On The Rocks With Neil And Tom

By Neil Jackson and Tom Biebrach

Helping you to add years to your life and life to your years. We cover topics on Mental Health, Physical Health, Nutritional Health and Social Health. We call these the Four Walls of Wellbeing and the... more

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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

On The Rocks With Neil And Tom episodes:

October 09, 2023 S2E7: The Four Nutriments
In this episode Tom takes the lead and discusses the Four Nutriments. These four nutriments are the aspects of life that you should take care to be aware of consuming. As per usual we will link it in to our Plant Based and Sober lifestyles probably managing to show horn surfing into it again. Or more likely Tom's new dipping tank.
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34min
September 25, 2023 S2E6 - The Four Idols
Today is all about the Four Idols mentioned by Saint Thomas Aquinas.

The four idols being power, money, fame and pleasure. The theory is that you are mainly driven by one of these idols and that most/all of your decisions day to day are driven by this idol.

We discuss this and other driving forces. Thanks to the Tim Ferris Podcast for making us aware of them and the following site for information on them.

https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-four-idols-money-power-pleasure-fame
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31min
September 11, 2023 S2E5 Dealing with stress
Today we are talking about how we both deal with stressful situations. Both in the sporting realm, in particular when surfing and also in day to day life.

Discussion includes the differences in how we have dealt with stress at various times in our lives. How we approach surfing when the waves get a bit bigger. Approaches to new sporting challenges and meditation as a method for helping you to act not react to situations that occur day to day.

Mentioned within this episode is Headspace
https://www.headspace.com

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32min
September 04, 2023 S2E4 - Facing fear of the future - The Five Remembrances
The Five Remembrances are a Buddhist Aide Memoire to help you to face fears of future events and to face the anxiety that these thought of the future may cause in you.

The Five are;

1. I am of the nature to grow old, I cannot escape old age.
2. I am of the nature to get sick, I cannot escape sickness.
3. I am of the nature to die, I cannot escape death.
4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
5. I inherit the results of my actions of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.

These are the from the Plum Village website https://plumvillage.org/library/dharma-talks/the-five-remembrances-sr-thuan-nghiem-spring-retreat-2018-05-17

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40min
August 21, 2023 S2E3 - Water as Therapy or even Water Therapy
Series 2 Episode 3.

Water as Therapy or even Water Therapy.

Recorded in our mobile recording studio (Neil's car) straight after getting out of the sea after a very pleasant surf. This episode tries to get to the bottom of why being in and around water is so good for us both mentally and physically.

We talk about our experiences with surfing, kayaking, swimming and cold water immersion and try to explain how it helps us in our day to day life.

Hopefully the times when people wandered over to us for a chat have been edited out okay. Perhaps we should have left them in, would have made for interesting listening. Here are a couple of links for some scientific papers on the benefits.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049052/

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-225007.abstract

Thanks for listening, see you soon in the water.
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33min
August 07, 2023 S2E2 It's Worth It In The End.
Series Two; Episode Two.

It's Worth It In The End.

In this episode we discuss the difficulties that have arisen since we made the decision to eat a plant based diet, stop drinking and investigate the world of Buddhist Philosphy.

We discuss at depth other people's views of us and the "weird" ways that we live our lives. We look at how we respond to this and how to find strength to continue along the path that we are on even in the face of many difficulties.

In this podcast we mentioned:

Luna's Vegan Corner - Cardiff : https://lunasvegancorner.com/
Great little vegan restaurant in Cardiff.

Happy Cow - Website : https://www.happycow.net/
The go to app for finding vegan food whilst out and about.

Allen Carr's Easyway: https://www.allencarr.com/
A great way to give up just about anything you want to give up.

Allen Carr's Stop drinking now book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/stop-drinking-now/allen-carr/9781848379824
The book that we both used.

Kate Strong : https://katestrong.global/
Vegan Endurance Athlete and much more.

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38min
July 24, 2023 S2E1 Cold Water Dipping and catching up.
We are both back, Tom is more qualified and I am into a different decade of my life.

In this episode we discuss what has changed since series one in our lives. This includes our attitudes towards surfing and the type of surfing we are doing. Also with our experiences with Cold Water Dipping which we rather stupidly started doing on Jan 1st this year.

All of these things in our life we try to link back to Buddhism and some of the important Dharma messages.

Hope this is useful for you all.

Here are some of the groups mentioned in the Podcast.

Lads and Dads: https://www.ladsanddads.org/about

Grow and Grind Coffee https://www.growandgrind.co.uk/

Note we have received no free items from G&G (Yet - Ryan if you are listening)

Secular Buddhist Network https://secularbuddhistnetwork.org/

Real Surfing Magazine https://www.realsurfingmagazine.com/real-surfing-magazine

“When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you they are sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.” – Gautam Buddha
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35min
July 09, 2023 S2E0 We are back.
Just a short episode to explain that we are back. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

We will be returning with with a new and improved version of the 'On The Rocks' podcast with Neil and Tom.

In it we shall be discussing in an open and frank way issues connected with mental health, physical health, societal health and spiritual health.

We hope to revisit some of the topics from season one such as healthy eating, alcohol consumption, spirituality for people who don't want religion in their lives and the importance of belonging to a group of like minded individuals.

So in the next couple of weeks the first episode of Season Two should be here. Thank you for your patience.
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3min

FAQs about On The Rocks With Neil And Tom:

How many episodes does On The Rocks With Neil And Tom have?

The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.