things if our parents have been divorced?
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you re setting yourself up for failure.
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And the reason I say that, and it sounds really harsh, but the other flip side of the coin is that once you do deal with it, you re setting yourself up for success.
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And that power s in your hands.
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And that s really why it s so important that we don t suppress stuff, because suppressing stuff not only is it keeping the toxicity and increasing your vulnerability to disease, so physically you re suffering, and you will suffer more and more over time, because your natural rightful love nature s being challenged, so your survival s being challenged, so your body s trying to fight this thing.
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At the same time, you are going to kind of boomerang from one bad relationship into the next because you haven t dealt with the core issue.
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But once you start dealing with it, the beauty of, you can have, look at this example, the first example I gave, you can have a 50 year marriage.
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And 50 years of a toxic pattern that really was problematic, and you can heal that and have the last however many years you ve got left in a very healthy relationship.
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So the hope, Lewis, is in the fact that we can change.
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But there is work involved.
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There is no pull that s going to fix it.
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There is the work involved.
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What happens to the brain then when we see
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are parents that have harmony at home, they hold hands, they kiss, they dance, they love each other, they show affection, versus what happens in the brain when we see distance, passive-aggressive energy between our parents, yelling, screaming, slamming of doors, no affection between each other as a model.
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What happens to the brain with those two instances?
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That s such a good question.
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So basically observing your parents as a child, that s your, you know, you re modeling that relationship, so your relationships are, that s your model.
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So you re wiring that in, so you re wiring in the fights, the slam doors, the silent treatment, the moaning, the upset, the crying, the tears, the confusion, the closed doors and all the noises and sounds and maybe it even gets to the point where there s abuse.
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So that becomes your, you build that in, into your brain and your whole thing is up, you can t trust people.
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I can t trust someone else, I can t build a relationship, this is not safe.
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Is it I can t trust people in intimacy and in romantic relationships, or I can trust friends, colleagues?
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It could be over in two, depending on how bad, depending on how you see it, depending on your perception, depending on the age, depending on the context, depending on how you re involved.
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All those factors will influence how it s going to play out into your future.
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And that s, yeah, so it could, I mean, for some people it will just mean that they, it s everything, they just live a life of completely, and that, sorry, just quickly, I know you ve got a question.
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A lot of narcissistic type behavior, if you track back, it s complete distrust of all people.
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And I m not condoning it because it s very destructive behavior patterns that people really suffer from.
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But it s trying to control the uncontrollable that they have.
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So very often if you track back, you ll see that there s been a model that has been very bad at some point.
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And they may, on the outside, their upbringing may have looked perfect, like they may have had money and good schools.
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put together and dressed well and yeah.
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But the inside wasn t, then as a person wasn t validated.
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The ability to, hey I came home, I was bullied, I was bullied today, I m sad.
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They weren t allowed to process emotions.
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So their coping mechanism was one of, I m going to control people.
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I don t trust anyone, so I am going to drive around the shots here, around the show, and that can lead to narcissistic type behavior.
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So that s just a side note.
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And is there
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Is there a certain attachment styles that we will have in relationships based on the model we witness from our parents?
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For sure, for sure.
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So attachment styles research has been done in a very limited, with a limited group of people, but it s applicability is pretty good.
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And so what we, if you look in different cultures, it s quite interesting to see that most cultures where you ve got sort of more solid relationships, it s not the child s brought up by the community.
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So it s not just the mom and dad, it s the whole community.
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So in the United States and Westernized countries, it s very much... Isolated between parents.
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Yeah, not enough of the support of grandparents.
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Sometimes it s just if it s the way that we ve gone in this country and in a lot of places, which is unfortunate because you do get a healthier model and you ve got more balance.
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So if parents need alone time, they can get it more because you ve got the granny and the family and you ve got the community.
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So a lot of pressure on parents that leads to arguments that could have been probably resolved if they had a bit more time alone, could, you know, and that child maybe wouldn t have missed as much.
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So we have got an involved, we have got society now that has needs, if we need to look at our societal structures or work structures and that kind of thing, that put that kind of pressure on families.
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it s definitely putting pressure that are in a pressure cooker, that people are living in a little bit of a pressure cooker, which I think is leading to problems in relationships that probably wouldn t have been there if they d had more of a community.
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So in terms of how, okay, there s so many questions are going through my head now.
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So to bring us back to your question.
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The attachment styles was the current one.
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So in the community, we re going to have a slightly more balanced attachment style versus if it s just
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If we re raised by a community or aunts and uncles and friends.
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It s more realistic.
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It s more like, okay, they re all going to get given some time.
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Let me go sit with granny.
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Cause we re not needing the love and affection from one person.
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Is that right?
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We get it from a community, but if you re in this very isolated insular type environment, where does the parent explode safely?
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There s no safe environment for a child.
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Exactly.
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There s no safe environment.
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There s no safe environment for the parents.
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So, and you are going to explode.
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It s very normal to have,
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those arguments.
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So that s the idea.
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It s not what s happening.
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So what do we do now?
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How do we deal with it?
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You have to be honest with your kids.
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You have to, and what Mac and I tried this and we got it right and we got it wrong, but we got it right.
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I think a lot of the time was we do have very different opinions about a lot of things and both of us are Italian and background and explosive.
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So we did have arguments.
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I mean, it s easy when kids are around and the pressures of raising kids and working.
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Yeah, four kids, that s a lot.
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It s a lot and both of us working and whatever, it s a lot.
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I mean with countries, with young kids and so but what we did from, what we did right, we did not wrong, but what we did right was we, if we had an argument, we would never just leave it.
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We would go to the kids, we would apologize.
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We gave them permission to tell us when we were upsetting them.
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So they would say, hey, listen, can you just stop?
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You know you re going to make up.
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Can you just resolve this?
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Or mom really this or dad that.
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We gave them permission to actually, you know, from an outside point of view, say, hey, you are impacting us.
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This is really upsetting us.
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And this is reminding us that, hey, you do that.
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Okay, so let me go back a step.
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If you have an argument, you need to tell your kids, okay, we had an argument about X, obviously language, age appropriate, and also within boundaries.
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They don t need all the details.
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We had an argument.
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We disagreed on this.
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I didn t like Dad s reaction.
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Dad didn t like my reaction.
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I did this that bugged him.
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He did this that bugged me.
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This is how we resolved it and this is what we re going to do.
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That s a neuropsychal.
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We went through all five steps of the neuropsychal.
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Once we d cool down and calm down and we d use the NeuroCycle individually on ourselves and then on each other, then we would, and I didn t call it the NeuroCycle then because that s a new name, but that process we applied, and it was a God-saving thing.
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It was a life-saving thing in our marriage because it helped us to stand back, calm down, evaluate, what am I really fighting about?
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What is the Take Momentum Worry concept?
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What happens if both of us are dead tomorrow, one of us is dead, what would we do right now?
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And so we would resolve it.
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And you know, we would let our kids know.
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We re still trying to resolve it.
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So there may still be a bit of argument or whatever, but this is where we re going.
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This is our resolution.
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We still love each other.
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Kids need that.
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Even an adult child needs that.
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If there s an argument, if Mac and I have an argument now, we still do it.
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We ll still say, hey, you know, we love each other.
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Dad, you re telling me about this.
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Sorry about that.
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Sorry.
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We tell them.
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So that s what we can do in our incident environments that we live in in this day and age.
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We can go through that process of showing, modeling to a child, listen, it s normal to have arguments.
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We have bad days.
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We are a mess.
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No one s perfect.
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We re not perfect.
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We do not expect you
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to be perfect, but let s talk about, it s a horrible argument, I m so sorry, we should not have yelled, it was scary for you, tell us how you feel, get it out, and go through the sequence, don t just blurb it all out, be ordered.
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The big thing, nurse, about healing in a relationship, to have healthy future relationships.
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is not just get the kids to talk about emotions or mix it all up, very organized, let s talk about this is how I felt, this is what my emotion was, this is what I said, this is what I did, four categories of signals, very organized.
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I m going to talk about how we felt our emotions, our behaviors, our bodily sensations and our perspectives.
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So we were both mad and irritated, we yelled and spoke too loudly and used ugly body language, leaning in or whatever.
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Our perspective was that we were very irritated with each other and our bodies were very tense, our shoulders were raised, we spoke with loud voices.
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That s how analytical you get.
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And then you say, why was we disagreed about this concept?
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Dad said something that I didn t like, he didn t listen to my answer, whatever, whatever it was.
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So we then put the wire down, what you should do is the third step is to then get that out on paper.
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and write that out or visualize it or something.
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So it s a state where you, so once you ve gathered awareness and reflected, gather awareness of all those signals, reflect on them, which is the why of those signals.
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Very ordered.
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Your brain, your psychoneurobiology responds to order, sequence.
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You throw it all at once, it s chaos.
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And that s what a lot of people do and that s what a lot of us do in our relationships and arguments.
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But if you break things down and get in a very, you can get calm, you can get your neurophysiology under,
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and under wraps and you can work through.
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Third thing is what Mac and I will do is if we have an argument is we ll write it down, we ll text each other, we ll get all those thoughts out, we ll do it on a piece of paper, depending on what we re solving, how big, how small, whatever.
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But there s a writing phase, we ll be pouring our things out.
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Then there s a recheck phase.
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Okay, you said that, I said that, that was the trigger, this is what we did.
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Or how can we, this is the problem, how can we solve it in the future?
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What s our action?
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Okay, this is what we re going to practice.
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And then we tell that to the kids and then we do it.
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Say, look, we re trying this.
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Okay, guys, this is what we need to do.
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If you see us not doing it, just remind us.
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So you give them empowerment to say, okay, they ll resolve it.
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They ll get through this one.
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It s horrible.
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We don t like it, but we can end it quicker if we remind them of the act of reach, which is step five.
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And that sounds like a very idealized thing and it s a skill that you re going to learn, like you re an athlete.
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You have to practice it, you have to try it.
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And it ll take you 63 days to set it up in your home system because it takes that long to form a habit, not 21, not four days, not one year cycle.
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You re going to have to consistently practice for at least 63 to 66 days.
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I ve done a lot of research, I m doing another big study at the moment, looking at the time and the pattern of habit, complex habit formation, not just the little things like drink your green juice or wash your hands or make sure you get to the gym, but the complex love relationships, how long does it take to rewire a pattern so that you can have a change how it impacts your relationship.
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If someone s in a broken relationship right now, maybe they ve been arguing for years or fighting, they don t, you know, maybe they have good weeks and then there s a bad week and it s the cycle of good and bad, up and down, and it just feels like it s draining or exhausting.
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What can they do to start healing the relationship, to start healing individually and the relationship, to create harmony in the future?
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What are those steps?
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Okay, so first thing is, if it s an abusive relationship, then obviously it s safe.
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That s priority, as we all know.
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But let s say that it s not an abusive relationship, you just got into some bad habits.
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Both of you are doing bad habits, both of you are trying to fix the other person, both of you are... But you re still together because there s love and there s a desire to be together.
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So that s the scenario.
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Okay.
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So the first thing to do is to get into some good practices that will help calm your neurophysiology down.
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So I call that brain preparation.
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kind of your nervous system or calming the entire neurophysiology so that when you when your mind you ve got a calm wise mind that s always active and always on your side then we have our messy mind that s in the relationship it s in the moment it s the in the moment messy mind to reactive
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reactive learning.
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It s very normal.
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It s like experimental.
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And sometimes it goes really messy and other times it kind of gets it right and whatever.
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So it needs a lot of guidance.
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And that s our wild, full of nature, is our wise mind.
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So the first thing is that when we re in that messy mind state, that s sending all this messy energy through the brain and it s triggering all kinds of thoughts.
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Just think of an argument.
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When you start, some stupid thing gets you going and then you end up arguing, what am I
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What are you talking about?
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Exactly.
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What s the point in the first place?
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Exactly.
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Why did I even bring that stupid thing up?
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We resolved that years ago.
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Why am I bringing that up now?
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That s what will happen if we don t calm down our neurophysiology.
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So it s get your neurophysiology calm first.
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And you can do that with meditation, breathing, with exercise, gym workout, with creating space that, okay, we re both too hot now.
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Get some fresh air.
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Let s resolve this at a later stage.
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Create mental, physical space.
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I mean, there s so many ways of doing that.
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There s so many great sort of meditative breathing.
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Find something that works for you.
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It may not be the same thing.
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Mac and I like to just create space and I like to do a 3-7 breathing thing that gets my neurophysiology under control.
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So you breathe in for three and out for seven.
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And if you do that seven times, you ll feel high, but it s great because you push so much oxygen to the front of your brain.
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And it s a very good way of calming down your neurophysiology.
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You can do that in an intense, I call it a 10 second pause.
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You can do it for 60 to 90 seconds.
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So it s 10 seconds that you do six to nine times.
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Great little formula for calming down neurophysiology.
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Wow, that s great.
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That s a fail-safe we always use.
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Really good fail-safe.
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We are a family-run business.
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All of us are involved.
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It s very easy to argue with family.
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So when we all get hit up, which we do because we re all very Italian, we do a 10-second pause and we will go out the room, grab a cup of coffee and then come back and reconvene.
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Those simple things that I know we know, but are we doing them?
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Or are you trying to push through?
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I ve got to solve this now.
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I used to be like that at the beginning.
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we ve got to fix this now.
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And so I had to learn to, hey, no, you don t have to fix it now, but you cannot fix it.
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Okay, so that s first and foremost.
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Is it possible to fix something when you re in chaotic thoughts?
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You can, but it s more difficult and you have to, you know, it s just going to be confusing and messy and harder and not very sustainable and it s just, it s not a very peaceful way of doing it.
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It s exhausting, yeah.
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I wouldn t do it that way.
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And the next thing that s very practical is you can focus on good stuff.
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So it may just be good stuff about yourself.
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So you can, part of what I work, part of Men For Health is not just detoxing stuff.
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It s also building healthy stuff.
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So I love talking to you.
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We have great conversations.
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Every time I talk to you and think about you, I always have great memories of our conversations.
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So if I want to get myself into a good state, I can think of, I can recall a good moment, like maybe a conversation with you.
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I love my research.
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We just published a paper and I mean, I look at those results and I get like high, literally.
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So get yourself, so this is two silly examples, but they re very powerful.
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So if you ve now calmed down your neurophysiology and you now go and focus on something that you know makes you feel great, that means you re pulling this up.
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When you pull this up, amazing things happen in your brain.
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You change all the Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma frequencies, you calm down.
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Think of the waves of the sea.
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They re bold, they re deep and big, and then they re bold on the beach, crash, make little waves, go back.
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We want that kind of energy going through our brain, which activates good neurochemical flow, the endocrine, all that stuff, immune system.
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So by the brain prep that I explained, the breathing, whatever, and then these, you have put yourself into a really good brain state, mind-brain-body state, not just brain state, but you ve got a very good flow happening.
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Now you re still as irritated as, still would like to go and do something physical, like, you know, whatever, I m just joking, but I mean, you might want to throw a plate at the wall, or you re still, I m so mad about what, it s okay.
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It s okay to be messy.
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So third thing, tell yourself it s okay to be a mess.
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It s okay.
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I can be a mess.
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It s okay for us.
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It s normal.
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But how am I going to manage the mess?
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So give yourself permission to be the mess.
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Feel the mess.
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Analyze the mess.
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I m frustrated.
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What s my emotion?
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What s my body feeling?
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What s my perspective in this moment?
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What am I doing?
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So you go through, it s okay to be a mess and do a little mini-neurocycle.
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Go through all five.
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Why am I feeling like this?
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Write a few things down.
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Do a recheck.
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Okay, this has happened.
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What can I do?
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Action.
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Okay, I m ready to talk.
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See what I ve just done?
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So step one is brain prep.
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Step two is think of something good.
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This has activated our natural resilience.
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We are not fragile.
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We are resilient.
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We are much more resilient than we realize, but if we take on the current zeitgeist that we break and it will misdirect us for life, we re going to become fragile, which we re not.
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We re going to mask our natural resilience.
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We are pretty amazing as humans.
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Look at the stories of people surviving and getting through stuff.
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You know, and then we need to go on that.
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We need to unmask our resilience.
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So these steps, the brain prep, focusing on something about yourself, and then you could also add up to this, not just focusing on your own good stuff.
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You could think of something great about your partner.
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You could think you know, whatever think of a great memory, which is a really good addition and that s
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people here before, but you know, I m sure you ve heard that before, but it s doing this great stuff in your brain.
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Then do a neuropsycho in yourself.
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You can do this in three minutes, in 10 minutes, in an hour, whatever.
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Then reconvene and say, okay, now we re going to do this as a neuropsycho.
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I have a whole relationship podcast where I went into detail of how to actually, what to say, the guidelines of what to say at each step.
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And I mean, we can talk about some of this.
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I m curious.
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I love all this.
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And the thing that came up for me is,
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What happens if we want love, we want to be in a relationship, we want connection, we want intimacy, but we don t believe we re deserving of love?
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What will happen then?
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Such a great, great question.
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And it just reminds me, as you re talking, you re just prompting all these clinical experiences I ve had.
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I m a very successful, incredible person and
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Just could, one of those people that could get anything in their life.
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Okay.
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And just wonderful in every single way.
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And just could not keep a relationship going.
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Always started off well and everything.
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And at the end of the day, the core issue once this person had worked through was that they didn t deserve love.
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And it came, unfortunately, a lot of it comes from childhood.
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Really?
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And it s not everything because you can have a great childhood and really trust in love and then go into a really bad first marriage or first relationship and a person can break you.
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I can give you an example.
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So it could be you could have a great childhood, great parents, great model of love, but you get into a relationship, you fully trust and accept and love someone.
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Because that s what you ve seen.
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And so you expect they re going to do the same for you.
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And then it doesn t go your way.
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Exactly.
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And then you don t, and then that could potentially set you up to think, I m not deserving of love.
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Yes.
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Especially if it happens in your adolescent years.
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12 to 18 is the most difficult part of the entire human life cycle.
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So, and that s where we are interested in forming our relationships.
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That s where romantic relationships are what we desire.
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Up until then, it s more friendship based.
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You know, it could be earlier, 10, 11, you can have little boyfriend, girlfriend things, but it s more just community connection, deep friendship, something starting.
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But in those years, at that age, your relationship with your friends and potential partners are not more important, but are more important than your parenting.
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Wow.
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They supersede.
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In terms of relationship.
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In terms of formation of who I am.
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Wow.
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So at that stage, you can have this great foundation.
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Amazing parents, no trauma, fun all the time, peace, harmony in home.
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Sorted it out, did the real thing, just great parents.
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They had their own messed up lives but took responsibility, said sorry, did all that stuff.
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And then you get into a relationship where someone who s broken is attracted to you and you re attracted to them and you swept off your feet either way and their brokenness is put onto you in your informative years and you get told.
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You re not good enough.
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Oh, what happens when we believe that?
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What s wrong with you?
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And at that stage where you are so, like, you re forming yourself, you re forming your twist, your identity in terms of others  relationships, me and the world, you know, in terms of that drive for love.
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So if you re told you re not good enough,
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You re never going to get a relationship.
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Or you get rejected, or you get dumped, or you get cheated on as a teen.
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How does someone overcome that feeling of, I m not deserving of love?
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So that is a hard one.
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So to start, all of it s hard.
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But it s to find the source.
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So what you, very often as an adult, and it s very often in the 20s and 30s where you start doing this work, and it can happen, I m not saying always, I m not generalizing, but very often because that s when you kind of get through school and whatever you do and you get into the workspace and you start actually really forming deeper relationships and then you start getting to the point where you re thinking, okay, well, why are friends getting married?
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You know, everyone around me is in relationships and I m the only one who s not in a relationship.
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I can t seem to keep a relationship.
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What s wrong with me?
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That s when you start seeing those signals, patterns, that s when you need to sit down and do the work over 63 days and multiple cycles of 63 days.
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And then you ll get to the point where you ll see, okay, what is the root?
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The root was either a childhood issue or an adolescent issue.
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Maybe it was you were the new kid in town and everyone laughed at you because you wore glasses and they just, you know, said you never, you know, you were mocked.
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So you were too scared to actually show that guy or that girl that you liked them.
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And you were too scared because you were so quiet, whatever.
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And that was the source of the, there s so many reasons, you know.
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There was this, I can tell a story of someone else who was one of four kids and it was the only girl, three boys.
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kind of almost like seemingly perfect.
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I mean, there s never any perfect, whatever.
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It kind of got it more or less okay.
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A bit of religious stuff going on there, but still.
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But the boys were very sporty and very, and the father just, you know, like, oh, he s like, was totally sports.
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It was like a big deal, but this was not a sporty little girl.
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But to get the father s recognition,
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this little girl had to be like one of the boys, or so she thought.
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And so, purposefully, like almost made herself a mirror, with the hat on backwards, and baggy clothes.
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Tomboy, yeah, yeah.
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Tomboy.
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Didn t want to feminize and that kind of stuff, and didn t want to, not that there s anything wrong with that, but her objective was not a healthy one, it was trying to fit in, to be accepted.
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And her perception, once we got to the root, was, well, I was never accepted by my, I thought that I had to be like a boy for my father to love me.
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And that was a huge thing that was so interesting, what really triggered that, this kid was about five or six, already doing this, already reading the room and thinking this was the answer.
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And they were sitting and some stranger came up, they were sitting at some restaurant and this kid was dressed up like one of the boys.
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And someone said, oh, what a cute little boy.
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And that broke her, because it was confirmation that that was, that she s not good enough as a female, that even outside people are saying, Oh, I accept you because you re a cute little girl.
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So that led to years of self-abuse, self-hurt, sexual promiscuity, brokenness, broken marriages.
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Isn t it crazy that one thing we hear from a friend, a sibling, a parent, an outsider, a schoolmate, a teacher, it could stick with us for decades, forever.
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Forever.
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Now imagine if that person could have, and this is what triggered me to write the current book that I have on children with all these stories that I can tell, that person, I remember saying to me, if only I had known how to say to my parents,
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Am I only loved if I m a boy?
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I feel sad because you don t seem to love me unless I m like a boy.
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Or that that man made me sad because that man made me say, I ve got to be a boy.
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Or, Daddy, do you love me even though I m a girl?
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That child didn t know how to say that, didn t have the language, didn t have the tools.
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So what I m trying to create, and we know that the mental health situation is, well, a multitude of reasons.
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We know the individual society, social media, AI.
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Our generation s facing our problems.
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Every generation faces their issues.
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Every generation thinks we re worse than the previous one.
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No, we re not.
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We re just facing our unique problems.
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What we need in this generation with our kids, so that they have decent relationships, and it starts with having a decent relationship with themselves, is we have to have a way of them being able to process and express their feelings.
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So that five-year-old needs to be able to say, hey,
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I feel sad, or have a point of contact, something.
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So you can teach a child as young as two how to do this, Lewis.
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My youngest patients in my practice were two and three years of age, and you can teach them how to identify these signals, detox, and to make it really easy.
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That s what I ve done in the latest book, this one, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess.
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But we created this character, I actually created this character 25 years ago.
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I had a Disney artist create this character, and we had it all updated.
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So the book, if you flip through, you ll see there s multiple images of
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Brainy.
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This is a character we ve created called Brainy.
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Brainy goes through all these different scenarios and it s how you understand how you can teach a child as young as two that these trees in the brain and how you could change your brain and how to express and identify your signals.
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All these hard things that we battle with as adults, you can teach children very basically as a child.
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So we created a toy.
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So for example, let s say you have a two-year-old who is sitting
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Let s take a five or six year old and they re at school daycare or whatever, I mean at kindergarten and someone constantly comes up and knocks their toy tower over that they re building and then next day pulls their heel on the plate.
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There s a series of teasing going on.
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And that child most likely has, and I m talking of another clinical case, has been abused at home by a terrible, terrible physical abuse, but it s taking it out on the most vulnerable person in the playground.
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Then that child comes home and takes it out on the most vulnerable person in the family, which is the younger brother, who s maybe two or three years of age.
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And so now we see a perfect home environment with all the love and dealing with all the issues, but this child s now starting to bully the younger child, and quite badly, so that there s this terrible sibling rivalry.
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Where does bullying come from?
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Like, why do most people start to bully other kids?
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It s a coping mechanism from abuse.
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Really?
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Could be verbal or emotional or sexual or physical abuse?
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Yes.
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So it s coming from any level of 8, 9, 10 traumas.
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If you think of a scale of 1 to 10, 8, 9, 10 would be your extreme traumas.
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And persistent bullying that s breaking a person down would fall under that category.
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Any kind of abuse would fall under that sort of category.
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So when bullying is one behavior, and amongst those four signals I keep talking about,
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That is an energy that s built up, that s self-hatred.
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And self-hatred, therefore, is now blasting out.
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And they re repeating a pattern.
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So a bully has been bullied.
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And so it s a persistent pattern that goes through generations.
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They don t know how to process their emotions in a healthy way, so this is how they give it out.
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That s how they re getting it out.
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So a bully has been abused in some way.
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And they ve been bullied or have been bullied or are being bullied.
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And so they re just taking it out.
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So it s, so you can t treat the bully by punishing the bully.
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You ve got to actually help resolve why the bully is doing the bullying in the first place.
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And so you d start with a child in your home that s bullying the little brother and find out, okay, well it s now, you know, I, and this is key.
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you need to make a person feel validated because you need to say to that child, whether or an adult, this is not who you are.
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These behaviors that I m seeing that are impacting us, the rest of the family, yourself, your friends or whatever, this is not who you are.
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I know that because I know you are.
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I know who you are.
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I love you.
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So in other words, you divorce the behavior from the person.
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And that s really critical to create that safe space.
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I m going to help you work through this.
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This is no judgment, but let s talk about this.
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You can t hurt your brother or your sister or whatever.
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But at the same time, I recognize that this is not who you are.
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So you re doing this for a reason.
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So you ve got to stop hurting and we re going to put boundaries in place for that.
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But I m also going to help you understand what s going on and you re going to help me understand.
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And then you take them through a process of a neuropsycho.
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You have a contact point, so I ve created things like toys, coloring books, that character, that if a child is not able to verbalize, which they re not until they re old enough to have the language, and even then they don t have the words often, but if you have a key contact point or a point in your house,
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where, you know, like you have a sitting room and you watch TV and that s your place of relaxation.
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You need a mind management place in your home.
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You ve got a gym, you ve got a whatever.
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You need a mind management center in your home, which could be a beautiful little couch that you, or a little beanbag, and next to a pretty plant.
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Something that you as a family create and choose and everyone, adults, safe.
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Whenever you go there, there s no judgment, there s only safety.
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And if someone s sitting there, that s, they need, they re needing support too.
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Creating that environment and then having
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Like a toy like this, a young child, it s often easier to say, oh shame, Brainy was brilliant today and he s so sad.
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I see that Brainy s angry.
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So you transfer that over to the toy, then the child can then act and carry it out and show you what s happening.
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Then it divorces it from them directly and it enables them to try and
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and act that without feeling threatened or scared or externalizing.
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And you can also model for yourself, oh, mommy feels sad today and this happened.
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And so you model and you actually walk through the five steps without saying them, but you do that and you model.
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So that allows them to have the space.
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Oh, mommy also sometimes gets mad or dad also sometimes gets mad or uncle also, but you re in that space.
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Now that idea of creating a mind management space,
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or a neuropsychical space, or a brainy space, whatever you want to call it, and I ve got these examples in Zimbabwe, came from a study done in Zimbabwe years ago, where I was actually born, called bench therapy, and it was a granny on a bench, in a tribe,
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In a country that has no money for current modern mental health and actually has better mental health than any westernized country because our current model doesn t make things better, it actually makes things worse.
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And the science is there to prove that.
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And all that this granny did, Lewis, was sit on a beach and create a safe space for people to listen.
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It was so successful that King s University in Harvard did a study on it.
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And I heard about this years ago when I was early in my research and I started adapting and applying it in my practice and working with families and sort of setting this up and whatever.
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And so now you don t have to have a bench, you can have anything, it could be a bench and flowers, whatever, create that space.
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As a family, find it.
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When you ve got very young kids you can get little boxes, fill them up with pictures that you cut out of all of emotions.
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behaviours, perspectives, bodily sensations.
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So when a child comes from school and they can t verbalise or they re just so overwhelmed, they go to that corner, they pick up Brainy or other toys and they can act it out, it s safe.
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Doesn t matter what they do there, no judgement, that s a cry for help.
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Pull out the picture, they can use pictures to show.
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So you create a sense of communication.
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So that little girl whose friend said, oh what a cute little boy, could have gone to the
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that neuropsychical corner, whatever you want to call it, mind management, mental health, whatever you want to call it, picked up a toy and maybe demonstrated and made Brainy cry.
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And then mommy says, well, why is Brainy crying?
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You see what I m saying?
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And you start that at two and three, by the time you ve got a 10 year old, they re going to adolescence prepared for that.
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Heroes of adolescence and the challenges.
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Yeah, I just think learning to process emotions at an early age can help you
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immensely as an adult.
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I never learned how to process emotions until I was 30.
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The emotions I processed was anger, right?
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And that came out in sports or physical contact or reactions.
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When you were energy transferred, it made a massive transfer.
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And once I lost the safe environment, sports, to do that, then it was just like, oh, what do I do with this?
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So I had to learn over the last decade how to process and
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and really create a safe space for me to process with me and then with others.
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A relationship with yourself.
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Exactly.
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If someone feels broken in an intimate relationship,
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Are they usually more reactive to the partner if they re not feeling like the partner is helping fix them?
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Definitely could be.
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They can either be more reactive in that they are verbally more reactive and maybe make demands that seem crazy or they seem possessive or whatever.
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Um, or they could withdraw, you know, they could go silent and give you the silent treatment and withhold sort of sexual intimacy and, you know, kinds of things for kind of, to get some level of control.
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You know, there s those aspects.
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So yes.
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So it s, and as a partner, do you feel your partner is, has some kind of weird behaviors towards you?
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Well, that s time to talk and it s time to say, Hey, listen, let s go to that safe space.
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And I noticed this, I know this is not you.
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Is there something I m doing or saying?
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Is there something that you have triggered?
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Or is there something in your life?
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Maybe it s not me.
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Maybe something s happening at work or with your mom or your dad or your best friend and you just don t feel that I m here enough to listen to you.
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Shall we not talk in space or say in space?
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Oh, mind management corner, neuropsychical corner, whatever you want to call it.
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Let s talk and I see you doing this.
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Have I understood you correctly?
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You know, so it s show, tell a person what you see lovingly, kindly in a safe space and say, am I correct?
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Have I read the situation correctly?
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And I said, correct me if I m wrong.
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And I see you doing this and I know it s not you.
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So you always validate, always acknowledge, always listen, always compassion, kindness, and love.
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You talk about wild for love.
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We have got to immerse in love.
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Yes.
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And what about, where do you believe that the root of insecurity or jealousy comes from in relationships?
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Is that a wound from the past that makes us insecure or jealous in our current relationship?
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Or where does that come from?
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Everything that we do that is impacting us negatively is coming from something we ve experienced.
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Everything.
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And so we need to live lifestyles of managing by our reactions.
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So we are very capable of standing back and observing ourselves 24-7.
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Literally, you re sleeping when you sleep at night.
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But then if you do this during the day or night time, when you sleep, our mind and brain are doing housekeeping.
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And so when we manage our mind well during the day, we get really good advice.
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When we sleep, we get really good clean up.
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So it s essential that we live lifestyles of mind management so that we can observe ourselves.
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So if I, for example, I ve trained myself to do this, if I start noticing a certain pattern in my behaviors,
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And I notice that there s maybe some jealousy emerging or some envy.
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I m very quick to observe it.
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No, I m not saying I m a saint at all, far from it.
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I m just saying I ve trained myself and I m proud that I ve trained myself and I m saying it because you can do this.
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And it s not just me, there s millions of people now that we reach and I hear this all the time and I saw this in my practice.
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So, I ll observe myself.
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I ll watch, maybe I ll snap at Matt because he does something that irritates me and I ve got so used to being around him because we re together 24-7.
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And I ll find myself getting irritated or being sarcastic.
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And I ll catch myself and say, I m sorry, I was sarcastic there.
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You said something in a way I didn t really listen to, you didn t, you know.
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So you can train yourself to live lifestyle.
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In other words, if I did have felt that urge of jealousy, I will, let s say, thought an interaction with someone else, let s say, maybe it s social media and I see something going on or something on the fringes, whatever.
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Jealousy comes once you know what someone else is going
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God, we as humans, and I ve got to get this right, we as humans, when I support you and I love you and I lift you up and I am building you and I m excited, I tend to be genuinely excited for every element of your success without one moment of wishing I had that.
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I am going to function at my highest intellectual level.
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I am going to be the healthiest I am.
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So loving and supporting and lifting you is actually increasing my own intelligence and mind and brain health.
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However we are in a zeitgeist of, if what can I get out of you?
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And if you ve got more than me, how did you get, I need that.
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They may not be saying that to you, but that s what s going on in their head.
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That is slowly creating toxic thoughts that are slowly creating a disruption of those microtubule things I spoke about and setting you up for disease and dementias.
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Wow.
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Big link between, and a sense of loneliness, which is pretty much a guarantee for leading towards dementias and things.
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So envy, jealousy, bitterness, anger, those things eat you from the inside out.
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So lifting someone up makes you healthier, being jealous of someone else.
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So if you all have a tinge of jealousy, which is first thing, it s okay to be a mess, it s okay, okay, I feel jealousy, so what, okay, I feel it, now what, why?
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And then go through the neuropsycho, find the source and fix it.
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I love this.
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I feel like we can go on for a long time about this stuff.
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Is there anything else that you think people should know about
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How to end toxic thoughts to get into healthy relationships or relationships in general, any other...
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I think what s so important is that we try and reconnect as communities again and create, you know, there s a big move, and there has been for about 40 years, saying that, yeah, it s great, we re talking about mental health, we re lifting the stigma, but if you look at how we ve done it, the research shows we ve created a worse stigma.
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And we ve actually created environments where people are talking about mental health in a certain way that leads towards seeing it as an illness, in other words, seeing you as a broken person.
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Now if I go to a dinner party and I walk in and say, oh, I ve just had this, another label, I m now bipolar and this and schizophrenia and blah, blah, blah.
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Everyone at the dinner table is going to kind of be wary and you re not going to, you re going to job interview and say that, but if you go to that dinner and you say, you know, I ve just had such a rough
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few weeks and I d just seen these patterns in my life and I, you know, went through this whole sort of exploration and I found out, hey, these patterns are all coming from something and whatever, how much you want to share, but in the end, you tell the story, everyone will lean in and everyone will say, hey, wow.
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And everyone will start sharing stories in this community and support and advice and interaction.
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That s healthy mental health talk.
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Whether it s among an adult, a child, a baby, an adolescent, two years old, whatever.
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That for me is huge.
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That we need to create genuine safe spaces.
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Not this, oh, I haven t, I mean, it s okay to say it s an illness like diabetes and that makes the stigma go away and if we can talk about diabetes, no one criticizes you if you ve got diabetes.
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Why do they criticize you if you ve got bipolar?
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Bipolar doesn t even exist and now, please, I m not dishonoring the fact that people have mood swings.
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But if I just say you have bipolar, all I ve done is reduce something massive in your life that s absolutely huge, bigger than this room, into just a thing, a little lab.
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I ve totally invalidated you.
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But if I say, oh, okay, tell me about this bipolar that you say you ve got a diagnosis.
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What do you mean?
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And then you describe a set of behaviors.
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Then I would say, okay, so what you re describing is that you have certain behaviors going on in your life with these emotions, the stuff that s in your body.
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So if that s the case,
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What s going on?
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Let s find out why.
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What s your story?
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Then I ve actually tuned in and I ve listened to you.
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That s what I m talking about.
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That s validating a person.
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That s recognizing that person who can t get out of bed for three weeks or four weeks or two years.
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listening to them, what I spoke about earlier on, that s the validation we need.
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So I m in a nutshell saying that all these mental health labels reduce something that s massive into something that s not massive and put it into a disease level.
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That s not good.
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We ve got to come back to our humanity.
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We ve got to see it s huge.
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If someone s in a panic attack or someone s depressed or someone s got these mood swings or someone s
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battling to focus or battling to function in and we need to listen to these stories.
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We need to sit down and connect and communicate and create safe spaces for extreme trauma, which has created extreme behavior changes that they can t really sit back in society very well and they need a couple of weeks or months or whatever to just talk safely in a safe space.
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Talk it out, process it, yeah, get it out.
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Exactly, that for me would be critical.
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It will lead to very healthy partnerships between people.
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Caroline, I love you, I love your message, I love everything you re doing to help people.
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If you ve enjoyed this, make sure to leave a comment of the biggest moment takeaway on YouTube or over on audio as well.
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Leave us a comment there.
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a guide to building resilience and managing mental health.
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So make sure you get a copy of both of these.
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We ll have it linked up.
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Follow Caroline everywhere on social media, your podcast is amazing, your YouTube, all these different places that you have.
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Where can we best support and serve you?
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Is it drleif.com or where should we all connect with you?
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My social media platform is Dr. Caroline Meath, and my podcast, as you mentioned, is the same name as the book, Cleaning Up the Maple Leaf.
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Yeah, it s amazing.
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So thank you.
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I love you.
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I love your content.
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You re amazing.
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You spoke at our Summit of Greatness last year, and it was incredible.
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And you re just doing so much good for the world.
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So we re so grateful for you, your research, the science you do, everything that you re finding online, and really just giving it in practical terms that we can understand.
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I always love the analogies.
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I love the props.
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I love everything that just shows us how to simplify the challenges, the stresses, the overwhelm that we feel, whether it be in life or money or relationships.
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But again, if you guys enjoy this, make sure to comment below if you want a part two on mastering your mind in relationships.
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I ve asked you this question before, but I m gonna ask it again.
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It s a three truths question.
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See if it s got a different answer for you this time.
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Imagine it s your last day on earth, many years away, and for whatever reason,
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You can t leave behind any content or this book or any message you ve ever put out there.
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It s got to go with you to the next place.
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And you only get to share three pieces of advice, three lessons that you would leave with the world.
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This interview is gone, this book is gone, but you get to share three final things with the world.
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After all the success you have, what would you share with those three truths?
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I would say the same thing that I said a moment ago is start maybe with the first one, accept that you can be a mess and it s okay to work on your relationship with yourself, be kind and compassionate to yourself.
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Then give the same to others, listen to others, work through that process of really listening and supporting.
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And that s kind of those two kind of wind into each other into, I think those, those two kind of encapsulate kind of everything.
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Yeah.
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So that would then lead to love.
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So it s work on yourself and work on others and that leads to love.
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Yeah.
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That s beautiful.
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I want to acknowledge you, Caroline.
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I always do.
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You re, you re so committed to service and I m so grateful for you for how you show up.
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Uh, you know, you have,
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It s rare to find someone who has had a healthy long-term relationship.
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who s got four kids that are also working with them and have a healthy relationship with them and have a career in service to humanity the way you do.
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So I m just grateful for you and I know it s not, you re messy in all the areas, but the way you show up consistently is beautiful and I m really grateful for you.
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So yeah, of course.
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Thank you, it s beautiful.
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Back at you too, you re amazing and really I have so much high regard for you.
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I appreciate it.
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Love everything you do and you touch all our lives.
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I appreciate it.
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I appreciate it.
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Again, final question, what s your definition of greatness?
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I love this question you always ask me.
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Someone who actually has a good relationship with themself.
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I hope today s episode inspired you on your journey towards greatness.
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