TSHP017 – How to Keep Your Relationship On Track

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How’s your relationship? We all have our good and bad days and it’s hard to stay on track, but there are certain things that we can all do to help ourselves (and the ones we love). This episode is full of rock solid advice for those in relationships (and for those who aren’t – there are lessons here for all who interact with other human beings). Hint: communication is a big one here.

Ed’s been to a wedding where he danced like crazy and ended up with a tie wrapped around his head. Sean is gearing up for some singing with friends. What a pair.

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TSHP016 – Is Mindfulness Worth the Hype?

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The word ‘Mindfulness’ and the phrase ‘to be mindful’ seems to be cropping up more and more in popular culture. What IS mindfulness, what does it mean and is it worth the hype? Well, if it’s good enough for Novak Djokovic, then it’s good enough for us. Be calm, live longer! Sean and Ed dive in…

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  • Sean wants you to check out an online exam that you can take in ‘benefits of mindfulness‘. Put together by the American Psychological Association. Nice!
  • Ed is a big fan of calm.com. Take a few minutes out wherever you are and focus. Available simply as a website or on your shiny iPhone.

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Life is for Learning (Assuming That You Want to Live for a Long Time)

Do you have an active brain? If you do you will stay younger for longer.

When you were at school did they tell you that your brain would decline with age? That the brain cells could never reproduce and that the fixed amount of brain cells that you had at birth would gradually die off as you grew older? That from the age of thirty five onwards it was all down hill as far as your brain was concerned? They aught that at my school.

Guess what? They were wrong.

The Bomb

Up until 1963 various governments, mainly Britain and America, were responsible for testing nuclear bombs in open air explosions. The result of this was that masses of radioactive dust was thrown into the air and at high altitudes it travelled around the world to be brought down to earth in rainfall known as ‘fallout‘. It was absorbed by grass and other vegetation and found its way into the the food chain and eventually, they said, ‘harmlessly’ into our bodies.

This process is still going on and modern research has used this to make a breakthrough in neurology.

Memory

We have known for some time that when you learn a new way of thinking, a new way of feeling or a new behaviour or habit a new circuit of neurones and dendrite form as a template for this new experience. This is then transferred to long term memory in the higher cortex of your brain. These circuits are formed in the hippocampus – a specific site/structure in the middle of the brain

Habits

The hippocampus is closely associated with the formation of memory. It is important as an early storage place for long–term memory, that is then involved in the transition of longterm memory to even more permanent memory that we call habit.

Neurology has cottoned on to a nifty little trick. The radioactive carbon 14 in nuclear bomb fallout decays at a steady rate which makes it possible to work out how old the brain cells are by measuring the radioactive carbon that they hold.

This clearly shows that you are producing new cells–or neurones–everyday and that the brain is not a fixed unit of cells that are in decline with age. Rather, the brain can regenerate everyday. This is called neurogenesis. As many as 1400 new neurones have been counted being created every day.

Here is the trick. You only get new brain cells if you keep learning new things. To live an active life whereby you learn everyday to think, feel and act in new ways keeps your brain, mind and eventually your body young. When you stop learning new things you stop producing new brain cells and your system begins to die.

Life Long Learning

As Bob Dylan puts it ‘he who is not busy being born is busy dying’. He had a point. Research suggests that as soon as you stop learning you increase the ageing of your system. Keeping active and continual learning hold back the ageing process. This tipping point, where you stop having new experiences and begin to decline, can happen at any age.

So think about this:

  1. What new experiences have you had in the last twelve months?
  2. What is your current challenge?
  3. What will be your next challenge?

Stay young, stay active and be happy.

Take care,
Sean x

TSHP015 – Money: A Force for Good?

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What’s Coming This Episode?

Money is an amplifier. Spend it wisely and you’ll see positive changes in your life. Make some poor decisions and odds are that you’ll spiral downwards. Our relationship with money is programmed into us at an early age but, ultimately, we’re all entrepreneurs of one kind or another.

Thanks again to listener Vide Kadampa for being the inspiration for this week’s show. If there’s anyone else out there that has had similar (or other) thoughts about the show, drop us a line.

In other news, Sean wishes his mother-in-law a happy birthday and is slightly frustrated over the lack of progress on his loft conversion. Here comes the Autumn. Ed might just have taken the best photo of his life but curses the little man who posed for it as he kept our host up all night, meaning that Ed might sound a little more groggy than usual.

Full marks to the listener that spots Sean’s stomach rumbling on one occasion this week. Enjoy the show 🙂

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SHOULD ED KEEP HIS TITLE OF ‘ENTREPRENEUR’? EMAIL US ‘YES’ OR ‘NO’ to podcast [at] liveinthepresent.co.uk (or, if you’re reading this via our weekly email, just hit the reply button.

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TSHP014 – How to Avoid a Stressful Holiday

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Holidays. Buckets and spades, water slides, tension-filled airports and sun burnt faces. A good holiday is hard to come by and, if you’re not careful, can result in higher stress levels than before you set off.

Autumn is starting to close in here in the UK which can be a tough time for those in strained relationships (both with others and themselves), in fact, now might be a great time to take a vacation! Before you do though, let Sean and Ed fill your ears with some advice.

Some points for discussion: What do you consider to be a holiday? Do you feel at all anxious before you set off? If so, you might not be heading to the right place. IF you are heading away with someone soon, think about sitting down with them before you leave and talking about what you both want from your time away.

First, they had a whole batch of iTunes reviews to mention before they really got started this week. Thank you all so much for taking the time to help us with your feedback and support. If you haven’t already and would like to, here’s the link to leave us an honest review of The Self Help Podcast.

Enjoy the show 🙂

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Resource of the Week

  • Sean had the audacity of mentioning one of his own meditation recordings, Relax & Let Go. It’s been around for years and has helped thousands of people over the years. Get your copy here.
  • Ed recommends a podcast, Tropical MBA which is presented by Dan and Ian. Get your work-life balance ideas going guys.

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