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Tony Wrighton is the host of top-rated podcast Zestology, where he interviews a wide range of experts in the field of health and personal development. Tony has been a presenter on Sky Sports since 2006 and is a regular on Sky Sports News HQ. He’s embraced the Bulletproof lifestyle and joins Dave today on Bulletproof Radio to talk about neurofeedback, bluetooth radiation, controlling inner voice, stress and language hacks, using NLP and more. Enjoy the show!
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Dave: Now, half the Americans listing are like, “Oh, man! This guy broke out into tears. What the heck?” But here’s the thing. Your body stores emotions that are not in your head, that do not make any sense whatsoever. If you use a technique like tapping and you do this, I think I made the tapping solution on the show. You do this and it just sounds weird. In fact, it sounds as scammy as possible except there’s nothing that you’re buying. It’s just people are like, “Well, this kind of works.” It does make sense that if you assume that emotions that you’re not conscious of are stored in the body, which is not an unreasonable assumption, like we know there’s a mind-body connection. If that might be true, then tapping on certain spots could have an effect.
Tony: But just going back to the basic theory of doing what works, this is why I love it. If someone was listening, thinking, “Well, there was a time about 6 months ago when I was really kicking ass and everything was going really well in my life and now it’s not going quite so well.” In theory, if you got this data going back 6 months or more, you can go back, check your data and remember, “Oh, yeah. That’s when I was meditating every day or working out every day,” or whatever it might be. That’s quite exciting from an NLP perspective in terms of modeling your own success.
In terms of now my priorities are, one of my biggest priorities in life is to enjoy the journey much more than I ever did before. The problem is, now that I’m back to full health, that Type A personality fights, it wants to take charge again. We obviously spoken about the similarities between many biohackers and type A personalities in terms of high achievement. I definitely schedule quite long periods of my day when I don’t do very much but then I find that either meditating or self-hypnosis gets me back into that state where if I do self-hypnosis, I did it a couple of hours before we spoke today and I felt like I had an hour and a half sleep afterwards I felt utterly refreshed. Beforehand, there’s a couple of things I was thinking about a lot of things, emails and then obviously this interview. I was thinking, “Oh, you know, does the light need to be on because it’s dark here,” and that kind of thing. Then, I did some self-hypnosis and I found that I was just more relaxed, more chilled and more me. For many people, that might take the form of meditation or trance or even prayer but having some kind of period in the middle of the day when you can just step back and do nothing is so important. I do that every day.
You look at the little voices in your head, the little stress responses that people have to technology. I look at where it is now after 10 weeks of intensive neuro feedback, doing the 40 years of Zen alpha brainwave training stuff that I do, whether or not I have the information or not, watching my sympathetic nervous system, there isn’t the core sense of doom or threat or that other stuff. I can look at the Facebook status updates, I can have messages, I can have messages but I don’t have the stress levels that I did. I still don’t check my email first thing in the morning. It’s bad for you but it feels like the biological cost of having all these information things comes in can be dramatically reduced using probably self-hypnosis, probably meditation and certainly using neural feedback. You literally are about as like, “I guess I’m not going to die if I do or don’t look at Facebook today,” but most people have a little voice in the back of their heads that’s like, “If you don’t look at f, you don’t know what’s going on. If you don’t know what’s going on, something might eat you,” or whatever the internal wiring is but it’s like, I have to do it and it’s a core survival drive. Is there an NLP mantra or something that I should be using or people listening should be using in order to just actually be a little less stressed about technology?
Dave: That’s interesting. There’s so much going on here. I’ve been looking at, just the various ways there because it’s not enough to say it’s in alpha or in beta because there’s all these broadment areas that you might want to have there. You might want to have alpha in the front, alpha in the back. The pattern that I train is to have alpha start in the back and move to the front of the head that’s coherent so both halves of the brain are doing it the same time. Doing the 40 years of Zen training, I’ve managed to just about the quadruple the height of my alpha waves so the size of the wave, like if you’re normally used to having a nice wave you could surf, I got tidal waves coming in here and that’s changed my performance in lots of levels and concern I have is that the knowledge to know where to train this state of the brain is still in its infancy. You can take a healthy brain and you can train it to have PTSD in 2 hours, literally. It’s not traumatized can have anxiety if you train the wrong things. The more we look at neuro feedback and the more powerful I’m convinced it becomes, the more I’m interested in it but also the more I’m, “Wow! You can really cause great harm.” For the consumer grade technologies out there, those look relatively safe because you’re getting a very weak signal that’s like, “Okay, is it more beta or more alpha but you’re not doing, this part is alpha and this part’s beta.” You’re not getting some of the precise combinations.
What You Will Hear
- 0:15 – Cool Fact of the Day
- 0:37 – Wix
- 2:36 – Using NLP
- 11:10 – Controlling your inner voice
- 20:00 – Measuring biofeedback
- 24:45 – Bluetooth radiation
- 32:48 – Decluttering
- 37:10 – Writing ideas vs. typing them on a phone
- 40:08 – Continuous partial attention
- 48:00 – Hacking stress and language
- 52:42 – Alpha State
- 1:01:51– Top 3 recommendations for kicking more ass and being Bulletproof
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Tony Wrighton
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Beddit Sleep Tracker
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40 Years of Zen
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