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Trust isn't forced, but emerges from autonomic states shaped by safety, connection, and co-regulation.

States of protection, individually and collectively, disrupt the neural rhythms that support trust.

Repairing trust requires restoring the body’s natural capacity to signal and detect safety with others.

Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s AI and the Paradox of Trust , this post explores how global division and distrust reflect a collective physiological state of threat, not just ideological or psychological divides.

When bodies lock into chronic patterns of protection, our tolerance for differences narrows. We become hypervigilant. Hypersensitive. Hyperattuned to what’s uncertain, unpredictable, and unfamiliar.

The “other” becomes unsafe.

In this way, the personal bec

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