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personThe amygdala is an almond-shaped structure in the brain involved in threat detection and fear responses.
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And if you do that in the actual scanner, which we can do, you can see that that distributes down into the anterior cingulate, in the insula, in the amygdala, and ultimately the tract goes into something called the nucleus tractus solitarius, and ultimately into the vagus nerve, into the heart.
There are many complex structures of the human brain, but the most basic, what they call the primitive or the reptilian brain, the nervous system, the amygdala, here to keep you alive.
The amygdala is signaling the hippocampus.
So if we are constantly doubting ourselves and having this negative mindset, then our amygdala is going to hijack our perception and we're not even going to be able to notice the opportunities or the things that we want.
In the brain of somebody without anxiety, the amygdala, the switch that turns off the amygdala and turns off the fear response is just as receptive as the same switch getting turned on.
That includes your amygdala, which is where your fears and your threat detection comes from.
The amygdala, the hippocampus, the hypothalamus, this is the feeling centers.
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