The Existential Chef

Most of what weighs on us is not the situation. It is the story the mind builds around it. The Existential Chef explores what happens when we become curious about how our minds shape the lives we experience.

Dr Pradeep Ramayya, the person behind The Existential Chef, trained as a doctor and has spent four decades at the boundary between body and mind — in anaesthesia and intensive care, then as chief executive of a health-technology company, and now as an author.

Each episode is a conversation between the Chef and Aria, his sous chef. The subjects range widely — flow states, the stories the mind builds, the small conflicts that accumulate as physiological load, what happens to a golf swing when the grip loosens — and they keep returning to the same four bearings: Authenticity, Resonance, Insight, and Awareness. The ARIA Compass, at the heart of Live Lightly. Unhurried, practical, and grounded in what the brain is actually doing.

Learn more at www.TheExistentialChef.com