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And what this does, this kind of wear and tear, it drains energy from the system, which reduces our window of tolerance.
So I imagine listeners will be familiar that like, you know, maybe they start a new job.
And in the beginning, they've got like a ton of energy and they
they feel vibrant, but as time goes on, it feels like they get more and more reactive over time.
And that I believe is due to this buildup of allostatic load, which is in part contributed to by not allowing these
the emotional reflex arc to be completed.
And so, you know, many of us are walking around with like pockets of buffered emotional responses, which is contributing to this sense of exhaustion and fatigue and low capacity, basically.
Yeah, so people can search this on YouTube.
There's a great video of an impala that is chased by a lion.
It's literally like in its jaws.
It manages to escape and the next kind of five minutes it finds its way to hide under a bush and it just lies down and its entire body just starts shaking.
It shakes and shakes and shakes for about two or three minutes and it just gets up and it's totally fine.
But that shaking is the kind of mammalian response that we will have of discharging that intensity and that stress that it just went through.
And humans have kind of forgotten how to do that.
There's definitely ways that you can, whether it's through breath work or whether it's through either practice I call somatic surfing, or even just creating a sense of safety.
Sometimes the body will kind of
go into to complete that emotional response that it wasn't able to at the time because often we will disassociate or we'll push it down and again that's great but if we don't set aside time for some kind of processing to just allow the emotions to complete then they get stored and they drain energy from the battery of your body basically.
Yeah, I think that's a, I think that's largely a big part of it.
And, you know, I used to go for a run, like that was my way of if I'd had an intense day, I'd kind of go for a run around around the block or in the park.
And I'd feel better when I got back.