All right, here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Welcome one and all, new person, and returning friends.

I appreciate you choosing to listen today.

If you were here last week, I'm very happy to report that the pain flare-up that I was grappling with has subsided. I'm feeling a lot better. I will add that

the way that that came about wasn't because of any particular exercises or asana or

retraining my movement patterns.

As far as I could tell, at least in this instance,

really comes down to shifts of perception and states of mind.

And maybe some spirit, which we'll talk about later.

We'll talk about that some today in my conversation,

and maybe on the other side I'll mention something about that more.

But I am feeling a whole lot better,

and that process of getting myself to the right mind state and perceptual lens where

I'm not in pain, that really for me has been about trying to find an attunement to the natural rhythms of things. And I'm shocked to hear myself use that

language because those of you who know me for many, many years ago, I would have never said

such a thing, attuned to the rhythms of nature.

But here's what I would say.

There's a couple of things I've been doing,

which some people might think of as kind of like hacks,

like biohacks, but I don't think of them that way at all.

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