{"id":405,"date":"2020-09-02T20:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattdavisyoga.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2020-09-02T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:58:41","slug":"amazing-yoga-to-calm-your-lizard-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattdavisyoga.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Yoga to Calm Your Lizard Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.5.8″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”22px” hover_enabled=”0″]

Lizards get a hard time, don’t they? I mean, look at that majestic fella up there. So peaceful and wise!

Still. I watched a webinar with a city council member from Minneapolis this week. He talked about the police murder of George Floyd. And how the council had voted to take away the police department in the city. They want to replace it with a community safety department, under which the police serve.
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Right now, he said, there\u2019s a lot of fear governing people\u2019s decisions. I was intrigued, and he talked about how our \u201clizard brains\u201d often want to take over. How when we\u2019re scared, we want to make decisions that aren\u2019t logical. That aren\u2019t in the long-term interests of our communities.
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When you see a spike in shootings, for example, you might think, \u201cwell, we need more police.\u201d But when we ask the people in the communities affected by those shootings, they say, \u201cno, we want to feel safer. And sending more police in isn\u2019t going to do that.\u201d
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We have to think with the non-lizard brain, America.

For your bumper sticker:


🚫 🦎 🧠, 🇺🇸!
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It\u2019s a hard time. But I\u2019m committed to calming my lizard brain. What do we want America to look like in the years to come? What room do we want to make for people to process their trauma and heal?
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Take my free yoga class here on calming our lizard brains.<\/a><\/strong>
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Namaste,
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Matt

P.S. Marcella Hazan\u00a0has a super recipe for using September’s enormous zucchini<\/a>. It also includes all the tomatoes deluging your kitchen. Let me know if you make it. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked something by her that worked out badly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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