#31 First Aid Kit for your Brain Fitness

Ep 31 Between the Ears - first aid kit
Welcome, I'm Arnold Bekus and I enable you to have a better life between the ears, because your inner state creates your outer reality. Today's topic is what I'm calling a first aid kit, a first aid kit to help you with your brain fitness. If you have troubles with your mood, you're not feeling good, you're not feeling having any energy, you're like, yeah, really feel negative.

Here are a couple of suggestions. You can do them all. I don't expect that, but you are invited to do them all anyway, over the course of maybe a few weeks, but I invite you to just pick one or two and apply them today in your life and I'm sure that you will feel better afterwards.

So we're going to start with this first aid kit. Number one is stop watching or reading news and focus on learning something. You don't miss anything today if you don't watch the news, whether it's the news on social media, on TV, on the radio, whatever, you don't miss anything.

And if there's something really worthwhile, someone else will tell you. And most of the news, 99% is focused on creating fear, anxiety, and making you feel lousy. So instead, because you save a lot of time, start learning something.

And it doesn't have to be something really complicated, can be a simple thing or try a new recipe out of your cooking book or learn one new word in another language. Or when you walk in the street, look at the butterfly and check out what the name is of that butterfly. The second one in our first aid kit is stop meeting toxic people and connect with inspiring people.

Sometimes, well, we have to, because they're our parents or any other, or our bosses, but most of the time, we have been out of habit meeting people who are always complaining, always looking at the glass half empty, always like, oh, you say, oh, it's nice weather. I think it's going to rain. So stop meeting with those toxic people, basically as far as possible, because in some cases it's not possible, but remove them out of your life, remove them out of your timeline and connect with inspiring people.

And connecting doesn't mean you have to meet them in person. There are so many people who are writing or making videos who are extremely inspiring. The third one is stop focusing on either the past or the future.

Why? Well, the past is gone. You cannot change it. It already happened.

And the future is going to happen and you don't know why. So it's a waste of your time. The main thing to do, and it's not easy, is to be present now.

Focus on the now. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? Where's your attention? So be present now. The next one is stop being a victim and start being creative.

We are very used, and many people in our environment use the same, is to be a victim. It's like, oh, this happened to me. And yeah, these things always happen to me.

I feel really, really sad. Why is it always happening to me or whatever? It's like we always have a victim. Stop being a victim.

Start being creative. Create something today. Something you can do.

And not scrolling down there and looking with other creative people. You are creative as well. Create something, anything.

Make a drawing. Make a new dish today. Write a nice text.

Take a picture of a tree with nice blossoms. Next, stop saying that you can't change. Be the change.

We all know, and we have met, and maybe we ourselves have said it. Oh, that's just the way I am. That's what some people usually say about their personality.

That's just the way I am. I cannot change. I've been like that for years, and that's the way it is.

No, it's not true. From a neuroscience point of view, it's called neuroplasticity. Your brain can form new connections basically the rest of your life.

So be the change. The next one is stop comparing. Comparing yourself with other people basically.

It really, really makes you feel that. Because these other people always look better, have more, do more, are more interesting, have better friends, good-looking friends, whatever. Well, by the way, a lot of these pictures are photoshopped, so they're not real.

And I tell you, a lot of these so-called successful people feel lousy. The outside might look nice, but the inside is not nice. So instead of comparing, focus on your own uniqueness and use your uniqueness.

What is unique about you? You are unique. There's nobody like you in the world out of these 8 billion people on this planet. So figure out what your uniqueness is and use it.

Stop consuming violence. People are like, oh, I need to relax. What are you going to do? Watch a horror movie, read a thriller, or watch news where there are protests and the police and they're fighting with each other.

Stop consuming violence. Because that violence impacts you. And appreciate beauty.

And again, it doesn't have to be a cathedral or something in your neighborhood. Well, you don't live in such a neighborhood. No.

Again, it can be the green new sprouts and leaves out of a tree in your street. It can be a beautiful cup or vase, which you kind of ignored all the time, but is in your household always. So appreciate beauty.

And the last one is stop rushing. We're always rushing. Oh, I got to do this.

I got to do this. I got to do this. I got to move this.

I got to move. I got to read this. There's no rest anymore.

So slow down. Like I said, nothing will happen to you by not following the news today and tomorrow and the day after. And don't say, oh, I got to see this.

I got to watch this. No, you don't. Take a nap.

Slow down. So this is the first aid kit. Pick out one of the topics which you would like to apply now in your life.

And watch the change. And then another day, use another item of the first aid kit. Everyday beauty.

We conclude each day with some examples of everyday beauty. Because beauty, and especially moral beauty, kindness, courage, compassion, is a very positive influence on your inner state. Here is something which is happening in Germany.

And they're using drones which are saving hundreds of fawns, this young deer, from mower death. And that's happening in Germany. We tend to read in warfare and terrorism, they all use drones.

But these drones, which every spring they use to help newborn deer, what is happening is that these newborn deer, they're hiding motionless in tall hay fields and meadows across Germany. Relying on their camouflage and instinct to stay safe from predators. But that same instinct makes them invisible to farmers operating mowing equipment.

And thousands die in agricultural accidents every year. So volunteer teams have begun using thermal imaging drones to scan fields at dawn, before the morning dew burns off, and before farmers begin cutting. When the temperature difference between a fawn's body and the cool grass shows up clearly on the camera.

So when a drone operator spots a fawn, a ground team moves in to carefully relocate it to a safe area nearby. Often they're using grass or leaves rather than their bare hands to avoid leaving human scent that could cause the mother to reject it. And the fawn is returned to the field once the mowing is complete.

Volunteer groups across Germany have used the method to save hundreds of fawns each season, a number that continues to grow as more and more farmers and volunteer teams adopt the technology. And this approach has spread to other countries facing the same seasonal problem, with conservation groups citing it as a low-cost, high-impact way to protect wildlife without slowing down agricultural operations. Remember, we need your uniqueness.

Be a better maker. For yourself. For others.

For the world.