How to Bring the Good Times Back

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have heard about the mind-body connection, but have you ever tried sense-memory therapy?

Martha recently lost her sense of smell to a sinus infection, and instead of worrying that she'll never get it back, she's trying sense-memory therapy—she holds her favorite pine-scented candle close to her nose while relishing the memory of smelling that candle.

Recalling positive sense memories creates connections in the brain that reinforce positive, joyful times instead of fear or anxiety, and that's what Martha is talking about in this episode of The Gathering Room.

Martha believes this methodology can help with every aspect of life—from physical ailments to social anxieties to financial struggles and more—and literally bring the good times back!

We can even touch into the memory of what it was to be pure spirit, completely unafraid, and create brains that can go to the place of no suffering, deep wisdom, and the peace that passes all understanding.

Want to learn how? Tune in for the full episode, where Martha will also guide you through a powerful Space, Silence, and Stillness meditation to help you drop out of matter and connect with the deepest sense memory. Join her!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:08.3	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.2	So welcome, welcome to the Gathering Room.
0:12.6	It is, you will hear me cough.
0:14.7	I've been coughing for the last several days.
0:19.3	And I also, I do not test positive for anything gnarly, but I have lost my
0:27.4	sense of smell and taste. I don't know if any of you have had that delightful symptom.
0:33.7	It's a, it's not something I've had before. And when I was reading about how it happens to some people,
0:40.3	I thought, boy, if I got that, I hope it doesn't happen to me.
0:45.3	Well, it did.
0:46.3	So here I am without a sense of smell or taste.
0:50.3	And I'm thinking, life is less fun without a sense of smell or taste. I'm sure those of you who've
0:56.1	gone through the experience would agree. And it can happen that even after one gets over infections,
1:04.4	the sense of smell and taste do not come back. So I have been researching how I can make this come back even when my sinus is ever clear,
1:15.6	which is an open question at this point. And I found that was an interesting thing. And it connected
1:24.6	with a lot of other stuff that I've learned about the brain and neuroplasticity and the
1:30.2	connection between the body and the brain. We think culturally about the body being something
1:35.8	physical and separate, just an object and then the mind and cognition being something airy-fary
1:42.2	and neurological, yes, but not that connected to the body.
1:46.6	Well, if you want to get your sense of smell back and yours is gone and you are no longer
1:52.2	hacking and coughing as I am, one thing they recommend is that you get something you like to
1:58.1	smell like a lemon or I have my favorite pine-scented
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