Your Emotional Brain and You
The internal or external events that occur in your life are interpreted by your brain. If in fact we have positive feelings about a life event, that’s equates to a Non-Problem Status. So, we really only need to worry about life dramas when they create a negative emotion. Why? This article, the first of seven, will help you understand why.
Now, I’m going to share with you the importance of using your emotional brain to realize how your body reacts to events.
Randy Pausch, a 47 year old college professor, who died recently of pancreatic cancer, said, “Experience is what you get when you don′t get what you want”. What is your experience of events in your life?
Dr Mike Gosling says, “Life is a series of events. Every event is an opportunity for change. It’s from the most painful events that you change the most.” Do you agree with Dr Mike?
Every event in your life that occurs, is interpreted by your brain. External events are received into your brain through our five senses and we are constantly busily examining our internal environment as well - what’s going on inside of our brain and body - to assess and to work out what’s going on in our life.
If we have a positive feeling about a life event, that’s a Non-Problem Status. Because when good things happen to us, it’s ‘no problem’ for us, we don′t care. In fact we feel good about it.
Every negative experience that we have results in us accumulating stress, because every single emotion, every negative emotion that you have, is actually an Adrenalin response.
Because every single negative experience that we have will result in us accumulating stress, because every emotion, every negative emotion that you have, is actually an Adrenalin response.
It’s your body producing a stress response - producing a chemical because our brain has interpreted some form of danger to us and our well-being, some form of threat.
Let me explain a little bit more. If I were to draw for you a cartoon sketch of a cross-section of our brain, the two major parts of the brain that are useful to know about is a section that lies just above the brain stem called the Limbic System and the Cortex, the thinking part of the brain.
The other part of the brain, which does all of the thinking, is the Cortex. Human beings have a very developed Cortex, therefore we have a larger brain than most animals. The Limbic System and the Cortex are constantly inter-reacting with one another.
The other part of the brain, which does the thinking, is the Cortex. Human beings have a very developed Cortex, therefore we have a larger brain than most animals. The Limbic System and the Cortex are constantly inter-playing with one another.
The Limbic System is the part of the brain that assesses first, all the different senses that come into the body, through sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.
That’s all for today. In my next article I’ll share with you the story of the zebra; how it uses its brain to deal with danger or threat. Are we like the zebra? Its all part of what I call The Science of Emotional Wealth. So be sure to keep an eye out for my articles.
That’s all for now. In my next article I’ll share with you the story of the zebra; how it uses its brain to deal with danger or threat. Are we like the zebra? Its all part of what I call The Science of Emotional Wealth. So be sure to keep an eye out for my articles.
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