You’re sitting safely at your kitchen table — and your body is acting like it’s under attack.
That’s not a metaphor. It’s neuroscience.
This week on Men Talking Mindfulness, Jon Macaskill (retired Navy SEAL Commander, still accidentally on a Bahrain missile alert list) and co-host Will Schneider break down what the U.S.–Israel campaign against Iran is doing to your nervous system — even if you’re nowhere near the conflict.
In this episode, we cover:
Why your brain can’t tell the difference between a CNN headline and an actual incoming threat
The root chakra connection: how destabilizing news rattles your entire system from the ground up
Chomsky’s “enemy filter” from Manufacturing Consent — and why it’s running at full speed right now
The STEA framework (Stimulus → Thought → Emotion → Action) for inserting a critical pause before you react
How to talk to your kids about war without transferring your anxiety to them
Practical steps to break the dopamine loop of compulsive news checking
This isn’t “just breathe and ignore the world.” This is deeper contact with reality — so your opinions are built on clarity, not cortisol.
Plus: Jon’s new book Dial In Your Leadership is out now on Amazon, and Mindfulness for A-holes is coming later this year.
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