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Scrolling through social media is something people do when they feel anxious.

Why? Because they're using what's on their phone to distract themselves from the uncomfortable feelings in their body.

The irony is it usually just makes you more anxious

to see other people seemingly perfect life.

What else do people do?

They vape, they drink, they play sports bets.

All these things are ways to escape.

And so when you understand that at its core,

anxiety is an alarm that is hardwired in your body to make you wake up and what it's asking you to do is to give yourself a little bit of love and reassurance right now.

If you know that what that

discomfort's about is really a need for love and connections, give that to

yourself in that moment. That's it. You have two nervous systems, sympathetic and

parasympathetic. I think about it like the wiring in your wall. So Lewis

has these light bulbs behind us, right? What's fueling that? Electricity. There's

wiring in there. If we were to flip the switch off, the wiring would still be

there. What's happening when you feel stressed out or you have unresolved trauma or you've just lived through a pandemic and you have

on resolved trauma or you've just lived through a pandemic and you have not turned the light off is that the lights on.

What we need to do as a society is find the switch and flip it off.

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