Have you ever thought, what if your brain isn’t giving you the best advice?
What does it crave? Certainty.
What does it hate? Uncertainty.
A sense of uncertainty generates a strong threat or “alert” response in your limbic system, the fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.
It detects something is wrong and begins scanning, moving into survival mode.
What happens next? The worry, the what ifs.
In this video, I unpack all of this, talking about:
1) How Facing Your Fears Calms Down Your Brain
2) How Avoiding Things Teaches Your Brain to be More Afraid
3) The Importance of Calling BS When Your Brain Gives You Bad Advice
In the video, I address the uncertain times we are in, the ongoing stress we are all trying to cope with.