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Speaker 1: Lisa Leong doesn't do things by halves. If she's worried

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne winter, she goes out and buys an infrared

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Speaker 1: desk light, and if she learns cold therapy might be beneficial,

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Speaker 1: she jumps into a sub zero cryotherapy chamber. So when

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Speaker 1: the ABC broadcaster started feeling a disconnect between her mind

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Speaker 1: and her body, she didn't just start practicing key Gong,

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Speaker 1: a meditative martial arts practice similar to tyche No. She

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Speaker 1: wanted to learn it from the master himself, Robert Peng.

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Speaker 1: Lisa shares why she felt compelled to learn key Gong

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Speaker 1: and what she learned from Robert Peng and how it

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Speaker 1: helped her find peace and presence of mind. My name

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Speaker 1: is doctor amanthe Imber. I'm an organizational psychologist and the

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Speaker 1: founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium. This is how I work,

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Speaker 1: a show about how to help you do your best work.

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Speaker 1: On today's quick Win episode, we go back to an

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Speaker 1: interview from the past and I pick out a quick

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Speaker 1: win that you can apply today. In today's show, I

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Speaker 1: speak with Lisa Leon about how qigong transformed her emotional

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Speaker 1: and mental health.

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Speaker 2: The last thing that I do well of this, like

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Speaker 2: I basically do ten things, but this is the fifth

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Speaker 2: and final one that I'm going to share with you

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Speaker 2: is a practice called four Golden Wheels, and that is

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Speaker 2: part of my chigung practice. So chigong is like a

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Speaker 2: cousin of tai chi. I mentioned that I find it

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Speaker 2: hard to do meditation sitting down cross legged, so this

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Speaker 2: is a practice that I do to basically stretch my

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Speaker 2: body and get myself back into my body. I've been

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Speaker 2: doing that since June. I used to do tai chi,

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Speaker 2: but now I'm doing chigung, and I have noticeably made

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Speaker 2: of this.

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Speaker 1: I remember you telling me after it because you'd gone

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Speaker 1: to America hearn from a master yes practitioner, And I

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Speaker 1: remember you saying when we caught up after that that

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Speaker 1: people close to you in your life, your family, have

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Speaker 1: noticed a difference in just how like your personality. Almost Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: I think i'd lost my joy actually at the beginning

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Speaker 2: of the year, and sometimes, you know, I spoke about

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Speaker 2: being stuck in our heads. I knew I was stuck,

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Speaker 2: but I felt like a prisoner I could not get out,

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Speaker 2: and I was really stressed, and I was feeling really

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Speaker 2: sort of I was moping around and not myself, and

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Speaker 2: I couldn't buy a hack my way out, Amantha. I'd

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Speaker 2: really tried. I tried everything, and I was stuck. And

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Speaker 2: there I read this book and it was in January

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Speaker 2: about a guy called Robert Ping. Now he's an Australian citizen. Actually,

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Speaker 2: so what happened was Robert Peng. I was in China

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Speaker 2: and former Prime Minister Bob Hawk happened to be visiting

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Speaker 2: as a diplomat and got injured, and so Robert Peng

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Speaker 2: sort of helped him, and Bob Hawk was so amazed.

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Speaker 2: He said, actually, my daughter, Susan, she's been sick for

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Speaker 2: seven years, bedridden, kind of like my story, bedridden. Can

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Speaker 2: you help? So he flew Susan all the way to

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Speaker 2: Robert Ping in China. Robert Pen worked with her for

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Speaker 2: six months and basically she was able to walk again

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Speaker 2: and get her life back. She flew back to Sydney

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Speaker 2: and not only was she healed, but she looked younger,

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Speaker 2: and so all her friends thought amazing. And Women's Weekly

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Speaker 2: Susan Hawk looked younger, and so he became super popular.

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Speaker 2: They flew him out to Australia and he lived in

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Speaker 2: Australia for a long time and taught chi gon in Australia.

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Speaker 2: But unfortunately I missed that because he went to New

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Speaker 2: and so I decided there and then, and this is

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Speaker 2: I thought, I feel like I need to go to

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Speaker 2: the US to spend ten days learning chigong from Robert

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Speaker 2: Pan and I did. And do you know what?

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Speaker 1: It was?

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Speaker 2: In the middle of the week. Amantha and I had

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Speaker 2: been walking through this flower garden to get to the

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Speaker 2: Chigong hall every single day, and on that day, it

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Speaker 2: was a Wednesday, I saw this cute be dancing on

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Speaker 2: in between these flowers, and then I realized, I'm back

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Speaker 2: because I noticed.

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Speaker 1: want to pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging.

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Speaker 1: How I Work is produced by Inventium and hosted by

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Speaker 1: me Amantha Imba, and a big thank you to Martin

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Speaker 1: Imba who did the audio mix and makes everything sound

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