Okay, you did it. You decided to hit play. And here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Welcome to anyone who's new today,

thanks to all who have returned.

How are you holding up?

And I believe that is the appropriate way to frame it.

Sure feels like an onslaught of information and no-win situations, doesn't it?

I have been very selective about how much of it I'm taking in. I mentioned last week that I hit a point where it just got too much

and I had to completely shut down. This week, I did a much better job of finding more of a balance

and just really limiting how much of it I'm taking in. It does mean giving myself other things to do. I need

things to occupy myself with.

I continue to work out in the back. I'm waiting on some hardware I ordered for the gate,

so it's a little bit on hold, but lots of other little projects around installed a solar porch light.

Whatever I can do to be outside with the sun on my skin and occupying myself with

something other than screens and news media.

It makes a huge difference.

I feel a lot better

for having limited my access

to these more often than not toxic influences.

Very often the media that is coming into our eyeballs when we go online and

Google shit and go on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, it's not helping.

It's not giving us useful information or actionable information that's educating us

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