Let That Shift Go
Welcome to "Let That Shift Go," a podcast hosted by siblings Lena and Noel. Join them on their journey of self-awareness as they delve into meaningful conversations about the human experience.
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Let That Shift Go
Mental Diets: What Are You Feeding Your Mind?
Today’s discussion dives into the concept of “mental diet” and how it affects our overall well-being. We explore the importance of what we consume—emotionally, mentally, and socially—including media, conversations, and personal interactions.
• Defining mental diet and its relevance
• The impact of media consumption on emotional health
• Exploring the mean world syndrome and its historical significance
• The influence of social media and news on perspective
• Strategies for mindful media consumption
• Encouraging personal audits of mental and emotional inputs
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Hello and welcome to the Let that Shift Go podcast. I'm Noelle.
Speaker 2:And I'm Lina.
Speaker 1:And this is where we talk about the good, the bad and all the shift in between.
Speaker 2:We just talk mad shift.
Speaker 1:Let's get into it, and on this week's episode what the hell is a mental diet? What are we consuming? What are we watching? What are we absorbing?
Speaker 2:How is it feeding you? Is it nutritious?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but first let's get into these Skin Deep cards. Okay, this is from the Friends edition. You want to go first, or me?
Speaker 2:Sure, I'll go first. Okay, so my question is when was the moment you decided to get to know me better?
Speaker 1:Huh, I guess when was the moment I decided to get to know you better? Well, I guess the moment I decided to get to know myself better.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:Right, because they always say you can only meet somebody as deeply as you met yourself. And I felt like I really did know you, yeah, but I didn't realize how much was missing in the context, in the tapestry, and just that, the whole, all the little in-betweens, yeah. So I think probably about what has it been Three years now? Yeah, yeah, that was. It was probably a pivotal moment when I started to realize there was more to myself and then I was like, well, there must be more about you.
Speaker 2:Oh, and everyone. Yeah, and everyone To some degree it's like oh, I want to know that, I want to know more.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize. I didn't even realize we didn't know each other. I would say you are the first person to make me want to know other people more. Does that make sense? It was like oh okay, this is all right. This is not too bad knowing people.
Speaker 2:There might be something really good on the other side.
Speaker 1:Okay, my question is what is a value we do not share in common?
Speaker 2:A value we do not share in common. Gosh, why did you have to stump me with one?
Speaker 1:Well, they're not supposed to be easy.
Speaker 2:I mean, like we've talked about before, I'm not much of a daredevil anymore, I think you know, I wanted to be a stunt woman when I was eight. I thought that's what I would grow up to be. But just shifted because of time and yeah, I think because of my job you know, probably shifted and I was like, yeah, I pick up daredevils. I don't really want to be one. So that's probably something that you have valued and that I'm just like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 1:Well, that's a good segue into this week's episode, because how your work and the environment you worked in affected the way you move through the world.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the way I saw the world was yeah, definitely, and you're working in an emergency medical trauma lifelight. Yeah, and you're working in an emergency medical Trauma lifelight.
Speaker 1:Lifelight. I mean you're dealing with daily tragic stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the world became a very dangerous place sometimes for me like in my mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they're even saying that just watching scary things or trauma will put a fear into you that the world is more dangerous than it actually is and you are in a position or in a job that you've seen the worst events of people's lives, the worst outcomes. Yeah, I mean most times. I mean I guess maybe there's some beauty to it and there were some beautiful parts to it as well, but it's not the way that people probably wish they met you, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think it definitely shaped like why, being a daredevil, what really wasn't that important to me, you know, it was like, oh yeah, that's what could happen, which it probably, you know, took away the ability for me to have like bigger experiences and things, even though they, it would have turned out fine. I would just shy away from it.
Speaker 1:you know, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:For protection in my mind Like, oh yeah, I've saw. I like I would never, you know, jump out of a plane. I won't even go in a hot air balloon because, I don't like it you wanted to at one point. When I was little.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm actually like a very afraid of heights and it's. It was weird that I became a flight nurse because I'm very afraid of heights, but it's just not being it makes no sense In a helicopter, of all things yeah. I'm in a helicopter, 8,000 feet in the air and I'm fine, but if you take me in a hot air balloon, I'm going to need a Xanax or something. I'll be on the floor of the basket.
Speaker 1:Okay. So let me ask you do you think that it was because with me, while I'm at work, I do things I normally wouldn't do, because I'm getting paid?
Speaker 2:So no, it had nothing to do with getting paid.
Speaker 1:Well I'm saying, did you? You did it because it was a job. Like, in other words, would you go to Hawaii and then take a helicopter cruise around the volcanoes?
Speaker 2:on purpose. Oh you would. Okay, I did. Yeah, I think it was um. There's a sense of like I don't know I'm, I'm inside of something.
Speaker 1:Okay, like I'm strapped in, strapped in.
Speaker 2:Yeah that, that's different. I there's a whole different you're not afraid of flying. I'm not afraid of flying.
Speaker 1:You just don't want to jump out of the. I don't want to be in control of what my body's doing.
Speaker 2:I got it.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Because I could just stumble. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Who knows.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's a good segue into what we're talking about right now, which is how you know what you watch, what you surround yourself with, how the information you consume really does shape your reality.
Speaker 1:It's something that we don't really think about daily.
Speaker 2:It's not. I think it's something that I started to think about, you know, over the past few years. I realized when I watched the news it actually affected me and I remember hearing someone say it was on a show called Chasing the Present and they said you know you can't change the news, but the news can change you, and that really stuck with me.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, I never heard that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like, wow, that's true, it's like I could watch this and then it will tell me about how dangerous the world is. You know what I, what I should pay attention to and what I shouldn't, and I mean, there's a reason they call it programming.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, and that stood out to me too I'm like wow, we've called it all along TV Guide called it programming.
Speaker 1:It's a.
Speaker 2:TV Guide and this is for your next program. You know, and what is the programming? And it's like it's literally programming. It is programming your brain.
Speaker 1:Programming society.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Programming. You know how we view reality, whether it's the media, news, even the people around you, they're going to impact your mental health, your perception of the world, your overall energy and how you carry yourself in the world. If you're more fear-based, more negative, more biased, you know all of those things are going to affect your mental health and how you show up in the world. And nowadays you even have, you know, social media that's built on algorithms that is meant to affirm whatever it is that you believe or you most like watching. So you get more of that to just, you know, kind of impound those beliefs into you and be like, yes, this is absolutely true, Everything I see is telling me that it is. So not only now do you have TV guide, or we used to have TV guide programming.
Speaker 2:Now you have, where you are actively on social media looking for things that are piquing your interests, which, when it knows that you've spent 1.5 seconds on it, it'll send you more. So it's just affirming like yes, this is absolutely true. I mean, there's times even when I'm looking at my, if I'm on social media or if I'm watching something, and I'm getting mostly things about consciousness, you know, or breath work. I could start to believe that everybody's doing breath work. This is the most popular thing in the world, and it's like no, it's not.
Speaker 2:It's just that your social media knows that this is what you're interested in, it's going to give you more of it. So, on the same token, if you're constantly looking at things with politics or-.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's heavy in the news now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. Or juicy gossip in the entertainment industry yeah, exactly, or you know juicy gossip, you know in the entertainment industry. It's like well, I'll give you more of that. So it starts to shape how you see reality.
Speaker 1:I know we talked about on previous episodes, about, like, the five people you hang around with being the average and how they influence you. Yeah, and what we watch on a daily really sets I could be watching. I don't know, I can think about this. The first time I watched Rocky, afterwards I was so pumped and wanted to fight somebody. You know what I mean? I mean I could just hear the theme song in my head and like, and I'm just thinking, ooh, I'm so pumped right now and I'm just thinking, oh, I'm so pumped right now and just recognizing how that revved my system, to be in a different state of mind and I can't imagine, you know, right now we're watching so much media about politics and things going on in the world and it's a lot of negative stuff and a lot of people out there are being negative towards each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it also, you know, drives like the watches, you know like it's like the sensationalism of fear or division is also very like interesting and it's also revving your nervous system up, where a lot of us are already revved up that high and we're kind of like needing to stay there, and so we'll look out, you know, look for more of the things that feed that. And then even you know the people that you're around. Like there's a reason why sometimes you feel more drained when you're around certain people.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that really is. It's speaking like to the energy, the energy of the people that you're around.
Speaker 1:It doesn't mean they're bad people. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:It just means they're not on the same vibe with you, a discordant energy, and so at the end of that you may feel like you know, when I'm around this group of people, when I leave, I feel more energized.
Speaker 1:I feel like my cup is full.
Speaker 2:But then you can be in around another group of people or a person and just be like every time I'm around them I feel depleted and like I immediately need a nap. You know, I remember there were times I would be around someone and I realized that every time I was around them I would get sick, like within a week, and it wasn't because they were coughing and sneezing, it's just like I just felt drained, completely drained, and it was like wow, there's something here, and had to really look at like is this actually the best thing for me? You know, it's really just coming into a sense of mindfulness about what you're taking in.
Speaker 2:Like a personal audit. A personal audit, yeah, and really thinking of like your brain, like your, your mind, above your head, is like a mouth, you know, and it is eating and consuming.
Speaker 1:Well, like, if we're eating and consuming yeah, If we're. If we're you're making an analogy to food. You know, like what we consume, you know changes, how we look and how much we weigh and all those things, even pimples and all the bad stuff. If you don't eat right and take care of yourself, you feel sluggish.
Speaker 2:So, why we don't automatically make a correlation with our mental diet, how that affects you know our creativity, or I mean our happiness, our viewpoints of the world, all those things, or even like what you're willing to go do right, because if you look at anything about like I mean I remember we went to Peru. It was probably two years ago and at that time, you know, if you looked on the news or anything, it was like don't go there, it's dangerous, there's, you know, war breaking out, there's all those things and it was like I mean, how do I know that that's actually true? And we ended up going and there was, it was not there, right, there was like there was nothing. It was like the best trip ever. And I thought, gosh, if every time I just listened to anything that was only available on social media or the news, if I based all of my decisions off of that, I probably wouldn't live, I would just stay in.
Speaker 2:If you think about, there was a movie you remember the Truman Show. I would highly suggest anybody who's listening to this just go watch it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with Jim Carrey, and I remember when I watched it way back then I really didn't get it, but it was about somebody who was like growing up, you know, was born on a movie set. They had created a whole movie set that looked like life, and so he lived his whole life in this movie set and everybody in it was actors and in it they would just send in programming, like to make sure that he didn't want to leave there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. So as soon as he thought about I'm going to go to Fiji, that sounds cool, they're like oh my gosh, cue the news about the plane crash.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cue the news about how dangerous this is, put it on his radio, put it on his TV so that he would hopefully go. Yeah, I probably shouldn't go, because if he did, he'd realize that he was in a movie set, that none of this was real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as soon as he did a fear assessment because of the programming. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you start to see all the programming around him, you know, and all of the ways that all the outside things are trying to influence and shape our reality of the world. The other thing is there was there's something called a mean world syndrome. Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 1:No, that's's today is the first time I've heard of that.
Speaker 2:So it was something that was coined by Professor George Gerbner and it was a part of the cultivation theory that it was. This was back like gosh. What year was this?
Speaker 1:1970s 1970s?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. So it was about how, when people watch the news and they constantly tend to perceive the world as being just far more dangerous than it actually is.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:And that there's like crime dramas, sensationalized stories, that you can develop this really distorted perception of reality. So you're thinking threats and conflict are far more prevalent than they truly are. I'm not saying that there aren't those things in the world, but when you're constantly allowing yourself to consume that, your mental diet is the news you are going to have one, your nervous system will probably be completely, completely dysregulated. Yeah, and then you know how are you going to be behaving in the world? How are you going to be treating other people that maybe the news are telling you are dangerous or they've done their this and that, and then just grouping people into groups or themes, but not based on actual truth of an individual. And so when you're out in the world, there's a lot of fear, anxiety, mistrust and just polarization. Right, and this is in the 1970s, and look at what's happening even right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when news and media and the access to it from the 70s to 50 years later 50 years later.
Speaker 2:And here's what we're doing. And now we have social media.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's amplified by this phenomenon, so it's constantly just feeding the users with alarming content and algorithms that are just really designed for engagement. They just want your attention.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, most I mean fear or those types of things sell. Those are the things that grab people in the media Tonight at 11, three people found dead.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, and you're like oh, I got gotta see this, why? Yeah, I mean why. But there's got to be some kind of balance, because when I was hearing you say that, I was also thinking from my old school style of thinking, which was all right, yeah, but then if you're not watching it in the news, you don't know what's going on so you're just being oblivious to the world so where's the balance there?
Speaker 1:because is it the fear driven? Because I also was reading, like you know. It's about regulating the type of media you absorb and making sure it's fact based and stuff that's based on fear.
Speaker 2:How easy is it?
Speaker 1:That's not easy, actually because everybody who's on social media, and especially I see the way that my kids absorb media it's through Tik TOK, Instagram, YouTube, I mean and these are just individuals who have their own opinions.
Speaker 2:They don't have to be verified, they're not professional broadcasters per se.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And even then, now you know I mean. And even then, now you know I mean, I feel like when we were younger, we did probably put more trust in professional broadcasters.
Speaker 1:Quote unquote Professionals period. Like a doctor, I would be like, well, they know better than now. I'm like yo be skeptical and ask some questions, just ask some questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing, and I think the balance is, you know what I like to look at, because I stopped watching the news a long time ago and it was really hard for Armando because he still would watch the news and I would see him be more agitated, uh-huh, and I would say, you know, just stop watching it, Like I don't want to walk in the room and it's on, because it just feels like noise, uh-huh, and it feels like intrusive noise. So I would just ask, ask, like, please don't have it on the house. It just brings my mind in things that doesn't need to be concerned with. And what I realize is, like, you know, if there's something that I need to do something about, I want to know about it so that I can help. Right, there's something locally that's happening and there's something about my specific set of skills or what do I need to do to be able to help. Yes, I think that that's something I'd want to know about.
Speaker 2:But if there's something going on somewhere that I have no control over, I can't even vote in a way that helps it, I can't do anything about it, except deposit my own fear into it, my own fear into it.
Speaker 2:Then there's no reason for me to just consume it and sit with it and allow it to be in my system, because I do think that there's a collective consciousness and when I, if I go into a place where I'm constantly watching that stuff, when I can do nothing about it, I'm just depositing more collective fear and actually feeding that thing. So for me, it became about mental health, you know, and about focusing on what are the things I actually can do something about, and that became very clear. What can I actually do something about? I can do something about who I am as a person and how I treat people, and you know how I show up in the world. I could actually do something about that. I could actually help the people that are around me, ask them, you know, what do they need, and that's how I can actually, like I can, contribute to something in society right.
Speaker 2:If there's something that I need to vote on, yeah, I will vote on it. I will use my voice that way or speak up for someone, but just watching the news to see what's happening on another side, on the other side of the planet, that I can do absolutely nothing about, is actually so damaging to my mental health is there?
Speaker 1:is there a? Is there any balance to that? Like we're like I know about things right now. I hear the way you're talking and you it. It's almost as if news period is almost is a turnoff.
Speaker 1:It's news period is completely a turnoff to me and so for myself, I I don't watch, I don't have news, like I.
Speaker 1:We would have news on the TV sometimes for dinner and we could hear what's going on in the background and all that stuff and I could. I was listening to you and I was saying, you know, it was kind of distracting and hearing like tonight 11, there's murders here and that you know San Diego County and this, and it was like, yeah, there's a lot of bad shit going on and and, but it is local and there's things that, um, that I'm concerned about in places maybe not to go, but at the same same time, the big reality is I got no control over that stuff. Um, and I can absorb media in a different way. I do kind of pay attention to some headlines, I read stuff rather than watching a show. I don't know. It's my own opinion that I feel like the written stuff is less biased for some reason that I'm able to consume because there's less, I don't know, ego and characterization of it all or dramatization.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly. So I'll read some highlights. I almost, if I had to compare it to like sports, I'll watch the highlight reels of like NFL highlights. You know what I mean? The red zone I'll. I'll watch news like that because I don't need all. If there's something that I'm interested in, then I'll kind of go. I'll dig a little further on that, but for the most part, generally I'll just let it all skip by.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I think it's looking at like what do I actually need to know, like you're saying, and what is just me being interested in something salacious, like is it actually feeding me? When we talk about mental diet, like even just thinking about, is what you're watching actually nutritious?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is it? Is it nutritious for your brain? Is it nutritious for the way that you live your life? Then for me. If it's not for the way that you live your life, then for me. If it's not, then it's not you know, and I find even now I'll watch, I'll see something will pop up and you know, it's about like how, you know, even the entertainment industry is just falling apart, you know, and how people you thought were great are not so great.
Speaker 2:They've had some really weird habits and I think, ooh, gosh, I used to watch that, and what are they doing now? And then I'll stop myself and I'll go. Why do you care, like, why is this taking up any mental space in your head?
Speaker 1:Especially for celebrity stuff.
Speaker 2:I've got no time for that, yeah, but it feels like it feels like a guilty pleasure sometimes and so, but I do, I catch myself and I go, yeah, do you actually need to know this? It's like no, I don't. I could take my my time right now and I could go do something way more productive or something that actually feels good in my body, or I could call a friend or do something positive. So it's just balancing that out, but you're, you are constantly bombarded with information that does not concern you. Yeah, and it's shaping the way that you view the world. So it's just taking even the most minute amount of responsibility for what you are consuming with your mind, just like you would, hopefully, food to some degree.
Speaker 1:I wish there was a caloric intake or like how they have on the side of a box of cookies. They have all the this, many grams of sugar and this and that and all those. They should have that on TV shows. It's going to have this much of this in here.
Speaker 2:This much nervous system dysregulation.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is at an 800.
Speaker 1:Instead of just like nudity, sexual content, vulgar language.
Speaker 2:This will your energy will be depleted by 8 000 kilobytes, if you watch this. Yes, yeah like that should be a warning there should be a quantifiable uh number yes, because you know, if you watch animal planet, it's, it's, it's neutral oh yeah, like you're not, you're gonna, you might get happy actually you probably are gonna feel happy, but you're likely not gonna feel that bad, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:so it's like this feels good. Yeah, I can't do anything about going out into the gorillas or whatever, but at least I didn't bring myself into a deficit by watching it. So I think it's just really coming into a place of thinking about what uplifts you or what drains you, and then starting to create some boundaries with news and with social media, you know, and the big thing is like don't start or end your day with news or doom scrolling and those, hey, those are hard habits and the only one policing it is you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doom scrolling is still a thing for me because I still consume a lot of stuff on social media. Yeah, not so much news, but just I don't know self-help stuff, things that actually bring me some curiosity to different topics.
Speaker 2:Like an expansion. Yeah, like an expansion.
Speaker 1:So I guess it really depends on how you're using it. Not that I'm using it better than everybody else, I mean, it just happens to be what my algorithm now is. But even like I told you before, I try to get out of the self and help stuff and go into fantasy and I still find myself in there. So you know it's going to find you, no matter what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think if you just don't go to sleep, like, like in your mind, you're just I'm just doing this like a robot. It's like to go oh, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, let me check in and see like, is this actually something that do? I need to know this, and is this nutritious for my brain and for my body? And let that be like a filter that you run things through and start changing your own algorithm.
Speaker 1:Well, we talked before about the. I used to listen to podcasts all the time that were true crime podcasts. And what I recognized later was that the reason why I was listening to them was because of the familiarity of trauma and chaos, and part of it was like oh, their life is so much worse than mine, it's not, mine's not that bad, and so I was using it as a tool as a coping mechanism actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But realizing that that coping mechanism was one, building fear in me and continuing the pattern of anxiety and stress and all those things, or even cynicism. Well, yeah, I guess. So I was like kind of desensitized to some things. Then you'd be like, well, that's not that big of a deal. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:All spouses are killing each other, you know, or whatever that we're listening to, we're on crime, like that just happens and it's like yeah, no, no, it doesn't.
Speaker 1:We know about it because you know media is at such a platform, or there's so many platforms that media is at such a state that we have so much access to it. Yeah, so if you want to find anything, you pretty much can?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll find it.
Speaker 1:You'll find it if you use your resources and take the time to look. But what if you took the time to find things that were mentally healthy, you know?
Speaker 2:But what if you?
Speaker 1:took the time to find things that were mentally healthy. Yeah, just a little bit of thought around it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just be aware that programming is programming, it's called programming for a reason and it is programming you. So just kind of taking back your own power and going if I'm going to be programmed by something, I'm going to let it by something I'm going to be let it be something that I'm choosing.
Speaker 2:You know, like I do. I do pay attention to like where fires are. I have alerts on my phone for where there is a fire. That's important to me. I need to know that. You know if things like that that are within my direct vicinity and something that would have an effect on me or that I need to have an effect on, I do want to know about those things, but I'm not taking my time to go find all the things in the world that are going on that are wrong that I can do nothing about, so it can build my propensity for judgment or fear.
Speaker 1:Well, what if somebody said it must be nice to not have to worry about those things, or because you me and you are older, that we're not so worried about how the world turns out, and you're, and they look at us as if we're just, I don't know, taking it easy and, and you know, putting our head in the sand, cause that can be a perspective in terms of what we're talking about.
Speaker 2:Like why aren't you fighting more? Why aren't you angry?
Speaker 1:Well, it must be nice having the luxury not to give a shit. I mean, I've had that literally said to me. So what is that? What do I say to that? Yeah, what do you say I?
Speaker 2:say it sure is. You know you can come over here too and you can still be doing good in the world. It doesn't mean that you sit back and you do nothing. It means that you do things that you actually have control over, you take effect, that you can actually have right, you change yourself. That's how you change the world. You change yourself and how you show up in the world, and you let that be something that infects the people around you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they say all the time that trauma isn't what happened to you, it's the trauma. The trauma is what was it? It's not how it's, it's how you deal with trauma that affects you. It's like.
Speaker 2:It's not the trauma, it's not the trauma itself. It's how you deal with it.
Speaker 1:So you know how you're dealing with the information that you consume is going to is definitely going to be a factor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'll tell you that if I were to spend my time watching the news and getting angry, I would not be available to help people the way that I'm available to do that now with people who I come across. I would not be mentally available to do that.
Speaker 1:You think it leaves a capacity within you to hold space because you don't have so much trauma kind of stashed in there. I could see that. I could see that.
Speaker 2:If I were doing that, it would. It would negate my ability to do anything else. And I actually want to help and I actually want to affect people in a positive way. But if I were doom scrolling and I was watching the news and I was looking at how awful the world is, I would not be available to help. So I feel like that's one of the things is, when you have people who have a lot of ability to make a change or to help other people or to help their communities, sometimes they get so angry by what they're watching that it just it's like it just drains it drains their ability to actually show up in the world in a way that's very effective.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I think that's. I think it's something just for people to think about Like we why do we do this is is just to bring attention to things like that. We found that are really really helpful.
Speaker 1:How do you take back control?
Speaker 2:You start to really think about what's coming in. You actually pay attention.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do an audit of your inputs, right yeah?
Speaker 2:audit of your inputs. You know you're creating boundaries when it comes to social media.
Speaker 1:Write these down like write down what you're normally watching or consuming and then maybe do some correlation with how you felt that day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or what you're watching and then notice how, yeah, check in with your body, how is your body feeling after you watch that? You know. It's just a little bit of mindfulness and not looking at that mean world syndrome you know from the seventies, which is still going on today and probably could be rewritten as an article.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like you said, you know, don't start or in your day with news or no. Yeah, doom scrolling. Yeah, there's all of those things are so helpful to keep yourself in check.
Speaker 2:I mean your mind. Your mind is a sacred place and what you allow into it it shapes what you believe, it shapes how you feel and it shapes how you experience your life and you don't. You don't have to unplug everything completely, but you do need to be intentional and you need to ask yourself is this input making me better or is it keeping me stuck? You want content that inspires and educates and uplifts you. Consuming news after consuming social media, or even conversations that you're having, just notice how you feel. If it leaves you drained, if it leaves you feeling anxious, if it leaves you feeling hopeless, just consider cutting it back and then re-evaluate and see what happens when you take control of what you're feeding your mind. Just notice how that changes how you feel in your body, how you show up in relationships. All of that it's going to. I promise you it'll have a positive effect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to make the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pay attention.
Speaker 1:All right, that's been another episode of Let that Shift Go podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm Noel and I'm Lena, let us know what your questions are and we'd love to use them on a future episode. Or check us out on Insta at LetThatShiftGo, or visit our website, serenitycovetomeculacom.