Dr. Dave Rabin

That doesn't even count the blue light you get from your phones, right?

That doesn't count the... That's like, as I mentioned earlier, we're getting as many social signals in the first half hour of waking up from looking at your phone in that first half hour as we would used to get in a week of being alive in the 1950s.

So you multiply that times how many half hours the average 20 to 45-year-old individual is spending on their phones every single day.

Now you're talking...

tens of times more input than somebody was getting in a week of being alive in the 1950s.

It's too much.

Our bodies did not evolve to receive that much incoming information.

So that's tricking our nervous system into thinking,

wow, this is a lot.

Like the fear center, the amygdala in our brains responds to too much, too loud, too fast, not just, and too much newness, not just survival threat.

Survival threat is what it evolved to respond to, but it gets triggered by too much, too loud, too fast, just the same.

It doesn't know the difference.

So we have to train our minds to, this is what Jim Quick talks about and many of the other speakers here.

How do you train your mind to,

to remember how to filter out the incoming information with mindfulness, focus techniques, meditation, breathing.

All of those techniques start to help us filter and create the structure in the brain that actually filters out incoming useless information so that we're not constantly overwhelmed.

And if we haven't trained in those techniques, we're just constantly overwhelmed all the time.

And our nervous system shows it as decreased heart rate variability.

For sure.

Decreased vagus nerve activity, feeling like crap all the time.