How To Feel Alive

The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast

Richard Nicholls

Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Education, Anxiety, Happiness, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Help, Psychology, Alternative Health, Counseling, Counselling

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Send us a text Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Or as Albert Einstein once said "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Today is all about my 5 tips on a more enthusiastic life! That and a massive rant at the end about mental health priorities in government policy making, sorry! Become a patron of the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/richardnicholls Subscribe to the newsletter for free extra episodes and ...

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0:00.0	And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development
0:08.4	podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.
0:16.5	I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 178.
0:21.7	It's titled How to Feel Alive.
0:25.1	And if you're ready, we'll start the show.
0:30.3	Happy February! It's a whole new month. Here we are again.
0:34.7	January seems to have dragged on a bit, if you ask me. But, well, it's a new
0:39.2	month now, so I is back. And I'm revisiting something that I was talking about on a patron-only
0:45.8	episode last year that a few patrons asked me to go into again and make it public so that
0:51.5	everybody could have a listen. And it's about enthusiasm, how to feel it,
0:55.7	how to generate it. And it all goes back really in my mind. About 15 years ago, a clinic that I'd not
1:05.8	long started work at. I had a bit of a staff party in the car park. And I took my wife along to meet my new
1:12.6	colleagues. And halfway through the afternoon, I overheard someone ask my wife a question, because
1:18.5	I'd gone off to grab a drink or something. And as I wandered away, someone said to her,
1:23.8	is he like this at home? And I thought to myself, what do they mean?
1:28.3	Am I like what?
1:30.3	Because I didn't perceive that there was anything particularly unique about the way I came across.
1:35.3	But over the years, there have been quite a few variations on this question.
1:40.3	Occasionally somebody would say,
1:42.3	are you always like this? Or on rare occasions,
1:46.6	like a couple of weeks ago, what's wrong with you? Or as an Amazon audible reviewer in the US,
1:53.7	said last year, couldn't listen long enough to give a proper review, he's too happy in an
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