Shahroo Izadi

And so there were impulse control exercises that would help people understand that if you wait for 20 minutes, you're going to feel differently about this.

So allow yourself to see that.

But more and more, it was essentially saying...

There are all these different ways to get people to do something new and scary in a row until it feels familiar and not scary anymore and feels automatic.

And all of us are just trying to do that.

So I recognize that.

And I didn't really care about the jargon, if I'm honest, because I knew what I wanted to hear.

I wanted to not be shocked.

I wanted to know exactly why I was there, what you were going to do for me.

I wanted to be reassured that you weren't going to take my drug away.

I didn't want you to act like you knew me better than I knew myself.

Yes.

And all of those things I brought in, I would be speaking to people on a level the way that they already have a discussion and say, have you tried doing this?

So, for example, impulse control for me, I can't do body scans and things.

I can't.

I will have already picked up 10 times, you know, like the trainers left the station.

yeah meditation things like that it just doesn't it's just a bit chilled for me it's a bit calm and when i'm in that state you know what goes up needs to come down but it needs to come out come down quickly and it needs to really engage me um and meditation doesn't it leaves me with too much room for distraction and i just can't see myself interrupting um something really compulsive that way but singing did

So I broke it down and I was like, right, why are people meditating?

They're meditating because they feel present.

They're meditating because they want to bring their nervous systems back.