Episode Description: When headlines feel relentless and doom-scrolling becomes compulsive, your nervous system isn't broken - it's responding normally to engineered chaos. This 15-minute guided practice helps you reclaim your attention from systems designed to hijack it.
You'll learn three micro-practices: pausing during compulsive scrolling, settling after being overwhelmed by news, and offering yourself mercy for very human responses to inhuman conditions. This isn't about tuning out - it's about building the capacity to witness what's happening without drowning in it.
What You'll Practice:
Physical grounding to land in your body before addressing mental hijack
Mid-scroll intervention to interrupt compulsive checking
Post-story settling when news has already left you reeling
Self-mercy for struggling under psychological warfare
Host: Paul T. Shattuck, MSW, PhD - meditation teacher and author of the Progressive Strategy Now blog on Substack
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Tags: #mindfulness #meditation #news #anxiety #strategic #resistance #authoritarian #selfcompassion #mentalhealth #politics
Content Warning: Discussion of current political events and immigration enforcement
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