The Amazing Concept of A Half-cation And How To Do It!

<p class="p1">This week’s podcast is about a concept that I believe I've invented, and it's called the half-cation.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">Think of vacation, get rid of the vac and add half. And that's what you've got. Half-cation!</p> <p class="p1">Recently. I read a book, <span style= "background-color: #fffc00;"><strong><span class="s1">Catching the big fish</span></strong></span> by the film producer, David Lynch, it's a marvelous quick read.</p> <p class="p1">In it, he refers to the value of <span class="s1" style="background-color: #fffc00;">transcendental meditation</span> and how it helps him find the big fish creatively speaking that have made such a huge difference in his life. So always eager to try things. I thought “that sounds like me”.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">I've dabbled in meditation off and on, but never transcendental meditation (TM), long story, but I got myself signed up and wow the first two days, I have never felt so tired in my life. So tired. In fact, that when I went to the premiere of the James Bond, latest movie, I fell asleep. Dead, out to it and I have been hanging 3 years to see this movie, I love James Bond.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">All I had done was dedicate two sessions of 20 minutes to TM and it knocked me out.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">When I told this to my TM teacher, she told me this was a normal response because of the stress in my body.</p> <p class="p1">Stress? What do you mean stress?<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">Sure enough, after a few more days of TM, I’m back to life, I obviously needed that break, that mental break to remove the stress.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1">On reflection, because of COVID, it's been two years or so where I've basically been flat out just doing stuff and haven't had a break. I imagine a lot of you are in a similar circumstanc