Dr. Dave Rabin

The mind is meant to follow the body and intuition should lead.

And that's something that's also very, very much not taught well.

When we learn to not trust our bodies, then the fear control of the mind and the amygdala leads, and then that takes such a firm grip and hold on us that we end up effectively doubting every single experience we have and not being able to be present.

So, to your point, yeah, in modern day, the grip of the mind has been trained to, in this ego-dominant state, to protect us.

It's not trying to hurt us, though, right?

Like, that's the thing that I think a lot of people don't understand is, like, our minds are not trying to hurt us.

They're not trying to make our lives hard.

They're just trying to protect us because they perceive that there is danger, even though there isn't actually danger, right?

and so in the book i really helped break this down from an evolutionary perspective where people can understand this part of the brain the amygdala evolved not just in us but in all animals dating back to ancient reptiles to really protect us from four things

lack of air in and in order of what will kill us first right and fastest lack of air lack of physical safety and shelter lack of water and lack of food those are the four things that will kill us faster than anything else then the other two are lack of sleep and lack of social connection to our community so when but when those first four issues are checked off you can say i have all these things right i have physical safety i have air i have water i have food

then when we run that checklist, we can actually shut down the amygdala.

We can say, these boxes are checked.

I can take a deep breath right now and come back into my body knowing my body's safe.

And then you reset.

And it's just that simple.

But again, if we don't learn how to do that, those skills just become elusive to us.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's all about alignment, right?

It's about harmony.

It's about the mind and the body working together, where they're both listening.