Neuroscientists know that fear short circuits your brain so that you don’t use the logical part of your brain called the prefrontal cortex. When something triggers fear, your brain defaults to your amygdala, so you act without thinking.
You yell at your family. Your blood pressure goes up. You feel anxiety. You do what you are told, even if it makes no sense.
24-hour news headlines normalize fear. The scary signs plastered right at face level as you enter almost every store normalize fear.
Fear is not normal. Despite the headlines, you are safer now than anyone has been throughout almost all of human history.
You also have access to more knowledge and information than a king or a president from 50 years ago. And it’s free. (Well, you don’t pay for it, but it’s c*ns*red now.)
Gratitude dissolves fear which then allows you to think.
Stop. Normalizing. Fear.
