Speaker 1: Oh hello, welcome to Healthy She. You're a daily podcast
Speaker 1: from Body and Soul. I am your host, Felicity Haley
Speaker 1: h get ready to feel and be inspired after this chat.
Speaker 1: I'm joined today by Lisa ran now Now she is
Speaker 1: obsessed with inspiring humans. The author, podcast and motivational speaker,
Speaker 1: joins us today to discuss mental energy and the mindset
Speaker 1: and beliefs that can lead to a more inspired you.
Speaker 1: She has a new book out it is called Energy,
Speaker 1: and she brings a lot of energy into this podcast today.
Speaker 1: If you like what you hear from Lisa, listening to
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Speaker 1: all things energy, physical, spiritual, and emotional, you can catch
Speaker 1: that wherever we get your podcasts. Lisa, welcome to Healthy Ish.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me so lovely.
Speaker 1: That you're in here, and especially I have to say listeners.
Speaker 1: She is wearing beautiful bright colors of yellow. Immediately makes
Speaker 1: well makes me feel energetic.
Speaker 2: I love yellow. When we yellow, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: the sun. Like someone needs to be the sun to
Speaker 2: date's me absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now talk to us about mental energy. I love this concept.
Speaker 2: What does it feel like?
Speaker 1: What is mental energy?
Speaker 2: So mental energy has a lot to do with how
Speaker 2: we think and our beliefs, and it comes from like
Speaker 2: our intentions. And I think inspiration is one of the
Speaker 2: biggest keys in mental energy. So who inspires you? What
Speaker 2: are you inspired by? What are you doing that lights
Speaker 2: you up?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: All of those things, And we don't think about our
Speaker 2: head diets. We think about our physical diets more and more.
Speaker 2: But it's like, what are you putting in your head?
Speaker 2: Who are you watching? What's your social media feed? Like,
Speaker 2: what are you you know? Who are you inspired by?
Speaker 2: What music are you listening to? What books are you reading?
Speaker 2: So all of those things go into your head diet
Speaker 2: and they change how you feel and how you think.
Speaker 2: And I think if you you know, and all that
Speaker 2: attitude stuff like if you if you think the world's horrible,
Speaker 2: you're right, the world's horrible. If you think the world's lovely,
Speaker 2: you're right, the world's lovely.
Speaker 1: Isn't it just when you were saying, you know, people
Speaker 1: who inspire you an inspiration, it's just such a lovely feeling,
Speaker 1: feeling inspired, And often we can get so caught up
Speaker 1: in the minutia of life and the overwhelm and the
Speaker 1: mental less and everything else that we might see, well,
Speaker 1: I'm probably speaking about me here that I think, Wow,
Speaker 1: when was I who? Like, when did I last feel
Speaker 1: that shot of inspiration?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And I think I'm always seeking inspiration. I read
Speaker 2: a lot of poetry. I love going to the movies,
Speaker 2: you know, I love watching documentaries about real life people
Speaker 2: doing amazing things. Blows my mind. So it's like, and
Speaker 2: I constantly seek that because I have this hunger for inspiration.
Speaker 2: I love watching You're just interesting people and interesting and
Speaker 2: there's so much out there. But it's really hard to
Speaker 2: find an everyday life because you're just getting up, putting
Speaker 2: your pants on the shopping It's you know, it's not easy,
Speaker 2: and you've got to really look a look for it.
Speaker 2: You've got to seek it out.
Speaker 1: I'm putting it on spot here. But have you watched
Speaker 1: any lately? Have you there any inspirational people that you've
Speaker 1: come across that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I watched Phil Starts as documentary called Starts
Speaker 2: on Documentary on a surrow Netflix, and he's extraordinary, Like
Speaker 2: he's living with Parkinson's, he works with famous people, he's
Speaker 2: so grounded. He's created these amazing tools to help people
Speaker 2: be better. And it's like he's so inspirational and living
Speaker 2: with Parkinson's is so huge. You watch them in the
Speaker 2: documentary and he blows my mind that he's doing that
Speaker 2: work under really difficult physical conditions of his own body.
Speaker 1: I love I love interviewing and also watching sportswomen. I
Speaker 1: find them incredibly inspiring, just their determination and great and
Speaker 1: the way they have a goal and they just will
Speaker 1: reach it and get there. And so I'm very looking
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the Olympics coming up. Talk to
Speaker 1: us about the mind diet. How does this all work?
Speaker 2: Well? I think having been conscious of what you're putting
Speaker 2: in your head, like what's going on? Everything you put
Speaker 2: into your head has an impact. So it's like, are
Speaker 2: you putting something and are you watching things that are
Speaker 2: really sad? Are you? You know? I don't watch the news.
Speaker 2: I'm not. My brain is just not trained for that stuff,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to know what's happening out there.
Speaker 2: I'm quite happy in my little bubble. And I think
Speaker 2: you've got to choose. And if you've got what I
Speaker 2: call a soft head where things really impact you, then
Speaker 2: you should be very careful of what you watch and
Speaker 2: even your social media feed, like you know a lot
Speaker 2: of people say, oh, I hate social media, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I love social media because my social media is curated
Speaker 2: by me and it's full of gorgeous things, and it's
Speaker 2: full of happy things and lovely things, and anyone who's
Speaker 2: negative or does awful things, I'm like, no, no, off,
Speaker 2: you go unfollow immediately. I'm very discerning with my social media.
Speaker 1: So what does it look like? What does your feed
Speaker 1: look like?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just beautiful things. Like I love Instagram because
Speaker 2: to me, it's just my own magazine where I get to,
Speaker 2: you know, have all these beautiful things. I love TikTok
Speaker 2: because it's hilarious and there's so much fun out there
Speaker 2: and kind of short shart bursts of hilarity, which I
Speaker 2: just find really fun. Yeah, I really enjoy it, but
Speaker 2: I think you've got to be in charge of it.
Speaker 2: And people say, oh, you know, they compare themselves. I'm like,
Speaker 2: if you're playing the game with I'm not as good
Speaker 2: as her, I'm not as it's just get rid of
Speaker 2: that person. If that person's doing your headden literally, just
Speaker 2: get rid of them.
Speaker 1: Follow all the just follow all the European accounts from Switzerland.
Speaker 1: I started doing that.
Speaker 2: De Max my new papers. You're beautiful, den marks the
Speaker 2: same Danish things. There's something about Danish things. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, like I've never been there, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: And it's like when you follow beautiful things, you get
Speaker 2: more beautiful things. You follow negative things, you'll get more
Speaker 2: negative things. And people winging and you know, whatever you're
Speaker 2: whatever that you're watching, you'll get more of. And I
Speaker 2: think life's actually the same. Life has an algorithm, and
Speaker 2: if you're you know, if you're committed to your problems,
Speaker 2: you'll see them everywhere.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that view of life having
Speaker 1: an algorithm. How can we become addicted to our problems?
Speaker 1: You write about this, I mean it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Russell Brand one of the first people
Speaker 2: I read about that. It says this that the biggest
Speaker 2: addiction in the world has problems. And I think most
Speaker 2: people just quiet there. We all just want some attention.
Speaker 2: A lot of us didn't give enough attention as a child,
Speaker 2: So everyone's looking for attention and so they whinging, wanting
Speaker 2: to all especially women. Most women just want someone to
Speaker 2: go you're amazing, and you go, oh wow, thanks, because
Speaker 2: you know I'm busting my ass here like I'm doing
Speaker 2: everything and when was the last time someone said to you, Wow,
Speaker 2: you're amazing? And I don't think we hear it enough.
Speaker 1: And so love that little tip.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're amazing.
Speaker 1: Is the should go and text someone we know that's.
Speaker 2: Just go you're amazing, tell them that they're amazing. I
Speaker 2: had to train my husband to say to me, you're amazing,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, how did you do that? That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's called fate listening. So I had to train him
Speaker 2: because I have so many words and he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a lot of words. And I said, when I come
Speaker 2: home at the end of the day, I'd like you
Speaker 2: to just listen, and there's no test afterwards. I don't
Speaker 2: even care if you're not really listening. Just stand there
Speaker 2: and facilitate my words. So I need you to go
Speaker 2: ah m ah every time I speak for a few sentences,
Speaker 2: and then I want you to go they must have
Speaker 2: been really hard, because often hard stuff happens every day,
Speaker 2: and I go, yeah, it was, thanks for noticing. And
Speaker 2: then at the end, I want you to go, you're amazing,
Speaker 2: and I go thanks, and it works. And my eldest
Speaker 2: son hurt us one day and he was like, Mum,
Speaker 2: he's not even listening to you. And I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't care. I don't actually need him to listen. I
Speaker 2: just need to be facilitated and I need to feel understood.
Speaker 2: And I think we wing and look for drama because
Speaker 2: we're desperate for someone to go You're amazing.
Speaker 1: We just I mean, at the core of being human,
Speaker 1: we just want to.
Speaker 2: We all want attention. We want to know we matter.
Speaker 2: We want to know we matter, and we want attention
Speaker 2: and we will unconsciously do anything to get that attention.
Speaker 1: At home, dump as I call it with my house
Speaker 1: one hundred, like when you get home, you're dump and
Speaker 1: then you pease.
Speaker 2: Your dump and I'm like, just for train the dump,
Speaker 2: Like this is what I need, so I feel.
Speaker 1: So give us a few little tips about how we
Speaker 1: can boost down mental energy today.
Speaker 2: So I think your mental energy first of all, just
Speaker 2: give yourself a rest. When's any time you're silent? I
Speaker 2: think we stuff so much into our days. So now
Speaker 2: you know, people go for a walk, and you know
Speaker 2: podcasts obviously a fantastic but do you need to listen
Speaker 2: all the time? Like have you got are you always
Speaker 2: got something in your head. Do you ever have a
Speaker 2: moment where it's completely silent and you're just noticing the
Speaker 2: things around you? You know, we walk down the street
Speaker 2: taking phone calls, we drive on the phone, we're listening
Speaker 2: to podcasts, we're watching shows everywhere we go because now
Speaker 2: everything's on our phones. And I think having some space
Speaker 2: just to go, oh, I find the shower is the
Speaker 2: only time where life is quiet and I'm alone, and
Speaker 2: it's like giving yourself some kind of alone time just
Speaker 2: to go, wow, how am I going? Am I okay?
Speaker 2: How's my body?
Speaker 1: Whatsore?
Speaker 2: What needs help?
Speaker 1: What? You know?
Speaker 2: How's my head? Do I feel really bamboozled today? So
Speaker 2: I think giving ourselves space is incredibly important. And find
Speaker 2: time to be delighted, just to eat something in silence
Speaker 2: and go I had this amazing meal last night and
Speaker 2: I had this beautiful beef to tacky and it was
Speaker 2: just like oh oh, And I was sitting with the
Speaker 2: freedom I see, can we just not talk for a moment?
Speaker 2: Can we just like oh? It was like wow, like
Speaker 2: you know, the sensations and we're just yabbering and we
Speaker 2: go so fast and we're stuffing everything into our mouths
Speaker 2: our ears, our lives. It's like, just slow down.
Speaker 1: I love those two tips, you know why, because they're
Speaker 1: not it's slowing down to boost energy. It's not doing
Speaker 1: something to boost energy. It's actually the reverse, the yin
Speaker 1: to the yang.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I do a lot of restorative yoga, which
Speaker 2: there's no bend thing involved. It's just sleeping in a blanket.
Speaker 2: My children think I'm a yoga expert. No, no, I just
Speaker 2: sleep in blankets and it's fantastic. And just giving yourself
Speaker 2: a lie down, letting yourself lie down like for seven minutes,
Speaker 2: or just sitting with your eyes shut in the car
Speaker 2: and breathing, or putting your feet in grass, like really
Speaker 2: small things, but they make I call them pockets of
Speaker 2: perfect and they make a huge difference, huge difference.
Speaker 1: You sound like you're a little sorted, Lisa. Thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on Healthy Ish. Oh. Lisa's new book is
Speaker 1: called Energy. I will leave a link to it in
Speaker 1: the show notes. If you feel energized after this chat,
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