All right, here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

If this happens to be the first time that you are listening to this show,

then you welcome you. Everybody else, what's up? How are things with you in this moment? Like right

now as you listen to this, is everything okay?

I wish to suggest that if there's no immediate distress and like on some baseline level

we're like reasonably okay right now, then let's just be really grateful for that

because it seems like life

is sometimes held together in tenuous threads, you know?

And things can shift pretty quickly.

And... you know, and things can shift pretty quickly. And, you know, I have this impulse to say that we're having challenging times,

but as I think back over the last 10 years of doing this show, there's been many occasions

where I've said, wow, things are really bad right now.

And in some ways, compared to the last few years, things are actually a little bit better right now, I would say.

To be real, given everything that's happened in the last, say, five years, right now, things aren't as crazy as they were,

and at the same time, they feel crazier than ever, don't they?

And I was reflecting back on a conversation I had here on this show many years ago with Carol Horton and it was about

paradigm shifts and how there's a moment of crisis when the old paradigm is collapsing and the new paradigm

has yet to emerge. And back when we talked about that years ago,

I felt like that's what was happening.

The old paradigm is collapsing,

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