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

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Speaker 1: she might not be getting enough sunlight in the dead

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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 tai chi No.

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Speaker 1: She 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 Amantha Immer. 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 lisaly On about how kigong 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 like I

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Speaker 2: basically do tin things. But this is the fifth and

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: of tai chi. I mentioned that I find hard to

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Speaker 2: do meditation sitting down cross legged, so this is a

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Speaker 2: practice that I do to basically stretch my body and

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

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Speaker 2: since June. I used to do tai chi, but now

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Speaker 2: I'm doing chigung, and I have noticeably made a difference

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Speaker 2: to my headspace I feel as a result 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 I learn from a master, yes practitioner, And

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

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

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Speaker 1: have noticed a difference in just how like your personality.

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Speaker 2: Almost Yeah, I was. I think i'd lost my joy

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Speaker 2: actually at the beginning of the year, and sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 2: I spoke about being stuck in our heads. I knew

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Speaker 2: I was stuck, but I felt like a prisoner. I

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Speaker 2: could not get out, and I was really stressed, and

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Speaker 2: I was feeling really sort of I was moping around

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Speaker 2: and not myself, and I couldn't buy a hack my

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Speaker 2: way out, Amantha. I'd really tried. I tried everything, and

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Speaker 2: I was stuck. And there I read this book and

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Speaker 2: it was in January about a guy called Robert Ping.

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Speaker 2: Now he's an Australian citizen. Actually, so what happened was

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Speaker 2: Robert Peng I was in China and former Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Bob Hawk happened to be visiting as a diplomat and

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Speaker 2: got injured, and so Robert Peng sort of helped him,

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Speaker 2: and Bob Hawk was so amazed. He said, actually, my daughter, Susan,

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Speaker 2: she's been sick for seven years, bedridden, kind of like

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Speaker 2: my story bedridden. Can you help? So he flew Susan

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Speaker 2: all the way to Robert Ping in China. Robert Pen

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Speaker 2: worked with her for six months and basically she was

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Speaker 2: able to walk again and get her life back. She

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Speaker 2: flew back to Sydney and not only was she healed,

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Speaker 2: but she looked younger, and so all her friends thought amazing.

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Speaker 2: And Women's Weekly did a story on Robert Peng and

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Speaker 2: the fact that Susan Hawk looked younger, and so he

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Speaker 2: became super popular. They flew him out to Australia and

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Speaker 2: he lived in Australia for a long time and taught

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Speaker 2: she gon in Australia. But unfortunately I missed that because

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Speaker 2: he went to New York, and so I decided there

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Speaker 2: and then, and this is part of my you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes I do these things. I thought, I feel like

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Speaker 2: I need to go to the US to spend ten

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Speaker 2: days learning chigong from Robert Pan and I did. And

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Speaker 2: do you know what?

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Speaker 1: It was?

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Speaker 2: In the middle of the week. Kamantha 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: I hope you enjoy this little quick Win episode today.

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

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