Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Why Your Body Panics Over Bananas, Not Tigers #substack #shorts

8 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Phil Powis explaining that the human nervous system is designed to activate for existential, life-threatening dangers, but often responds similarly to minor, modern triggers (the "bananas" example). The speaker urges listeners—especially entrepreneurs and those pursuing passions—to discern whether a felt nervous activation signals a real threat to wellbeing or is instead resistance or another non-existential trigger, and to slow down and reassess when triggered.

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Your nervous system is designed to activate when you're in existential danger. That's it. That's when it's supposed to activate. When you're, when your life is being threatened, that's when it's supposed to activate. All your wife asks is where are the bananas, right? So in that moment you can go, okay, I'm being triggered by something more than meets the eye here. My body is starting to act like I'm being confronted by a tiger on the Serengeti, but I can just go get bananas, right? And so that's when we have to start to slow down and say there's something more going on here. And I think when it comes to pursuing our passions and our business vision, we can ask ourselves, am I experiencing a legitimate nervous system activation to an existential threat to my wellbeing or am I being triggered by something else going on here? And if it's something else going on, usually resistance is a part of that.