Dr. Emmett Miller explains that election stress stems from disinformation campaigns using "attention engineering" to trigger fear and anxiety, which shuts down clear thinking. He recommends limiting news exposure, focusing on the present, and maintaining healthy habits to stay grounded.
Hi, this is Dr. Emmett Miller. I've just received a question over social media that's a question I've heard many times over the past few weeks. Why is it that we're feeling so much stress about this election? After all, the stress isn't helping us. Stress is here to help us deal with an immediate threat to our life, like something that's going to kill us within the next 10 seconds if we don't act. And so it's not useful to us now, but why are we feeling so much of it? Well, you're probably feeling stress too. Of course you're feeling stress. You know why? Because you've been experiencing the greatest disinformation campaign in history. Brilliant minds using mass hypnotic techniques and mind hacking strategies shoveled into our brains by the internet. Their goal is to whip into a frenzy the monkey mind of each of us, the limbic part of our system, the place that our emotions come from, the paleocortex, the part of us that evolved 500,000 years ago. And it's very confused by what's going on now. And their trick, all of those attention engineers out there that are working on us, is to make us feel insecure, to make us feel frightened, to make us wonder about what's going on. They give us disinformation, and it makes you wonder if this person is— this candidate is operating a child trafficking ring and is a secret cannibal, or if other, other person out here will trigger an armed revolt if he doesn't win the election, or on and on and on. These are the stories that come through, and we believe some of them. Maybe we don't believe any of them at the conscious level, but they are affecting us at the unconscious level. Take it from a hypnotherapist, that's what's going on. Why are they doing this to you? Because when you feel insecure, you cannot think. Insecurity, fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, resentment, hatred, all of them inhibit good cortical functioning. That means you can't analyze well, and you cannot create, you can't strategize. So you're a sitting duck. Then they sell you their product. Then they sell you their candidate. Then they sell you the fear that they want you to fear, because you will continue to tune into their channel and continue to vote for them. Stop. Relax. Bring your awareness into the moment. Don't be tricked. Don't give him that power. There's nothing you have to do right now but take care of yourself. Love your family and your friends. Recover from the stresses of the recent weeks. Eat well. Exercise. Pray. Be in touch with what you believe in, your highest place of guidance within. And ask that wisdom within you, "What is it wisest for you to do right now?" Turn off the internet, turn off the TV, close the newspaper. Spend a little bit of time checking into what's going on if you want to, but don't expose yourself to all of that. You know, as I described so many times in my webinars, There's a very secret trick that they're using. Don't expose yourself to it. Be calm, be yourself, be wise, and be ready. There will be an answer. There will be a decision. There will be a reaction, and you will know about it, and then you will be able to use your rested wise, intelligent mind to respond effectively and efficiently.
