The Black Country Buddhas Podcast – Feb 2020

Introduction to podcast:

The Black Country Buddhas Podcast features an assortment of awesome conversations with the most entertaining and enlightening guests the health and wellness world has to offer, including:

A vegan heavyweight champion
A World Series winner
A blind ultra-endurance challenge competitor
Ex-professional footballers
A triathlete couple
A veteran martial arts expert
And many more.

In this episode, the BCB’s discuss what they have been pondering over the past week.

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Key quotes and takeaways from the show:

“Think big and go small.” (05:52).

“We don’t rise to the level of our challenges; we fall to the level of our systems.” (10:30).

“Depressed is actually DEEP REST.” (01:02:35).

“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you winning?” (01:06:08).

“You need the next mission.” (01:14:23)

“You know when you know you do not know.” (01:17:46).

Question of the day:

“Do we take enough ownership of our circumstances?”

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The previous recorded conversation between the Buddhas was in August 2019, in which they discuss Gaz’s new job and why he loves it.

The podcast also includes:

GAZ’S NEW JOB
GOOD MORNING RITUALS
WHY ANXIETY MAY NOT BE A BAD THING
EXERCISING WHILST WORKING A MANUAL JOB
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GYMS
MARTIAL ARTS AND SELF-DEFENCE
BEING AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON EXERCISE

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Show notes:

00:42 – Focussing on priorities can lead to selfishness.
01:25 – Inviting Mara to tea.
02:08 – Acceptance.
02:33 – Nothing is new.
03:48 – Using books as reference guides.
04:00 – There is no one way.
04:22 – Reality has a surprising amount of detail
05:52 – Think big and then go small.
07:47 – “If I’m so smart, why am I not winning?”
08:37 – System 1 and system 2 thinking.
10:00 – Setting habits and willpower doesn’t work.
11:13 – Flow state and Rickson Gracie example
12:24 – How thinking impacts our energy and energy impacts our thinking.
15:28 – How little decisions impact on your entire life.
15:58 – Making associations throughout your life.
16:20 – Water and hydration.
20:04 – Does stress and overthinking outweigh healthy decisions?
23:28 – Stress as a major contributing factor to ill health and how to fight it.
24:15 – White belt mentality and having a student’s perspective.
25:07 – Life and leadership lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
29:50 – Mentors and Nuno Espírito Santo’s approach to leadership.
30:49 – Breaking the macro into the micro.
31:25 – Principles of strength training and time static contractions.
32:48 – Transferability of training into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, breathing and Russian Systema.
34:18 – Cold showers and Wim Hoff breathing techniques.
35:40 – Breathing and the science behind the Wim Hoff breath.
38:28 – Fighting flu.
40:00 – How important C02 is in the body.
41:03 – Releasing tension through breathing.
41:24 – Nasal breathing and running technique.
45:27 – Mewing (tongue position in mouth).
47:36 – Do we take enough ownership of our circumstances?
49:32 – Mood is a recipe not an ingredient.
52:41 – Are grief, loss and heartbreak selfish emotions and is everything we do self-serving?
54:04 – Awareness by Anthony de Mello – selfishness, labels, perceptions and attachment.
58:15 – Life is suffering.
59:55 – Fear setting.
01:01:42 – Feeling okay whilst depressed.
01:02:54 – Playing the game of life – the poker analogy.
01:07:55 – Creating a no-lose situation.
01:09:58 – Everything is about balance!
01:10:34 – The carnivore diet is an elimination diet.
01:12:00 – Just eat! The minefield of nutrition.
01:14:15 – Using goals as a life tool.
01:14:53 – Good questions to ask yourself in life.
01:17:47 – You will never know everything or anything.
01:18:57 – How to consume good information quickly.