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In today's episode, I discuss the present and observable factors that explain why we respond or react to the stresses, threats, and challenges that this pandemic has brought into our lives:

• How \u201chedonic tone\u201d affects (and controls) how we feel which affects our nervous system;
• The role of the amygdala (the \u201creptilian\u201d brain) and how it uses our various senses to read the environment to establish the level of threat or safety to us;
• Why the effects of COVID-19 on society make it challenging to create prediction and response, and thus a feeling of safety and security (low hedonic tone);
• Why we are hard-wired for negativity as a survival mechanism;
• Why there is no such thing as a negative mood or mindset;
• Why good news and good feelings are short-lived and seem to do little to reduce \u201cnegativity,\u201d and;
• How we can witness the world to more easily understand and create strategies to \u201caccept things as they are.\u201d

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