Hello friends,
This week I heard something so powerful.
Andrew Huberman, the Stanford neuroscientist, was recently featured by Stephen Bartlett talking about one of his top five most shared moments about the brain. Huberman said:
“Love and excitement and appreciation are very strong stimuli for changing the brain.”
You can hear it here at 32:10.
I love this because it’s both scientifically grounded and deeply human. For years, psychology focused on fear, trauma, and what’s “wrong”. But neuroscience is now catching up with what many of us feel intuitively:
The brain doesn’t just change when things go wrong. It changes fastest when things feel right.
When you feel:
- Loved
- Interested
- Inspired
- Appreciated
- Curious
- Connected
your nervous system becomes more plastic, more flexible, more open to learning.
That’s why moments of joy, insight, beauty, music, nature, and meaningful conversation can quietly reshape who we are, sometimes much more powerfully than long hours of struggle.
And this connects very directly to what I’m building next.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been developing a new format that sits somewhere between:
- a retreat
- a festival
- a therapeutic, nervous-system reset
- and a deep, gentle adventure into being more you
Think:
- Small groups
- Beautiful settings
- Hypnosis, music, conversation and connection
- Time to slow down, feel, reflect, and reconnect
- A space where love, curiosity, excitement and appreciation are deliberately cultivated
Not as “nice extras” but as the core technology for change.
Because if Huberman is right (and he is), then:
The fastest way to change a life may not be through pressure, but through presence.
So I’d love to ask you something.
If I were to run:
- a half-day retreat
- or a one-day immersive experience
- or a small weekend gathering
focused on calm, confidence, connection and positive change, and taking you on a journey through understanding, experience, transformation and integration…
Would you be interested?
No commitment yet, just a sense of curiosity.
You can reply with:
- “Yes, sounds lovely”
- “Maybe, tell me more”
- or even just a ❤️ if it resonates
As ever, thank you for being part of this growing, thoughtful, quietly powerful community.
With warmth and appreciation,
Adam
PS Happy New Year by the way!
