We don't want to forget that negativity can also be a toxic experience.

In fact, you could even make the argument that it's more toxic of an experience than forcing yourself to be a little bit more

positive about it. And that's from a psycho physiological perspective, right?

Because negativity implies that to some degree you're experiencing distress.

Distress means you're experiencing fear, it means you're experiencing maybe sadness or anger or even things

like boredom are considered to be distressful.

And how the body responds to distressful emotions

is it releases very toxic chemicals in the nervous system.

And this is what initiates what they call the fight-flight reaction,

which is where the body interprets fear, sadness, anger, as you are under attack by a predator that's trying to kill you.

So the stakes are extremely high under the influence of those stress chemicals, the fight or flight reaction.

And so automatically within, you know, a split second, everything in your body starts

to get rearranged, the priorities change from whatever the long-term survival functions

happen to be, such as reproduction, hormonal balancing, digestion of food, etc. And everything gets rerouted to preparing the body for battle.

Hey friend welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and I have

conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary

leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose,

or what they've identified as their mission in life.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

The goal of these conversations is to expose you to as many people as possible

who've found their path and to humanize them through their story. And after hearing story after

story, hopefully, eventually you give yourself permission to move

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