Episode 023 with Spencer Hicks

(4) I sit down with my lovely friend Spencer Hicks, a science-boy, armchair philosopher, fitness enthusiast, and motivational speaker - to discuss some matters of the mind, body, and spirit. We learn about cognitive empathy, sympathy, suffering, social norms, my dealings with social anxiety. We chat about the strange situation that is 'meeting people in person who you know from the internet', and keeping in touch with people through social media but not in person. We expand on the 'alllowing' of awkwardness and weirdness in real-life conversations. We talk about the parasympathetic state, the sympathetic state, we talk about stress and breathwork and we give some layers of advice to anyone with poor breathing habits. (If you struggle with anxiety and depression - I urge you to begin your journey into breathwork and stretching! Get dat knowledge in ya boo!)
We talk about what the body-mind does under stress and what we can do to mitigate and prevent unwarranted stress to our bodies. Spencer gives some great tips on sleep and we mention some ways to shut down our minds to get the sleep flowin - we breathe some life into the mindsets we each have behind sleep ourselves and we touch-and-go on subjects like - cold showers, caffeine intake, phone control, and sensory deprivation tanks. Love yourself!