Sometimes the wisest thing to do
is to refuse to watch the news
to go for a walk alone
and then go quietly home
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: wise.
Quieting the sympathetic fight or flight state to the parasympathetic relaxed state: http://www.wisebrain.org/ParasympatheticNS.pdf.
This is one of the pieces Rainshadow Chorale is working on:
But the news is like a trainwreck and I cannot look away.
I do radio or look at internet for a SHORT period most mornings. Not tv, though, that melts the brain.