The Art of Active Relaxation: Sir John Kirwan
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Rates of burnout are soaring, and a reason for that is the huge volume of inputs we have. So what to do? Here with a few ideas is Sir John Kirwan – the All Black great who was knighted for services to mental health
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| 0:00.0 | rates of burnout are soaring and a big reason for that is the sheer number of inputs we have |
| 0:11.2 | so what to do well here with a few ideas is sir john kirwin the all-time all-black great |
| 0:17.3 | who was knighted for services to mental health. |
| 0:30.8 | I had a medical depression. I've been on antidepressants and we need to start putting a fence at the top of the cliff, not an ambulance at the bottom. And so I think that, you know, when you |
| 0:35.5 | talk to me about a daily mental health plan, so, you know, I went to my mum and said, Mom, I'm dead. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm walking around. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm living, but I'm not living. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm dead inside. |
| 0:52.0 | And she said the good thing about your dead boy is you are still with us. |
| 0:58.5 | So you need to start a game. |
| 1:00.2 | Because when I was really unwell, Simon, I wanted to find, I wanted the JK back, you know, |
| 1:06.9 | the guy that's running out on the football field and, you know, running around the field with utmost confidence. |
| 1:12.9 | And so I had this big picture of what wellness was, but I didn't really know what it was. |
| 1:18.1 | And the interesting thing is that mum said to me, you need to smell the roses, right? |
| 1:24.0 | And we've heard that saying a million times. |
| 1:26.1 | But what I translated it into was if I am dead, |
| 1:31.6 | I need to have something to look forward to every single day to keep me alive. |
| 1:35.7 | And that on day one after talking to my mum was a shower, right? |
| 1:40.9 | And so the shower, if you think about the last time you've had a shower most people in the shower |
| 1:48.2 | are thinking about the past or the future and I was no different so what I decided was that I'm |
| 1:54.1 | going to spend that three minutes or four minutes in the shower and I am just going to enjoy it for |
| 2:00.4 | what it is the the hot water running over |
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