Visualizing a New World: The Surprising Importance of This “Simple” Act

It is so easy to fall into despair with the current state of the world. News is coming at us with shock-horror after shock-horror, on repeat. Some of this bombardment is focused on desensitizing us, and wanting us to feel isolation, despair, and overwhelm so that we can continue to be controlled. Our nervous system is not meant to process the volume of the news that we are assaulted with. And even those of us with best intentions can get looped into the news as though we are watching an active train wreck. It’s got the gravity to put us into fight/flight/freeze/fawn (and you can learn more about what to do with that here). It is likely also having many of us wonder about reality, conspiracy, and what kind of a world we are leaving for our children….