How to Keep the News From Blowing Your Emotional Circuit

The way to describe this week might be to use the phrase, here we go again.

Another mass shooting at a school, after what had been the latest mass shooting, at a supermarket, just 10 days before. And the same debate now about guns firing up again, with the same arguments on both sides and the same signs that nothing will be done.

And the same concerns about mental health and what we can and cannot do about it.  And the same worries about the role and impact of social media.

And now today, we hear the news that San Diego County’s number of COVID infections is now higher than it was a year ago going into the Memorial Day holiday weekend in 2021…with the county now in the CDC’s Medium risk category, up from the low risk where we had been.

With the news of a new surge of the virus comes a resurgence of the debate over vaccines and boosters and where and when maybe to still wear masks.

It’s been a week that has our heads spinning again, which has been the way it seems it has been for the last couple of years or more.  One thing after another.

As one commentator suggested during these times in which we live, “our emotional circuit breaker keeps overloading because the hardware was built for an older time.”  

So how do we prevent our emotions from overloading with all of this going on?

Maybe we focus on the power available to us to remember the blessings and the good we often take for granted.  

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