TOPIC - CHANGE
Major change to the podcast - Mercedes is leaving :(
Change is hard. We all know that. But why?
The unknown - We like to know what’s coming up. Change pretty much means unknown
Inherently anxiety producing
Vagal brake is very much needed for change
To handle the anxiety of the unknown playfully, curiously
Need social engagement system
Otherwise the unknown is looked at with evaluation
Flight energy = anxiety, handled with evasion
Fight energy = threat, handled with aggression
Shutdown lack of energy = resigned to it, ‘accepting’ of change, lack of belief in creating change
Safety in knowing, even when it’s painful
Knowing what it’s like to be depressed, who you are versus who you will become
The experience of climbing the ladder is scary/uncomfortable
Shutdown to sympathetic is scary
New energy, not knowing cognitively how to handle it
Not having the tolerance to handle it, a bodily knowing
There’s familiarity in shutdown
The surge of new energy can feel like panic/dying
Sympathetic to safety is scary
Getting reliant on that edge of fight energy
Has been means of survival, letting go of it might feel like literal vulnerability
Being in the ventral state is anxiety producing at first: new eye contact, new proximity
Need to be curious of the process, not the result
The podcast is the process, not the result
Just curious about where it goes next
Drawing is about the process, not the result (for me)
The experience of it, getting lost in the imagination or the shapes or the lines; just feeling it
留言