Ruby Wax
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And then he said, you have to get into Oxford.
And so, boy, did I give an interview.
Boy, did I interview.
And I said, if you don't let me in, I'm going, I'm studying this anyway.
And that's to do your master's.
To do my master's and study neuroscience.
I said, you guys don't matter.
And that is like getting a man.
You guys don't matter.
So I was in.
And then it was, that's where I thought mindfulness is interesting because you could see what happens in a brain scanner, exactly what you're exercising.
And it has the same results for medication.
Well, it's, you know, when you go to the gym and you lift a weight.
and you get a bicep.
So this is it for the mind.
But you have to understand that when you are, there's certain parts like the alarm, the amygdala is aroused and we live in a continual state of arousal, continuous.
We have no way of coming down.
So that part is activated.
There's another part when you send focus into your body called the insula.
I'm making it easy.