11/03/2025
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-yourself-the-solution-to-the-american-communications-crisis--64799730
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Excerpt: Here is where the research that I have done over the years in my books Conflict Healing, Healing the Heart of Conflict, in my book Compassionate Reasoning and in my book on Future Healing which is emerging is that basically we have a tremendous power with every word that we use to shift conversations and shift people's attention towards negative things and towards destructive things versus towards things that are very healing and that are very encouraging of pro social relationships.
It also is up to us at every moment whether we turn conversations in the direction of emotional regulation or dysregulation. The words related to care, understanding and empathy activate different neural pathways that encourage social bonding.
But threats and insults produce very different kinds of emotional dysregulation.
This is very important in terms of the direction of basically the public space of the United States every single day.
This is an opportunity to contribute in your own modest way every day rather than be a passive recipient. But to become an active producer in very small ways is to help with cognitive reframing to shift the country towards care, respect,
honesty, decency, compassion.
This reframes discussions away from a win lose dynamic and an insulting dynamic to a mutually understanding dynamic.
This is also called linguistic priming. It is a way in which by repetition and linguistic contagion, we can introduce words that are often or phrases that are often associated with kindness, reconciliation, a shared humanity that are mirrored by other people the more that they hear it.
This is the first episode I created with Alitu!
