Truth, Lies, and Everything in Between

Why your head started fogging up the moment you finally landed

Episode 96 · June 26, 2025

Truth, lies and authenticityUnity, division and societyEmotions and inner life

The Truth Hurts · Episode 96 · audio in Hebrew

The conversation

Fog in your head, trouble concentrating, sudden disconnection, anxiety that arrives out of nowhere, and you are not sure whether it happened because the world went crazy or because something is wrong with you. Gili Man Wolner says these are not random symptoms but a sign that the nervous system is asking to relax, that the soul is asking to breathe. She recognizes a pattern in it that has kept repeating since 2020: the pandemic, October 7, and now another war, and every time we are asked to do the same thing all over again. The real war is not being fought on the battlefield. It is being fought over our attention.

The truth

  • She'd wished she could sit at home and do nothing, and it happened. Really nothing. Even the washing machine broke down.

  • Brain fog, exhaustion, emotional disconnection and random anxiety. These are signs of emotional overload, not just a mood.

  • When she stopped watching television, she recognized that the screen had been stealing her concentration and her presence without her noticing.

  • She recognizes a pattern that keeps coming back since 2020: the pandemic, October 7, and now again. Every time something falls apart, and all of us are asked to face it again.

  • Harari's book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind pulled her back for a wider view of life, one bigger than her own private story.

  • The thought that stays with her: nothing happens for no reason. Not a plague, not a war, not any event. Everything has a direction and a purpose.


Questions and answers

Why is it that now, when I finally have a quiet moment, my head starts to fog up? And how do I know whether this is emotional overload?

By what she lists in the episode: brain fog, emotional confusion, exhaustion, dizziness, emotional disconnection, trouble concentrating and random anxiety. These are signs that the nervous system needs to relax, not random symptoms, and, in the way she puts it, the soul is asking to breathe.

Why is it that now, when I've finally landed, my head starts to fog up? What is this war going on inside?

The real war is being fought over our attention and our consciousness. She describes how social networks and advertising agencies want that attention because attention produces reality, and how, when people are stuck in fear and in a low vibration, it is easier to take their freedom of choice away from them.

What is a real awakening?

A real awakening is not meditating and it is not reading spiritual books. It is curiosity. It is asking questions you have never asked before and casting doubt on everything, including on what is treated as absolute truth, instead of accepting reality the way it is presented to you.

Gili's original episode description

Anyone who is feeling a kind of brain fog, emotional confusion, exhaustion, even dizziness, emotional disconnection, trouble concentrating and even random anxiety: you are not alone! These feelings are not random. These symptoms are usually signs of emotional overload, which means that your nervous system needs to relax, that your soul is asking for room to breathe.

Nothing is the way it used to be. It's just that we've grown indifferent, our senses dulled, one event piling onto the next, so busy surviving that we don't even have the strength to lift our heads and look past the horizon.

Something different is happening, and it's happening in every area: in the amount of information, in how fast events come at us, even in the simplest conversations, in social interactions. Loneliness has become a global epidemic. People are struggling without end: financial struggles, emotional struggles, physical struggles.

The real war is over our attention. Social networks, advertising agencies, everyone wants your attention, and that's no accident. It's a precious commodity, worth much more than money. Why? Because it produces reality. What happens when a big event happens? All the attention goes to it. The world isn't run only by politics or by money. It's run by the energy of the collective. When millions of people are stuck in fear, rage, anxiety or hopelessness, their higher spiritual power is blocked, and when that happens it's easier to take their freedom of choice away from them. I'm reminding you, and myself too, that the name of the game here is freedom of choice, and anyone who wants to take it away from you is certainly not a good messenger of the Creator. In our essence as souls we must not hand our freedom of choice to anyone. As they say: nobody decides for me.

War isn't only about territory. War is an enormous energetic event, because war produces fear, drives division and leaves trauma behind, and that keeps most people in a low vibration. People who are in survival mode don't question the system, don't initiate, don't speak up. They only react.

People are focused on the chaos, stuck in emotional cycles, because when your attention is turned toward war, drama and fear, you're not focused on your own inner power and you're not connected to your soul.

A real awakening is not meditating and it is not reading spiritual books. An awakening is starting to ask questions you've never asked before, questions you maybe never dared to ask. An awakening is curiosity. It's casting doubt on everything, on every truth, including on what I myself think is the truth.