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In Our Nature
Absolutely everything is interconnected in astonishing dynamic ways that we are only beginning to understand, including our mental and planetary wellbeing.
The In Our Nature explores these connections, along with the unseen but profoundly influential currents, systems, cycles, patterns, stories, and constructs that shape both our inner lives and the world around us.
Why are we the way we are? Why are we treating the world and each other in the ways we do? Why do we feel so rubbish? Is this in our nature? What's going on?
Join me, Siobhán Friel, your host and fellow wanderer, as we curiously fondle the places where environmental, societal, historical, ecological and mythological contexts meet and mingle.
The In Our Nature pod wants to shed light on the hidden connections and deeper patterns that are shaping this extraordinary time we are in, helping us see more clearly as we make our way forth. Come and join me.
In Our Nature
How Innocent Little Words Contribute to Big, Prickly Thought-Stories
Today we're poking at the power of teeny, innocent-seeming words in creating enormous, perilous towers of thought stories.
Join me to meander through:
- My research project on inner peace and how it led to a little tangent on the power of words
- How seeing the creation of Big Collective Thought releases you from taking your personal, individual thought too seriously
- Exploring how casual historical labels can shape our modern thinking
- Noticing how the recency bias in historical narratives has implications on societal values and norms in the present day (including around productivity, anxiety and progress)
- Links between this and our individual experiences of inadequacy, stress, worry and overwhelm.
- The freedom that comes with recognising how thought patterns are shaped beyond your control - and how seeing your innocence in this can unclip you from your own inadequacies
- Several questionable analogies
- 'Nothingburger' is used on the show for the first time
- Anxious Alice is in a sulk
Mentioned:
Episosde: We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
Episosde: Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times
Episosde: How That Anxious, Restless, Unsettled Feeling Is Originally Created (Clue: It’s Nothing to Do with You)
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