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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep18 Optimise Your Brain Chemistry with Meditation
In this podcast we interview Belinda Matwali. Belinda is a spiritual meditation and inner work mentor and guide. In her words she "works with people to help them to connect with their essence, make peace with their self limiting beliefs, and lean into the magic of their highest potential".
In this episode of the Chief Psychology Officer, we (Angela Malik and Dr Amanda Potter) will talk to Belinda about the importance of meditation and nutrition and its impact on wellbeing and performance. We will also look at the relationship between psychology, neuroscience and meditation and the difference between meditation and mindfulness. Finally, we have a few tips and recommendations to help you get started to try meditation.
The Chief Psychology Officer website is now available https://www.thecpo.co.uk/ Please like and follow Zircon for more podcasts and articles at https://www.linkedin.com/company/zircon-consulting-ltd/
If you have questions or would like to speak to Dr Amanda Potter please contact her via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon or via email: TheCPO@zircon-mc.co.uk
For further infromation about Spiritual Meditation and Nutrition or to contact Belinda please go to https://www.listenuptherapy.com/ or https://www.belindamatwali.com
Timestamps
Meditation & Nutrition
· 00:00 – Introduction to Meditation & Nutrition
· 00:28 – Why should we touch the sun and eat the earth?
· 01:17 – Belinda Matwali: Career History
· 02:55 – Acceptance of Meditation
· 03:16 – Not strictly taught on its own
· 04:01 – Listen Up Therapy
· 05:53 – Why is this so important?
Nadi
· 07:44 – The science to perfect nirvana
· 09:00 – Dopamine & Serotonin
· 09:29 – This seems to make logical sense…
· 10:22 – The Levels of Meditation
· 11:11 – Master of your own body & mind
· 12:48 – Connect with the past
· 13:55 – Active Meditation & the 5 Senses
Dharma
· 15:01 – An idle mind is the devil’s plaything…
· 16:35 – Prajna & Mindfulness
· 18:03 – Nutrition
· 19:16 – The gifts of the Earth
· 20:34 – I wanna be healthy, but I just love food!
· 21:17 – Nirodha
· 22:11 – (Not so) Cruel Intentions
Dhatu
· 23:18 – You’re feeling sleepy…
· 25:16 – Exercise
· 26:06 – Gotta love that Neuroscience!
· 27:00 – Neuroplasticity
· 29:18 – Watch where you work…
· 30:10 – Where do I put down my mat?
Namaste
· 31:57 – Tips for taking up Meditation
· 33:15 – Joining up to Listen Up Therapy
· 34:17 – The end.
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