Squirrel Wrangler™

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https://outrageoverload.substack.com/p/extremism-and-outrage-how-outrage

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Today's Show:

Welcome to a bonus episode of the Squirrel Wrangler podcast! If you don't already know, I'm participating in the National Podcast Post Month, otherwise known as Na Pod Po Mo. Part of that podcast promotion includes a mega feed of other podcasters. Today, I was finally able to jump into the mega feed of the National Podcast Post Month and I found an amazing little tidbit by a gentleman named David Beckemeyer. I will put the link to his episode I listened to in the show notes. His podcast is 'Outrage Science Bites,' and today's episode was about extremism and outrage, how outrage leads to radicalization. It's coming from the scientific perspective of how our emotions can impact our ability to see clearly and how to then deal with that carefully so that you don't end up in a more radical scenario than you might be already. This lines up with the things I've been speaking about, but maybe in a slightly different way. I really liked how his episode discussed how black and white thinking and an us versus them mentality can lead to additional radicalization of our thoughts versus the better, and I will call it healthier, reaction to listen to each other and to hold space for each other no matter what our ideological perspective is. Especially those who may hold different beliefs or hold their beliefs differently than us. The more we listen and open ourselves up to those, not that it means that we're going to change our beliefs, because that's not necessarily what it's about. It's about being able to understand how multiple people hold different beliefs and us being able to take the best of what we might view in someone else's beliefs and integrate it into our own after using critical thinking about our own beliefs, where we are with our beliefs, where they are with their beliefs, and how we can maybe come together to live differently all the way around. That's my quick bite for today. For one, check out National Podcast Post Month, otherwise known as Na Pod Po Mo, and look at the mega feed. I'll put the link to the mega feed and the link to David's podcast in the show notes. I look forward to speaking to you tomorrow.

So more on the getting to neutral thing. As a society so, you know, I talked about ways we could get to new getting to neutral for ourselves as individuals. But I think the bigger picture is getting to neutral as society so that such that we do no harm like our discussion the other day. And I think there's many ways we can get to neutral. Number 1, we have to get to neutral individually first. Because if you're not in neutral yourself, you are gonna come at somebody either excited about something they're depressed about or you're gonna come at them mad about something that they're happy about or mad about something that they don't understand. And none of those things are helpful. They're not helpful to us as individuals. They're not helpful to us as society. They're not helpful for the energy we bring each other. And so I think the getting to neutral is vital for us as individuals such that we can then approach others and be in one place together and get to neutral together. Because if we get to neutral together, number 1, we're doing no harm to each other. And number 2, we are when we're at neutral, we can easily more easily find the things that we have as similarities. And when we find the similarities, we have connection. And when we have connection with those that we've lost connection with or that we feel we didn't have connection with because we disagree on controversial topics, then that's the beginning of healing as a society. So what can you do to get yourself to neutral? And then what do you do next to reach out to someone else who maybe you disagree with or you know you've disagreed with in the past and find something you can do together that is neutral and that you can get to not only neutral, but similarities and joy again together and heal your connections as humans.

Welcome to Friday and another podcast, or as I saw someone describe my podcast, a micro podcast, and I love that because anyone who knew me before this knows that micro and short podcasts are definitely not my usual, but I digress. So as we get ready for the weekend, where I still will be putting out micro podcasts, I am re-listening to an audiobook called 'Getting to Neutral.' It was recommended by a dear friend, and it was recommended to me several weeks ago. But in the context of this week, end of November 7 or well, I'm sorry, November 8th where we are today, getting to neutral, I think, is a great way for society's groups of people, small groups of people, relationships, and individuals can come to the same place even or a similar place given that we each think differently. So the concept of the book is not that there is that neutral is the only place to be. It is that, one of the quotes is that we can all agree that negative is a bad place to be. And being negative towards each other, being negative towards ourselves, being negative in our own thinking, all put us into a negative spiral. And it puts us in a negative spiral individually. It puts us in a negative spiral in relationships. It puts us in a negative spiral as a society. So what do we do to get out of negative and work towards positive, towards joy, which is kind of in my theme of the week. Working towards joy isn't just going from negative to positive because sometimes you can't just get straight to positive. Sometimes you have to stop at neutral and ground yourself. You have to stop at neutral and be in that neutral space so that the negative doesn't hurt you. And maybe because you haven't found something to be joyful or positive about. And so if you can't find something to be positive or joyful about, but you also don't want the pain and don't want to continue the negativity that a negative negative thinking puts you into the negative spiral, that was a mouthful, then sometimes getting to neutral is the best thing. And so that got me thinking about how do we get to neutral. And I think it's still some of the things that I described yesterday and the day before of looking around and finding things to be joyful for. But let's take it to neutral before we get to joy. What are some things you can do to get to neutral? And I've been speaking to several people over the last couple days, and one of the things that comes up frequently is going out and being in nature because nature doesn't hate. It can be dangerous, but nature in and of itself does not hate. Nature for the most part can give us neutral. Going out and finding a good place, you know, that's safe to lay down a blanket on the ground and be, you know, connect yourself with the ground to, lay down in a hammock and watch the stars at night. The stars, unless that asteroid hits, aren't hurting us. The stars can be inspirational. They can be beautiful. The colors in the sky can be inspirational and beautiful. So that's one idea. Going for a walk, which takes your body to neutral, it gets energy out and it gives you the opportunity to also just kind of lose yourself in your thinking and meditate. So I leave you today with how are you going to get to neutral? What are the ways that you think you can do so that you can get yourself to neutral? Happy Friday, and I'll talk to you soon.

Hello. For today’s podcast, I want to share insights from a recent meeting with a colleague. It was a profound experience that highlighted how two people with differing views could still maintain a relationship built on respect, honor, and dignity. Despite discussing topics that could typically inflame others, we managed to respect each other’s differing views and focus on the core issue. This scenario has broader implications. Imagine if everyone could recognize that each person holds a unique worldview without labeling anyone as right or wrong. If we could discard notions of right and wrong and instead assess if our behavior harms another human being, our interactions would change dramatically. The guiding principle should be to do no harm to others. If we truly examined our thoughts, beliefs, and behavior choices to ensure they didn’t harm others, the outcomes of our collective actions would improve. While this may seem idealistic and hard to achieve given the world's population, it’s a goal worth striving for. It’s unfortunate that it might take a catastrophic event, like an asteroid heading toward Earth, to unite us in this common cause. But do we really have to wait for such an event? Applying the rule of not harming each other could potentially save humanity. This principle also includes not harming ourselves. For example, if I choose not to harm someone else but end up harming myself, I need to reconsider my behavior. This doesn't mean avoiding inconvenience or hard choices; it means ensuring our actions don't cause undue harm. Even large corporations need to evaluate their practices: making millions by harming others is unacceptable. No one on this planet has the right to harm another individual. Our shared right is to love and treat each other with respect, dignity, and honor. I extend a heartfelt thank you to my friend who participated in the meeting and agreed to let me base this podcast on our discussion. In the future, I may reveal more about them, and we might even co-host a podcast to demonstrate how respectful, honorable, and dignified discussions on controversial topics can happen without harming one another. I’m grateful to have friends with whom I can engage in these meaningful conversations. I appreciate you, my friend, for your respect and dignity during our discussions. And to all my listeners, thank you for joining me today. I’ll see you all tomorrow.

Host: Stacy Braiuca

Episode: SqWr Podcast Ep8

So how do you bring yourself out of negativity and back to joy? It's not an easy thing. It's incredibly possible. Even with your 8,200,000,000 -one support group, sometimes we're alone in our feelings and we need to bring ourselves back up. One of the ways to do that is to look around the room around you and find 5 things that bring you joy. Is it your morning cup of coffee? Is it the fact that you have a roof over your head? Is it the fact that you have warm blankets on on a cold fall morning? Or is it just the fact that you're alive today? That should be enough to bring your joy that you are alive and may not have major health issues. And, you know, thinking on that piece, even if you have major health issues, what are the pieces that are good? Do you have support around you for that? Do you have good healthcare providers? Are you taking actions every day to be a better or more you you than the day before? Sometimes it's the little bitty things that you have to start with. And sit with those. Sit with your cup of coffee and enjoy the flavor.

Enjoy the taste. Enjoy the fact that you had coffee to put in the machine. You have to start with the little things and you have to sit with them and savor them. I think savoring joy is probably today's theme. So what are you doing today to savor a piece of joy? To help you stay in the positive or to help you go from negative to positive to raise your feelings of being joyful. I'll see you tomorrow.

Yes. Yes, it is. It's possible to bring ourselves out of negativity and back to joy. The way I know this is that if we couldn't do that with as many of us who live in different levels of negativity the whole world would live in a dungeon in negativity if we couldn't bring each other back to joy. The fact that we are all at different places in our lives at different moments and the fact that we observe the world differently. At any given time, there are 8,200,000,000 people on the planet. And at any given time, there are 8,200,000,000 ways of looking at things. Which means there are at least 8,200,000,000 ways of getting ourselves out of negativity and into joy. Or would it be 8,200,000,000 minus 1? Because if we're in negativity, we need those 8,200,000,000 minus 1 other people to help bring us out of joy or out of negativity. And what that means in a nutshell, since we're talking squirrel wrangling, the nutshell of that is that we need each other. And that we need each other to come out of places of darkness and into places of light by supporting, loving, and respecting each other. And on today, November 5, 2024, in the United States of America, that is a really important message. I hope everyone has an amazing day and come back tomorrow for some more squirrel wrangling.

Today's podcast is gonna build on yesterday and build on us playing that game of hot and cold when seeking our GPS that we talked about yesterday. So let's flash forward and say that we have made a habit of listening to that GPS and of going in the direction that we find joy. And we are making that such an incredible habit that we find joy every single day. And one day, we sit and realize that we aren't finding the joy without it being automatic. In other words, we're finding joy, but we're not even thinking about the fact that we're finding joy. We're just finding it all the time. And it's not because we're making ourselves, it's because we are. We are joy. We've become one with joy. And that in and of itself is a different realization. It's a realization that the momentum of the habit is moving us forward. And here's kind of what I mean by that because no matter what habit we're talking about, the momentum of that habit is going to keep us moving in the direction of that habit. In physics, scientific terms, an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object that's in motion in one direction is probably going to stay in motion in that direction. So what if the direction you're moving is finding the negative every day? If you're finding negative and the next day you find more negative and the next day lo and behold you find even more of the negative stuff, then you have put yourself in motion to constantly be going in the negative direction. And when that happens it makes it even harder to come back to the positive direction, Or does it? Can you move back to the positive direction when you have built yourself the momentum and the habit of going in a negative direction? That's the question I'm going to leave you with and hopefully we will continue to answer tomorrow.

Imagine you're in a grand library filled with countless books. Some books are beautifully illustrated and bring you immense joy, while others are dull and filled with monotonous text. Your job is to find those delightful books that make your heart sing, but there's a twist: you're wearing a blindfold.

Now, this library is magical, and it comes with a special guide—your emotional GPS. Every time you get closer to a book that brings you joy, the GPS says, "hotter, hotter," and if you move away, it says, "colder, colder."

The key is to trust this guide. When it tells you "hotter" as you approach a colorful, joyful book, listen to it. But often, we might ignore it, thinking we need to be more serious and focus on the dense, boring books, even if they're making us feel cold inside.

In life, our emotional GPS helps us navigate toward the things that bring us joy and fulfillment, much like finding those beautiful books in the library. The more we pay attention to it, the more we fill our lives with happiness and purpose. So, will you follow your guide and discover the joyful books hidden in the shelves of your life?

In this podcast episode by the Squirrel Wrangler, imagine you're driving a car with a built-in GPS system, but instead of roads and traffic reports, it guides you based on how you feel. When you're on a smooth, scenic route filled with sunshine and beautiful scenery, that's when your internal GPS is saying you're on the right path—this represents those moments of joy, happiness, and contentment. Now, picture driving and suddenly hitting a bumpy, dark road with stormy skies and warning signs flashing everywhere. This is your internal GPS alerting you with feelings like anxiety, anger, and frustration. It's a signal telling you to stop, assess your surroundings, and figure out what got you there. Much like recalculating a route when you're lost, you need to pause, recognize the choices and actions that led to these negative feelings, and decide on a new direction—one that leads you back to that sunny, scenic route. So, tune into your feelings like you would your car's GPS, and let it navigate you towards a brighter, happier journey.

🐭🐿️✨ True revelation: Watching nature can teach you more about navigating life and challenges than you’d expect. Look at the animals around us. Take mice and squirrels, for instance. While mice often make a mess and create chaos, squirrels diligently prepare for the future, storing up resources and creating new opportunities. We might find ourselves annoyed or distracted by these creatures, but what if we took a different perspective? Consider what they’re each bringing to the table. Mice may seem negative, hiding in the walls and tearing things up, but maybe they're also teaching us about resilience and adaptability? And those squirrels might be reminding us of the importance of planning and innovation. If you’re struggling with negativity or challenges, try to see how those situations could transform into positives. How can you learn, adapt, and turn obstacles into opportunities? I believe in your ability to find the silver lining and thrive. So take a deep breath, look around, and remember – even in the midst of chaos, there is wisdom to be found. Keep pushing forward, and let's all be a bit more squirrel-like in our journey! 🐿️🌟 #Motivation #NatureWisdom #KeepGoing

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