It is now abundantly clear to me that you cannot survive and flourish at the same time. They are two fundamentally different ways of being, two distinct forms of embodied consciousness, two realms if you prefer.

You cannot survive and flourish at the same time because when you perceive something as a threat and your nervous system pops into fight, flight, freeze and fawn, your body switches to an entirely different operating system than when you perceive the world as safe and benevolent.

The biological mechanisms of survival-mode shut off the biological mechanisms of flourishing.

Capitalism and other supremacist systems exist and persist precisely because they create unsafe conditions that put us in a constant state of nervous system activation. Keeping us traumatized and in survival-mode is part of how these systems control our minds and our bodies.