How to Refresh Your Brain In a Matter of Seconds When You’re Stressed
By Brady Wilson, Inc., July 24, 2016
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Experiencing a massive brain shutdown? Try these 3 ways to restore your higher-level thinking.
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But what happens if your emotional brain perceives a threat during that conversation?
Let’s say that the other person rolls her eyes and begins looking at her watch. Feeling your sense of worth threatened, your emotional brain will release stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol, and norepinephrine) that have one simple task: to remove complexity from the situation, so you can make a lightning-fast decision guaranteeing your “safety.”
These stress chemicals immediately flush out bits of data they deem extraneous: bits of data that would otherwise lead to future-based, complex thoughts.
