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Thursday, 24 October 2024

How To Not Get Sucked Into The Stress of The US Election

 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>>>...