Light up your life - coaching with Hazel Mclaren

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@HFalconerMP @AH_AlSharaa @UKParliament Shame on you all of you - you know this man’s past and present!

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 Just learned about a 2300-year-old concept I can't stop thinking about

The Empty Boat Theory

It explains why Elon Musk fights strangers on X at 2 am
Why Michael Jordan turned his Hall of Fame speech into a revenge list

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

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@austin_jordan12 Kids

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@lanceames72469 @SamaHoole I see an opportunity for more goat stories! 😄

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It depends on where you are how much is cropped. There are areas where cropping works and areas where it will not work. You cannot combine a steep hill or rocky ground.
The amount of grain used also depends which country you are in and how the cattle (the ones that are going into the food chain, which is not all of them) are fed and finished. In the US there are more feedlots than in the U.K. not much grain is used here, a lot of silage is (fermented grass) and real grass.
The death due to monocropping is absolutely true. Those who manipulate your thinking with global stats, exaggeration and emotion have their own agenda and it is one that does not have your best interests at heart.

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This perpetually active system turns everyday challenges into perceived threats.

A test isn't a challenge; it's a risk of failure.
A new social situation isn't an opportunity; it's a risk of rejection.
A change in routine isn't novel; it's a threat to security.
The child isn't being "difficult" or "dramatic." Their system is doing exactly what it was designed to do—respond to a perceived threat. The problem is the perception.
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Your child's fear switch is stuck in the "on" position.

We are all born with a brilliant, life-saving fear mechanism. It's designed to activate in critical moments—like seeing a car swerve—to get us to safety, and then it's meant to dissipate.

But for an increasing number of children, this system is no longer switching off. It's perpetually active.

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@JackCaramac @SamaHoole You can’t buy it here so we have our own milking goats. I know exactly what goes into the milk and how healthy the goats are.

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@JackCaramac @SamaHoole It’s delicious, I can’t drink the processed stuff, I can’t deal with the taste or texture. It’s also very good for the gut when raw.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 This is the most addictive drug ever created.

But it's not comfort.

It's the endless scrolling.

Your brain is running a program written by people who studied slot machines for a living.

Every scroll is a pull of the lever. Most posts are nothing. Occasionally something hits. That unpredictable reward gap is called variable ratio reinforcement and it is the most addictive behavioral pattern ever discovered in psychology.

Pigeons in B.F. Skinner's lab literally pecked themselves to exhaustion chasing it. You do the same thing horizontally in bed at midnight.

The scroll mechanism was not designed by accident. Former slot machine engineers were literally hired by social media companies to consult on feed behavior.

The infinite scroll patent was filed by Aza Raskin who later publicly apologized for it and called it a design decision that costs humanity roughly 200,000 collective hours every single day.

The notifications badge exploits the same dopamine circuitry as a predator detecting movement in tall grass.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a mention on X and something that matters to your survival. Both fire the same alerting response. The red dot exists to keep that circuit misfiring constantly.

What makes this genuinely difficult to escape is that the content occasionally IS valuable. The lever occasionally DOES pay out. That mix of genuine reward buried inside manufactured compulsion is what makes it almost neurologically impossible to self regulate through willpower alone.

You are not weak.

You are just predictable.

And someone spent billions of dollars mapping exactly how predictable you are.

The exit is awareness first.

Then friction.

Delete the apps from your home screen.

Make the lever harder to pull.

Your attention is not a product you chose to sell.

It was taken while you were looking at something shiny.

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@SamaHoole The Doris's of this world are wonderful creatures. Way wiser in their way than than those who are making our policy decisions. The Doris's of this world don't wish to try and control the things that they cannot control.

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It is no wonder people are struggling with their health and mental health, our diets are toxic the environment is full of toxins, we have denatured key basic foods.
The mental environment is equally toxic constantly pushing ideas and situations that generate negative emotions at us anger, fear, hatred, depression and confusion from all angles and from early ages.
These negative emotions feelings and behaviours are modelled to us through the media, and music, they provide us with the ideas we see as ‘normal’ which we then take on ourselves. This all feeds into how we experience the world and how we behave.
And then we seek an external pharmaceutical answer for the internally generated feelings we are experiencing as a result of a world that seems designed to undermine our mental health and to lead us to think we are ‘broken’ .

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Yep, we all live in ‘separate realities’ and it’s amazing we manage to get on as well as we do. But I wonder how we would do if more actually knew this and what the the impact would be on the world as a whole. I’ve become much more aware of the onslaught of fear generating media we navigate daily since I ‘saw’ this at a deep level in my life and of the active attempts to keep us in binary belief systems to keep us divided. Neither of which ever provide us an answer to the problems we face.

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The average British person had nothing to do with colonisation- that is a distraction - it was a tiny minority that profited -massively from colonisation. It is that tiny minority that still holds power and wants to set people against each other to distract from their profiteering and control agenda now.

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To avoid causing harm, don't focus on choosing 'good.' Focus on questioning your certainty. When you're absolutely convinced you're right, that's precisely when you're most likely to be causing harm.

I’m seeing this everywhere online right now.

We have an innate guidance system that signals whether our choices align with wisdom or lead us astray. That system is our feelings. When strong emotions arise—especially about something that isn’t immediately life-threatening—it’s a signal to pause. It’s a sign NOT to act.

It’s a sign we’ve lost connection to the deeper intelligence behind life. We should never make decisions from this state, because they’ll likely be misguided. If we let our thoughts spiral, our emotions will follow, intensifying. That’s how the human experience works. When we understand this, we gain agency. We can choose. Without this understanding, we may feel powerless, leading to decisions that harm our lives, businesses, careers, or relationships.

Your emotions aren’t a reflection of reality; they’re a reflection of your thinking about reality.

#3Principles #InnateHealth #InsideOut #MentalClarity #ThoughtFeelingSystem #MindConsciousnessThought #HumanExperience #EmotionalIntelligence #PauseBeforeYouPost #QuestionYourCertainty #Arendt #BanalityOfEvil #Righteousness #CommunityBuilding #SelfAwareness

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@Electroversenet How many people in the world could have been raised out of poverty with this!

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𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇: 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 '𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫' 𝐚𝐧𝐱𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥.

𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐫.

The jump to secondary school means:

• A bigger environment with new social dynamics

• Less individual reassurance from teachers

• More pressure to cope independently

For thoughtful children, these changes often create worry - not because something's wrong, but because their minds are trying to prepare.

My age-appropriate support helps children understand what's happening internally so they don't get stuck in fear or self-doubt. #ChildAnxietySupport #Parenting

Free parent call if you'd like to discuss your child's specific worries and more info at https://t.co/HUMujv31ai