Unlike human interpersonal interactions, AI doesn’t become hurt, defensive, confused, overwhelmed or contradictory. It doesn’t sit across from us saying: “I think you’re missing my experience here.” Instead, AI primarily works with the material we provide, which means the emotional framing inside the prompt we have given matters enormously.

A few clients have mentioned L-theanine to me recently. They’ve described less catastrophic thinking, fewer negative loops, more energy, and better sleep. Not a dramatic shift, but a noticeable one. It got me thinking about how much of what we experience as “thoughts” is actually shaped by the state of the nervous system underneath. When that state shifts, even slightly, the way thoughts land can change.

There are ways some of us experience the world that do not fit neatly into language. Ways of knowing that arrive before thought. Ways of feeling that move through the body before they are understood. Ways of sensing that seem to come from somewhere both within and beyond.