Private Practice Podcast

It's time to stop living your best life. Nothing can be said to be truly conscious, the mycelial-like network of unconscious knowledge stretches so deep that your logical left brain needs to take a m…

Unconscious: Part One – Your Brain is Hot

This is the first part of our mini-series exploring ideas of the unconscious mind, in which we compare the conscious, subconscious and unconscious states, usi…

A taste of what's brewing in the darkness before it enters your conscious experience. Our new mini-series on the unconscious mind starts next week.

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Legends by Alexander Nak…

As the great philosopher Belinda Carlisle said so profoundly, Heaven is a Place on Earth. This week we question how you can create that state for the entire duration of your life, instead of living i…

You shout at us, we listen! It's already time for excellent, complex critique from the sophisticated listener. Although when life gives you lemons, you just have to pull your socks up and let the lem…

How do you cope with external chaos? Just be like James, he's doing fine with his divinely ordered consciousness in the current situation. Is that not helpful? You want better advice, you want more w…

Describe yourself. Things I couldn't guess from averages of humanity or that "outfit" you're wearing. Are you the kind of person who says, "I hate filling out the 'About Me' box on dating apps?" Well…

Mental health and self-development amounts to ineffectual, vulgar, bourgeois fluff. Political action is what makes a real improvement to the lives of the many?

Well… not exactly.

Anxiety is a contagiou…

What is a mental health problem and why do you need more of them? Like the Flow activities discussed in the previous season, any state of improved mental health requires a verb; practicing, questioni…

You'll never find the enjoyment of a complex and meaningful life without listening to this climactic epi-Flow-de. Quitting at last week's penultimate one will take you plummeting right back into the …

James Hall, ego extraordinaire, "privileged white man", enjoyed Flow in the paradise of Montpellier a year ago, and is now here to symbolically remind you that you don't stand a chance in hell of imp…

Have you ever meditated while your neighbours were having noisy sex? Which of your friends provide you with the most complexity? How can you become more popular with friends AND win a sexy legs compe…

Which is worse, having nothing but your own company, or putting up with other people? The next chapter is divided into two episodes, and in this one we focus on solitude, before turning our attention…

Enough of all this daydreaming and walking, it's time to do some work. But does this mean Flow is put on pause while you surrender yourself to the tyranny of oppression? Of course not, the Flow has o…

How much enjoyment can you get out of absolutely nothing? If you assign some time to close off those sensory inputs we looked at last time and leave the brain to stimulate all content, just how high …

Happy Czikszentmihalmas, or if not happy then Private Practice Podcast wishes you a complex yet accessible Christmas this year. Mid-Flow through the season, we decided to increase the complexity of o…

We're going to ask some of life's biggest questions in this girthy episode. What sex toys does Dan use? Does pain exist? Can lavender cure PTSD?

The Body in Flow is the subject as we examine the sense…

The Conditions of Flow, Chapter 4 in the book, looks at society and environment to see which external circumstances clear the Flow runway for take-off, and which ice it over to leave your flight, com…

No pleasure. No happiness. Only enjoyment. Creating new order in consciousness is the subject of this episode, in which we reject the symbolic goal of happiness, pushed by the publishers of 'Flow'. W…

The conditions of consciousness and self-identity are the subject of Part 2 in our series on the book of Flow. While consciousness is an enduring mystery to neuroscientists, there are certain pattern…