Brighton and Sussex Medical School

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You should have popped in for our lunch break at Brighton Sussex Medical School.

You could have got us all in one fell swoop.

Oh, that would be awesome.

And so I started to kind of think a lot more about this and started to talk a lot about it uh became a bit of a special interest for me um uh and then started to write about it which was really kind of a bit of a leap in confidence and to put my my ideas and my passions out into the world but the more I write the more it kind of fuels the passion and engages people with conversation like yourself um to the point where um a few years ago I co-authored a book on the subject called psychedelic assisted EMDR therapy and memory consolidation approach to psychedelic healing.

Um, and then at the end of that, I felt like I wasn't quite finished.

So I, um, I, uh, started a, um, a PhD and some doctoral research, um, at Brighton Sussex medical school.

So, um, I've always, uh, up until this point worked, um, on clinical research trials, doing other people's research.

When you listen to natural soundscapes like rain or ocean waves, you are triggering evolutionary mechanisms that run very deep in the human brain.

Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School found that natural sounds directly affect the bodily system that controls the fight or flight response.

Unlike artificial noise, which can keep your nervous system vigilant and alert, nature sounds build up what researchers call the rest-digest response.

Your parasympathetic nervous system activates, reducing sympathetic activation.

It becomes a problem when it stops you believing in yourself, when it stops you taking action, when it keeps you small, it keeps you down and it keeps you quiet.

There is a small UK study from Brighton and Sussex Medical School published this year.

Only five ADHD students took part.

So it shows us what this can look like.