70's child star Lena Zavaroni was plucked from obscurity to international fame at the age of 10 and sent to live away hundreds of miles away from her family with people who seemingly only wanted to make money from her. When she began suffering from anorexia at age 13, her illness forced her to abandon her TV career and by the time she was in her 30s she ended up penniless and living on benefits. Lonely and desperate to cure her condition she begged to have a very risky brain operation (leucotomy) and died from pneumonia a few weeks later at the age of 35.

This sobering story which was aired on UK TV last week showed the price of fame and the terrible aftereffects of losing connection from those you love (an attachment wound). This affects the development of the child's brain and makes addiction much more likely.

Hear how she could have been treated today. Here's Byron Katie's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGxPa8jmWI

00:00 Intro Lena is spotted by a talent scout and she is signed up by agents and taken to live with them in London where she was catapulted into fame.
06:47 After being diagnosed at 13 with anorexia (having been told to lose weight by the agents) life becomes a lot tougher as it began to take her over. 
09:03 Her death at 35 is unsurprising given her traumatic history - a form of relinquishment (abandonment) trauma which was never resolved. 
11:30 An internal feeling of unsafety often expresses itself in addiction. The presence of being seen and felt (unconditional love) is so vital to brain development.
13:00 Byron Katie's work of inquiry helps people to resolve to deeply held beliefs that cause us to suffer. Anorexia is a coping strategy for what's missing in brain development.
17:00 Building a sense of internal safety. Rewriting your story...

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00:00 Intro to Neurodiversity and High Sensitivity - my book The  Highly Sensitive Handbook looked at this
02:00 Neurodiversity is common but misunderstood - higher sensitivity and ADHD - differences
03:48 ADHD Attention Deficit hyperactivity Disorder - common symptoms or traits:  of disorganisation, emotional dysregulation, dopamine functioning - executive functioning deficits
08:38 Troubled multi-tasking, distractibility, difficulty awaiting your turn (makes you REALLY anxious), difficulty staying still, sex differences: women and girls mask much more than boys and men,  higher rate of anxiety of depression, low self-esteem,
14:00 Contentious issues of childhood trauma in the development of neurodiversity, creates a predisposition to chronic depression - unresolved issues from childhood
15.58: How to deal with these issues - diagnosis is helpful in some cases, but not universally accepted. Acceptance is more helpful to living a whole and sustaining life. Healing the past.
17:37 Physical changes you can make, sleep (quality of light), diet and exercise (moving more in the outdoors). Avoiding addictive tendencies. 
19:56 Getting relationships that nurture you. Poor boundaries will exhaust you if you don't limit. Supportive communities help to counter isolation. Nature connectedness.

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See my book Life Illuminated https://mybook.to/LifeIlum for more information.

and for the video that inspired this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllNLJi1S0Q
and Lumenate app (go to Google play store or Apple store). There is a basic free option.

00:00 Intro and how light interacts with mitochondria along the electron transport chain
03:00 Lack of natural daylight impacts our bodies particularly in hospitals
06:17 Solutions - daylight lamps, exercising outside, gives us infrared light to provide our nervous system with energy.
08:50 Developmental considerations - from birth to aging
11:40 Lumenate app review

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We are in a  battle currently where conventional science attempts to explain healing - via neuroscience particularly in a bit to legitimise what, for many, are 'unscientific' or 'pseudoscience' of holistic methods such as psychosensory therapy. The difficulty is in not losing the spontaneity and art of healing which is in many ways a completely opposite approach. Here I detail what I've learned through my decades of research and practice and my foot in both camps.

00:00 Intro and the battle between scientific and holistic methods which mirrors my own history
02:34 The marketisation of therapy via symptom based alleviation which ensures other methods are dismissed for lack of scientific explanation.
05:50 How EFT works - the vagus nerve electro-stimulation and how EMDR and havening works. All are bottom up approaches unlike talk therapy
07:04 the importance of unconscious beliefs stored as sensory impressions from childhood.
08:42 healing as a process which is non-linear - allows for spontaneity magic and intuition - what I call 'the shift'.
10:45 the rapid advances in neuroscience has limitations in explaining everything, particularly the tipping point (maybe at the cellular level in the cell danger response)
12:26 why do people get stuck? unconscious processes going on 'under the hood', requires willingness to engage with uncertainty
14:09 An interaction with the client and therapist - an energetic phenomenon. An individuality to the process, an understanding of the uncertainty of the process.
16:40 Holistic Inventions build on the backs of previous ones. TFT, EFT, EMDR and self-havening.
21:02 The trouble with the 'fix it' mentality, need to address painful/difficult experiences before you rewire them - for instance phobias which de-link the experience and the emotional response.
24:18 Can we expand our willingness to share knowledge and explore intuitive understanding of healing.

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In this book review I consider the idea that what we perceive as reality is in fact an interface much like seeing icons on your desktop. This is the astounding idea of scientist and philosopher Donald R Hoffman..
In this review find out what I thought of the book and its astonishing hypothesis of 'Fitness Beats Truth' (FBT) theorem and how it's the payoff for being able to interact with our world in a meaningful way that beats true perception of reality.
00:00 intro to book and his interface theory
02:50 conscious agents (that's us) interact with a simulation of the world
03:42 origin of consciousness - hard problem is solved if consciousness is fundamental
05:30 format of the book - a great idea but some formatting, style and repetition issues
07:44 position of conscious realism vs. panpsychism - the philosophical basis - immaterial?
09:51 Time expands and contracts depending on our focus/interaction
11:40 Final thoughts.

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The new film about photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller does not shirk the hard stuff. From covering the liberation of Europe (and especially the concentration camps) to her experience as woman excluded and violated in childhood.

00:00 Intro to Lee Miller: model, photographer and war correspondent.
02:56 War breaks out and how she got to be a war correspondent for the US government.
04:38 Liberation of the concentration camps and the effect on her and fellow photographer David Sherman
06:06 Why Lee chose to go into danger and conflict - how her personal experience of sexual abuse changed the course of her life. Trauma begets trauma as you seek the familiar.
08:50 Difficulty with relationships including that with her son Anthony no doubt affected by her alcoholism.
11:02 In denial of your vulnerability makes it difficult to parent. ACE's (adverse childhood experiences) live on as a feeling of unsafety in your life or body.
13:05 Tools and techniques to reverse the pattern stored in the body - rewriting unconscious responses are now available (sadly not for Lee and her trauma). 

See my book Mind Medicine available now on amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindbody-Medicine-Unconscious-Reprocessing-Psychobiotics/dp/B0DG3MQ8DW

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Some extra ideas I had after reading this book.. on the 'unintelligence' of the mammalian retinal system' (see at 09:38)
Although I have covered some of this in the first recording I thought it was important to counter this argument.

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Anxiety is a common problem for athletes:

00:00 Intro and how I got into somatic trauma work
03:40 Chronic anxiety is a natural response to past experience stored in your body in a feedback loop with your limbic brain
06:50 The body cannot lie - it will reveal the truth of your unmet emotional needs from childhood as symptoms
09:20 Symptom suppression vs. root causes. Athletes can get symptoms of auto-immune, delayed healing, chronic pain, etc if underlying high achieving drivers become unbalanced. Ian's story.
15:03 Autonomic nervous system controls the body and is regulated by emotions. Autonomic safety (calm connection or neuroception) is necessary for healing and neurological co-regulation.
19:27 Trauma events can be one-off or more commonly complex PTSD from attachment wounding. Much more common with highly sensitive people (HSPs).
24:00 Symptom labels are limited being descriptive only. An example from an athlete we have both worked with:
1/ Betrayal of trust distorts your mindbody perception of self. Hyper-responsibility plays out as the child within unconsciously as feelings of shame transformed to worthiness.
34:50 High sensitivity (sensory processing sensitivity) correspond to 20% of population. Present in the womb, is a trait you are born with. Their needs are greater in childhood. Porous boundaries create overwhelm.
39:30 Adult reactions driven by past experience - coaches, trainers take the place of family but can be abusive relationships which retrigger past traumas.
44:00 What's changed in our environment that anxiety is so huge - social media onslaught, schooling system based on competition, achievement. Inter-generational trauma has built up. See The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. Much more pressure, less support leads to being bathed in cortisol which destroys us.
48:00 Competition vs. community. How the mind punishes the body if trained by trauma. Replacing despair with hope, love & gratitude is profoundly healing. Is a resonant system so emotions matter physiologically to restoring energy.
54:00 Heart mind resonance. Heart is not just a physiological pump but a resonance electromagnetic organ to connect with other living beings and our environment via its sensory system. Allowing your vulnerability and reaching out for help. Heart connection in practice.
59:00 How to connect with me. Books and courses.

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I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).
Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.

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How Health is more than fixing the problem but engaging with a wider perspective - a truly wholistic vision of purpose, beliefs and connection

We need to understand we are connected to a universal consciousness...

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