Dr. Will Cole

And the human body is amazingly resilient when you start to address these things that are oftentimes overlooked.

I think it is kind of, I'm excited we're having this conversation because it's the antidote to the shame-flammation that I talked about, how these mental, emotional, spiritual things impact our physiology, driving, dysregulating the neuro-immunoendocrine axis, this intersection between the nervous system, the immune system in the form of inflammation, and the endocrine system or hormones.

What's dysregulating that, at least on a mental-emotional side?

For many people, we have to bring in these things like gratitude practice, self-compassion practice.

There's a study that people in the study did math and public speaking.

Apparently, that's what people hate the most is math and public speaking.

But they measured interleukin-6, which is an inflammatory protein.

But the people that practice self-compassion the most had the lowest inflammation levels.

But again, it sounds woo-woo.

It sounds weird.

How can you prescribe self-compassion?

But it is an art.

There's science around it, but that's an art form of you have 30 trillion cells and they are eavesdropping on how you talk about yourself and how you think about yourself and how you treat other people as well.

So start to operate...

from a place of grace for yourself and other people and tolerance for yourself and other people and tolerance in our culture today.

It's not tolerance when you only accept people that think like you and vote like you and look like you and all that.

That's the opposite of tolerance.

True tolerance is finding that thing, that spark of God that's in them, even when you find other parts unlovable or unacceptable or intolerant to really have that.

So I don't, I'm answering this question this way because I really feel like it's that tolerance

perspective on the world around you that is a perspective of thriving.