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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”29 October 2019 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂 ———————-
Go on…………..
What’s the next line?
“I feed the pigeons. I sometimes feed the sparrows too”……………..
————– Calling Rich to get this as he gets most of my dated references. Go Rich! ————-
“It gives me a sense of enormous well-being”
From the summer 1994 smash hit Parklife by Blur.
“All the people. So many people”………….
You know the one.
Right at the start of the big Brit Pop battle of Oasis vs. Blur.
Peaked the next summer with Roll With It and Country House being released on the same day.
—————– In Rotherham, where my wife went to school, Blur were, apparently considered to be the cooler band. Madness! ————-
For a bonus point, who remembers which band (along with Pulp) rounded out the ‘Brit Pop Big Four’?
Anyway, I’m digressing.
Feeding the pigeons apparently gave Damon Albarn “an enormous sense of well being”.
Which is great.
Probably served him better long term than the intra-venous hit of “wellbeing” he references in “You and Me”.
Because that what different sources of ‘wellbeing’ do.
Some give us a net gain.
Some a net loss.
As a species, us humans like to make ourselves feel better.
To change our ‘state’.
And that’s cool.
Been that way for a long time.
We’re not going to get very far trying to use willpower to fight that.
But we can change the methods we use to shift our state.
To ones that serve us better overall.
We get that certain foods, drinks and alcohol make us feel better.
They do the same for us.
People wouldn’t bother if they didn’t.
So do things like social media, TV, gossiping, recreational drugs and much more.
And, up to a point, most of these things are fine.
Until they aren’t
It’s when they give us that ‘net loss’ that we, perhaps, need to rethink.
Not to leave ourselves in that ‘less good’ state.
But to find state shifters that give us that ‘net gain’.
Exercise.
Meditation.
Sufficient sleep.
Journaling.
Time with friends and / or family.
Walking.
Hot bath.
A nap.
Any other stuff we enjoy doing, that makes us feel better in the short AND medium and long terms.
You get the point.
Stopping doing things that make us feel better isn’t the answer.
Finding other things that have the same (or, at least, enough of the same) benefit, perhaps is.
Find your equivalent(s) of replacing heroin with feeding the pigeons………….
Something that fills you with enormous (or, at least, enough) wellbeing…………
And you’ll be Good (Song).
Much love,
Jon ‘Charmless Man’ Hall and Matt ‘Beetlebum’ Nicholson
P.S. If you’re fed up of an approach that picks you up by 20% but then drops you down by 21 (and that really adds up over the years)………………. Then tomorrow night is our monthly find out more meeting. Check it out (and, you know, get booked in and then turn up) at myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
