Our Diaries with Becky and Paula - We talk with Kay Rubacek #brain #1minutewonder #carryforthtradition

Well hi everyone, it's been quite a long time and it's nice to be back, me and Paula, with our diaries and today we've got a really lovely guest on and this is our friend Kay and Kay's in America and Kay, I was just asking her how she'd like to be introduced because she's done all sorts of different things as Kay, she's done research, filmmaking, producing, she's a musician, she's got channels and books, she's written books and research so today I've invited Kay to come on because she's just started a new YouTube channel called One Minute Wonder and I absolutely love it and it's actually about the brain and how the brain functions and I find her little, she does little short videos and that's why she's called it One Minute Wonder and they're all so interesting and I just wanted to invite her on to tell us about it and how did it come about Kay, so welcome. Thank you ladies for having me, it's such a pleasure and how did it come about? So like you said, I've done a number of things, I've been really, I've been a producer for most of my life, professional life, working as a producer and but I've produced a lot of things whether it's movies or books or music and after my last movie that I put out, we released it during COVID, during 2020 and it was the worst year in history to release a movie, all the theatres were closed and the film was heavily censored because it talked about human rights abuses in China and so it just became so difficult to release those types of movies and that movie took us six years to make, it was a real labour of love and we had amazing access inside a slave labour prison camp in China and the people were able to interview were just amazing people but I just found that with, it's so hard to distribute content that is maybe a bit sensitive, politically sensitive, so I thought I really need to reach people in a different way and help people with what they're needing in life and what I, and then people will find my work instead of having to try and rely on these big platforms to beg them to take my movies when they're saying no we get too much money from, in this case China, we're not going to take your film which is what I was told from all the big platforms so that was really, I needed to find another approach and so I thought what do people really need and through making that movie finding, it was called Finding Courage, the biggest problem that people, well no the biggest solution to most people's problems is how to survive like mentally really bad situations and the people I were interviewing had been through these horrific things like brainwashing, torture, really really terrible things and the way they survived it just was so encouraging and so inspiring and that sent me into a whole investigation for myself as to what really strengthens someone's brain against manipulation, against what I call cognitive capture. We're in the time with social media and these little screens and they're all changing our brains, they're changing how we interact with each other, it's changing society and we're just not told, it's not in the benefit of these big corporations to tell us about how much power we have ourselves without anything external, just completely, just in our heads, just in our minds and I thought really that is the greatest power and I learned this from interviewing all these survivors of tyranny and terror and how they were able to get through it with a smile. You wrote, I just want to mention a couple of other books that you wrote because you wrote one in lockdown about survival didn't you, what was that one called? Nowhere Left to Run, 10 Steps to Survive Tyranny Today, that's really where this podcast came from but I thought I don't want this to just be about survival, I want it to be more than that, I want it to be about being human, the great things about being human because we we're kind of thinking that machines are being, we're being taught that machines are better than us and that machines are stronger, smarter, faster but we kind of really forget, we don't even think about how powerful our brains, our minds, our hearts, our bodies are, they're just absolutely amazing. So I've been for years collecting these little tidbits of this fact and that fact and I have such a long spreadsheet and I didn't know, I tried all different types of formats of things to do a show on YouTube and then I learned about a micro podcast, I thought what's this thing called a micro podcast and it's anything, any length and I thought well I could do that, I have so many ideas for this so that's when I thought well I could just do one minute, one minute a day and that's a short video, people like short things and I thought that's really manageable for me and that way I don't have to pick like just focus on this part of the brain because I'm not a neuroscientist, I'm a human being with a brain that is trying to understand how it works and learning from those who are just brilliant people, they've done all the research, that's the long story about how this started. Well the really powerful little videos, I mean you've done stuff about deja vu, superpowers, brain superpowers, the sun, I mean you know the sun and how that affects the brain, the darker side of AI, I've got a list of what you know like and I've been watching them every day and I absolutely love them and I found it really interesting myself you know because one of my big passions is like you know to make sure people are still doing things themselves and using their own hands and you know like making stuff and creating stuff that's what this whole channel is about obviously you know that tradition and you know keeping traditions because you know this like you're saying everybody's sort of panicking AI is coming along and it's going to take over everything although I just watched something on Crossroads saying that the AI bubble is out so you know that's kind of you know everybody jumped on the bandwagon and you know we're using technology now to do this interview and I use technology to edit the videos and record things and put information out for people so you know it's got some uses but it is really damaging and you know one of the things that I really liked about your channel was when you were talking about the superpowers, the brain superpowers you know because I thought that's exactly what people forget you know how much we can actually offer to the world and it's and it's just even just in your own home with your own family you know and it doesn't have to be anything huge does it people people are sort of misled to think that they've got to reinvent the wheel or go off and be completely famous or make loads of money and and your little videos are just really sweet. Paula have you seen any today did you did you see I have and what I was going to say was sometimes with with Kay the content actually was secondary for me I was just like your voice is so smoothing and I was like oh this is great what was Kay saying oh yeah yeah right thank you you know you know I actually um uh I so I was trained as a video as a tv presenter 25 years ago at a in Sydney Australia to do television presenting and I really uh I didn't like it too much because just the thought of going on camera and then you had to do hair and makeup and oh my goodness it's so much and then I learned about voiceovers and I thought wow I could do that because it's the same type of thing um but presenting but using your voice and and I thought let me try that and so I I did work for more than two decades as a voiceover artist while I was a producer and um doing educational uh voiceovers and um started in one company and then then I got more jobs doing that and uh and I learned it was I think most people find their voice painful to listen to and the first time I was working in a company they had my voice playing on the computers and and and I would walk around as a producer and hear my voice and I just thought this is awful they must hate me um having to listen to my voice all the time and um and but and one day I asked the programmers and they said oh no no we really like it and I was shocked because I just thought oh you know I think so many of us just can't bear to hear our own voices um but I did learn to uh how to use my voice better through that process and so when I record my One Minute Wonders I record them all at like for one week in one day I write them and then the next day I record them because that way I get myself into the right mental state and and I think about like like I'm really excited to record them I I like these are for me too like I really I need all of these I'm taking my own advice on all these things they're helping me so much yeah and um so when I record I feel really happy and I feel really uh excited to and and I can just forget about myself I can forget about like oh what do I look I can't even see what I'm recording like I try and fix my hair and I hope it's going to be okay because I don't know um and I just hope for the best and then uh because I press record and I read my scripts and and but I try to remember just to keep my voice like when I'm talking now I'm not using my voiceover voice but when I when I record my voice my my wonders I really I'm excited but I bring my energy my my voice lower yeah softer uh I really go to this type of style which is it's it's deeper it's it's closer to deeper breathing and I I pause and I don't try to rush which is what the algorithms on YouTube and Instagram they have said you know I've had feedback if your videos were faster if you had more edits if you did this you would get this this and this and I said I don't care I'm only giving calm to people and people don't want it fine but I'm not trying to go viral I'm not I just want to be steady and reach the people who who need that yeah because I need to slow down I mean when I'm with Becky she's always telling me to like stop walking so fast and um and I know I need to slow down and I think a lot of people need to slow down and just to listen to your voice it's like you're talking about I mean you know um the wavelength or you know the resonance or the frequency or something it just has an effect on people when you're in that state and what really got it for me was when you said in one of your videos I'm doing this for me I was like oh I'm locked in then you know when a lot of people are trying to get their message out to others and projecting rather than you're actually coming from somewhere else and it you can really tell on the videos and I I was asked to do a voiceover and I was looking through because I do voice memos and it was like Mickey Mouse you know I can't believe I thought I thought I was okay it's not okay I was just like 20 million miles an hour or something so yeah that's that that was my biggest impression whoops and you know it's really the simple things in life that do have the biggest effect and the biggest solutions the biggest healing the biggest impact breath is when you when you breathe consciously you know we just don't think about breathing but when you think about breathing you can breathe slower when you breathe slower your shoulders are going to come down when you breathe slower you'll usually start to breathe deeper maybe you might need to be more conscious of it when you breathe deeper your voice can go down a little bit lower and if you are presenting certainly for females I know like my audience is split between male female and audience and I'm really cognizant of of speaking to my male audience too because I just think in society there's been a big downward it is just such a strong feminist push that men have really been sort of left on the sidelines and I thought if I could talk to men as a woman who can show that maybe I understand them in some way and they could feel that okay there is okay there's this woman there who does actually seem like she cares about me and cares about my health and so I know for a for a male audience if I'm speaking very high pitched or it's it's not going to resonate with them as well so I really want to be able to communicate to a wider audience and that's why another reason why I'm conscious about really bringing my keeping my heart up in terms of energy but my whole body language my voice my shoulders my breathing my voice sort of tone lower so that it just that that's that I really did think about that when I started this and also when I even even with what I because I was like can I just do this where I can just wear the same thing every week I like that you do that's one of the things I noticed because it's like you know there's a lot of um podcasts and um little video things out there you know people watch like relaxing things ASMR and people watch things on a night and and the great but there's a lot of activity going on and you know and the startling crashes and you know they're supposed to be doing these quiet things and and what it's the same that I got the same that Paul has just said from your videos and I like the fact that that you are wearing the same thing these videos that me and Paula have done I've I've just wanted it to just be people just talking you know and because I've watched videos and people's channels and I like it when there's just somebody talking and if somebody really wants to listen to it they'll stay and you'll watch it because they're not they're watching it because of the content and what's coming out of people's mouths and that's one of the things that I like about what you're doing as well and you haven't got all these different music things and edits and you know things that make your eyes flick and you know because because a lot of stuff out there's just permanently making your brain do this you know when people are scrolling that's like going on and yeah it's just nice to the whole thing about it is calm and and because the content's so intriguing it just it's just I think it's you've done a really great job you have a good great job and and I and one did did stick in my mind was about the aggression the algorithms are so aggressive I didn't realize that because I actually don't I don't use social media I find it too depressing but I've got teenage boys and you know it's um it is a constant battle and sometimes you can see something hops in and it's somebody screaming and I'm like what are you doing what are you watching that for you know what I mean it's such a constant battle um I have said you know they did they do listen to me though having talked about pitch with with boys and mothers it's interesting because I can see where they don't they switch off because of this voice. You mean they switch off when you put your high squeaky voice on? Yeah when I'm trying to get them to do something. So um that's another story altogether but but yeah there's they they do they but they do listen to me I think it is important about you know your family and and passing down these things it comes through our DNA doesn't it we've all got a knowing side um even though the kids are like it's an absolute nightmare for parents they feel out of control and like in this it's they can't stop this tide that their children are in but family is so important family is so important and and ultimately they do I think they do listen to their parents like however they were brought up and whatever we tell them actually does go in even if they little do a little rebel you know the rebel here and there so you know even when if I get a despair or about this these algorithms they actually they do listen I think it's finding that balance of choosing the battles and being really tolerant as well with it and I you can't be screaming at them all the time not that I do I don't scream at them but you know what I mean absolutely I've got I've got two two kids as well and I I think the a big um more and more people are starting to be aware of algorithms because before everyone was just talking about screens and saying screens are a problem too many screens too much this and that but it is the algorithms uh because the tools we have all different shape tools and yes there's more light from this one and then and it is addictive because it's in your pocket but there is a difference with the actual algorithms that is intentional it's they're designed based on like casino slot machines that's what they're designed on and there was no programmer that said okay go and get everyone hooked on rage and emotional outrage no one said that the the big companies just said can you uh to the algorithms that they're designing that they're growing and said optimize for engagement so the algorithms were testing on all these millions of people around the world and the algorithms found that they got the best engagement when people were angry or very sad like depending on the age exactly and think that that's what people want to see it's like it doesn't make people feel better if they see somebody else it doesn't mean that that's what they want to see it means that that's what increases the engagement it gets them to react get them to share to to anger like comment um and that's what the big corporations get the most bang for their buck on it is yeah yeah they're not optimizing for calm or mental health or uh if they were to optimize with uh true health it would say get off the the phone you've been on for more than 40 minutes go outside and get some fresh air that would give everyone we would have a completely different society if the tech companies did that but they would lose big money on ad revenue and that's what this comes down to well ganjin world's got its own you know they're doing really well out there because they're not using the same techniques and that's why i came i mean i know i started with the little channel on youtube in 2020 and i just thought when ganjin world they got in touch with me and said we really like what you're doing can you come on to the channel and i said i'd love to and um you know i just came when it were first starting and you know in its teething stages and then and i just really really love it and i'm i'm don't go on you i don't put my stuff on youtube mainly because i don't have time and i'm just like trying to do a lot of things but um but you know going back to the content on your channel okay yeah let's talk about that because i mean there's tons of stuff on there you can't really put it in a category so i've i've tried to um you know i was testing things out to see what people resonate the most with and definitely things related to the brain which is great because we all have a brain and and i think one one thing is is uh i try to get across ways to help remind myself and others that um you don't need to delegate your um you you have a brain don't wait and say oh well i need to see a psychiatrist or i need to see a neuropsychologist only only a shrink can tell me what's in my brain no one is is going to know your brain better than you not even an fmri scan or a a neurosurgeon they're not ever going to have your own experience and i'm not saying don't go and see those people if you need to that's not a problem but it's just we've been trained to think that we we should just solve everything with a pill or a specialist but but actually we really have uh that independent uh independent so that's ultimately what i'm trying to do i do also use my um i guess some people have said it's a bit sassy because i am uh critical of some of the narratives that we've been uh that have been pushed upon us things that make us feel that we are as a human being and not smart enough or not uh good enough or not fast enough not comparable to a machine enough and i try to remind people why they are better than they've been told they're stronger than they've been told they're smarter than they've been told all that smarts are overrated so i do get so i try to have a balance between brain emotional regulation type facts everything is grounded so every each day is grounded in a scientific fact that i can back up with studies that i've looked at and that i've said okay yes i trust this organization this publication and then yes i can say okay i can stand behind that you know did they get it wrong well it's in the peer-reviewed papers so i think it's okay and uh some people may disagree but but i can say look there may be alternatives but this is one side that's been pretty solidly proven so i'm using science to help people hopefully see spirituality that that uh how how powerful they are and i do also so i do like the side uh i studied art at in college but our art department was next to the physics department and so i got to know the physics guys and i went and hung out there and took a physics subject and i found it so fascinating that i just got into quantum mechanics and i stayed so interested and that was actually what led me into a path of spirituality at the time uh it was through science that i i came back into spirituality and faith and so to me even though i think science has done a lot of um questionable things of making people see things very narrow it's also can really help people look more broadly at the world so i try to each week uh give a bit of a mix between the brain the uh emotions uh something really cool about like physics or deep space or something like that you know i actually read the holographic universe just before i started to practice phalangapha so i'm with you on that i used to love but i've got four things five topics that i've broken it down into so can i throw them at you and you give us a little insight into each of well i don't know what you've got yeah i've got one thing that you know i'd like to say about things do you want to go for it or should i do oh well do what that first because it might you think oh why are we throwing that in now you know all right right so the first one is you talking about the brain superpowers so can you think of any offhand my favorite absolute favorite and so relevant for this particular week it's thanksgiving in america um things like calm and gratitude they've just been misbranded uh and we've been told to think that they're just cliches that they're just um weak but they really are superpowers for your brain they they create when my my most i i have a video about this coming out tomorrow and it's um it's just to me it's so powerful um and kind of culminating and all everything i've been doing is that you can't be calm um and and grateful while you are feeling threatened at the same time threatened and stressed you can't have both it's one or the other only one will win so but when you have gratitude the benefits to your body your mind your soul your environment everyone you interact with are huge and equally so the negative effects upon your body your mind your soul in people around you when you feel threatened and stressed um is are huge as well so but you can't actually feel both at once it's one or the other so to me that was such a revelation that i even wrote an article about it a few weeks ago and uh and i i published it for thanksgiving um is on this aspect that i wish we were taught that in school that how powerful gratitude is for healing your body your mind your relationships it's not just something written on coffee mug it is really a very very extremely powerful tool where neuroscientists see the reaction in the brain when they're doing brain scans of someone feeling gratitude you can't feel stressed or threatened at the same time when you truly feel gratitude when i was really poorly last november do you remember i was getting in touch with you and you were saying gratitude and you really helped me as well because at the time i was very very poorly i won't go into it but very scared yeah and and i remember you saying gratitude and i was like okay and and it really did help at the time so thank you for that i mean i know you need to do the census to let you know and um you've covered the second thing as well slightly there um and that is i've written responses are sometimes beneficial even though we could believe they're bad like anxiety for example right there was a neuroscientist uh dr caroline leaf i love her work in particular uh on on anxiety and yes that we have been we're really lacking nuance when it comes to understanding ourselves and we think stress anxiety bad okay it's just bad take a pill for it um and gratitude calm is good but it's a luxury don't don't don't bother with that um but stress and anxiety do have benefits for the brain it's just you don't want it long term so there it is it's really finding that balance and recognizing like okay sometimes you need that stress to actually get something done you know it's like the last minute deadline if you don't have that sometimes i know won't get something done and when i do get it done i feel gratitude that i had that deadline and that i actually achieved something if i didn't have it i might have just been lazy and not done it at all so you it's those things that the nuance is where we we've been delegating them to people that are specialized in one particular area and thinking well they'll they'll decide the details i'll just check a box and take a pill that's sort of the modern mentality but i think we need to take more responsibility and understand more about what's going on in our heads because you do talk about you can adjust your nervous system to calm and that leads me on to point three which is the importance of being calm and there's two parts of this i'd like you to just briefly go into we can talk about it as long as you want i'm just aware of you know you've maybe got other things you need to do after this as well um i know that you're a busy lady so being calm and the importance of that and time and meditation you're talking about time and time you know your perception of time and how it's slowed down i guess uh when i was in art school i was i when i connected with the physics department it was through time i was doing artwork related to time and trying to understand time and physics has um a whole realm of understanding time in another way and so i like to try and weave in these concepts because i think if there's a bit of that wow factor of like wow i didn't know that or wow i knew that but i never thought about that if i can put that in so that's what i try to go for with these wonders as well where people say oh i've heard that before but i forgot um and so i had this question of like why does time feel like it's getting faster and so i started looking at that i did a few videos on time the other week but that one was was like our perception of time when when when we're not making memories in a very like not really connecting with our memories things just start to blend together you get to the end of the day and you think what have i done and the days just passed by so quickly um but you can actually using your your own perception because our perception is just so powerful for yourself if you pay attention to something maybe you're driving you just notice something on the road you you notice patterns in the number plates you notice a tree you put that into your memory it becomes a memory and that memory will expand your perception of time for the day even better if it's a relationship with someone a conversation that you had or maybe a meal instead of just gulping down the food and rushing out the door you actually smelled it tasted it savored it or you had a conversation with someone and you really listened and then and then you responded before you you you responded you really listened first and then that that says to you it signals to your brain this is important and then your brain will store it as a memory it says oh she thinks this is important okay let's put that in there your perception of time suddenly gets wider because instead of just a whole day of blur you had some things that really slowed down your time so that was that particular one and and how um that can help with calm making you calm as well because you don't feel so stressed like i haven't done anything but i did so much and and the day's gone so fast but i don't even know where it went uh that's that social media and technology is a part of that but we really uh can counter that by being aware yeah and then leading on to meditation and i mean you were saying earlier and obviously me and paula talk about spirituality on here you know we meditate daily and you mentioned something about meditation as well you know the when you can calm your mind and i've had people asking me well how how can i how do i calm the streams of thoughts in my mind and and i try to remind people i'm not a meditation teacher i am not a guru i'm sharing the things that have benefiting me and and i have the sources to everything that i that i have for anyone who wants to know more because it's coming from people who are much smarter than me i'm just the communicator so uh there's so many benefits of meditation every every culture has some form of meditation whether it's prayer or contemplation or um so many forms and when when you can put yourself into that meditative state just the benefits physically chemically everything within your body is amazing but really the only way to do it is to practice at it and just to start with two minutes you put your timer on because some people they just say i just just can't do it and that's because you do have to practice it is a skill that as you would know as as meditation practitioners yourself take advantage of this just amazing tool that is that is there for us at any moment you don't need anything external for it it's just amazing it's very powerful so powerful yes i've got two more but paula do you want to jump in or add anything on that on that well on that note um i have got a interesting fact because related to sort of like um you know this big issue of ai and versus the human mind and spirituality and art and communication through our brains but also our spiritual center i mean it's a known fact that we have spiritual centers and one of the things i saw on x a few months ago and i was really like amazed was uh in the sistine chapel michelangelo's artwork of um in particular the creation of adam with god you know the two things are just meeting god is in the shape of a brain really oh i have to go back and look at it again i have the hands on my wall in the other room but not the full image yeah so what does that tell what does that tell us about like god and how we communicate with god yes and spirituality it's in in it's like through us through through here and through here as well yeah it's actually called i think it's referred to as a creation of adam and his thing is slightly limp isn't it and then god's is like like more powerful and he's got all these angels divine beings behind him and it's like in this pinky you think it's just a ribbon or a cloth yeah when i first saw it i was like wow yeah i was like wow i would never realize that before somebody pointed it out and there's and i was really shocked because it's just like wow once you see it you can't unsee it you can't see it and see it now yeah no well it's also it's so fitting because of the title of that painting being the creation um like the way we we do create our worlds around the world that we interact with through our thoughts and um i can't remember who said it but uh there was a someone who's done brain scans and things like that they said if if you um if you could see what every negative thought physically does to your body you would never have another negative thought again because that's what your brain is doing your brain is creating your reality it's that all of the sciences back that up and and not with any even with that without even looking at the whole spiritual aspect which which adds so many more dimensions but just looking at the very physical sciences uh even in physics your observation changes the result uh at quantum at a quantum level which we are all made up of particles that exist at a quantum level so even though we may not see that at here at this level it's only because our eyes have these limitations of what we're allowed to but we're made up of all of those things so when you start connecting those dots it just it just blows you blows your mind away and um and and that's when when you say creation and the brain um and i just i just think that that's the connection is is uh no coincidence um i don't know what it's called is it called not esp nlp anyway i'll explain it first you know where you've about negative thoughts and how you know we're creating our reality on a well from a scientific point of view you know all i'm sorry i really don't know what i'm saying but you know our atoms for example even um right so i saw um an experiment a few years ago where somebody had taken somebody's blood out and they were asked to think of love and then they're asked to think of like hate and things like this and when they were thinking of love all their particles came together and when they're thinking of hate they all started to separate away from each other it's it's really like the uh the experiments have been done with water as well where where people and and and like when uh scans are done when people are having not just thoughts of gratitude but feelings of gratitude when you when it's connected to your heart because your heart has its own type of neural network in it so a type of brain in the heart and it's it's constantly sending messages to the brain your heart sends more messages to your brain than the brain sends to your heart so the heart is such a important center for your brain so if you just think i must be grateful it's nowhere near as powerful as in like i feel yes that's when the real power and energy comes out and that starts to sound like well that's a little bit um not scientific but if you're doing the brain scans neuroscientists show look at that brain when the heart is really feeling it uh and it's the same if you are feeling intense um resentment or anger or or negativity that's that can lead to extreme um uh physical damage and cancels and things so it's um it is don't they even people who are thinking like this it's just common if you say because you know he's had heart problems i say well he's so stressed out at the moment i think people link stroke as well to being stressed out don't they yes and actually when before i i was a producer i did study i got certified as a stress consultant many years ago okay and um and so i put that going to you last year like well it's and it's funny because i kind of i don't even know why i chose that as a as a as a form of study but i just now i i see the benefits of it because especially i look at i'm so concerned about youth these days their levels of anxiety are much higher than any other generation ever their levels of loneliness and depression and and um suicide rates are through the roof and um and i i do think the algorithms play a huge part of that but and and that's where um calm uh is is my contribution uh to to help people counter that because if you have a calm mind you can make better decisions and and then you can have then you go and do whatever you want to do it doesn't matter what you want to do yeah you can stay calm you can do anything you choose to do so that's ultimately what i'm trying to do is give people that tiny reminder of like you can be calm you got this yeah and then whatever you need to do just just go ahead and do that doesn't matter what age what nationality what gender it just doesn't matter it's it's human very good and take a step back as well as a big one even if you don't feel calm please don't react on what you're feeling it's just like take a few moments or a day or half an hour or you know before you start reacting to something even just a breath right just yeah yeah yeah i think i feel really fortunate because i practice philandaffers um you know a lot of the teachings in philandaffer reminding me you know what you're saying is reminding me of these teachings to just be able to take a step back and yeah and every time i've had an absolute nightmare i've you know i've always managed to pull through yeah because of the practice you know i don't recommend it to anybody and compassion arises from the heart yes and and i've practiced philandaffer too since since 1998 and um when i do these wonders i i i that spiritual guidance is there is a drive for me but um when i write them i'm i'm like okay well what facts make me say wow or help me a lot um and what can i ground that in so that if someone that isn't spiritual um isn't a doesn't have a faith um or has a different faith um what would resonate for them and what would be like a baseline that everyone could agree upon and so it's not like everyone um needs to so i thought even if what what about if people don't have any faith what if they really have a feel like life is meaningless and lonely i thought how could i and if i just try to tell them to practice this great meditation um it may not may not work but if if i if i say well remind you you're really powerful you're really awesome uh if you just calm down you can do whatever you want to do then maybe they'll look for some sort of meaning um in their life and come to a practice like this or whatever is going to work for them in in their life so i think um yeah it's just trying to help people in in ways um to connect themselves and that's exactly what you're doing and and that's why i thought it was brilliant you know when i first started to see clips i thought wow how wonderful because there's so much crazy stuff going on in the world now you know and everything's political and it's just like and it's like just trying to put good stuff out to people that's not going to divide people and it's not going to become politicized and that's why i set up carry for tradition because people can relate on that level you know like knitting and making things and painting with the family and just because everybody does that no matter what the views are you know matter whether you've got a spiritual practice or not and and i see what you're doing is the same you know and you're taking you're taking it on a sort of level that anyone can connect to it which is brilliant and yes two more points well can i just say the right there's two now now this is going to throw a curve ball in because we've just been saying all these lovely things and now these are completely different so i don't want to end on anything negative but i do want to bring this up because you were actually interviewed on ntd about this as well and it is the um the darker side of the data centers and the amount of resources they use and everybody's downloading apps and i don't put apps on my phone because i think every time i'm adding a new app i mean i've got four or five on there and i'm like everything wants you to put an app on there now and i'm just thinking people don't realize the actual amount of resources that these things take up and they've actually given droughts places and you know can you just give us a little little bit of insight into that yes so because i've been i do this podcast on what the values of being human um i look at what also what are the threats of being human and so i don't have that so much in my podcast but i was put i was post i've been posting some of those on my youtube channel as well including that interview and so i mean i i can't say i'm against against technology if it needs to do its thing and people need to use it for whatever but i think we need to be really aware of what it's doing to us and so i i look at it like cognitively okay what is it doing to my mind what's it doing to my kids minds and then i looked a bit further out i'm like look at these data centers and uh and look at the costs and yes they are put have been putting them into areas where um they need extreme amounts of water extreme amounts of power and local communities haven't always been informed and so when i was able to research and write about that uh it was able to help some communities uh share knowledge share information and certainly in i mean this is this is something for all around the world but in america there are a lot of data centers going up all around the country so it is a big issue very pressing issue and the the government is not uh it's hard for them to stay up the government is designed here to to work slower to to go through things very carefully and have debate on both sides but the way tech is going it's going so fast so i i'm trying to give people a way to um stay calm so that they can look at these issues and look at the facts and then then and then deal and deal with it so uh yeah with the data centers we you know i've been trying to remind people that this technology and data and things like that algorithms they seem invisible but they really do have a cost to our pocketbooks but and also to our minds so uh i do try to weave that in sometimes okay i'm going out even further because you said you were thinking about your family then you went a little bit further i'm going right out there now into okay so this is so new we're doing so i mean i'm really aware that there's a lot of solar flares going on at the minute and i know a lot of people are feeling tired and you know i mean to me it's kind of obvious that if you've got things going on like that then it'll affect us down here you know my husband's been feeling sleepy and i keep saying don't worry darling it's just the solar flares and he looks at me like that okay i'm just gonna go and have a lie down but you touched on it you touched on it as well and and actually i'll tell you one more thing as well is this the three the three eye atlas is in the news all the time at the minute i mean i i mentioned that to him the other day and he went i don't even know what you're talking about he just i was gonna say i don't know what you're talking about he just keeps his head out of all the news now because he's like you know everybody's just gone nobody can work out what's going on anymore i shouldn't but um you know so this three eye atlas and yesterday when i was at work suddenly the power went off in the house and i thought that's it that's it three eye atlas has just done something there's been a big solar flare and all the electrics have gone out all over the world and i'll just have to now go find the candle and the light so you know that i'm all right but anyway before i go on anymore and people are thinking what is this woman talking about you did touch it's so it's so important i think it's so important we we've and and and and i do i follow the space weather like you're talking about three eye atlas is a is a comet that's come from an interstellar uh it's very unusual it's called a comet but it's not like any other comet we've ever seen it's doing all these very strange things and nasa was like sorry we can't give you photos so many suspicious things that just got people really riled up about it and very intrigued with it um and so i didn't do a video about three eye atlas because i thought well okay let's let's stay focused on what um physically changes the body and i did one on the um there was a super moon and uh and then then there was auroras and and and the giant solar flares and um i i just think very traditionally um every culture looked at how the cycles of nature affected human life and how human life can integrate with the cycles of nature and so we have so many cycles um whether it's plants seasons then you head outside of the earth and then there's the solar cycles there's the lunar cycles then there's the planetary alignments uh everything there are things going on in the solar system and generally we think that's very far away that has no connection to me and things like astrology have been given a really bad rap but if you go back to like ancient times say in ancient china or others uh other civilizations they all looked at the planets and even though they may not have had the same tools as us they saw alignments uh between the cosmos and different systems within the human body and around us and so i i joke and think well look we're just told the weather report of it will not rain today or it will rain today take an umbrella uh and i just think if only they would tell us okay this is the season when the the the humpback whales are migrating down there you can go get a great view and this is the time when uh you need to plant this this is the time when you need to walk outside this is that's the type of um show i've always wanted to do but but i would need a big production team so i try to integrate a little bit about weather uh whether it's cosmic weather or real weather uh like earth-based weather um there's so much of that the magnetic fields that are around the earth that are affected by giant solar flares um earthquakes and and things like that we can't see them uh and we're only told about them after something bad happens like a blackout or an earthquake but but a lot of people can feel it maybe they get headaches or they need to sleep more when there's excessive solar radiation coming through so i i don't go too much into that but i do try to cover it when i can and i saw those solar storms were coming um and and i thought well i'm gonna talk about it so how i do i'm glad you did because i watch things like that i'm a lady do sometimes feel a little bit of it as well you know and it's it's just to me silly to not realize that we're in this huge cosmos and these things do affect us and people have just lost so much of that connection with nature aren't they so that's what we're hoping to do is remind them of all these connections and not be afraid of it because this is going on all the time yes and and who knows a lot of people are expecting or wishing for or hoping for a reset without the internet or without technology i see it all over social media people saying if only we could just switch off the internet i don't know will that happen one day who knows but uh human beings have survived for a lot longer without technology than they have with technology of this level and they survived really well but they learned how to really work with nature because nature is every saturday i put out a sort of special one wonder video that i do outside of the studio somewhere in a different room or outside of my house and and i try and i focus on something to do with nature and nature is just i talked about calm and gratitude being so powerful nature just blows my mind when i think about how powerful it is and we just can't see we can't see the benefits um the way it's changing us and um but i do that with my kids if if they're really overwhelmed or stressed uh i'll say let's go for a walk or make an excuse we're gonna go go shopping and then i'll just take a little detour and we'll go for a walk and um and just that fresh air uh the it's an instant reset um yeah yeah so that's my saturday um one that i do is focused on nature and and i think that's what we need we need more of that more little reminders yeah lovely and i wish i was walking along the river with you maybe yeah at least we've got the technology we can see each other yes yes and and i get comments from people saying oh this is so basic um basic reminders and uh and and sometimes i've i've uh i misunderstood the comment and thought that maybe it was a criticism and i just and i replied and said well thank you thank you anyway and they said no no i mean it is a good way yeah yeah just remember where we ate from what heals us these is the body is the human body is so miraculously created and so brilliantly resilient um and it's just supercharged by uh our thoughts for better or for worse and by uh nature and um and those things just astound me all the time and uh and that's what i've really that i guess back to the beginning where we started where i was so inspired by these survivors of absolute devastation things that would have destroyed most human beings and they were able to get through it through it most of them did have a spiritual practice and they had a way to keep them calm whether it was through meditation or through reciting uh scriptures or whatever it was that they did um or having a foundation in something which teaches truth compassion forbearance that they had something to give them a sense of calm and that was able to strengthen their mind to get through really things that um a lot of people would uh would find impossible to endure so uh i think all that just is a sometimes these reminders may seem very superficial to some people but um that's the depth of where it came from just just knowing that if you you really for these people that have really been through the storm and been able to come out on the other end um for those who haven't been through such a storm you you really can get through anything um that that that you're facing and um so so i think i think it will yeah i try to make them simple and superficial but but there's i think that the meaning there is is it's quite meaningful to me when i think about the origin of where this came from and the people who i interviewed and how they inspired me absolutely this is beautiful and it was an empowerful film i felt so connected to the people in the film actually i was so inspired by his journey was it leon yes yeah he's just an amazing man absolutely amazing very inspiring and really amazing and what the brain can do as well isn't it yes actually that movie is available on ganjing world finding courage so you can go there to watch it yeah well okay thank you so much it was really really great and you know i encourage people to have a look because i mean if you you know trying to sort of get the brain to calm down before you go to sleep i think that this would be a good thing to watch if you're addicted to your phone and you want to watch things before you go to sleep don't you know the asmi ones are great but this is great and this is valuable and um but anytime watch it watch them anytime they're just great short very very good full they stick with you and they've been really helpful to me as well so on a personal note i'd like to say thank you as well yes oh you're so welcome and and they are on podcast if you don't want to watch anything you can just listen to they're on all the podcast platforms and all the platforms where it's on is uh you can find that on my website which is the number one one minute wonder.com and that's where you can find all the platforms brilliant oh and yes if you don't want to watch on screen then i have an email so every weekend i send just a summary of what we covered during the week and then you can just catch up on them in one day so i'll add the links in the description so thank you thank you kay and maybe we'll catch up with you in a few months see how you're going that was lovely thank you ladies it's been great enjoyed it thank you bye