1. Feeling stressed? Do the physiological sigh. Big breath in, short breath in, big sigh out.

2. Feeling anxious? Go for a walk, when you walk your eyes naturally scan from side to side which deactivates your amygdala, and relaxes the body.

3. Are you feeling Sad? Acknowledge your feelings, validate yourself and then move your body to release endorphins.

4. If you're feeling impulsive or angry, look out of the window, but don't look AT anything, dilate your gaze, or zone out, this blunts noradrenaline, so you can think clearly.

5. If you have low motivation, focus intently on one sopt on your screen for one minute and ignore everything else pupillary convergence increases focus.

6. If you're feeling insecure, write down your strengths, as the logic systems override the limbic system.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, here's some things that help, , journaling, writing down what you're grateful for, going out in nature, breath work (wim hof), go for a drive or move your body with dance etc. This can help you sooth those emotions and regain balance, so those emotions aren't filling up the whole screen and you can see around them again, and find ways to help yourself in the moment.

Credit: Anna Akana, Dr Nicole A. Tetreault.

Firstly, I'm sorry for the emotions, my childhood turning point evokes. The pic is an example of mine. I wasn't going to include it, but I feel like it gives a good visceral example of deep messages in movies (of course actual philosophy, and non emotionally devastating examples apply, too). I just watched a clip on a study on some elderly men, taken to a time warp hotel, and asked to pretend it was that time, and it had huge positive effects on their physical capabilities and mental capacity. And it reminded me of the power of hope, it's not just embedded in the happy ending, where everything works out ok. Or the promise of it. Hope is also the core of resilience, necessary for driving each step that carries you along the yellow brick road.

I'll share mine here, so you get an idea what I'm asking. I was devastated watching the scene above, as a kid. But also, I saw Atreus ability to keep going, not only not giving up, and therefore not sinking in a place that takes you if you do, but then also carrying the weight of the grief of his life companion. And he was now alone, realising his mortality and facing, what he is told, are impossible odds. He still keeps going. I think, to child me, there was so much power in seeing something is possible. I believed I, too, could survive anything. And even if I were alone, I could still survive anything, because that power came from inside me, no one can take that from you. "Don't let the darkness take you" the darkness is an external force. It wants to creep in and convince you to buy it's snake oils.

There is so much power in convincing people the "darkness" is inevitable, there is nothing else. I see it all around me, embedded in the propaganda, convincing us not to resist, that resistance is futile. Half of the battle is in our own heads, and the brainwashing swamps we wade through, now.

What are your tools of resilience, your keys for undoing the fight or flight, all the horrifying videos around us are designed, to evoke, to keep our thinking brains detached, and only our "run hide" brains active, so we can't think, so we can't plan, so we just sink in and accept?

What's helped you get back up, when you have fallen? From whatever sources, I just feel like, maybe now is a time, it's important to share a shoulder to cope on. Or even just moved you, to an extent it changed your perspective or way of thinking?