Greetings.

We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.

I saw a New Yorker cartoon a while back and Tarzan basically is stepping out of the

hut and he says to Jane, sure is a jungle out there.

And it is what keeps coming to mind to me that for so many these current times it feels

jungly out there and in here.

And I'm wondering how many of you can relate to that just before I keep going.

Okay, just don't like being alone in these things.

But yeah, to acknowledge right from the start that many more than maybe normally in a

collective way are living with a level of uncertainty and fear and upset and distress

that is very palpable.

And the tendency when we get stirred up and this is for all humans is that we actually

go into what you might think of as a habitual jungle mentality which is our stress reflex

which basically is to we get anxious or upset, we start fixating on the future.

That's one big one.

We try to sense where we can throw blame as to what's wrong and there's a kind of polarizing

that goes on and it's happening now.

It's just we're in jungle mentality and even the New York Times today said, you know,

basically posed it as to America's.

Mostly what we're doing when we're in stress reactivity is we're trying to find certainty.

We're trying to find some ground again and everybody in every article, everything is going

...