Ep 3: Becoming unstuck: Techniques for Overcoming Life's Invisible Barriers

Have you ever felt like an unseen force was holding you back from the life you desire? This episode uncovers the techniques to release those silent anchors, sharing insights from my journey as a doctor and a passionate advocate for holistic well-being. We tap into the bio-psychosocial model of disease to explore the complex interplay between our emotional health and physical bodies, showcasing how to navigate through the streams of life without being hindered by the boulders of our own making.

Confronting the 'black boxes' of our emotions, we dissect the delicate interplay between the frontal cortex and amygdala to illuminate the path for positive thinking and emotional processing. This conversation is vital for anyone seeking to understand the transformative power of neuroplasticity and its potential to reshape our habits and heal our lingering wounds. You'll find the courage to open those boxes and embrace the liberation that follows, as we impart neurological wisdom and practical advice for tackling life's hidden hurdles.

Wrapping up with an infusion of soulful practices, we discuss how expressive writing and meditation are not just spiritual pursuits but scientifically proven methods for enhancing well-being and strengthening our immune systems. These tools for releasing emotional burdens are shared with heartfelt sincerity and a sprinkle of joy, complete with a reminder to celebrate life's simple pleasures, like the sweet delight of a chocolate chip-infused Pancake Day. Tune in, transform, and share your own stories of triumph over the energetic blocks that once stood in your way.

Transcript

Dr Hannah Moore: 0:00

Hello and welcome to the Dr Hannah Moore podcast. If you're listening to this podcast, then what I know is that you are somebody who truly wants to experience all the joy, happiness and fulfillment that life has to offer. You're someone who wants this not just for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for, and so every episode, I'm going to let you know any life changing realizations, knowledge bombs, schools of thought, life hacks, ways of thinking, life optimization and anything else that I think you're going to be interested along the way to allow us to do just that. So let's get started. So welcome back, guys, and if you are listening to this, then it means you've survived the three months of January that we've just had, but I'm hoping that now it's the second of February and I'm hoping that we're all going to start to get a bit of energy back, so we're going to start to feel like the year is actually really started. Today we're going to talk about something that I'm really, really passionate about, because it's something that I learned about a couple of years ago and I've used it to improve, honestly, every area of my life, whether that is financially, relationships with partners or friends, or just genuinely anything in my life I've felt stuck with.

Dr Hannah Moore: 1:17

Okay. So, first off, I love an analogy, so let's start there. I don't know if this is a dyslexic thing or what, but I just find it easier to sort of visualize this. I always think it helps if we can have like a physical example of something that we're trying to conceptualize. Okay, so imagine an area you feel stuck, and this could be anything relationships, money, career, housing, whatever. For this, let's do something simple, like, say it's career opportunities, and now imagine a stream and imagine that there are these boulders within the stream which are the issue. Okay, and these are the things that are stopping all this newness and positivity and new opportunities flowing. Which is the water down the stream into your life, and imagine there's a different stream for each different thing. So if you also feel stuck in your relationship or in creating a relationship, or you feel stuck in in literally anything, whatever that area is in your life, so say it's your home, so you'd love a new home, and you just can't find one. Nothing's coming up. Imagine that as a stream that is blocked, and so I want you to keep this analogy of the stream and the blockages in your mind as we consider how we're going to move these blockages out of the way, to become unstuck in this area and allow the positivity to start flowing back. And let's see if, now we're in February, we're getting a bit more light, we might get a bit more energy, and maybe we could try some of these things out over the next couple of weeks, try and remove some of these boulders and see if we can become unstuck.

Dr Hannah Moore: 2:59

Now, thinking about this sort of area has made me draw comparisons between the problems that we can sometimes have in our lives and then the problems that we can sometimes have in our health, and one of the models that we learned at medical school to group the different factors that contribute to a medical problem is the bio-psychosocial model of disease, and I find that sometimes thinking about health and thinking about problems within our health that we can take control over is sometimes a little bit easier because it's less abstract than thinking about problems in our life. And so let's start there. So the bio-psychosocial model basically splits the three factors of things that contribute to somebody becoming unwell. So if you think about the bio section, that's about you know the actual physical body of the person, the genetics of that person and how that's impacted on them being sick. Maybe they've got a family history of something.

Dr Hannah Moore: 4:01

The psycho section is about the mentality. So it's about is there an underlying mental health issue that's caused something that has then caused this condition? And the social is what social situation is this person living in and how has that contributed so it can be? Physically, where is that person living? So if they're living in a damp flat that's got mould on the walls and then they've got a lung disease because of it, then obviously that is a social problem. Equally, if the person lives within a society that normalizes a certain behavior, that again comes under the social.

Dr Hannah Moore: 4:43

Now, if I give you a quick example of something that I'm sure will have affected all of us at some point, whether that's, you know, a family member, a friend or ourselves, and that's heart disease. So we'll keep it as light as possible. But if you think about the biopsychosocial model, so the bio is obvious. There may have been a family history that you know. Heart disease is more common in your family, yeah, but then when we think about the psycho and the social, so the psycho is is that we know that there are links between heart disease and weight and obviously we know the reason for that? There are these little tubes around the heart supplying it with blood. If your diet isn't great for a long amount of time, then unfortunately those little tubes get filled with all the rubbish, the fats and the sugars, and that means that blood can't get to the heart as easily, right? So you know, psychologically, we also know that in some cases, overeating is caused due to emotional trauma. So people have things in their past that have turned into thought patterns and behaviors that mean, when people now become currently stressed or anxious, depressed, they will turn to food for comfort. And so this is the psychological aspects of these conditions. Equally, from a social perspective, to the last bit of the model. This is about the company that we keep, and in some circles it's more normalized to be a certain way, and in some circles it's not. And usually what you'll find is that people are more likely to be overweight, suffering from these conditions, if they're in a social circle where this has become normalized. Now I know you're thinking have I lost the plot? What is she on about? Why is she going on about heart disease? I thought we were talking about ways to become unstuck in our lives. Bear with me. There's a link right Now.

Dr Hannah Moore: 6:29

As doctors, obviously, whilst we're constantly trying to look at the whole picture and treat somebody holistically, the constraints of working in an NHS system that has time constraints and money constraints means that oftentimes the only option available to doctors during that consultation is medical. Ie let me prescribe you a pill which obviously falls under the bio, and the problem with that is is that actually 90% of the time? I would say, if you were to treat the psychos, the mental health aspect of this situation, you could make a much bigger difference, and this is obviously depending on what, at what point, you catch this patient in. So, for instance, let's go back to that heart attack situation. You know the bio might be. We prescribe drugs that allow that heart to be a bit more supported. We allow, we give drugs that allow that pump the heart to pump not as strongly, which then means that it doesn't need as much blood, so it's not going to be overwhelmed.

Dr Hannah Moore: 7:29

Now, whilst we've managed to help the patient and we've managed to deal with the current symptoms, and if we've found the patient in that bad a state, then potentially we've saved their life, but what we've not done is we've not looked at the root of the problem which, while ever it's not been worked on by the person, is just going to continue to be a factor, and by that I mean the psychological things that are contributing to the way this person lives their life and contributing to the fact that they'll continue to behave like they did before starting the medications, thus making the situation even worse. So when you go back to that stream analogy, adding in medications for me is a bit like putting a hose pipe into the stream after the blockages. So you're not removing the blockages, which are these emotional, previous emotional issues, to allow the water to flow into the stream to be functioning as it should be. What you're doing is is you're just propping the system up by adding more water after the blockage, which is not sustainable. Now the two points I want to make are obviously, it depends at what point you find these patients okay in terms of the medical analogy, because if we're not liking it to the stream, if we meet patients when conditions are got to a point that they absolutely need medication and there's nothing else that can be done, then of course you know the stream is damaged. There's nothing that we can do other than to use the hose pipe to continue that flow of water and, you know, potentially the stream is so damaged that any level of removing those energetic blocks is not going to make any difference. And I accept that there are very, very you know there's a small percentage of people that that is the case, but I would argue that the vast, vast, overwhelming majority of people, if you remove some of those energetic blocks, you're going to have a massive benefit to the stream in whatever the situation that stream is in, okay, and whatever situation your body, in whatever situation your personal situation is in.

Dr Hannah Moore: 9:30

The second point I want to make is that there's no part of me that thinks that it isn't easier just to bang a hose piping after the blockage than start physically removing boulders out of a stream. That is the entire point. The perception is that it is much easier just to take medications rather than look at the root cause of problems, and we can see this in every area of our lives. So you know, if we're talking about our diet, if that's an area, or if we're talking about being stuck with finances, or if we're talking about being stuck with relationships, it's easier to blame it on this, that and the other, or to start pointing fingers at the things that aren't really going to make that much of a difference, but feel easier to achieve rather than actually start doing the work.

Dr Hannah Moore: 10:15

Remove these boulders out of the stream, okay, and that's why people preferentially go for the work around, and we know this. But you know what I always think when I'm about to do the washing up and there's literal pots everywhere and I just can't face it. Every time I go to do it. It's never as bad as I think it's going to be, and I don't know if you guys find that. But how many times do you think that looking into something or doing something is just going to be an absolute nightmare? And then you go to do it and you think, god, why have I put that off doing that for so long? Like it was so it was fine, and I hope that when I've given you the hints and tips on removing these boulders, I hope that you feel the same way about that.

Dr Hannah Moore: 10:57

Now I'm not pointing any blame at anyone, not the patients and certainly not the doctors either, because ultimately, we all work within systems. Don't weigh in, especially within the NHS. Obviously you guys will know you'll never know friends and family members sometimes well, actually all the time the waiting lists to get help in psycho or social I mean in all, all the areas but the waiting list to get help in these psycho or social areas of your life are sometimes huge and the thresholds that you would need to be to even get treatment on the NHS are really high. So I'm not saying that this is easy. However, what I'm saying is is that oftentimes I think that when we think about changing our thought patterns and changing, maybe thinking about things that have been painful in the past, that have caused energetic box and caused boulders, issues that have come up for us, we almost feel that we need to either kill it with kindness and what I mean by that is right, okay, I'm just gonna just do loads of positive thinking, I'm gonna do loads of yoga, I'm gonna make myself the fittest best version of myself, my diet, etc. Etc. Etc. And that's gonna just wash it all the way, okay, and I'm gonna go into that. Why that's not. You know why that's not going to work.

Dr Hannah Moore: 12:21

And the other thing that some people will do is this they'll say well, you know, to start dealing with any of these things that I think were the main contributing factors to why I behave like this, or why I feel stuck in this situation, is something that I need professional help for. I need to go to therapy Now. I'm not saying that that's not always the case. Oftentimes it can be, especially if the things that you need to shift and that you need to work through have been really really severe, life-altering, traumatic things in your life that you don't feel that you're able to reflect on without the help of professionals. But what I am saying is sometimes we put barriers to go into therapy and sometimes those are real and you actually cannot afford or you cannot find a good therapist. You can't find anyone that you click with, or you feel that the things that you know in your heart and your gut are not things that you're ready to actually discuss with anyone, even if it's confidential. You're not ready to air those to another human being.

Dr Hannah Moore: 13:22

So what I'm offering you is a thought that you could start working on some things and this is a spectrum as well, guys. So please, if you're sat here thinking, well, I'm actually fine, like I don't have any skeletons lurking in my closet that I think are an issue for me and that will be the very rare, by the way, guys the vast majority of people, as I'm speaking and saying this, will be thinking yeah, you know, that relationship that I had was a lot, that argument that I had with a friend or a family member, that was a lot. You know, that thing that happened when I was a child, that was a lot. You know the way that I was brought up or the way that I was treated at work because of this thing. Really, if I'm honest with myself, when I think about it now it still brings up negative emotions and I guess at this point you guys will have clocked that obviously, the boulders that I'm talking about that are keeping us stuck in certain situations are these particular memories of things that have happened in our past and experiences that we've had, and these memories are just sat there in the subconscious. But then, if we bring these memories forward into our conscious thought and we start actively thinking about them, they do still feel unpleasant to think about, they do still feel uneasy, and that's how we know that they're still boulders, they're present. What I'm gonna talk about is the ways that we could start to think about, slowly but surely, working through some of these things, and why that's important.

Dr Hannah Moore: 14:54

Okay, so I think when we first learn about the law of attraction, positivity, positive thinking or maybe just intrinsic in some of us as well. We don't wanna definitely where I come from. So I come from a little town in the north of England and there's definitely this culture around. Oh, let's just not indulge ourselves in moaning about the things that went wrong in our lives and let's not go on and on about the negatives. Let's just put it in a box, close the box, bang it in the back of your head and move on. Shit happens. Let's just fence that off. Accept that bad things happen to people sometimes and then let's move forward, be positive, focusing on the great things and focusing on the things that we're very, very lucky to have. That is obviously 100% I agree that it is much, much better for 99% of your life to focus on the things you're grateful for, the things that you're very, very lucky to have, and be grateful for those things. 100%, I agree. But what I don't agree with is anything that happens to us feeling that we've just gotta get over that and putting it in a box and putting that to the back of our minds, like if we ignore it for long enough, then it'll just go away. Because in my experience, that isn't. That's not what happens.

Dr Hannah Moore: 16:15

I've dealt with hundreds and hundreds of patients now in the last. How long have I been a doctor for now? It's been a while. Has it been six years now? Bloody hell, I'm getting on. I was a 28,. I'm 34 this year, christ well, I've spoke to a lot of patients, okay, and I've done a lot of training in this area and, honestly, from what I've learned, and even working on myself, what I've learned is is that there is no box in this shit up. There's no putting it in the attic. What happens? You box some shit up, okay, in your house and you bang it in the attic and you close the attic door. Has it gone? No, it's not gone. It's still sat there, festering, okay, with a propensity to either set on fire or a propensity to get mould or to get rats in it. It's like a ticking time bomb sat there in your attic or in the back of your head waiting to cause problems. Okay, the better thing to do would be to remove these boulders, remove these boxes out of the attic, remove the boxes out the back of your head, however small they are, and then let's move forward.

Dr Hannah Moore: 17:25

Now you guys know I'm a geek. The interesting and exciting thing exciting for me, guys, I know that, and I'm not that exciting, but you know what I find exciting, guys, get ready, cause this is what I get giddy about on a Friday night gang is that there are always varying different ways to look at something. And you know what, the more I look into them and whether I'm looking at this from an anatomical perspective, you know a chemical perspective, a spiritual perspective, you know what they always line up, they always do, and that's what I find so, so interesting. So let's look at a neurological way of thinking about this. And just keep with me, I'm gonna keep it simple. So we all know the brain looks like a big piece of jelly. Yeah, it's inside your skull like a big pink, bobbly piece of jelly.

Dr Hannah Moore: 18:13

There are different bits of that that control different bits of. You know the way we think, the way we feel and physically how we move bits of our body. We're all with that. Yeah, we all agree. So the front bit, like the bit that's under where your forehead is, that is the frontal cortex. Yeah, and that is the bit that really helps us concentrate, makes decisions and it processes all those positive emotions. So that's your manifester. Yeah, that's the bit that's making all those good thoughts, that's focusing on the positive thinking, that's the bit that's running your life. But that isn't the bit that actually processes fear, anxiety, emotional pain. That bit's the amygdala. And the amygdala is really deep back in sort of like I'm literally feeling now and realizing I need to go for a massage. But you know, like at the back of your neck, the base of your head, like right in on the base in the middle, is the amygdala and that bit is the bit that is responsible for processing all these little bits, so you can actually think that bit's like the attic in the middle of your head. Yeah, that's the bit that's holding all these black boxes.

Dr Hannah Moore: 19:29

And the way I've been thinking about it this week is we know that the more we use something, the stronger it gets. Yeah, if you get little old ladies unfortunately they're in a wheelchair now they've been pushed around, you know, in the 90s they've stopped using all their muscles and what happens? The muscles all go. Oh me, I haven't been to the gym. I've got no muscles anyway. So, but yeah, if we start going to the gym, we start working out, the muscles grow and the brain whilst it's not a muscle. It's the exact same thing. So, if you guys know about concepts like neuroplasticity, the more that we use an area of the brain, the stronger it gets. The easier it gets as well, because the stronger it gets. If you do 100 squats a day, suddenly it gets easier to do squats.

Dr Hannah Moore: 20:11

If you continually focus on positive thinking, positive affirmations, manifest in what you want into your life, that becomes easier over time as well. It's the same process over and over again, but with this, what we're saying is is because these black boxes of issues are in a totally different bit of the brain. They're in the amygdala. It's like no amount of strengthening that frontal lobe is going to make any difference to those black boxes, and that's why what I'm saying is, even from a neurological perspective, it doesn't make sense to have that way of behaving, that let's just package all this shit up and hope that it goes away, because it isn't going to. This is where I think the game-chainsmation is In, and some people call this shadow work. Okay, but I'm going to keep stuff light. I'm going to talk about let's remove these boulders and let's remove these energetic blocks. So the first thing that we want to do is we want to actually find out what these blocks are. Okay, find out. Let's identify these black boxes.

Dr Hannah Moore: 21:15

Firstly, let's think about areas of your life. So, financially, is that going as well as you want it to go? Or other issues in that You're not earning enough money, you're not managing to save enough, even though you're doing this, that and the other, either the money is flowing to and you're not managing to keep the money because random things keep coming up that you need to spend your money on, or the money is just not coming to you in the first place. Okay. So if you feel stuck around finances, that might be a subheading. Other subheadings might be love and relationships. Other subheadings might be friendships. Other things might be housing or whatever it is that you feel particularly stuck in that area of your life, okay. Or even you might not feel stuck.

Dr Hannah Moore: 22:01

You might just feel that you really want to escalate that particular area to the next level, and then what you need to do is sometimes you just need to leave those headings there and just let that sit in your subconscious, because sometimes these black boxes guys in that amygdala area. They have been buried and they're right underneath loads of everything else that's gone on in your life and loads of other thoughts. So if you leave those headings there and then give it a couple of days and see what comes up, and everyone I've ever done this with has always, over time, said to me my goodness, this thing happened and I totally forgotten that even happened. But when I remembered it it really made me feel uneasy or sad, or embarrassed or guilty or any of the negative emotions. And it's these sorts of memories and issues, however small and however tedious. The link is to the headings that we've written down. They're the things we're wanting to dig out, because once you've done the work to clear these things, you'd then be able to remember them again without any feeling at all or with very, very little feeling. And it's at that point that you know that it's totally done. And, to be honest, most of the time I then find that you literally don't remember the thing anymore, like if you were to write another list, it just wouldn't crop up.

Dr Hannah Moore: 23:31

Questions that you can ask yourself are are there any patterns of anything that comes up in my life again and again and again, almost like I'm not learning the lesson because I'm stuck in that area. You know, do you keep getting a bad manager at work over and over and over again? Do you keep making friends with people that end up being let down over and over again? Do you keep feeling like you're the one that is constantly used and abused and you know you're the one doing the most all the time, whether that's in a friendship or a relationship? Or do you constantly feel like your relationship with I don't know, your children or your friends or whatever? You're being disrespected over and over and over again? Or you know what? What is it? What is it that's that's frustrating you? Other questions you can ask yourself is what am I afraid of? What am I angry at? What makes me angry? Why does that make me angry? What is that? What's that harking back to you know when? Is that black box chiming up and causing issues and blocking the good things coming to you in your present life?

Dr Hannah Moore: 24:35

Okay, another way that you can pinpoint areas of your life that need some optimization is to honestly look physically. So let's start easy. So physically looking within your house. Think about is your fridge full of food? You don't know what's in there. You know you can't get to. You can't see the back of it. There could potentially be moldy food in that vegetable. There might be sources that have gone off and think about again why that is. Why is that area in such disarray? What is that saying?

Dr Hannah Moore: 25:09

And usually what you'll find is is that wherever these actual areas of physical disarray that are going on within your house, it shows that there are also some mental disarray within the corresponding area. It's absolutely crazy how this works out. So I've never met somebody who has an immaculate fridge which is absolutely cleaned out and organized and also has a bad diet. I've never met somebody who has an immaculately organized wardrobe who also doesn't know their own sense of style and isn't confident and positive in dressing themselves to put the best foot forward. I've just not. I've never met somebody with an unorganized bag, work, stuff, home office who is also super, super organized at work. Those things just don't go together. If you have a cluttered desktop with a million different you know apps open on your desktop and a million different doc, you know documents all over your desktop and you know 500 emails that are unread and a stack of paperwork that's not being actioned on your desk, I guarantee that you are not on top of everything else within your career either.

Dr Hannah Moore: 26:20

So all these areas, as harsh and as brutal as it sounds, do show that the mental manifests in the physical, and we also see that within our own bodies. So this takes everything a bit deeper, but it's always worth looking or having a think, if this is something that you're interested in, in what's going on with my body, other areas of my body that aren't playing ball or that I'm feeling stuck with, or that I'm experiencing pain, or that I'm experiencing something that's less than optimal and emotionally and psychologically, is there any relation that you can pull from that, even if it's quite abstract? So add these things to the block list. So let's imagine now that we've got some things under our headings, we've identified those black boxes, we know what they are, or at least we know what you know some of them are.

Dr Hannah Moore: 27:15

This also is not about being a perfectionist, guys, as much as we all and I'm pointing at myself here you know we are. It's in society today. There's this pull to have everything perfect or not bother. But this is about think back to that river analogy and it's like you know, if you could remove a couple of, even just the small ones, you know if you could take some of the sting out of even some of those really insignificant ones that you think. How can they even be bothering me? You know that argument with her, yeah, it upset me, you know it hurt me. I feel I was hard done by, but you know what, I'm past it. Whatever. Even if you could remove some of the sting out of the thoughts and the emotion that's my dog, by the way, guys even if you could remove some of the thoughts and the feelings that come up for you when you remember that situation, those little blocks, they make all the difference. Just a little percent here and a little percent there, and suddenly the energy in that area is flowing right back in and things in your present life are starting to change.

Dr Hannah Moore: 28:18

Okay, these are the tools that I think are the game changers for dissolving these boulders, dissolving these black boxes, getting them out and taking them to the tip. Yeah, so the first one is expressive writing. Now, this is a little bit different to journaling. So what you do is is you get a book, you know you get a piece of paper, whatever, and you get a pen and you literally set a timer for 20 minutes and you just free write. So you don't think about what you're writing about, particularly in the sense of don't worry about spelling, grammar, don't worry about how your handwriting looks, don't worry about writing in paragraphs nobody is gonna read this literally. This is just for you. Okay, in fact, most people bin these after doing it. Yeah, most people set them on fire or, you know, get them into tiny little pieces and put them in the bin so they'll never be found and never be read. The object of the game is not to read these back ever, it's just to get it all out onto paper.

Dr Hannah Moore: 29:17

Now there's a guy called James Penny Baker who's an American psychologist at the University of Texas and he's devoted his life to this modality of helping and healing trauma, and one of his interesting research papers showed that if somebody writes 20 minutes for four days just four days, 20 minutes a day for four days that if you take blood sample from them, then their immune system, so the cells that contribute to the immune system, so your T cells, are actually higher, okay, at day four, and then they remain higher for six weeks after. And I've heard people lecture on this topic and talk about how these little minutiae of these little stress pockets, these little black boxes that are in the base of our brain, that are causing us issues without us even knowing it. They're causing this stress level, they're dampening our immune system, they're making us more unwell, do you know? Almost like a low-grade, low-level computer virus over time. And so it's like, do you know what it just shows you, if you look at the physical, that these people 20 minutes of writing on one of these energetic box or on it or on a selection of these energetic box that you've got on your list for four days, and your immune system starts to be boosted, which, again at this time of year, guys, you can't sniff out, you really can't. I've had bug after bug. I could do with a bit of immune support, I really could. So, yes, that's the first one.

Dr Hannah Moore: 30:57

Some caveats with this as well, guys. If you're starting to write about something and what I would expect is that if you spend 20 minutes, especially 20 minutes for four days, writing about some of these things that you've found difficult in your life, of course after that you're going to feel a bit heavy, it's going to feel a bit low, it's a lot reconsidering these things. So make sure you're in a position you know you're in good enough sort of stable mental health to even start doing this and also think about the things that you could do to sort of cheer yourself up in a positive way after, and if you find that you start doing this and it's too much, then stop. There are other areas that you could work on. Or maybe this is all too fresh and it needs a bit of time before you're able to then go back and start doing this work. Or, like we said earlier, maybe it is something that you need to work through with a therapist when you're in that position to do so, but that's a really, really good way to release some of those trapped black boxes.

Dr Hannah Moore: 32:00

Now, there's huge amounts of research on the mind-body connection, how our psychology affects our body and illnesses that we get and ways that our physical health presents. Too much to talk about within the scope of this one podcast episode, but at some point I'll do an episode on it, because it's something that I'm really really interested in and if it's something that you guys are interested in, there's a really good book called the Body Keep Score. I mean, there's loads of books, but that's a particularly good one. Okay, so a few other ways that you can move these black boxes. Number two is meditation.

Dr Hannah Moore: 32:33

Now, I'm not going to make out that I'm some sort of bloody meditation goddess that manages to do this on a daily basis, because I'm not. In fact, I've never managed to do this in a sustained way, and it's one of my goals for this year, because the statistics on this is insane. So, essentially, from every perspective biologically, anatomically, neurology luckily so, if you look at these meta-analysis, which is as robust scientific data as you can possibly get meditating every single day has so many benefits for us. So it helps reduce anxiety and depression and pain and addiction. It helps with learning memory, it slows aging. You know. There are so, so so many benefits to meditating.

Dr Hannah Moore: 33:19

But one of the things that you can do is if you focus your meditations I actually I've never been able to just sit and meditate with nothing. I guess that's a level that you've got to get to. I like to meditate with a guided meditation. You can find these on YouTube or anywhere, and I literally just put a guided meditation on. You can have these focus guided meditations for releasing emotions. You'll be able to find those on YouTube and have the things in your energetic block.

Dr Hannah Moore: 33:48

You know in your mind something that you'd like to work on, and just I find that during that meditative process, if you're able to think through those thoughts whilst in quite a relaxed kind of loving state, and whilst you are now, because a lot of these things you won't have thought about for a long time. Okay, so you might be 20 years on and then you start thinking about these things as the person you are today and suddenly your perspective on that situation has totally, totally changed. And suddenly you look at it and think, ah, you know, I see it from the other person's perspective. I understand now, they were a parent, I'm now a parent. Or you might look at it and think, well, you know what? At the time I felt like I'd done something wrong and now, as an adult, I look back and realize I hadn't done anything wrong and you're able to forgive yourself and you're able to forgive that situation and it takes all the sting out of it and that's it, it's gone. So meditation is another great way.

Dr Hannah Moore: 34:50

Another great way is movement, and again, these are going to be different for different people, but again, there's really good research around movement and how that dissipates negative trapped emotion within our bodies. So anything like yoga, dance, stretching, running and we see this happen a lot in animals, don't we or people, when they're in extreme distress, animals start to shake to dissipate that negative emotion. You know, if they have a fright or something quite traumatic and people do the same in really extreme situations. But in general life we're so conditioned to behave in a certain way that if we find ourselves in an extremely stressful situation it's very, very difficult and very rare that you'd actually physically see us shaking that off for fear of looking a plonker, but actually it'd probably be one of the best things that we could do. But if we can use movement to move some of this negative energy, we've all had that feeling where you literally physically your body is tense. You know, if you've been through something very, very stressful, your entire body can feel like it's literally been in a car crash. So think about how to move that out of you.

Dr Hannah Moore: 36:02

One of my favorite ways I like to go for a massage and again it's physically moving those toxins and those knots from your actual physical body that you can see. But equally it's also moving a lot of the emotional trauma that's stored within those muscle fibers that have tensed. Okay, other ways are last, two ways. One of them is called EFT tapping. Now this one if you Google EFT tapping. There are loads of YouTube tutorials on how to do this, loads of Google images on the points that you need to tap on and the phrases that you need to say.

Dr Hannah Moore: 36:45

I'm not going to go too much into this one in detail, other than to say this is a clinically verified method of removing trauma. It is extremely effective and it's free and it's easy and it doesn't take very much time. Once you've learned the skill, I've known people even remove themselves out of a situation where they're in a really negative situation at work or whatever situation they're in. Nip to the toilets, do some of this EFT tapping and it totally changes their entire mindset and experience of what they're going through. Essentially, you repeat a phrase that's to do with the specific block that you're trying to remove and you tap on certain points that correspond with certain acupuncture points. At the same time, you move through these certain points and you score yourself at the beginning, at the end, dependent on how much negative emotion that thing is bringing up for you, and it always is reduced. I urge you guys, if it's something that you would be interested in doing, look into ES EFT tapping.

Dr Hannah Moore: 37:53

The other thing is breath work. I love this. I've talked about this before. I think this is the most simple and one of the most effective, and it's usually what I will do. But if I've got my list of blocks and there's something on there that I'm thinking, I'm in a particularly relaxed state and I think you know what, let's get into it. I'm gonna remember that situation, I'm gonna have a real think through this and once I've thought through that and I've forgiven myself and I've forgiven anyone else involved, and I'm gonna put this thing to bed. I'm gonna put that black box in the bin for good, then what I will do is is I will do my in for four and out for eight, breathing While I'm having these thoughts. Okay, once you get into the motion of this, it's pretty easy. But the rationale and the scientific rationale behind this is that if you Elongate your out breath so you're breathing for four counts breathe out for eight and honestly, the numbers don't matter as long as you're Doing a longer out breath than in breath what you're doing is you're activating your parasympathetic nervous system.

Dr Hannah Moore: 39:02

So that's the bit that calms us down and it's by remembering these things that have been pretty distressing for us but, at the same time, managing to keep our body in a very calm, relaxed state, that we can actually think very clearly about those situations and reframe that for ourselves. And that's how we managed to get rid of this stuff. And, like I said at the beginning, I have actually done this in every area of my life. So and what I always find that's crazy, is that you Find these things from your subconscious, you work on removing as much as you can at the emotion associated with that thing and then that area of your life, suddenly it is literally like the boulders removed, the floodgates are open and suddenly you start seeing the positive changes in that area Of your life, even if those things have got nothing to do with it and they're not related. It honestly does work like magic.

Dr Hannah Moore: 40:02

So, on that note, I really hope that when you guys give this a go, that Somebody reaches out to me in a few weeks time and says Han, you know what? I, I don't know, I've been struggling to meet a partner for ages and I've done some energetic block work on these horrible things that happened to me in previous relationships. And guess what? I've met this really great person. Or Somebody says to me you know, I haven't spoken to this person, this family member in ages, or the relationship's always been very, very difficult, and I've done some energetic block work. I've tried the breathing, I've tried the FT tapping, I went for a massage, I released the tension and Something's cleared for me. I've got rid of one of the boulders, I've got rid of one of the black boxes and I'm feeling so much better and Maybe even the relationship has started to repair. So I Would love it.

Dr Hannah Moore: 41:03

So, please, guys, if you have any success with this stuff which, if you do it, I promise you you will Then reach out and tell me, because it will make my day to hear that this is you're finding this helpful. All right then, gang. Well, I'm gonna get off and go get help from nursery and I hope you guys have a Brilliant beginning of February. By the time I next speak to you, it will have been it will have been pancake day for sure. So make sure you eat loads of pancakes. Always put chocolate chips in, is my advice and that's not many club vice, by the way, that's psychological advice. And and, yeah, I'll speak to you soon. I.