Turn the stress app off!

As I watch the political conversations I am convinced that for many of us it takes us into our survival response or stress response. Now, since I have been a student ,now a teacher of this phenomena of stress, it’s effects on the body and brain, this is not healthy for me or any of us.

When we are in this state of either high activation or low activation our nervous systems become imbalanced. We either have our foot on the gas pedal, so to speak, or the brake.(using the analogy of a car). This creates great wear and tear on our hearts and brains. Not really loving to myself.

So for me, when I am listening to these politicians I am working on being “neutral”. At times I can do this pretty easily, other times not so much. It depends on how “attached” I am to my point of view. What I do know is that when I can access this state within myself I can access higher brain states. When this happens my body calms, I stop the cortisol dumping, switching over to hormones that actually renew and regenerate me. My brain actually comes out of the limbic system into the higher brain. I have just empowered myself to have perhaps a different perception, one that could be more viewed from a loving heart.

Rumi once said “there is a field beyond the right doing and wrong doing” I will meet you there.

So, let’s try to meet each other there more often, yes?