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r you. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. All right, everybody. Good. We're all good now. Good. Well, at the end of today's podcast, I'll probably have a reframe to change your life from my book, Reframe Your Brain. So don't leave before you get that. No. No. Why in the world can I not find my own comments? There we go. Success. Boom. Boom. All right. As tradition dictates, Owen…
← Previous segment →y think about giving compliments. Usually giving compliments is awkward, creepy, or it feels manipulative, as in, you know, you're trying to get something for your compliment or something. Here's the reframe. Withholding a compliment is almost immoral. If you have a compliment in your mind about somebody and they're standing right there or you could easily reach them and you don't give them the compliment even though you're thinking it, it's almost immoral. It's free and it would be highly valuable to the person who received it. So if you have something that you could deliver for free and it would help a person, it would be immoral to not do it. So when you think about potential compliments, think of them that way. It'll make your life a lot better. People will like you better if you're good at complimenting.
How many times have I started my show by telling you there's a new study on psychedelics that make your mental health better? Well, here's another one, except this is about your physical health. Specifically, they're finding that—and they're doing more testing—but they think that psilocybin will make your brain feel more relaxed. And when you relax the brain, it releases less cortisol and inflammatory stuff. And they believe that they can get more than a temporary decrease in inflammation in your body by using psychedelics to help you get control of your mind. Because we
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know that psychedelics can have a temporary control on your mind. But more lately, we're finding out it could be a semi-permanent change where, you know, one small controlled dose of psilocybin could set your depression away, your anxiety away for, you know, months or years. And if that happens, in theory, your full body inflammation will be less, and that would help you with a whole bunch of stuf…
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