Crisis. It's a word that's become commonplace in the last few years. Whether it's a personal crisis, a financial crisis or a crisis in society - the attacks on our personal, environmental and cultural lives can make us feel helpless, overwhelmed and in despair.

BUT there's one thing that can determine an improved outcome: how we respond.

In moments of crisis, we have been conditioned to resort to our survival instincts. It's in the favor of the "war economics and politics" to progate that the "natural human instinct" is selfish and self-centered during times of scarcity and danger. Today I offer a different approach.

However, when everyone is encouraged and demonstrated survival mode, it's easy to fall into a state of fear, competition, and manipulation. When we take action in fear, competition and anger, although in a bid to protect ourselves, we actually enhance the crisis.

When everyone is fighting to get to the head of the line, taking control, and forcing outcomes, it's easy for media, politics, people to control us using fear, anger, and competition.

And yes, there is a biological effect; the primitive systems of survival mode activate the amygdala in our brain, triggering the fight or flight response. When the amygdala is activated:

• we don't see possibilities,

• we feel separate from each other, and

• we compete for resources,

= leading us to a divided and conquered society.

But what if there was another way? What if we could respond differently? 

What if we could see a crisis as a great opportunity for change disguised as an impossible situation?