Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts
Jul 11, 2026 · 18 min · 8 segments
In this sharing, we explore a practice suggested by the poet and writer Colette Lafia regarding the importance of play. As she names, play has particularly qualities that we can forget or get pushed…
I think this shift of perspective is ever more profoundly important considering the shift of the political world we live in that has the potential, the capacity to knock us into reactive fear all the time if we let it.
And that is literally this allowing the amygdala, the tunnel vision of the small part of the survival brain that is designed to only take control if it's a life-death moment.
that's allowing that part an unsupported control of the moment in a way that we miss things.
I think this shift of perspective is ever more profoundly important considering the shift of the political world we live in that has the potential, the capacity to knock us into reactive fear all the time if we let it.
And that is literally this allowing the amygdala, the tunnel vision of the small part of the survival brain that is designed to only take control if it's a life-death moment.
that's allowing that part an unsupported control of the moment in a way that we miss things.
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