The world is changing faster than our nervous systems were ever designed for.

When I was young, you could choose a path. Study something, train for it, build a life around it and retire at 65.

There was a sense that the future was knowable. Not perfect, but predictable enough to lean into.

For most of human history, this was true. If you were a farmer, your children would likely be farmers. If you trained for a profession, it would probably still exist when you finished.

Now that stability is quietly disappearing. Today, a 21-year-old cannot make a five-year plan with the same confidence. A 60 year old who lost his job in the tech industry, has a harder time getting rehired in this fast changing environment. The world is moving faster than we can model it and not to sound fatalistic, but there are no guarantees.

Jobs are changing and technology is reshaping everything....our bodies feel it. We are wired to predict and to look ahead and make sense of what is coming, and when the horizon won’t sit still, the nervous system goes into low-grade alarm. Not panic, not crisis, just a constant background hum of vigilance (fight, flight, freeze).

This is the anxiety so many of us are living inside. The hardest part is not the change itself, it's letting go of what used to feel solid and letting go of the idea that we could know what was coming.

This is why practices like mindfulness, breathwork, and embodiment matter so much right now, not to escape the world, but to anchor ourselves inside it.

When the future is uncertain, presence becomes our refuge, when the map disappears, the body becomes home. Maybe the real work of this era is not predicting what is next but learning how to stay grounded, flexible, and kind as it unfolds.

What do you do to keep your body and mind grounded in this fast-paced world of change?

Let me know if I can share some practical tools at your workplace to help calm the nervous system or join me for a weekend retreat to immerse yourself in nervous system soothing practices.

Be well.