Lindsey Burwell explains how living in a toxic environment—contaminated water, polluted air, chemical products—keeps your brain in constant fear mode. Your nervous system can't tell the difference between a predator and a toxic lotion, so your body stays contracted and defensive, unable to heal.
I went through a season where it was like everything was toxic. The water, the air, like there was no perfect product. It really creates scarcity and contraction in the body. How do you expect your body to be in alignment and experience vitality when it's in a state of fear? Our brain doesn't know the difference of fear, whether we're being chased by a lion, which is primitively why we would have fear in our body, or if we're just scared because our lotion has toxins in it. Our brain doesn't know the difference. It just knows I feel fear, I see fear, therefore there's a threat.
