TJ Power

Nature offers such a perfect way to kind of calmly de-stimulate the brain so that then you can properly relax.

After these calls this evening, I'll always go and get a bit of nature to chill me out so that when I relax, I actually relax and I'll be able to be off my phone.

If you just go from tech to tech to tech to tech, it's very hard to ever enter like a nice peaceful high serotonin stay.

Sorry, I was just going to add that one of the big recommendations I would have is to really create a framework in your brain where headphones don't come with you into nature anymore.

And that can seem unusual because I understand like podcasts are really cool, definitely, given that we're having this conversation.

But I think there needs to be time where it's just you and your brain, even if it feels uncomfortable.

For me, it actually feels quite uncomfortable at first when I go into nature without stimulation.

Those thoughts have their moments to come through, different challenges and worries.

Eventually, though, once they've had their moments to be heard, a nice peaceful state can arise and a lot of creativity can come from there, a lot of gratitude and love.

And goal planning and direction can come from there.

So nature, headphone free, heaven for the serotonin.

Yeah.

So I briefly mentioned at the beginning that stress really evolved as something that was designed to be supported with physical action.

And what I basically mean by that is in the modern world, we have loads of what we call micro stresses that are stressing us out.

You might see someone's political opinion.

You think, oh, I hate that.

That's really annoying.

That stressed me out.

And then something with your bank account and then like 10 emails come through and then something happens with your wife.

And it's just like lots of tiny little things stressing us out.