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The speaker is recording their first podcast in response to a request from Jerome on the New Buddhist Forum. They talk about the connection between the mind, body, and spirit, explaining that everything that happens in the body affects the mind and vice versa. They mention that some people naturally slow down and speak more carefully as they develop, while others, like Uri Geller, use techniques like speaking soothingly to create a certain image or persona. The speaker emphasizes the importance of using appropriate and empowering language. They also mention their own experience of reframing their speech in a positive way. Overall, they hope that their message is helpful to Jerome and others. Hi everyone, this is my first rant or my first podcast. I'm doing it really for Jerome on the New Buddhist Forum. He says he's going to listen, so this is for him. He's already familiar with my voice. We did, as we joined the COVID thingy, the lockdown, we did a chat over Zoom, I think once, maybe only once, anyway we did, so he will know that it's me. That's how we can verify things through voice, one person knowing another. Anyway, what I wanted to talk about is the relationship between the way that we are in mind, body and spirit. The thing is the mind and the body are one, and you begin to understand this, you begin to understand that everything that happens in the body affects the mind, everything that happens in the mind affects the body, the two are interlinked. The spiritual element comes in and you start to slow right down. Now some charlatans or people who are not very developed, they either do this naturally, because that is a degree of development, it's something that you go through, you do slow down, you do tend to think more carefully about what you're saying, and you will want to say the right thing, especially if you're dealing with a number of people, a great number of people, you want to use the right words that are appropriate to them. So this will happen naturally, you will slow down your methodology and your way of talking. But what some people do, and I can give you two examples of that, but I'll only give one, some people will do this. Uri Geller was basically a mentalist, in other words a type of magician or conjurer in Israel, and he eventually decided that he was, well he started saying that he had actual magical powers and he was in contact with aliens and all kinds of weird stuff, which a lot of people fell for and they believed in, because it was an interesting thing to do. And later on, and he's still around, he's never admitted that, because he's a good magician, he doesn't give away his tricks, like David Blaine, he doesn't give away his tricks, people find them out, they know how they're done. And what he did is, I remember listening to him, he either had a radio show or he was on a radio show, and he started to talk very soothingly and very quietly. That's something that he's learned to do, that's something he's decided to do as part of an act. And if you're acting, if you're acting the part of the great guru or the great teacher, you're an actor, you're a performer, you're not actually somebody who understands how that comes about naturally in certain situations. So it's very important that speech, and this is one of the techniques we're using here, speech, speech will become more careful. I spent two years where I refused to use the word no. I would never use no. And eventually I realized the relevance of that. You use language that is appropriate to the situation, but at the time it seemed that to only reframe things into positive ways of speaking, into positive words, encouraging and empowering words, was actually a useful thing to do. And so that's something that I did at that particular stage or that particular phase. So these things are quite natural, and then you move on from that, and you find that there is great wisdom just in any speed of speech, any type of speech, when it's understood, when you're trying to help, when you're trying to empower and engage people in a useful way. Anyway, that's for Jerome, and I hope it's useful, Jerome, and I hope other people find it of some use. Okay, that's all from me now. Bye now.