When the world feels like it’s falling apart, your brain might need a new lens. Shift from threat mode to challenge mode—and watch your energy come back to life. Learn three ways to reframe your outlook, move out of threat mode, and tap into a more hopeful, energized version of yourself. Because when your future looks brighter, your present feels lighter.

What You’ll Learn

• Why your appraisal of the future affects your energy, health, and emotions now
• How zooming out with history can reframe today’s problems
• Why collecting stories of kindness fuels hope and resilience
• A mental trick to comfort yourself in hard times

Timestamps:
00:30 – The toll of threat mindset on body, energy, and mood
03:17 – Why the future you imagine shapes the present you live
06:07 – Strategy #1: Zooming out with history
12:46 – Strategy #2: Collecting stories of a global “army of good”
14:09 – Strategy #3: Letting your future self comfort your present self
16:51 – Kindness Narrative: A dirty, hungry man meets kind strangers

Submit Your Kindness Narrative:
Share a moment of kindness that moved you or changed you. Email your story (written or audio) to calmyourcaveman@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @CalmYourCaveman.

For full shownotes, including resources mentioned, go to: https://www.calmyourcaveman.com/episodes/when-the-world-feels-doomed