Shari B. Kaplan explains how constant news about global crises keeps you stuck in fight-or-flight mode. She offers three concrete tools: regulate your nervous system, focus your mind on the present moment, and do repair work to restore emotional balance.
And I think that when we have so much global chaos going on, that's when people start getting stuck in fight or flight by scrolling through social media, by being on the news and seeing all this. And that can be very overwhelming, but it can also get us stuck in that fight, flight, or freeze response. I think that we have to help patients scale things down to being aware of our impact globally, but what's happening right here and right now, and how do I get in this present moment? And where do I find my points of power in this moment? And so we really need to be teaching people about how to regulate their body's fight or flight and how to focus their minds and how to do the repair work.
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