Wow! I walked away from a tenured professorship after 15 years. It really broke my heart. I couldn't regulate myself anymore. Can I get an amen. Thanks so much!
@@tomgreene1843 I found the climate to be growing more and more authoritarian. It felt dangerous to disagree on political and social matters. It felt easier to keep your head down; not what I signed up for.
@@newpilgrim Thank you for reply ...sounds a bit like what might happen in Ireland ..not much EDI! You may have seen Ms Stock on her experience? All a bit sad really.
@@newpilgrim you did the right thing. I needed to leave college teaching due to serious illness. Much of the stress I felt was the heartbreak of watching my field, Dev Psych & Creativity in children, get more & more axed & sterilised into “competencies”. The question I kept asking was “how can you possibly measure “competency” in creativity?!!” & that which I was cultivating in students. They kept axing hours from the syllabus in my area & introducing more & more documentation & banality. We now hve Early Childhood Educators who can’t tell children stories, set up creative experiences or immersive, problem solving outdoor play areas. They don’t know how to sing, dance & play with them, extend language. The spaces for children are now built to be concrete, sterile. No trees, no gardens or grass, levels or forts. Heartbreaking. You did the right thing & yes, the authoritarianism & censure was starting up when I left.
Ways to enhance the right hemisphere: 1) prayer, 2)meditation and mindfulness, 3)listening to classical music, 4) looking at depth art, 5) gazing into the distance, 6) watching the clouds 7)star gazing, 8)bird watching, 9) attending to nature around you, 10)doing jig-saw puzzles, 11) gratitude practices and blessing people, 12) practicing compassion and humility, 13)reading spiritual writings, 14)reading, writing or listening to poetry, 15) dabbling in creative art, 16) singing in a choir, 17) dancing and graceful body movements, 16) communing with your pets, 17) day dreaming, 18) listening to sounds in nature and focusing on distant sounds without identifying them, 19)humming, 20)sitting in churches and cathedrals 21) feeling the breeze in your face, 22)experiencing the aroma of damp earth, leaves and trees in the rain, 23)listening to a waterfall or standing by one, 24)imagining any of these.
It’s odd, there being a black hole at the center of the milky way reminded me how terror managment theory is at the center of the human psyche. It’s like a master theory that leverages self esteem attatchment relationships and cultural and political worldviews that “we must defend”
I think that is a good way of looking at it. I haven't listened to the interview yet, but I think I know what you are saying here - and agree. The internet and social media has a lot to answer to!
But why are some people more susceptible to this than others? I think it comes out of the same preconditions as mass formation - (1) a free floating anxiety, (2) a sense of purposelessness in life (3) isolation and alienatation, (4) anger and resentment.
