Risk & Business Magazine McFarlan Rowlands Magazine Fall 2017 | Page 31

DR. HEIDI HANNA
J
ust as your mind finally exhausts
its relentless efforts to mentally
prepare you for the day ahead, you
are jolted awake by an alarm clock
with a groggy awareness: there is
not enough time in the day to get it
all done. This seemingly simple thought
shifts your brain-body chemistry into a
state of survival, energizing only the most
critical elements of your operating system.
Yet, when moments become available for
us to rest and recharge, we find ourselves
restlessly stirring, reaching out for
something to “kill time” even though we
complain there is never enough of it to
begin with. Our deep-seated longing for
information, connection and validation
makes technology an open source for our
drug of choice: constant stimulation that
provides a temporary fix to override the
exhaustion we fear will take us down for
good.
“If I do stop, what if I can’t start back up
again?”
WELCOME TO THE HUMAN ENERGY
CRISIS—THE EPIDEMIC OF OUR TIME
We’re running on empty, and the problem
is not that we don’t know