Let’s back up for around 50,000 years. Imagine anxiety that you are a Neanderthal walking in the countryside. You hear a tiger suddenly in the surrounding bushes.
Your whole body reacts in a millisecond because of anxiety. Your pulse is fasting; your breathing becomes faint; your eyes dilate; your body begins to produce adrenaline.
Everything excellent takes place in your body; you are willing to endure this meeting with a tiger. Only one slight issue exists. It was not a tiger. It was not a tiger. It was a little weasel of prehistory. Now your body’s ready to fight or fly, your heart races, you’re fully adrenalin-packed, But no risk exists.
That’s your anxiety body. Substitute for social-media, transport, politics, Covid-19, money, child care, climate change, job stress, family dramas (no existing) tiger in broths, and you will be able to see quickly why anxiety is America’s most prevalent disease, impacting over 20% of the population. Today’s people are essentially a group in fight or flight mode 24/7 of freaks-out Neanderthals.
Elizabeth Stanley, a Ph.D. writer of Widen The Window, tells us that ‘At this stage, I’m not safe, I am not certain.’ She explains, ‘Anxiety is an incentive in our bodies that screams, ‘I’m not secure right now,’ “It is automatic, really quick and awake.”
Your brain of survival vs. your mind
In her work, Stanley distinguishes the thinking brain (the limbic systems, the brain stem, the cerebellum), our neocortex, responsible for decision making, reasoning, ethics, conscious memory, and the brain of survival [which handle our fundamental survival, the emotions, the memory and the stress of the brain].
Stanley believes that neuroception, an unconscious mechanism to fast assess the internal and external surroundings for safety and threat, is among the most critical tasks of the survival brain.
When danger is detected, your survival brain sends your organism a direct message of stress by activating the sympathetic nerves, leading to particular bodily feelings connected to our heart, respiration, and digestion. “Those enormous impacts on our bodies occur in every survival brain,” said Stanley.
“These responses are not voluntary,” said Stephen Porges, Ph.D., a psychologist and originator of the Polyvagal Theory in an interview with PsychAlive. Our nervous system collects environmental information, not at the cognitive level, but the neurobiological level.”
The thought brain must be the last to realize that anything is amiss when we find ourselves stuck in a protective response. “The brain thinking does not matter if we are worried, feel threatened or challenged, stress on, emotions on,” Stanley adds. “We are not going to be stressed. “Stress, excitement, and emotions are part of the brain survival.”
So if your anxiety is to be tracked, your body will be your most precise map, not your thoughts.
The pipe of speech therapy
Unlike our prehistoric predecessors (who, according to Stanley, might have addressed anxieties by sprinting, panting, or stirring like a dog and let cortisol work through their systems), modern anxiety sufferers turn their minds to their trustworthy companion.
“Most people are concerned because most individuals associate with their thinking brain,” she adds. The trouble is that our brain thinking is an imperfect instrument to do the job when controlling our nervous system following stress reactions. That is because we often don’t know what has prompted this answer even after we have realized the bodily response, according to Porges.
This discovery was a significant turning point for Stanley, a soldier who was diagnosed with PTSD. “Stress and anxiety recovery is a brain work for survival.”
We are a brain culture, which makes us extremely capable of addressing issues that demand reason and logic, think moral dilemmas, and less capable of addressing problems in which cognitive thinking may only aggravate them.
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