Supernormal Stimuli and Our Lizard Brains.
Living in this modern world when we're built to deal with tigers can cause lots of stress and anxiety.
Stress used to be beneficial (oh fuck a tiger... run), but nowadays we deal with the tigers in our minds. Finances, Work, Finding Purpose and Meaning, Being Bombarded with Stimulus, Psychedelic Fascism as Stanley Kubrick called it.
I want to share this comic by Stuart Mcmillen. It's perfect.
Great comic no?
I think time spent in nature is a healthy antidote but maybe it isn't easily accessible to some. A more inclusive solution would be deep breathing.
Take a couple minutes out of your day and simply enjoy and be fully aware of your breaths, count them, smile, feel the life oxygen provides you, exhale your stress and breath in tranquility.
We live in crazy times, where everything can seem so bleak at times but we have our minds. So be aware of Supernormal Stimuli, give yourself a break and breath.
Thank you for reading this post. Infinite Lovewaves.
Wow, that's a great illustration of a point. Thanks for sharing!
I think we live in the best time ever to be alive... we just need to tune out the noise more. That's the problem. Having a phone in your pocket that buzzes almost immediately after every tragedy in the country or even the world can't be good for mental wellbeing. Being informed is one thing, but being constantly attached to the news can be another thing altogether.
The same technology that makes life confusing is also what makes this the most comfortable time for most people to be alive, in the first world anyway. The very poor have amenities in 2018 that the very wealthy lived without in 1918.
It's better to take the good with the bad and focus on the positive, I think. What we need to do is adapt to the new, modern world we're living in.
Here's a saying I wrote down once to help me disconnect from the online world:
PRETEND NONE OF THIS EXISTS.
Go for a walk, without your phone. Don't take photos of everything, especially meals. Just live life like you don't have constant access to everything online. It's freeing.
WOW this was a great read!!!
That was a great read @soundwavesphoton, and right up my alley. Have you got a cat? there's this great "reptilian brain experiment" you can do with them:
Thanks Swoop!
Great comic ... and btw licks paw ...RUN!
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I really enjoyed reading that. It certainly gives a person something to think about. Overcoming instinctive actions instead of acting on them.
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