Fear: A Chain Reaction in Your Brain

Deep in your brain, behind your eyes, is your amygdala.  

The amygdala controls the way you react to things. It’s where your emotions get stored - especially fear.  

Fear is important when you are in danger.  Yet fear keeps you totally wound up in your day-to-day life as well.  It’s your brain “stuck” like a phonograph record playing the same thing over and over.  

That deep-down part of your brain is why you get angry with someone - the situation makes you fearful. The anger in our world that sends people to war, that hurts people - amygdalas.  

The worry that keeps you up at night - amygdala. The stress hormones that keep you stressed, and make you unhealthy -triggered by amygdala fear.  The reluctance to step out and change your life - amygdala.

When researchers put a thin wire into the brain of rodents to zap the amygdala, the rodents had no fear of anything - even cats.  

We have a balance for our amygdala - it’s called the neocortex. That’s where critical reasoning, perception, conscious thought can be used to work past the deep-down amygdala with higher reasoning that connects you to your divinity.

Today - create and focus on love - the counter to fear.  Today - keep your heart full of love, your mind full of love, so what you see, what you say, what you do, is peaceful and loving.  You are developing the habit of countering your amygdala with your love.

Love your life today.  Love it!!!​

Love,

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