Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? It's a little bit of a, uh, I feel bad saying that

sometimes also being a little upbeat when the world is going through what it's going through,

but we can hold two opposite emotions at the same time. The dialectics, that is the world. Multiple

truths can all coexist, believe it or not. In fact, there's an entire

theory, DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy that is rooted in that holding the tension of opposite.

It's very young, Ian, but that's what we need to do, you know, look in one direction. We see and we feel

and we acknowledge all the pain, the darkness, the grief, the loss that's happening. And at the same time, we have to

hold space for what's in the other direction, which is some really beautiful, joyful things that

are co-occurring. And it's about attending to both, making room for both. Neither one would be

more real than the other, you know, and the world is often like that. I was doing some reading. I'm always doing a lot of reading. It's funny when people

like, what did you do this weekend? I'm like, I read. I did a lot of things. I got out into the

world. I battled the heat. Saw some friends, hiked. It was a whole bunch of stuff. But I was

kind of looking at a lot of neurology and really trying to weave it into my own work.

And, you know, we talked about this a little bit on the show when we would talk about

happiness and how it is that we really bring that into our lives.

And I was sharing about the fact that our brains are really geared towards negativity.

It's a protective mechanism.

It's an evolutionarily built-in protective mechanism

where we really need to be more aware and really install negative events for, you know, safety.

And so our brain doesn't require much for a negative or bad event to be encoded powerfully.

However, positive things, eh, not so much. Our brain doesn't really

need to remember and hold on to positive things. But yet it does for our mental health. But

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