salyavin, I'd say it's not a feeling of being held back. More a feeling of
being less impulsive, less reactive.
As for your explanation, I sort of got lost in the second paragraph, beginning
with the second sentence. Before then, I was following just fine. I don't
understand the bit about the brain setting up states one likes and how that's
related to the traumatic events.
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Good article by someone with more patience for
theists than I have...
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote :
Salyavin, it's so interesting what you say about without fear we might not act.
For some time now I've been noticing that my usual impulses for taking action
aren't operating. So what is making me act? I gotta go with pure life force.But
it definitely takes some getting used to!
I could have explained that better. The adrenal gland controls the fight/flight
mechanism - or rather the rest of the brain controls it by learning how to
respond and repeating that next time the stimulus appears. It's how anxiety
states grow, if we are anxious about something and then go to a different place
before the adrenaline has died down, we will associate that place with anxiety
so that next time we go we may start feeling jumpy without knowing why.
It only takes two traumatic experiences to set up a neural network that will
trigger next time you are in the same situation. Here's the clever bit, your
brain likes to help you out and set up states of mind that it thinks you want.
The part of the brain that does this doesn't have any opinion on whether you
consciously like something it just puts you in the state you were in last time
you were in in that situation. Anxiety, confidence, whatever.
So maybe some automatic process is shifting inside that makes you feel like you
don't act in the same way because you are more or less worried or pissed off at
the moment. Most of what goes on in our heads is unconscious and picking out
what affected you and how in your past can be a major job but can be essential
self knowledge if you ever have the feeling that something within you is
holding you back.
Does that make any sense?
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