The Importance of Positive Thinking, Meditation and Mindfulness in Our Modern Stressful World

Mark Dawes' Podcasts

This is a podcast hosted by Adam Parr (thank you Adam for the invite) where we discuss the increasing mental health issue in the UK and the benefits of positive thinking from a neurological and behavioural point of view.

A breakdown of the content with timing is as follows:

0031: Mental health first aid training and the increasing amount of people on prescription drugs.

0041: 'The Universal Human Phobia'.

04:00: 'The Way In Is The Way Out.

06:00: The problem with mental health first aid as reported by the Health & safety Executive and the impact of the problem in corporations with regard to 'burn-out'.

08:32: 'What you give your energy to you help create' and the development of Quantum Thinking.

09:22: 'It's not my fault' - People not taking responsibility for what they can control and 'reacting' instead of 'responding'.

11:40: 'Things that Wire Together Fire Together' - how every behaviour is linked to a network in our brains and how those networks grow.

13:55: The Viktor Frankl Story - 'Man's Search For Meaning' and how the brain doesn't know the difference between perception and reality.

18:08: Impermanence - Everything changes, right down to our basic subatomic structures, why everything is made up of 'empty space', which is actually energy.

19:50: The root of all suffering.

20:30: The 'Miracle' of living in the present moment to be truly alive, coming to terms with death and the first law of thermodynamics.

23:30: Two people who possess nothing who are now the happiest people I know and Chris' story (@ChrisWalksTheUK) and MaJa's story @mausn_arts.

25:50: How society conditions us to become 'commercially happy', like an addiction and how to break that pattern.

27:20: Meditation and mindfulness is free. If you can breath you can do it and it's one of the only things you can consistently fail at and get better at it.

30:10: Most people are being used by social media as opposed to social media using you.

31:02: I hate perfume ads!

31:40: If you not conditioned, commerce wouldn't work!

32:30: Becoming seriously awake!

34:52: The importance of the environment in training, in cell biology and to us as human beings.

36:21: My heart attack and survival.

40:50: We are in the most technically advanced ear yet we have more sickness, illnesses, diseases and wars than ever before.

41:50: Shout out to Paul 'Vic' Vicary.

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