The other day I came across a quote, I guess this was about a year ago, that started to radically change the way I thought about how I want to engage on things like social media, with people who are very argumentative and combative, you know, with political opinions that I might disagree with, with conversations

on social media platforms, conversations about the pandemic or the virus or, you know, the jab

or whatever else it might be that comes up. And it seems like we as a culture have started to get

lost in this hyper combative,

oriented way of being, that we are constantly living in this reactive state.

You know, you see somebody post something online that you disagree with.

And boom, you're reactive, right?

Your nervous system is engaged.

You're attached to it.

You're in fight, flight, or freeze mode. Maybe you want to

check out all together and so you numb out or maybe you become combative and you want to fight. And so

you, you know, you start drafting up this message or, you know, you think how ridiculous is that and

it consumes your thoughts. And later on in the day, you know, you post something that you think is sort of contrary to what that person's opinion you saw or read hours before.

You know, this is sort of like this attempt to disagree with them, but not actually do it directly.

You know, I mean, there's so many different ways that we

as human beings have become hyper argumentative and hyper combative and incredibly reactive

to everything around us, because as I've talked about in the past, you as a human being and

your nervous system aren't meant to interact with the amount of external

stimulus that you do on a daily basis. You know, your body, your mind, your emotional body,

your psychological makeup and your nervous system are not designed for the amount of information

that you take in on a daily basis. You know, if you spend 30 minutes

on social media, you're going to see hundreds of different opinions, perspectives, beliefs,

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