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The Reason For Now
by The Reason For Now By DrTheo
Humans flatter themselves with their complicated theories about themselves . Maybe it's a symptom of our craving for significance within the expanding universe. In reality we are cavemen and forgetting this is what complicates matters. Understand this and you can derive and predict the reason for now and the future. Enjoy.
Episodes
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What Makes You Happy
Research shows that we are hard wired to generate our own happiness. We show that the prize is peace of mind rather than pleasure and what is stopping us getting there. Enjoy the journey with us.
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Episode 244: Childhood Trauma and Success in Life, Part 1
After a lecture by my son's headmaster wherein children are regarded by the Catholic Church as divine we say that wonderfully influences expectations of our kids which moulds behaviour and self esteem which is one of the main determinants of success in life. Andy my co presenter related this to…
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Episode 243 - Responsibility for progress , political correctness for stagnation and the end of civilization
Responsibility: Progress in any system is by trial and error. This is how nature works in evolution and how our children grow up through experiences and teaching. Models only work for specific unique situations. Eg laws of gravity , motion etc. in fact many scientific concepts. In fact even those...
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Episode 242: How to enjoy the pain and hard work necessary to succeed in life
All the great minds including religion tell us that if we are to progress in life we need to shoulder responsibility which involves hard work and pain. They don't make life sound too appetising with the partial exception of religion in which faith is innate . We argue that they miss out one of…
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Episode 241 Processing Blocks And Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD first defined in soldiers returning from the Vietnam War and officially recognised since 1980. The distilled essence which you won't find anywhere else is as follows: Similar to phobias there is a processing block causing an emotion logic gap: I know I should not feel like this but I can't...
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Episode 240 - An Appraisal Of Jonah Hill's Stutz By Dr Theo
Stutz Dr Theo I would be fine if I knew what direction to go in I would fly instead I become lazy . We also discussed the first step in therapy which is connecting with your internal energy You do that in 3 steps: 1: Diet exercise and sleep 2: Connecting with others as we are tribal 3: Connecting...
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Episode 239 - Where Are You From? How Not To Be Offended And Why It Can Be Used For Offence
"Where are you from" is considered a micro aggression. Of course in a harmonious society this is a reasonable question indicative of genuine interest. Indeed in a harmonious society to suggest any other motive would be nonsense. However it has become a problem for two reasons in this age of...
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Episode 238 - How Diet Fixes More Than You Could Possibly Imagine And Vice-versa
Gut Immune Body Brain Axis. Dr Gundry: Leaky Gut, gut microbiome and diet Renowned Cardiovascular Surgeon who realised that all he was doing was treating the symptoms so he studied the underlying causes. The lining of the gut is one cell thick As bacteria break down the gut that is when ageing...
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Episode 237: Midlife Crisis : The Reasons Nobody Talks About.
Eliot Jacks 1965 Mid-Life Crisis Paradox of prime of life fulfillment in life but seeing it as dated as death is just over the hill National Geographic 2012 Apes Have Midlife Crises, Too—And It May Help Them Middle age ruts may act as natural motivators, scientist says. BYAMANDA FIEGLNATIONAL...
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Episode 236 - The Weight Of Obesity
Not medical licensed advice . Always consult with your doctor: New Treatments For Obesity BMI: 25-30 : overweight >30 Obese WHO 2016 40% are over weight and 13% obese slightly higher in females . This is triple that in 1975 UK 2019 House of Commons Library 40% are overweight and 30% obese higher…
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Episode 235 - Depression The Commonest Cause Of Illness And Death . Are You Clinically Depressed Or Unhappy?
Depression: The most important thing anyone reading this needs to know is that everyone with depression will get better. The sooner you treat it the quicker and better the results. LIfe time prevalence 4%, in fact in the USA up to 10% struggle with depression. 280 million people world-wide suffer...
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Episode 234- When Is Anxiety A Problem? Because We Need It To Survive
Coaching: Anxiety Disorder: We all have anxiety, not only is it normal it is essential for survival, in fact as a caveman the more anxiety you had the more likely you were to escape predators and achieve survival needs. The irony is that in todays society it these people that suffer the most as...
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Episode 233 - Stress. More Lethal Than Any Pandemic Rising Quietly And Exponentially In Our Midst
Coaching: Stress: The key to stress is : control. If you have control you are not stressed, if you don’t have control you are stressed. Mental Health Foundation 2018 study: In the past year 75% had at some point felt overwhelmed with stress. Elderly less stressed than younger. Of those who were...
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Episode 232 - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - How We All Have Some And How To Cure It.
PTSD first defined in soldiers returning from the Vietnam War and officially recognised since 1980. The distilled essence which you won't find anywhere else is as follows: Similar to phobias there is a processing block causing an emotion logic gap: I know I should not feel like this but I can't...
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Episode 231: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Including Educational Law
FIrstly about 1 in 10 children have ADHD and about half will grow out of it leaving 1 in 20 adults with ADHD. The long term studies in adults have not been done but the oldest patient I have diagnosed and treated with ADHD was 68. There is a strong genetic component and it is almost certain that...
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Episode 230: The Reason Why Jonny Depp And amber Heard Are The Tip Of The Iceberg. Personality Disorder Part 2
The reason why Depp and Heard are the tip of the ice-berg Personality DIsorder Part 2 Personality disorders ie those whoes behavior is by nature consistently anti-tribal are this way due to a combination of nature (genetics) and nuture. They can be born this way or they can be affected by trauma…
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Episode 229 - Personality disorder: The Best Description And Explanation Currently Available
This is the best overview of personality disorder currently available as understanding the distilled rules of human behaviour allows us to analyse the patterns in the world around us with a clarity some may find challenging but most find liberating. We look at the current diagnostic systems and...
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Episode 228: The Reasons Why Covid And Ukraine Are Brothers By The Same Mother
We take a historical and macroeconomic look at patterns over the centuries that keep on repeating with the different players of various societies. Typically the life span of a society is marked by a slow start a rapid acceleration phase a plateau and a rapid drop off the edge. It's the same for...
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Episode 227: Stress Trauma Vitamin D3. Modern Life Is The Biggest Cause Of Excess Mortality.
Depression used to be the 5 th commonest cause of illness and death 25 years ago go and now it is the commonest we have not suddenly become genetically susceptible to clinical depression people are stressed and unhappy and are not designed for modern life The key element of stress is whether or…
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Episode 226 - Lessons Learnt In Therapy
It is a great privilege to discuss with my mentee Alexi the lessons he has learnt over the last 20 years with me. Firstly we all need therapy because it gives us self awareness. The purest our minds will ever be is the moment we are borne and after therapy. We are sensitive recording instruments…
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Episode 225 - 2021 According To The Reason For Now
The 3 contributors discuss 2021 and whether our predictions came true , the why and the how. Lessons to learn, wisdom for the future or just croissants and coffee amongst friends
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Episode 224: Freedom. The surprising Truth That Few Have Thought Of.
Freedom is one of those words that is used daily and the reason for many wars but as far as we can see there is no satisfactory definition of it. The dictionary definition of being free to do what you want (as long as you do no harm) is as Jordan Peterson puts it the 2 year old definition and...
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Episode 223: The Power Of Gratitude And Why It's Not Enough Even If A Ted Talk says So.
Christina Costa gives a wonderful Ted Talk on the power of gratitude and how practice makes perfect. However indiscriminate positivity is neither self awareness or practical as plenty of research has shown. Furthermore gratitude in isolation implies passivity which as long as you are happy is not...
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Episode 222: Scapegoating From Moses To Corona It Is Human Nature
Humans are still evolutionary cavemen where reflex anxiety reduction was necessary for survival. In our concrete jungle there no predators for us to escape from and no basic survival needs to occupy us. We are prisoners of our need to reduce our innate anxiety most of which traps us with cycles…
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Episode 221: Faith, will it be the end of us?
The human mind does anything to avoid or reduce anxiety. We have the ability to think of difficult questions but lack the intelligence to solve them. In order to achieve peace of mind we deal with this cognitive dissonance by making a best guess and as time passes we become ever more attached to...
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Episode 220: #Psychology Of #Diplomacy
Diplomacy is a skill that often takes years to teach. It is carefully crafted communication respecting the rules of the recipient. Diplomats get sent in to smooth feathers ruffled by politicians most of whom especially in the current UK government seem to care little for truth or integrity or...
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Episode 219 - Heaven And Hell Decoded
Every society has had some for religion at its core and Monarchy or dictatorship. Democracy has destroyed every society it has taken root in. God is "the word". Truth. There is nothing more powerful than truth. Logic. Hell is unregulated human emotion. Greed. Ecstasy. But the more pleasure you…
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Episode 218: The Story Of A Child Islamic Bride
Be inspired by Tahra who bravely and kindly narrates her story for us as part of her own therapy. We identify trauma and self esteem factors, different types of coping styles, self blame and ADHD symptoms but most importantly a happy ending. She continues to be the writer of her own story.
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Episode 217: The reason for now. Mental Health in Lockdown.
Mental Health in lock-down is actually an acceleration of the decline over the last 20-30 years. The Royal College of Psychiatry raised a sentinel flag that something was up with their defeat depression campaign in the 1990s. Since then even up to 2 years ago there are papers published in the...
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Episode 216: The reason for today.
We are a failing civilisation, we are on the plateau of the sine wave that defines the progress of most entities which develop grow and fail. So far we have followed it to the letter. Slow start, then sudden exponential growth followed by a plateau which is where we are now followed by…
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Episode 215: Imperial College have misled the UK. The two most important questions to ask yourself to improve.
Imperial College with the best minds in the world came up with two models about lock-down , applied one to UK data and the other to US data. The UK model shows lock-down saved 3 million lives -and published it in Nature and the US model shows it has no effect. If you apply the model sent to the…
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Episode 214: Corona vaccine truths, government insights, how to feel better quick.
We humbly ask you our audience to decide for yourselves whether practice is finally living up to the the old maim or at least heading that way with our latest podcast. As far as corona virus and vaccines are concerned we speak pure science and statistics although we do indulge in carefully…
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Episode 213: Act in Haste...repent with spongiform encephalopathy
Week 60 of flattening the curve... vaccines? Have 2 but still wear masks and restrict travel and pay £500 for PCR tests. Would you have believed this a year ago? Now a pharmaceutical company have come up with a fix for the clots caused by Astra Zeneca vaccine which has killed more young people…
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Episode 212: The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us?
The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us? What does this mean? Surely power to the people is a good thing? Really? In reality the more power to the people the more Marxist we become , the more politically correct and woke and the more homogeneous all groups have to become with any...
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Episode 211: Living for the Future or living for the moment ? Week 54 of flattening the curve...
We are all brain-washed from an early age into thinking that sacrifice now allows you to scale the peaks of enlightened contentment at some point in the distant future. And it is this sense of virtuosity that keeps on driving us through stress and loneliness robbing us of any sense of self...
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Episode 210 : Is Government or Social Media running the country?
For the first time in history a single idea can spin round the globe in seconds and form part of a global narrative. Unfortunately the fertility of the ground for each seed of an idea is inversely related to its veracity such that lies travel 6 times faster than the truth mainly because lies are...
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Episode 209: Does lock-down cause 3rd waves and more dangerous variants as well as a 200 fold increase in NHS waiting lists!
We discuss the evidence for lock-downs causing 3rd waves and more virulent and transmissible variants which will cause an endless feedback loop of need for vaccines. We also mention that fact that all corona vaccines have been released with a temporary 1 year license pending submissions of more...
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Episode 208: Biden? Trump is not looking so bad after all. Has capitalism raised the rights of the individual above that of society?
Nothing much needs to be said about President Biden and his sheer lack of activity and any kind of substance. Clearly making way for Camalla Harris to take over. The only elected official to refuse to salute the military. Good luck to you America. Trump is not looking so bad after all and he...
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Episode 207: If misoginy is a hate crime is missing out misandry discriminatory and therefore illegal by omission?
Misoginy is becoming a hate crime . However by omission then not including misandry (hate of men) is discriminatory and therefore illegal. In theory. Of course this simply gives women an excuse to be week and for the toxic elements to be offended and make complaints that occupy an already…
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Episode 206: Meghan Markle and Piers Morgan. Two wrongs don't make a right . Authenticity and abuse of power.
This podcast is about two things: authenticity and what you do with it. Put simply not only do you have to be authentic (and we posit that is Meghan Markle's deficiency) but if you are in a position of responsibility then authenticity comes with an understanding of your duty within that role....
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Episode 205: Should we be led by the science and should media choose the scientists?
This is an easy answer. Science is surgically narrow in its focus because it has to be exact. Therefore it is up to the leaders of the country to ask the correct questions for answer by the the correct scientists and indeed to consult different experts on the correct questions to answer. So far…
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Episode 204: Should the government be held accountable for acting out of fear?
We discuss why more people are finding this 3rd lock-down harder to cope with than those that have come before. We also explain that acting out of fear is no excuse for a complete loss of objectivity and professionalism. How would you feel if your elderly father spent the last year of his life in…
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Episode 203: The psychology of snitching and the common attribute between social media and Meghan Markle
We discuss why people snitch on their neighbours and of course it is all about empowerment and the ability to exert your position in the social hierarchy. The brutality with which you will do that is predicated by your own sense of inferiority and therefore chip on your shoulder once given that...
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Episode 202: How To Take The Credit For Nature While Causing Harm
We discuss Euromommo data of excess mortality and how it differs drastically between different European countries and ask the question whether the virus understands the concept of borders and passport control or whether there are other causes for the differences we see.
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Episode 201: The Consequences of lock-down. Is cure worse than the corona?
There is no doubt people have been dying over the last year and that most of these deaths have been labelled as corona with a corresponding drop in other cause mortality. However in many countries excess mortality has not exceeded some previous years. Indeed some European countries have seen flat...
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Episode 200: How herd mentality has nothing to do with reality and the risk to America after the elections.
The facts are as follows: Corona Virus has never scientifically been proven to cause any disease at all. Koch's postulates globally accepted for decades as being the pre requisite have never been fulfilled. The PCR test has never been shown to formally identify corona virus rather just a protein...
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Episode 199: How a narrative whether good or bad is more powerful than people or government.
There are multiple reasons why there is global hysteria over a common cold virus which the CDC states has a mortality under the age of 70 less than influenza. One possible one is media hysteria and social media hysteria forming an exploding narrative. This is then the popular belief through...
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Episode 198: Is it leadership or subjugation that is seeing us through this false positive PCR pandemic?
Everyone be very afraid as your civil liberties are eroded quicker than you could have possibly imagined due to lies and society and the way of life as we know it is destroyed. Forget Brexit deals there will be no economies to worry about. Maybe thats why an extension to the Brexit deadline was...
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Episode 197: Proof of Corona Herd immunity, Unnecessary lock-down potentially dangerous vaccines and Brexit chaos. Business as usual then !
Current publicly available Office of National Statistics Data of excess mortality including Corona show where there was a late or no lock-down around the world there were high initial peaks of excess mortality but now there are only seasonally normal rises in respiratory infections and deaths. In...
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Episode 196: Google Mobility Data versus Corona Virus Mortality. Lock down makes no difference. Surprised? Not if you are a regular listener
Corona update: The rate of acceleration of corona deaths was slowing and flattening BEFORE the first lock down. Google mobility data show that as people stopped adhering to lock down and after it was lifted death rate fell exponentially opposite to the rise in mobility. In fact no human behaviour...
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Humans flatter themselves with their complicated theories about themselves . Maybe it's a symptom of our craving for significance within the expanding universe. In reality we are cavemen and forgetting this is what complicates matters. Understand this and you can derive and predict the reason for now and the future. Enjoy.
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