Stephen Collar

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The Home Service Expert Podcast · Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States · 10 Jan 2025 podcast

flow all the time and i'm not noticing the passage of time it's really sped up that that way am i you're healing fast am i getting bigger faster yeah right is is this a way to get bigger and nobody knows answers that nobody's really looked at this because the wound healing stuff is new but like it's cool cutting edge stuff so you said seven to ten minutes breath work six oh yeah what's the five minute have you got five minutes only oh a gratitude list gratitude i was reading that gratitude practice your book a gratitude practice is five minutes if you've got six ten things

No, well, you do one of two ways. Most psychologists, most like positive psychologists don't do the 10 things. They will say, write down three things you're grateful for. And this is what you can do in five minutes. Three things you're grateful for and turn one of them into a paragraph.

And it's worth talking about sort of like, it's just worth talking about why that works because people hear gratitude and you hear it all over the fricking place. And it sounds to a lot of us, right? Unless you're come up in a spiritual tradition or things like that, it just seems wonky. So why would gratitude work? And it's important because gratitude works for the same reasons affirmations fail.

We have phenomenal built-in bullshit. So if I'm looking in the mirror and I'm doing an affirmation, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire. And my mirror self is looking back at me and going, dude, you work at Walmart. Shut the fuck up. Right. It's demotivating. I'm lying to myself and I know I'm lying to myself and I'm really.

But if I'm looking in the mirror and going, I am so happy and grateful that I woke up this morning and I'm breathing and my legs are working. Well, that's real. That's real. And if when you start listing things that you're grateful for the brain, we evolved in a high threat environment. So the brain is the word. This is a crazy word. Homeostasis. Homeostasis literally just means balance. Right.

So let me give you a crazy example. There's dopamine involved in this process. So the brain is a prediction engine. That's what it does all the time. It's always saying what's about to happen and how much energy do I need to meet that challenge? Remember, we go back to efficiency. The first order of business for the brain is save energy. Calories are fricking expensive.

It's hard to get food in the environments we evolved in. So how do I preserve energy? If you know the doorknob is open, you don't need to put your shoulder into the door and waste all that energy trying to bust the door open. You just turn the knob, right? So when you're reaching for that knob, your brain is trying to predict, is it going to be unlocked? How much energy do I need for that, right?

Doing that all the time. When matches your prediction, you don't notice, right? You think the door is going to be unlocked. You open the door and walk through it. You didn't even notice that you did it. You notice when it doesn't match your prediction. And that noticing that like, oh, it's locked, that feeling you get, that's because dopamine has been cut off.

So every time we match a prediction, you get a little bit of dopamine, a little bit of dopamine. And when we don't, It gets cut off. So you asked a question that started me talking about prediction. What was that? Let's back up into it.

God, I was starting, I'll just talk your face off and go on brand. No, I love this.

Well, that's, I mean, that was the example. I'm just trying to think why I started telling you about the brain as a prediction engine. And no, no, we were talking about, oh, gratitude, gratitude. Okay. So what we don't realize is that the brain takes in, we take in a limited amount of information, right? But on average, the brain will take in

nine negatives for every one positive thing that comes through. So we get nine negative bits of information. This is dangerous. This is scary. This is don't do this, don't do this, don't do this, for every positive that gets through. Those positive things are the basis of creativity, opportunity, like for entrepreneurs, really, really, really critical.

Because you're always looking for opportunity. You're always looking for novelty and new information, not the same old thing that scares you. So what a gratitude list is, it tips it. You stop taking about five negative for every positive. For that day? Yeah, for that period of time. So it calms you down, goes, oh, you're safer than you think. And it lets you start seeing more of the world.

It opens up perception. So you're getting in novelty and opportunity. All these things are starting to come in and things are a lot less threatening. So that gratitude does that in five minutes. Reading is about six minutes. If you have seven to 11, 15 ish, you probably want to do breath work. If you've got 15 to like 25 minutes, I would do, I would take a page out of Tommy's book

I'd go for a long walk in nature. That's the like 15 to 20 minutes, 25 minutes, go for a walk. If you've got 25 to like 45 minutes, go get a workout in, right? Exercise is the best cure for your nervous system, right? Best way to really calm it down. There's other things you can do. So, Eight minutes of petting a dog, petting an animal.

Social connection will do this too, but eight minutes of petting a dog starts producing oxytocin and a whole bunch of those neurochemicals for connection. So there are other like little hacks in there, but my point to get back to it, you asked, what do you do at the end of the day? I do an active recovery protocol, right? Usually I finish working. I either go, I've already worked out.

So I'll go right into a sauna and I like to do breath work and reading inside a sauna. So I write, I've got an infrared sauna. you tend to say them for a long time, like half an hour, 30, 40 minutes. I can do 20 minutes of breath work and 20 minutes of reading and a sauna. So saunas automatically lower cortisol. They do it automatically.

And then I massively amped up my recovery with some breath work and with some reading. By the way, what breath work do you- I rotate it. I rotate it. It depends on if my nervous system is really agitated, right? If I'm really sped up, i will do a wim hof style breath with breath holding because it's more effective at calming you down when you're already really sped up i'm slightly calmer

I'm going to do a focus meditation. I tend to do sound meditation a lot because I like it. It works really well for me. Sometimes I'll just count my breath or do things like that for a bunch of different reasons. If I really have the time, I will do loving kindness meditation.

Of all the meditative systems, loving kindness meditation does some really interesting things that the other ones don't do. So one of them is loving kindness meditation actually has anti-aging properties. So they did a bunch of studies of focus meditation versus loving kindness meditation. And one of the things they were looking at was telomere lag. So telomeres are the caps on chromosomes, right?

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