Our thoughts generate our perspective and the way we feel about what is going on in our environment. All thoughts lead to an emotion of some sort and if we aren’t careful they can take us for a ride to a place that does not benefit us. In this episode, I discuss how changing perspective can lead to a happier life as well as my own experiences while working towards rewiring my brain. 

Why is anxiety so ubiquitous? Anxiety is rooted in our future tense as individuals. The feeling often takes hold of in an uncontrollable way, forcing us into a state of fear while draining our energy. When all we focus on, is the future, we have no energy for the present. This has become clear as day to me. 

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about how culture and self-projection influence the anxiety we experience as humans. 

A ventilation of sorts regarding the issues of consumption that are so prevalent in our American culture. This episode argues that the world in which our society perpetuates and which we inevitably live in is damned by consumerism. The value system is broken. We are taught to feel good about buying things rather than working on ourselves and bettering our lives through internal exploration.  Self-development has taken a back seat to the ease of feel-good consumables like food or clothing. How to escape the gravitational pull of it all is the real question. 

The destructive behavior of self-isolation brings us further into our own heads and pushes us away from building meaningful relationships. While it's easy to construct a reality in which you don't need others, we are social creatures that desperately need one another to survive. Fulfillment comes when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable with our fellow humans. 

This episode discusses my own personal struggle with the tendency to self-isolate as well as my newfound appreciation for social interaction.