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How to Love People Better Through Holistic Mental and Spiritual Care

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The Window of Tolerance and the Physiology of Anger

The window of tolerance is a tool to help us understand how the nervous system works. Our amygdala doesn't differentiate between trashy man Twitter versus, oh, this is a snake kind of slithering across the path that I'm walking on. It reads it as threat and it responds with this proper survival mechanism. But what happens is that most of us live in a world where we're constantly surrounded by threats inundated with them before 24-hour news cycles.

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