It can feel disorienting when everything is upside down. But not much changes on Earth when things don’t feel upside down.

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/10/05/why-weirdness-in-the-world-is-good/

When the autonomic nervous system is stuck in a state of tension, collapse, or a mix of both as a result of chronic stress and/or stored trauma, true healing can’t happen.

Or, as Joe puts it: “When you're in survival, your body prioritizes survival, not rest and repair.”

Energy gets diverted to scanning for threats, worrying, and pumping out stress chemicals like cortisol and adrenaline — leaving little for real recovery.

That's why, even if you’re doing all the “right” things like food, exercise etc, you can still wake up exhausted, anxious, and burned out.

https://youtu.be/c9A7Pazln-s?si=OF6YDlfRsak26or2

"This is the hijacking of public consciousness. It brings us into a polarized, divisive, and stressed out state that can make us short sighted and reactionary. Prolonged, we feed this chaos back into our society and it becomes a perpetual loop."

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/10/23/how-to-not-get-sucked-into-the-stress-of-the-us-election/

What do you think of Maté's perspective here?

He has changed his mind on a controversial issue that's close to him. Of course his entire position cannot be summed up in this clip.

An inspiring story for today. With a meaningful reminder at the end.

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/10/31/14-year-old-wins-americas-top-young-scientist-for-inventing-pesticide-detector-for-fruits-and-vegetables/

Having a resource to settle anxiety is different than stopping it from happening at it's core.

Nonetheless, this is a helpful resource :)

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2016/09/01/neuroscientists-discover-a-song-that-reduces-anxiety-by-65-percent-listen/

"A 2004 paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, suggests the clear betting favorite in the month before the election has lost only twice, in 1916 and 1948.... do you know who the betting favorite is?"

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/02/us-election-predictions-may-surprise-some/

What's your take on lab grown meat?

(Grown from real animal cells, not GMO. But is it natural?)

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/03/italy-officially-bans-the-sale-of-lab-grown-meat/

Would love to hear from you...

No matter who wins the US election, how will you continue to make the world a better place?

When conversation about renewables vs fossil fuels comes up, we always thunk about what's really out there...

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/09/free-energy-when-to-believe-the-unbelievable/

As we race to continue to develop more and more places for people to live, we would benefit from considering what design would help humans thrive.

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/12/want-to-build-healthier-cities-make-room-for-bird-tree-diversity/

"These skills also feed into greater aspects of health like nervous system regulation. Here, we begin tuning back into what it means to be human and levels of inner peace that are truly our birthright. This state of being also begins to change the lens through which we see the world. Instead of it being a scary dangerous place, or a place where we should have no hope, we can tune into possibility, curiosity, and creativity."


https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/20/interoception-the-little-known-sense-that-shapes-our-wellbeing/

It's a far out idea, not one we could see anytime soon, but to explore the elements of it and notice the ways in which we even resist ideas like this is a useful exercise. What's in the way of imagining a new story?

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/20/how-a-future-without-money-could-work/

"As we push the edges of science and philosophy, we may find that consciousness isn’t just something we have—it’s something we are. And that realization could transform not only how we see the world but how we live within it."

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/21/science-as-we-know-it-cant-explain-consciousness-but-a-revolution-is-coming/

"Jung defined a synchronicity as meaningful and causally related correlations between outer (physical) and inner (mental) events. A good shorthand is meaningful coincidence. The coincidence is between external events and inner meaning that matches those events in some way or was inspired by them."

https://insights.collective-evolution.com/2024/11/12/carl-jungs-synchronicities-is-there-meaning-to-this-experience-that-makes-us-question-life-2/