World Chaos - Part II

<p>Episode Title: World Chaos – Part II</p> <p>In this episode of “Calming the Chaos,” I’ll continue to talk about the chaos that continues to happen in our world today. This is an update from the podcast episode in February of 2020 when I talked about the Coronavirus, because things are changing quickly in our world today!</p> <p>Besides the Coronavirus there are two other contagions that are spreading across the world and have been labeled “Chaotic.” The stock market fluctuations and the tornado in Tennessee.</p> <p>Health Chaos</p> <p>Market Chaos</p> <p>Natural Disaster (Tornado) Chaos</p> <p>The intention of this podcast episode is to do the following: 1) Review the definition of “Chaos,” along with the difference between real and perceived chaos 2) Attempt to sort through these three events and determine whether they are real or perceived chaos for you 3) Give you a story about my own personal experience in the past month and where I am now 4) Give you one tip that can help you cope with real or perceived chaos</p> <p>I. Let’s review the definition of “chaos”</p> <p>• Complete disorder</p> <p>• Unpredictable behavior</p> <p>• Random or intense situations</p> <p>• Small changes that happen in bundles or are sensitive in nature</p> <p>• Disorganized</p> <p>• Confused mass or mixture.</p> <p>Real Chaos vs. Perceived Chaos – both have to do with the emotion “fear”</p> <p>Real Chaos: Life threatening emergencies. These include anything uncontained, such natural disasters, (floods, fires, traffic accidents, mass shootings, riots, power outages). Real chaos can cause fear, which helps us take action in times of real emergencies.</p> <p>Perceived Chaos: Is stressful, but non-life-threatening. Those things that “feel chaotic” and the things one tends to perceive as disorganized, random or intense, and that are just “too much” to handle. Like fear of germs or natural disasters, flying, or losing all of your money.</p> <p>Since both Real and Perceived Chaos are related to fear, here are some examples of real fear / re