What is the power of ‘state’ and why does it predict so much of the success or failure we experience on a daily basis? How can small steps in shifting our personal physiology create large gains in the areas of life that matter to us.?
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
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Speaker:Today I want to talk to you.
Speaker:About state, not the place where you live.
Speaker:I want to talk about physiological state.
Speaker:It's something that I've talked about at different times in the past, but today it
Speaker:really came home for me, it sort of really just was one of those things that I went.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:I got to talk about this again, because it's so important.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Uh, physiological state, I guess you would encapsulate as a whole range of factors.
Speaker:It would be to do with our rest.
Speaker:To our energy levels, to our breathing patterns, to a diet exercise, all those
Speaker:things that contribute to our general sense of wellbeing or lack there of.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Why are we talking about this today?
Speaker:Because I got up this morning.
Speaker:I wake up about 3:30 AM.
Speaker:I'm usually up at four, but I woke up a bit early today.
Speaker:And, uh, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus.
Speaker:I came, came.
Speaker:I went to my downstairs office.
Speaker:I've got a coffee machine there and I'm like, you know what?
Speaker:This is just rubbish.
Speaker:I feel terrible.
Speaker:I just felt, I mean, I trained hard yesterday.
Speaker:I hadn't eaten much last night.
Speaker:I'd probably hadn't fueled enough.
Speaker:And I woke up, did I feel an rubbish?
Speaker:And I go through the first hour or so, and I thought, no.
Speaker:This is not working.
Speaker:So I had myself a, a, an espresso, had a really good shower, hot shower.
Speaker:Then I had to jump on a call to the U S a conference call, which was really
Speaker:positive with some great people.
Speaker:And suddenly I found myself feeling really different, radically different.
Speaker:I noticed that my physiology had really shifted.
Speaker:So I had, obviously I had a coffee.
Speaker:I'd had a shower.
Speaker:I'd had a positive interaction.
Speaker:My breathing patterns were different.
Speaker:And there was this sense of energy and optimism that had been
Speaker:completely lacking an hour before.
Speaker:And what it did was bring home to me.
Speaker:The crucial importance of the state that we are in at any given time.
Speaker:And I want to talk about some nuance here because.
Speaker:What happens when we are in low physiological states.
Speaker:Is that our brain runs at a pretty low air and it will serve up to us
Speaker:all sorts of really unhelpful stuff.
Speaker:You know, when you're feeling really low energy and you're not feeling well, or you
Speaker:didn't sleep properly or you're just you.
Speaker:And that, you know, that blast state, you know, that is not
Speaker:the place where you have.
Speaker:Profound breakthroughs about important relationships or business ideas or career
Speaker:ideas, or, you know, we, we get, we.
Speaker:It's stuck in this kind of swamp of feeling really low.
Speaker:And then I noticed that when I changed that physiology, And you
Speaker:see, I literally did change it.
Speaker:It was practical things.
Speaker:It was the coffee, it was the shower.
Speaker:It was the conversation.
Speaker:It was a then coming into the studio, jumping in front of the cameras here,
Speaker:which you can see on the YouTube link and just feeling so different.
Speaker:And all of a sudden you can see it in the video, like just my energy, so different.
Speaker:So, this is not a profoundly radical message here.
Speaker:If you're listening to me going.
Speaker:So what are you saying to us?
Speaker:You're just saying that we got to.
Speaker:You know, try and get ourselves in a good state regularly.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Like, absolutely.
Speaker:We don't pay enough attention to it.
Speaker:I think we spend a lot of our lives just living in our bodies, just expecting or
Speaker:experiencing whatever is served up to us.
Speaker:But when we feel in a good state, it really has these like flow on
Speaker:effects right across our lives, our conversations, our plans, our thinking.
Speaker:Uh, you know, so.
Speaker:I find myself now here in the studio, I've done the videos for
Speaker:the day and I'm doing the podcast version with you here right now.
Speaker:And I'm pumped.
Speaker:Like I've just.
Speaker:Gotcha.
Speaker:To the kitchen here in the studio and had really good.
Speaker:Fueled up really well.
Speaker:I'm going to be in the gym and about 40 minutes, I'm going to hit that super hard.
Speaker:Like I'm pumped.
Speaker:You can sense it.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So here's what I want you to do.
Speaker:I want you to start paying attention to your physiological state.
Speaker:You know, there's other things that I do.
Speaker:I've, I'm not telling you to do this at all, but I've sort of done a bit.
Speaker:You know, the last few years I've been doing more of that intermittent fasting.
Speaker:Uh, mainly because I was doing more endurance running, so ultra
Speaker:marathons, and I just began to fuel an eight a bit differently.
Speaker:And I noticed that.
Speaker:I can get hungry, but my sort of blood sugar and my internal physiology
Speaker:sort of really stays very stable.
Speaker:Um, and I can often concentrate really well.
Speaker:I noticed that if I.
Speaker:Eight, any of the wrong stuff, my energy levels collapse, like, you
Speaker:know, we're all aware of this, right?
Speaker:Like, you know, we over fuel on sugars, our pancreas responds,
Speaker:creates too much insulin.
Speaker:We get a crash.
Speaker:These things are shaping our lives.
Speaker:Like often we thinking that we want to have a positive mindset,
Speaker:but we don't realize that.
Speaker:The way that we're treating our bodies.
Speaker:Is having a profound impact upon our mindset.
Speaker:So these are factors that are on my mind today for you that as you go through
Speaker:this state, what's the, what's our first step in just about everything.
Speaker:Pay attention, start paying attention.
Speaker:What are you putting into your body?
Speaker:How you feeling at any particular time?
Speaker:Is there something you could do?
Speaker:Are there practical things you can do?
Speaker:Go for a walk.
Speaker:Have a shower, you know, do different things.
Speaker:You know, what other sorts of things that you can do to shift that physiology
Speaker:quickly and change your state.
Speaker:Because if you can change your state to be in a positive state, you're going to
Speaker:get much better outcomes across the board.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So pay attention, do practical things.
Speaker:I look after yourself, like bless yourself a little bit.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Just sort of do stuff that helps you to feel more vibrant,
Speaker:more alive, more active.
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Speaker:My friends, but God bless you.
Speaker:Let's get in the game.
Speaker:I'm pumped for ya.
Speaker:I'm just excited for you today.
Speaker:I just think that if you can start to put more of these little things
Speaker:in place, these little daily steps.
Speaker:You're going to get your life moving more and more towards
Speaker:you where you want it to be.
Speaker:I think we're in for some interesting times globally.
Speaker:I think this is going to be a sifting time, a challenging time.
Speaker:As many people come under all sorts of different pressures that we haven't
Speaker:experienced probably for 50 to a hundred years as a global culture.
Speaker:So we want to be an optimum states right we want to be in good positive places in
Speaker:ourselves we want to be ready for action we want to be ready for contribution and
Speaker:one of the dominant ways we do that is by getting ourselves in good states god
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