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Aspergers Relaxation Here Are 5 Ways You Can Occupy A Busy Mind · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video, I'm talking about Aspergers and relaxation and
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  five specific ways you can calm an active brain and occupy that
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  active mind. Coming up Hey guys, welcome back
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  to the aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I
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  make weekly videos on this type of content.
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  So if you're on your own hand, you've stumbled across this
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  See more videos like this one. Guy, this is super awesome.
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  I wanted to make this video for a long time and I was like,
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  trying to figure out the best things to put together to make
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  this video. And yeah, it's really, really
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  cool. These are five ways you can calm
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  your brain without actually having to do anything like
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  crazy. Complex.
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  And it's highly effective and I've never really seen anyone
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  speak about it before, so it's really cool.
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  I'm giving this information to you guys because I love you okay
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  guys. Let me know in a comment section
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  down below. If you are on the autism
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  spectrum, or if you're looking for somebody else like you're a
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  carer or a parent or a mother or whatever, pop it in a comment
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  down below. I read and respond to every
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  single comment so it's never wasted.
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  I'd love to have some conversations.
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  Do it now. Okay.
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  So Aspergers and relaxation. Why would relaxation be an issue
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  for people only Aspergers, kind of autism spectrum because their
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  brains are going 1000 miles an hour.
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  I don't know if you guys have noticed, but I talk really,
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  really fast. Okay be I have ADHD as well, but
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  my brain is always going. It's like I'm always constantly
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  thinking about stuff. I want to move forward and move
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  fast. I've got ideas coming up
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  everywhere and I've got, like, everything I could possibly
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  think of just oozing out my brain at any one time.
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  And it's good. It's great.
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  It helps me, like, make videos. It helps me, you know, create
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  content. It helps me make music, helps me
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  study and learn things, and I love that.
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  But also, there are times when you become so involved with your
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  brain that you almost burn out. You kind of, like, have like a
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  shortcut, like your brain. Just like, you know, misfires.
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  It could cause burnout shut, down meltdowns, stuff that we
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  don't want, even panic attacks and anxiety attacks and ain't
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  good. So I was sitting here thinking
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  what could I do to help, you know, with my, my brain and and
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  and how do I calm my brain down? So I've got like the five most
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  compelling ones, which I found really help the brain, but in a
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  way where it's it's accommodating of Asperger
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  syndrome, you know, autism as a whole.
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  So what are they, you ask? Oh, I'm glad you have asked that
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  question. Let's go on to these hacks.
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  So how can I go on guys is puzzles and doing puzzles.
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  And what I mean by that, it could be anything from a jigsaw
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  puzzle to kind of like a mind puzzle.
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  You know, one of the ones that you get like they're like wooden
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  and you kind of like have to slam together all those things
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  and why this is effective because when you are engaging in
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  a puzzle exercise which is non digital, when you are like doing
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  a crossword or you're doing a puzzle like a wooden puzzle or
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  you're doing like a jigsaw puzzle, your brain is engaging
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  with a task that causes a problem, solution versus
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  scenario, which occupies the kind of hyperactivity and the
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  longing for problem solving that the autism brain kind of thirst
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  for. But it also is giving you time
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  to relax because there is a sense of calmness doing it
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  because there's no electronic device shining or flickering in
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  your face. Right.
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  And that is super, super interesting because electronic
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  devices flicker and they have a glow.
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  Now the glow from electronic devices is like blue and white,
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  which actually suppress melatonin, which actually makes
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  you more awake and less sleepy, which means that you're less
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  relaxed and you're more hyperactive.
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  Now you need 20 minutes away from screens to kind of like
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  devolve from that screen time and relax from that cell doing a
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  puzzle, a wooden puzzle or like a crossword or a word search.
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  Super dope. Because it's still engaging your
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  brain. You still want to be active.
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  You still want to be kind of thinking about things you always
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  problem solve. Like look, can I get like an
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  Amen in the comments? Like if anyone knows what I'm
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  talking about. I'm always problem solving.
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  I see everything as a problem solving thing.
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  I love doing math problems for fun.
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  You guys know exactly what I'm talking about.
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  Hit that thumbs up button. If you know exactly what I'm
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  talking about, you know it. You know this is what you all
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  like and you'll know exactly what I mean.
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  But that kind of thing still needs to go on.
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  But you also need to relax, you know, it's quite a difficult
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  thing to do because a lot of people think, well, if I'm just
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  doing stuff creative all the time, then I'm always feeding
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  that brain that wants to problem solve.
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  But then you get no downtime. So that's why it's important
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  okay. So #2 is reading, right?
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  So I have dyslexia. Not only do I have dyslexia, I'm
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  actually a best selling author in the United States and the
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  United Kingdom. I have a book out, a published
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  book out. So I didn't sell published A
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  published book out in 3 languages as well.
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  And you think, well how does that happen?
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  It is pretty crazy and there's a long winded explanation for
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  that. So if you'd like to know about
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  that, let me know. And I could always do a video on
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  how I managed to do that, but it's being dyslexic.
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  But in terms of reading books, it takes me a while to read
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  books. But when you're reading a book,
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  you're still digesting, You're still learning, You're still
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  attaining information, but without that constant screen
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  flicker and chatter from that blue screen, that's going to
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  keep you awake. So you could literally, you
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  know, go to bed and read a book and it could help you with
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  winding down to then actually sleep, which I find just
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  absolutely fascinating. Again, for the same reasons as
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  the puzzle, A book is a, you know, you want to use an
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  analogue version, not like a Kindle, you know?
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  Come on, guys, you got to work with me here.
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  Don't use a Kindle. Don't cheat.
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  I see you cheating. I see you picking up your
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  Kindle, saying I have a Kindle every single night.
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  I got the Kindle off on my iPhone.
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  That's what I do. I'm not on about that.
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  OK, reading also expands the mind.
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  Think about it. There was one thing that Will
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  Smith said for successful people.
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  Will Smith is obviously one of the most successful actors ever.
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  Then he said there's two things that actually make success
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  happen. One of them is running and the
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  other is reading. So there you go.
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  See. Not just me, Will Smith also
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  says read. So get a book.
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  Why not my book? You don't have to get my book.
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  Anyway, if you really want to know what my book is, I think
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  there's a Lincoln description, but there isn't.
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  Leave me a comment and I'll send you a link to the book.
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  OK, so hack #3 watch educational and documentary type of TV.
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  Now, I know this kind of goes against the whole thing of
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  watching screens, but what I mean for this is that maybe
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  you're not wanting to come and relax.
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  Maybe you're not wanting to go to bed straight afterwards.
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  All you want to do is sit down and chill, but you still want to
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  be actively engaged. Because I know I have this issue
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  where if I sit down and chill and I'm not engaging my brain
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  with anything, I start to worry because I feel like I'm wasting
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  my time. I'm wasting my life because I
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  could be doing something that's giving me something.
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  Like I could be learning something like, you know, when
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  my computer reboots, I Start learning another language or
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  something, You know, like that kind of thing.
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  That's like my mindset. So I'm thinking, how do I relax?
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  How do I do it? Very simple.
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  I sit down on a watch. Stuff that I can learn from all
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  in a row. So I sit down and I put on a
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  documentary or an educational series and I watch that and it
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  helps me relax. I just lay down.
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  I'm just watching this stuff. So I'm learning, but I'm very
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  relaxed at the same time. So get yourself comfy.
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  Get a really good documentary, really good educational series,
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  put it on. Make yourself some tea.
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  You got it. OK, so #4 this is hack #4 and I
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  love this and I do this every single day and I also run as
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  well, like we were talking really about running.
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  I do run two to four times a week, but in terms of every
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  single day I go out for a walk. So hack #4 is take a walk.
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  Walking is excellent because it helps reset your mind.
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  There's this thing in Buddhism, and I've used breathing
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  techniques before when I was talking about anxiety and
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  different anxiety videos and I'll try and link it up here or
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  in the description below so you can check out the anxiety
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  videos. But one of the things I do is
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  the hacking of breathing. So you breathe in for five
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  seconds, you hold it for five seconds, and you breathe out for
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  five seconds. What this does is it pumps good
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  deep breath, oxygen all around your body and instantly calms
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  you. I mean, look, check this out
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  right now. Pause this video, Breathe in and
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  hold your breath for five seconds and then breathe out.
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  Right. I bet you'll feel more calm than
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  you did before doing that. Okay.
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  Pause it and then come back. Okay.
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  So let me know. Did it work?
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  Leave me a comment. You have to like this video.
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  If that worked for you, you have to go for your thumbs up because
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  come on, I'm just helping you guys out here.
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  Look at that like hacks within hacks.
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  So taking a walk outside does that.
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  It gives you like aerobic respiration, like you're you're
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  going outside and you're you're experiencing fresh air.
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  You're walking, your body's working, your heart pumping,
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  lungs are pumping a bit more, more auction, go around.
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  Your body helps relax and calm you.
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  And This is why I do it every single day, because it resets
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  the brain, helps you calm, and there's something kind of like
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  when you're outside, there's always something new to see and
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  that's how you learn. When you're outside, there's
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  always something new going on and you'll think about new
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  things whilst you're walking. OK That brings me to hack #5.
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  This is super awesome. I'm not very successful at the
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  end product of this hack, but doing the hack is very, very
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  good. So this one is cooking or trying
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  something new, cooking with a new recipe.
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  So what I mean by this is I'm terrible to follow instructions.
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  So what I do is I put on a YouTube video and then they'd
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  say, hey, get the, you know, I don't know, the sugar and the
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  butter and the flour and do this cookie mix and then we do it.
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  I do this with Naomi because Naomi, my girlfriend, my
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  partner, she is like a Baker and a better Baker than I will ever
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  be because I'm terrible at it, because my executive function
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  issues, et cetera, et cetera. I don't just boil you down with
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  the stuff you already know about autism.
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  But she kind of like says, OK, we're going to try this and we
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  try stuff out and we just like make cakes or pancakes and fold
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  recipes the best we can. It's usually just neon, We doing
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  it and me helping kind of with the measurements and stuff and
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  doing the math, which I really, really enjoy.
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  But that in itself is a way of relaxing because you're not just
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  focusing on on something that is digital screen and and it's
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  demanding of your creativity. You're following somebody else's
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  creative path. You are recreating their
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  creation which gives you passive time but it also gives you
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  learning because you're learning but you've never done it before.
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  That's the whole idea of picking something new to start from
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  scratch. Very effective.
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  I enjoy it. You should definitely try it
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  too. Anyway guys, that's all of my
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  hacks for this video. I hope you enjoyed them.
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  Please check out my other videos around me and I'll see you next
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  time guys.