Day 20

Neuroscience of fear & joy

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Hi. Welcome to Session 20 of our powerful journey into the mind and mind acceleration and consciousness, and as we’ve been treading along this path, we’ve got to really two thirds of the way through. So congratulations on getting there. Congratulations on keeping moving forward. And that’s not a mild congratulations, because many people cannot get this far that and there’s a reason for that, for that we’ll be coming on to in a short space of time.

0:39
It’s quite a confusing reason for many, many people, but right now, it’s super cool that you’re here, and it’s super cool that we’re going to discuss yet another aspect of how neuroscience works within the scientific understanding of the kind of work that we’re doing. Now one thing you will appreciate is this is a scientific course, as much as a psychological course, as much as a metaphysical course and a spiritual course.

1:04
It encompasses aspects of the whole holistic nature. And like other kinds of coaching studies and things like that, which are a little bit waffly, a little bit spurious, we’re relying on quite a lot of heavy neuroscience to understand how the brain works, why it works in the way it does, and looking at the world out there and seeing the impact of that. For example, we looked at JK Rowling and Tony Robbins, and what was the difference between them and Elon Musk and you, and brain frequency and all these different things that we’ve been talking about so far.

1:38
But the next one is the state of mind at a position where you’re in fear, and that is a very, very key part to you operating your brain. Most people are conditioned into fear at school. The fear of failure is a big one. The fear of, you know, just tripping over not being a success. Many, many fears, fear of loss. And that really adds up to a problem.

2:07
On a neuroscience position, that means when you’re in a state of fear, your thinking can go back into the stem of the brain. So you’ve got the neocortex, the limbic system, and then you’ve got the Neo sorry, the the stem of the brain, area where the cerebellum is, and this older part of the brain is the reptilian brain. It’s very defensive or aggressive. It doesn’t have a lot of problem solving down there.

2:30
Doesn’t have a lot of creativity, probably got quite a lot of brain fog. So the more you get into that position in the mind, the more you can’t think your way out of trouble. And if you’re in a state of toxic stress, on top of that, where you’ve, you know, had the brain damage area which we all have been exposed to, plus the fear, you can see that it’s a recipe for causing you quite a lot of anxiety, depression, pain, suffering in many, many ways, both physically and mentally. So now you’re starting to see how the mind itself and what we expose it to can have a demonstrable effect on how we’re feeling and what ills that we’re having and our Mental Welfare.

3:11
So when it comes to fear, we have fight, flight or freeze responses to those sudden, you know, real heavy fear based situations. That means like someone runs in the room with a gun and is about to shoot you, so you’ve got natural instincts of fight, flight or freeze.

3:28
Now, in things like the SAS or the special services of the elite military like Delta Force or SEAL Team Six, they conditioned these basic responses out of a person, so they can operate in high stressed environments without the fear response coming in, which basically negates their ability to think so, if we take that and you know, you’re not going to go into a war zone, hopefully, but you are going into, if you go to a corporate you’re probably going into a bit of a battle.

4:01
And you’ve got corporate wars in their own right. And then there was the book and the art of war, Sun Tzu, which was the, you know, the Bible of corporate work. Because no one’s your friend in a corporation. Everyone wants to backstab in some way, and everyone’s wanting to get a little bit of head on the pile.

4:20
So one of the things that we don’t want in our lives, and it doesn’t matter whether you know on the front line in a war or a front line in the corporation or just at home in your relationship, you do not want you know that fear of loss coming forward and stopping your thinking working, pushing it down from the neocortex into the stem of the brain, because in that place you’re just not going to be able to get out.

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And over the last couple of years, many people like yourself have been exposed to masses of fear with things like climate change, pandemics and wars, terrorism and all of this has pushed your thinking down into that stem of the brain part and. Also toxic stress that’s also corroded the mind. So once you’re aware of this, then you can start to go, okay, my job right now is not to be afraid of anything.

5:10
And you go, Oh, that’s difficult, but we can work towards that. Once we start to rejig the mind, recalibrate the mind, start to re identify. We cease having the fears we used to have. Thus again, we free the mind so it can accelerate away. You.