When we teach participants about operational security, how to manage and survive lethal attacks, kidnaps and hostage situations, we simplify the stress management by using red, yellow and green zones. We always try to avoid the red zone, because you panic and miss crucial information.

However, most of us experience some Yellow Zone stress on a regular basis and most of us fluctuate between the Green and Yellow Zones often. Many different situations may put us in the Yellow Zone, and we manage to be in the yellow zone for hours, days, even weeks, as long as we descend to the green eventually.

What makes me concerned is the tendency that alot of people today to be in the yellow zone for a very long time. The new order of the world, ongoing war, direct or indirect, for years and the media focusing on negative news like the regression, volatile society, global climate challenges and crime rates, make it even harder for citizens to leave the yellow zone. Some people need help to ground on the green baseline, and we need to support each other to levelage.

Fellow citizens are in a state of heightened alertness and arousal, signaling that emotions are starting to escalate. We need to not only use active coping mechanisms to prevent a shift into the Red Zone, but to descend to the green zone to avoid the stress leading to burnout and the importance of leveraging your best energy throughout life, not only in crucial lethal situations, but in this era and new order in the world.

The Yellow Zone represents mild and reversible stress. We all experience Yellow Zone stress, the workup for a deployment, or changes for our children at school. When we notice our stress level is elevating, we can work to ensure adequate sleep and rest, and actively work to manage what we can.

I don't say the alarmistic news or constant awareness and resilience policy is wrong, but I say that it puts citizens' health at risk if we do help each other to levelate sometimes. Without it, the news tends to affect health, wellbeing and then, in the long run, the resilience of society.

We need to keep self-distance, humor, lust and feelings at a level.