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Stress causes health problems
We’re all under stress right now. And the stress-reactive circuits in our brain guide us to respond ineffectively to stress and cause chronic stress and rising rates of emotional, behavioral, social, and physical health problems.
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Understanding the emotional brain
- The neural circuits in our emotional brain - the limbic system and subconscious memory systems - control our emotional responses in daily life.
- When a stimulus arrives in the brain, it activates either stress-resilient circuits, the internal calmers and healers, or stress-reactive circuits.
- The brain activates the strongest circuit, which controls our responses.
- If the strongest circuit is the reactive circuit, our strong emotions get the upper hand, and the stress interferes with the part of our brain responsible for higher-level thinking and planning.
- The longer the stress-reactive circuit is activated, the more likely they are to activate other stress-reactive wires, which can cause an emotional meltdown of anxiety, numbness, depression, and hostility.
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Retrain the stressed brain
The brain learns to be resilient by being resilient. It takes becoming stressed, then use emotional techniques to change the unreasonable expectations stored in that circuit.
- One technique is to complain briefly. It activates the reactive wire that has encoded an incorrect response.
- Then rapidly express emotions, starting with a burst of anger (which decreases stress). You can then stay present to your strong, negative emotions. Talk to yourself through finishing phrases like " I feel afraid that..." or "I feel sad that..."
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Stress resilience
- Stress as a social response: We can spread stress to others that can eventually become large-scale group emotions.
- Treating stress: The current model of treating stress symptoms with medications and procedures will require detox.
A long-term solution is to train the emotional brain for stress resiliency.
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