Giles P. Croft

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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You Are Not A Frog · The Analytical Brain Trap: Why Smart People Can’t Switch Off · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And the podcast host was like, that's a bit of a bold claim, isn't it?

Yeah.

And he said, well, no, he says, because I've seen that my well-being is ever-present, that even if I lose sight of it, even if I lose sight of that, again, if I lose sight of that right brain experience, because I'm so deep in analysis, I know that it's not gone anywhere.

I know I can't be separate from it.

It's an illusion.

And it's just the knowing, the like really having it in your bones that makes all the difference.

Anytime I'm upset about anything, it's like, oh, I'm upset about something right now.

Okay.

And then I know that in 10 minutes time, I won't be upset about something.

And that's fine too.

It's knowing that, you know, there's nothing about our experience to be feared.

Like my greatest mentor, the Scottish mystic, Sidney Banks, his most famous quote that gets trotted out is like, if the only thing we learned was not to be afraid of our experience, that alone would change the world.

For me, the really helpful thing to see is that in any moment that comes along, and we've said it already, is that we're going to do what makes sense and it's going to be based on practice.

on on our level of consciousness in that moment okay so if we're feeling het up and we really are in a in a very low mood and we're not seeing things clearly then our behavior will match that wisdom will speak to us wisdom will do its absolute best and if that includes reaching for the bottle then that's what we're going to do and you know that that's just the way it is from from from from where we are at that at that very moment um

Um, or it might, it might say, you know, well, you know, let's go out for a walk or something, or it might say, you might just have this urge to put on a piece of music or something.

I mean, you know, I love cooking and stuff, you know, I've had situations before when I've been really, really up in my head about something and just slowed down enough to not start cooking as a,

as a way of fixing it, but all of a sudden I found myself.

It's almost like if you can let intuition guide you, if you can really, you know, if the thought occurs to you, well, I should maybe, I feel like listening to a particular song, put the bloody song on, you know?

If the thought occurs to you, oh, do you know what?

I haven't cooked a curry for ages.

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