A podcast segment arguing that meaningful change often emerges from crisis and should be approached responsively rather than reactively. The speaker contrasts reactive behavior with the Lakota council's deliberate, respectful listening practice and advocates cultivating nervous-system awareness and community as the foundation for constructive change.
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Real change rarely comes in the absence of crisis. And that speaks to so many different levels within us. Like when we're comfortable, there's no real deep emerging drive. Something compelling us to really analyze the bedrock upon which we rest. And that change that comes out of crisis, a lot of the times it's done. For most people, it's in a panic move. It's reactive. It's not the difference. There is like a reaction is somebody does something that irritates you and you lash out. And then afterwards, you balance yourself and you're like, okay, I'm sorry. That was reactive. Responsive is what the Lakota would do when they would sit in council and everyone would speak. They would speak one at a time. And when one was done speaking, nobody would immediately hop in. There was no interrupting. There was a breath. Everyone would take one breath before speaking again, out of honor, saying, like, we do this to show that I heard you, to make sure that you're done, and to also show I heard you and I processed a bit before speaking again. If we. Not if we. Because it's definitely possible we have access to our nervous system. You can speak to your nervous system like it's your best friend. And in fact, we should. And when we come into a better relationship with our nervous system and acknowledge that some things seem very urgent, like, we need to do something now, but in what state do you want to start creating the next step? Do you want to do it in sympathetic nervous system or parasympathetic? And so for me, the crisis period that we're in is the perfect set and setting to begin moving in the right direction, which to me is community. And it's reaching out to like minded people and allowing people to speak authentically and not feel ashamed for feeling or believing in certain things. To me, like, we're. We're all in this together. And I have no clue why this. What superpower these people glean from believing things different than me. So I'm like, let's all come together. Let's powwow. Let's. About what's good about this, Sam.
