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Overcoming Anxiety and Celebrating Brain Health: Annette Ramrattan's Strategies for Veteran Well-being · Your Thoughts Your Reality

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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Keynote training presentations dedicated to guiding military veterans as they navigate the intricate pathways of post-deployment life.
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  Speaker 1: Join him as we delve into the profound realm of neuroencoding science, empowering these brave individuals to conquer universal battles procrastination, self-doubt, fear and more.
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  Speaker 1: Together, let's uncover the strength within you to re-engage with families and society, forging a new path forward.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, hello, hello everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We have today just one of my favorite people.
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  Speaker 2: We have Annette Remratten.
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  Speaker 2: She's a New Yorker, she's the Identity Illuminator and a Certified Elite Neuroencoding Specialist, Brain Health Trainer and so much more.
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  Speaker 2: She owns Passionate Living.
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  Speaker 2: And, Annette, thank you so much for being here.
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  Speaker 2: So glad we made this time.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I know you, but our guests and our listeners don't.
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  Speaker 2: So share.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for having me, michael.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations on your podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I am also a neuro-encoding specialist and a brain health trainer from New York.
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  Speaker 3: My story started with anxiety, panic attacks, not understanding what was happening.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sorry, and while I was going through that, I was also.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, and while I was going through that, I was also.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a professional as an accountant, so I have a degree and worked in corporate America for many years.
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  Speaker 3: So on the outside I looked like I had it all together right, you see those people walking down Wall Street, suited up, and so I had that great exterior look, but I was the internal turmoil that was happening.
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  Speaker 3: I kept it hidden very well for a while until it became unbearable.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what started my path in personal development.
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  Speaker 2: Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that.
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  Speaker 2: So you know maybe, what's the difference?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about multiple things here.
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  Speaker 2: We have a.
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  Speaker 2: You know I'm excited about this conversation, so so let's jump in if we can.
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  Speaker 2: First, your dad served military for over 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Army, Army, Excellent.
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  Speaker 2: My dad was in the Army as well.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: So the Army as well Very cool, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: So what?
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  Speaker 2: Let's start again.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about a lot of stuff off camera we're going to talk about let's start with the importance of brain health, and then we're going to dive into how that connects to, you know, managing anxiety and panic attacks and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: So, for our veterans coming out of the military or still in the military, for that matter you know that are conditioned not to ask for help and to figure it out on their own, and you know asking for help is weakness and those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: How important is brain health to our well-being right?
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  Speaker 3: So, as I'm using Dr Amen's terms, so, dr Amen, if your states, if your brain's not right, you're not right.
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  Speaker 3: And many of us feel like if you don't, you don't know what you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So, in sharing my story, where I suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, there was many years where I did not know what was happening.
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  Speaker 3: So it wasn't as mainstream as it is now, where you can Google and again your social media.
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  Speaker 3: There's anxiety and different things you can listen to and get information fairly quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Now, aging myself, it wasn't as free.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do it, Annette, Don't do it.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a common term back then and I was dealing with it again.
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  Speaker 3: As I said in the beginning, I was hiding it and I had no answers.
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  Speaker 3: So literally a decade of my life, from what I can remember, was my first panic attack.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a panic attack, it was like oh, something weird happened.
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  Speaker 3: Something weird happened where I felt like I'm dying, kind of thing, Right, and I went to my medical doctor and she did all the normal tests and said we don't find anything.
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  Speaker 3: So then, right, you would leave.
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  Speaker 3: I left there with again no answers and not to you know.
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  Speaker 3: If you have three hours to stay on this call, I can tell you the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll do three different sessions.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it, just go.
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  Speaker 3: We'll cut it short.
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  Speaker 3: So, dealing with the anxiety, it was very sporadic, so they didn't happen often.
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  Speaker 3: So because it was sporadic, I would brush it away and say, ok, the doctor said everything's fine, so there's nothing to worry about.
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  Speaker 3: And it would happen again and it would kind of like knock me on my knees.
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  Speaker 3: But anyone who suffered with anxiety attack you know it happens quickly, but the aftershock, right the after effects are like you're left with, like feeling really depleted.
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  Speaker 3: So, with that being said, during that time another I was going for my accounting degree at the time, right, so I was working full time going for my accounting degree, dealing with anxiety, dealing with panic attacks and the big one I call it the big one.
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  Speaker 3: So I was running late for school and I had a massive, what I call a massive panic attack where I ended up getting rushed to emergency room.
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  Speaker 2: Annette, really quick, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask you just for our listening audience and so on, the difference between anxiety and a panic attack?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So anxiety is?
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  Speaker 3: There's good anxiety, there's normal anxiety, right, there's anxiety like excitement.
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  Speaker 3: You know your heart is racing, that's good, you know you're excited about.
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  Speaker 3: Well, even a job interview, right, your heart starts, that's good you know you're excited about.
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  Speaker 3: Or even a job interview, right, your heart starts, that's, that's normal anxiety.
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  Speaker 3: But when the anxiety is overwhelming and it's taking over and it gets to that level where a panic attack, a panic attack is the physical things, that and it's different.
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  Speaker 3: So, people who suffer with panic attacks, you can have a conversation with them and they'll say, well, I had the you know pulse, the heart that felt like it was going to jump out of my chest.
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  Speaker 3: I had shakes, I had this, I had that.
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  Speaker 3: So for me it would get to the point where, because I wasn't in a breath so you know, speaks to anyone about anxiety it even starts.
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  Speaker 3: One of the key, key things is centering your breath to get through it faster, versus staying in that fear.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're like hyperventilating and it just gets worse and worse.
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  Speaker 3: So, because I didn't know what I know, now I would let it escalate to that point and literally lose sight.
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  Speaker 3: So I wasn't breathing right, not enough oxygen to my brain, I would lose sight.
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  Speaker 3: So I wasn't breathing right.
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  Speaker 3: Not enough oxygen to my brain, I would lose sight.
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  Speaker 3: So when all this happened and I was rushed to the emergency room, it happened within three times.
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  Speaker 3: In two months I was rushed to the emergency room and someone finally said, hey, have you ever heard of anxiety?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like no.
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  Speaker 3: And then she said, well, that's what falls under mental health.
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  Speaker 3: We suggest you speak to someone and then you know what happens for me in that point was that stigma.
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  Speaker 3: There's that stigma behind that word mental health, that term mental health.
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  Speaker 3: Like how can this be?
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  Speaker 3: I have it all together.
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  Speaker 3: Like that can't be me.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just Someone who is dealing with anxiety, that's normal.
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  Speaker 3: Fine, if anxiety is taking over, speak to someone.
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  Speaker 3: And if anxiety gets to the point of panic attacks, then there are things aside from speaking to someone.
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  Speaker 3: Then there are things you can do to learn how to mitigate them or even stop the panic attacks before they get full blown.
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  Speaker 3: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: The panic attacks before they get full blown Perfect, perfect, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for sharing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not always easy for people to be vulnerable and tell their stories, and thank you, you know, for doing that, because it helps when people can connect and say, hey, I'm not alone and I go through this too, right?
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for being vulnerable and having this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: So with, let me ask you, as far as you're having anxiety, you're getting more anxious, you feel like it's going into a panic attack.
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  Speaker 2: What are the patterns that people can sometimes recognize so that they can divert?
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is what's going to take us into our next segment.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, what are some patterns?
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  Speaker 2: Especially the veterans you know there's all kinds of different levels, right and their family members too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a human condition, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: So what are some patterns that you help people with that can help divert that?
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  Speaker 3: One again one of the biggest things is our breath, right?
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  Speaker 3: So when anything scares so just going to the whole, how it affects your brain is you're in fight or flight mode.
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  Speaker 3: When you're having a panic attack, panic attack, there's nothing unless there is something chasing you or whatever, but you're literally in that fear of something's coming at you and your heart is racing, that breathing.
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  Speaker 3: So if you can first, what are you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: What are you thinking in that moment?
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  Speaker 3: Then tap into your breath.
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  Speaker 3: There is a way of breathing.
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  Speaker 3: You can't see my diaphragm but if you, many of us breathe here from our chest and learning how to control our breath from our diaphragm and taking those proper breaths.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a way.
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  Speaker 3: You can inhale for a count of three, you hold it and you release for the count of six.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that for 10 times and you will naturally calm yourself, feel that calm center.
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  Speaker 3: Or you can do it for four and the count of eight out.
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  Speaker 3: So catching yourself and learning how to control your breath is huge.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to panic attacks, again, your thoughts, what are you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Are you really in danger?
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  Speaker 3: What's stressing you?
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  Speaker 3: What are those triggers?
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time, annette, it's you know the the mountain lion's not chasing you.
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  Speaker 2: It's your own thoughts that generally are causing these things.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you know your thoughts, your reality.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, if you can catch yourself before you go down the rabbit hole and do this simple breathing exercise and I've done this as well it's fantastic exercise, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and I'll tell you now, I guarantee Annette, because we don't teach theory, we teach things that we do ourselves have done it and that's why she teaches it, because she knows it works.
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  Speaker 2: So is there, when you see the pattern you do the exercise, is there something else that you can shift your focus to, or what do you suggest from there?
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  Speaker 3: you can.
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  Speaker 3: Also.
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  Speaker 3: There are many things, personally, that get moving, like action, get your body moving.
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  Speaker 3: If you're sitting down, you know, get your body that movement.
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  Speaker 3: Whether, if you can get outside, connect with nature, you know, take a gratitude, walk like literally, instead of having earphones on.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to nature, listen to the birds, listen to the sounds around you, look at the leaves, look at the beauty, the beauty of nature around you.
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  Speaker 3: That's a natural soothing effect.
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  Speaker 3: Music, music is key, like I love, love, love.
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  Speaker 3: You know, tapping into music.
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  Speaker 3: Someone here wrote vitamin D.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there are definitely supplements that you can take that help with that and then you can.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sleeping is another way, right, sometimes we're just stressed.
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  Speaker 3: Many, many times stress is an underlying reason of why the anxiety is there, why the panic attacks are there.
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  Speaker 3: So, understanding what is, what is that you're doing for yourself, exercise, exercise is key.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to be that gym rat, but put that in, put that into your day.
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  Speaker 3: The is great.
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  Speaker 3: There are many little things that you can do.
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  Speaker 3: They're little hacks.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like all day and I have to have everything perfect.
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  Speaker 3: But what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: And understanding key, understanding your triggers.
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  Speaker 3: So the other day, you know, I've been able to avoid panic attacks for many years.
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  Speaker 3: Like I don't, I can.
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  Speaker 3: I can stand here today and say I no longer allow myself to have a panic attack.
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  Speaker 3: Do I get anxiety?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, but understanding my triggers.
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  Speaker 3: So once I feel that, and understanding my body and understanding what's happening, I'm able to again get that movement.
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  Speaker 3: Play with play with a pet right, get on the phone and have a conversation so you can get out of your own thoughts, get out of your own head and break free of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love what you brought up.
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  Speaker 2: You know all of those, first of all because they all work right.
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  Speaker 2: It's change your physiology.
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  Speaker 2: Put your shoulders back, stand up straight, take breathing, getting outside of.
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  Speaker 2: You know that my wife actually is the one that said about vitamin D.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're getting outside, you're in that sun, you're getting your vitamin D.
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  Speaker 2: And here's another one that I'm I'm really learning more and more about is take your shoes off and run your feet through some grass.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that grounding and just getting back to nature, like you're saying, listening to the birds.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, we, my wife and I, live out in the foothills of California and we all the time In fact this morning she's sitting out there and just nothing on, just listening to the birds, yes, and just kind of getting back to nature.
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  Speaker 2: And it's such a grounding effect that you know, I think you know, for me, when you do that, the more you do that, the more you are grounded, literally, and centered, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing I'd like to bring up that you brought that was fantastic is the feeling of excitement and good anxiety is the same.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm coaching people, I go through an exercise with them of think of something that creates anxiety for you to a level of two or three, just some minor anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you feel it?
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  Speaker 2: And then I do a pattern, interrupt, and then I do the same thing with a good feeling, and the excitement is always.
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  Speaker 2: You know in your belly, in your chest, that it's the same feeling.
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  Speaker 2: So I've learned for myself, I conditioned myself to literally change what I'm thinking is anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually excitement for what it could be and I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a great, great tool myself and I use it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the other things I was going to mention is again like tapping into that understanding of what's happening with you.
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  Speaker 3: So the other day, you know again, I'm, I'm still doing the accounting work right.
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  Speaker 3: So the other day I'm, you know timelines and things that are happening in that upcoming trip and everything you know needing to be done now, now, now I felt that I felt that palpitation start up and I'm like, oh no, this is not happening.
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  Speaker 3: I did exactly that.
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  Speaker 3: I got outside, tapped into nature and I was able to break that pattern and that pattern, interrupt that.
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  Speaker 3: We know that, stop.
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  Speaker 3: Technique works wonders also.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And you're in New Jersey, New York, and it's such a beautiful nature area we were talking before we get on here and just, I mean, people think of New York unless you've been there, or Jersey, think of you know, it's this concrete city, but outside of New York city it is nothing but trees and just beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the first time I drove there and I, you know, came through the trees, you know, before you get into the city, and this big city's there and it's, you know, came through the trees, you know, before you get into the city, and this big city's there and it's like where did this even come from?
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  Speaker 2: I was just in woods and nature.
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  Speaker 2: So you have that, you know, everywhere around you.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm happy for you, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And another thing you you mentioned, um, taking your shoes off.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: So here in South Jersey you know the beaches I all year long, I don't care how cold it is.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I head to the beach, listen to the waves, put my feet in that cold sand, but I'm there, I'm connected.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: So let me ask you.
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  Speaker 2: So we talked about you know anxiety and panic attacks and when it comes to the your brain with these kinds of things, know you're, you know the brain, health and so on.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens when you start feeling that anxiety and so on?
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  Speaker 3: So anxiety shows up in certain areas of the brain, mostly the basal ganglia, that anxiety center.
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  Speaker 3: Basal ganglia, that anxiety center.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the things that's fascinating about also again Dr Amen's work are the spec scans and how much blood flow, or little lack of blood, is getting to certain parts of the brain and what that effect is.
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  Speaker 3: So when the basal ganglia is high activity, there's that anxiety.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the my personal story is when I got my scan done.
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  Speaker 3: There's two sides of the basal ganglia and one of them were was elevated.
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  Speaker 3: You know the activity was high, but the other side was low, which is to me an indication of okay, I have that balancing act going right Versus both of them being on high.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: So there's different parts of the brain and how it affects us and different elements and things that happen, and changing the conversation of mental health to brain health.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Then you're curious.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You learn about your brain, you learn about how certain things affect it, you learn about keeping it healthier.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: You know Dr Amen's book, as you know you witnessed.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Every day we learn something new and it's something where and like you said, I'm actually going through it again for myself.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I went through it, you know, live on Facebook and stuff.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: But I'm actually going through it again because sometimes you read something and something else sticks out to you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: But there is endless information about brain health that people can tap into.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: So when, first of all, I miss you going live on those, just so you know it's great information.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: So Annette was going through for anyone that isn't aware, going through one page, and that's the way the book is set up one page a day with a tip or, you know, a learning, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And this lady I don't care what time it was, where she was sick, anything, it didn't matter I commend you for doing what you did.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You were always there for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, fantastic.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: When the blood flow isn't accurate or correct, I should say, what happens with?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, that means that oxygen isn't getting to the brain correctly, the way it should be as well, correct?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Well, the depends on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the SPECT scan show is strictly blood flow.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the indicator.
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  Speaker 3: But when not enough oxygen is getting to the brain, that's very, very, very it can be very dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Right, so, again, understanding to control our breath.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: So I know now, back then I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I knew that that hyper, like the hyperventilating that I was doing because I was stuck in fear and you know the heart palpitations and everything that I was doing, improper breathing.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: If I would have just taken a moment and been able to kind of take a step back, put my hand on my diaphragm, make sure it's getting filled up, make sure I'm releasing slowly, I would have gotten through those attacks much, much sooner and easier.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, again, thank you for sharing and being vulnerable and this stuff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Anybody listening, and now we're in the future.
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  Speaker 2: This is so important.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: This is so important when another tip I'm going to add use the breathing exercises all day long.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're great when when they.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I was just reading a study not that long ago about breathing and when we're stressed, we breathe from our chest, shallow breathing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: We're slumped over, we're breathing that way.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: How does a baby, when it doesn't have any stress or anything, how does it breathe Through the stomach?
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  Speaker 2: Right, you see the stomach rising and going down.
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  Speaker 2: So when you notice that you're breathing in your chest, you may be anxious about something and you may want to do a breathing exercise, calm yourself down and get back to base level.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So I just want to throw that in there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: It's a great, great tool or great study.
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  Speaker 2: I should say that I just was reading up on.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So breathing is just so important, breathing properly and getting yourself to baseline so excellent.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: So let's move past, if we can, into the good stuff, right?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So we've been through anxiety, we've been through panic attacks.
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  Speaker 2: How to get yourself out of them.
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  Speaker 2: What's some tips?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I know it's really important to you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Know, we're both neuroencoders.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: So here we go Celebrate right To bring joy and feel joy and celebrate, I mean every time we can, right, because we don't do it enough as human beings.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: You have to really train yourself to celebrate enough, and what happens when you celebrate is smile and all that, and so let's talk about that, if you will.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You want to bring us through some of that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: So being able to incorporate celebration for anything, anything, it can be the smallest.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: The other day, a ladybug landed on me and I'm like, yes, she loves me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like this different thing there's.
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  Speaker 3: I mean even.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You know, like this different things there's.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I mean even with the work that you do.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: There's sometimes that the stress from work might be overwhelming.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: How can you turn that around into a celebration?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: You know, completing that task, where anyone's looking, it doesn't matter.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Take that hand, raise it up, pat yourself on the back yes, I did that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And we're talking about the brain.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Those chemicals are released, right, those happy chemicals, that dopamine, and your brain looks for more of that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: It's looking for more of that throughout your day.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Whether you're walking down the street and you you know you can do a test, like you know is that person?
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Am I going to get that person to look at me?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Set your, your intention, set that love to them and you can see if they'll look at you and smile.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: You get that smile.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: You could do a fist bump.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, I got them to smile.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: There's different ways that you can celebrate so that you incorporate that into your, your, those chemicals, get those feel good chemicals going and you get that brain looking for more of that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: The brain loves to look for things that are good yes, love it, love it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So, um, you know I gotta I'm gonna tell a quick story.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: So when I first started doing neuroencoding again like you, we, we don't practice um, we don't teach this unless we're doing it ourselves, right?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So so I remember when I first started doing this and changing have to or get to, and have to and to get to to change it into gratefulness, and I remember this one day and it happened multiple times, but I remember this one day specifically.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just walking around and I'm going into Walmart.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So you know, usually you go into Walmart you're like, okay, I'm just focusing, I gotta get my this to get that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I got to get out and I just walked around and I did exactly what you're talking about.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I was putting intention Anybody within 50 feet of me I was saying I love you, just genuinely.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I love you as a human being.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: And it's so crazy how many people literally I talked to in that store.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, just, and I'm not I'm not a shy person, you know, I talk to people, but it's just.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It was amazing after reflecting back later, and I've told people about the story, how it just changed, changed that day, just by putting that intent and that love on someone else?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, thank you for bringing that up, welcome Welcome.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for bringing that up, welcome welcome.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: So, so, besides, so, okay, let's go back.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: So, celebration and that joy, so you know, when you're in the middle of and I'm just going to throw out a couple of quick tips if you don't, if you don't mind, excellent.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: So when you are sitting and doing your work, like you had said, I'm going to, I'm going to play off of your tip, because you brought this up and put it in my head when you have that tip and you're just finished doing something that you normally don't like to do, so you had you needed to call a client, or you finish an estimate or whatever your work is for that day, as soon as you get done, or just celebrate it and, like you said, all the good chemicals happen, your brain looks for more of it.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: So the more you do it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So think about if you're already thinking about celebrating before you make that call or you do that how much more fun is that work going to be?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Doesn't that change it from work to play?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Of course, of course, yes, yes, yes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I do that all the time.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Do you do things like that as well?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Do you have anything similar?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, again, the accounting work.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Anyone who's an accountant, you know it's numbers.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: You got those tight deadlines and it can be challenging.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: So, same thing I, you know I practice what I preach.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I'll set the timer.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I have a timer and I'll set with strict focus.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: For 50 minutes that timer goes off, I stop, I celebrate, I stand up, celebrate and then I feel better in doing the next step, versus sitting there for hours and just feeling drained and like I don't want to do this.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: So it's something where we have to train ourselves.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Are there times that it's not perfect?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, I have times that I might be working, something might be going on in my life and I'm working through tears kind of thing.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: But being able to train yourself, train your brain, so that you're not stuck in the negative for long.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: We're human, things are going to happen, life is going to come at us.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: So how can you train yourself, and especially your brain, to not stay stuck for long, being able to break those patterns, being able to look for that celebration, being able to tap into that gratitude, love it, absolutely love it, and you know able to tap into that gratitude so that Love it, absolutely love it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: And you know, that's something that I don't do.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I don't set a timer to celebrate, I don't Thank you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: See, this is why we do this show.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I do not set a timer to celebrate.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I do for water, I do for everything else in life you know, but I don't do it to celebrate Every 15 minutes if I were to just get up and shake my ass.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: We call it assitude for anybody in the Neurocoding Institute or you know that we coach.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you say the same thing to people or teach the same thing.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: It is when you get up and change the physiology because you're doing multiple things we've had in this conversation.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Right, you're changing your physiology.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Change your physiology because you're doing multiple things we've had in this conversation.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Right, you're changing your physiology.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You're smiling because you can't get up and dance and shake your ass and not smile.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Look at me, I'm just thinking about it and I'm smiling.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: You know, it just changes everything.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: So I need to set a timer.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you, annette.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: And another thing now that you're saying that we have that posture, that power pose, you can do a power pose to break your pattern, eyebrows up, smile like look silly.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: All those things.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: They help so much.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: They're so small, but they're huge.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: The impact is huge.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing that up.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: So, Annette, will you explain that power pose?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: We're getting close on time, but again I'm in control, so let's play.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So explain the power pose.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a superhero thing if you will please, right?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: So let's just say you're feeling down icky, you know right, you take your body and you put those shoulders back, put your hands on your shoulder, look up, smile your hands on your shoulder, look up, smile the brand, try it, tell me you, you can't help but smile.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: You know whether you feel silly, whether that, that posture, whether it's that movement, it just helps, it just breaks that pattern and it gets you, it just gets you going and you know whatever you're going to do.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Next you have your super.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: You know, you have that superhero stance and you're like OK, I can, I can do this.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Now I can take, I can take this on.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: So Superman, wonder Woman, whatever it is for you Right?
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's, that's fantastic.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: So someone just literally said that I found for me, the goofier that I am about it, the more fun it is and the more I laugh and giggle and smile.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: You don't come back from that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: In 10 seconds You're sitting there smiling to yourself for two or three minutes at least.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Great tips, annette.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and wrap this up, unfortunately, but I'm having too damn much fun.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: So, annette, how do people get ahold of you?
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: The best way is social media.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Send me a direct message and I will get back to you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: My email is Annette Ramratin at gmailcom.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I have a Facebook page Passionately Living, passionately Living LLC.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And yes, send me an email.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Send me a direct message here on social media.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I will get back to you, I promise.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Very good, Thank you.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: So I just want to put out there Annette has what's called 24 Facets of Further Faster Monthly Calls.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: You want to talk about that just for a second.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, oh, I don't have my props.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: I like to have props.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I have my brain prop, though, so the brain is just so.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: You guys know the brain.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: The brain is this, this I don't have my diamond one either way, but 24 facets of further faster.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: I worked in corporate for a very high end jeweler and I tried on some amazing pieces while I was there.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: And there's this shiny, the gems, the pieces.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It came about one day where it's like you know what?
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: We're that gem, we are that gem and we have those facets that make a diamond shine within us.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: So how can we tap into those beautiful facets and illuminate ourselves, illuminate our identity?
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I absolutely love that identity.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I absolutely love that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: So we need, please three tips to get our veterans and their families further faster.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, smile, not only is it an expression, but I also have a success formula that falls behind.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That s is for share your thoughts.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: M master your moment.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I change that internal dialogue.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: L love yourself e energy.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Energy and celebration is in there.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Second one again the breath.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Tap into your breathing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: You're in control not only of your breath, but you're also in control of your thoughts.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What are you thinking?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: And there's a quick poem I'll share with you.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: As I think, so I feel, as I feel, so I do, as I do, so I have Excellent, very cool, thank you.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: So last thing is anybody or everybody, I should say top right-hand corner, there's a blue QR code up there.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Please scan it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It's for free books.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: You know, for our veterans there's resources, there's all kinds of great stuff there.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Please take advantage of it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: It's there for veterans and their families.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Please take advantage of it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: It's there for veterans and their families.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Please take advantage of it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: And Annette I just want to kind of end this with this has been awesome.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: First of all, really enjoyed you.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: You know and I say this at every show and I'm going to say it here as well, I'm going to say it probably every day until the day I die on this show the most important resource we have is time.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: We don't get that back as humans.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: So I just want to truly say thank you.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I'm honored you're here and I'm so glad for your friendship and appreciate you as a person.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate you too.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I thank you for allowing me to be here today, and it was a pleasure.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, absolutely All pleasure pleasure, absolutely All right, everybody.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us and we are out of here.
• 33:50
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• 33:57
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• 34:01
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• 34:07
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• 34:12
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• 34:17
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