Deborah Rozman

But with all this technological advancement he saw coming, we'd be so interconnected that until we learn how to connect in our hearts and get along with ourselves, let alone get along with each other, there was going to be tremendous stress and anxiety.

And he really wanted to create a simple science-based, research-based system of simple tools and techniques and technology that people could use to transform stress and anxiety and ride the waves of these tremendous changes he saw coming.

And here we are in the middle of it all.

It is fundamentally different and here's why.

I'm sure your audience would love to understand this.

In the 80s, when we would go, or 90s even, we'd go to different programs like we'd teach in our quality management programs at Motorola with the tools and techniques and technology we developed.

We'd ask the audience, how many people have a lot of stress in their lives?

maybe two or three hands would go up in an audience of 50.

You ask that now and everybody raises both hands and both legs.

It's like, ah, help.

And I have a lot of care and compassion for what it feels like to have accumulated stress, chronic stress.

It's not like stress and then you recover and you find a way to ease things in the 80s unless you have a major life crisis like divorce or illness.

Now it's constant triggers, whether it's the news, whether it's what you read on social media or TV, and it triggers your stress response, or whether it's just the acceleration of change that your nervous system can't keep up with.

And all of that creates an accumulation of stress energy in your system, and it

through stress hormones.

Cortisol builds up in the system and then it disrupts sleep.

It disrupts clear thinking.

It creates more automatic stress reactions of frustration and impatience and anger, which generates more cortisol.

So you're in this feedback loop of stress buildup.

And that's what too many of us are experiencing these days.