How we feel about our current moment is much more in our control than we
think. Below I will share an exercise to help with this.
Sure, our environment and how much chaos there is can produce a destabilizing and disorienting feeling within us.
Palestinians
walking about as the threat of a bomb that could end their life is an
immediate threat. They are in a true war zone and it makes sense that
their body reacts as such.
But the cultural “warzone” we drum up
around politics and long-term policy decisions is not the same thing.
Yet if we are not careful, our biology will react as if the cultural
warzone is as serious as the daily life of Palestinians right now.
This
is the richness of the human experience and the reality that indeed our
current situation does affect our biological entity and our mental,
emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Welcome to Earth.
But
as the world does indeed become more chaotic, our ability to regulate
our stress physiology and not have it become our baseline becomes very
important.
Why do some people become so stressed out by the state of the world while others, who are also in the know, do not?...<<<Read More>>>...