In these challenging times, we may think we have a lot of decisions to make. And we can agonize over those decisions and feel tremendous regret if they don’t work out the way we hoped they would.
But it’s almost impossible to make rational decisions when the future is so unpredictable. Past experience doesn’t provide a road map anymore.
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I’m very very constrained these days.
And those same constraints also are providing opportunities for me to shake up my routines, innovate, and come out of this with a better, more integrated life.
How can you benefit from the constraints that are currently imposed on you?
Many of us are bored right now, in lockdown or sheltering in place.
We can paper over our boredom with mindless consumption, or we can use it to begin a process of profound healing.
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Glenn Murphy returns to the podcast in the nick of time, to help understand, manage, and overcome stress reactions and symptoms in this time of fear, lockdown, and uncertainty.
He shares an evolutionary perspective on why this pandemic produces stress responses unlike other typical stressors, and offers exercises, solutions, and mindsets to help us get through and build our resilience along the way.
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It’s easy for me (and I guess, a lot of us) to focus on the negative these days. I’m reminding myself daily to look for things to be grateful for – and finding them!
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In these strange times, we have an opportunity to remember what is essential, and what is fluff. Who are we really, and how can we carry that realization forward once we attain a new equilibrium?
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In a world in which we have virtually no control, how do we assert control in a useful way?
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Now is not the time to indulge in crappy food choices, even though we may be stressed and cooped up and grieving.
We have an army inside us – our immune system – that does its best to keep us safe. Now’s the time to feed it well.
We have an opportunity to find new sources of dopamine, of joy, of connection.
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