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.
379
1.23K reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about health with this collection
How to create and sell NFTs
The future of NFTs
The benefits and drawbacks of NFTs
Related collections
Similar ideas to Understanding the emotional brain
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 inc...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates