From a biological perspective, the brain thinks there is a predator around and is looking for anything that could be threatening to keep itself safe. When we are anxious our brain will keep finding things around us to feed and prove that anxiety. This is how it is with emotions/information in the nervous system. I went morel mushroom hunting with a friend a few years ago and she said, to find the mushrooms you have to picture a morel mushroom in your head, hold that image, and then you’ll see them everywhere. Same with anger, but it is also the same with love and joy. So if you are trapped in a cycle of anxiety, you will see/find/connect with anxiety everywhere. ![]() No new information can enter the nervous system that isn’t equal to the emotion we are feeling. When we go back and feel into the heart and hold the sensation for a period of time, this actually resets the anxiety/trauma response in the amygdala, which is the part of our brain that stores stress, trauma, and emotional overwhelm. It is a time for the mind to race and for the brain to throw out every possible thought to keep us safe and alive. This is a necessary survival response because if we feel threatened by something, it is not a time to feel emotions of peace, gratitude, and safety. When our mind is racing, we have left the heart and are operating from the brain. The heart informs the brain and the brain the heart. The brain and heart are designed to be in a coherent rhythm and beat.
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