Top Neuroscientist: Anxiety Is A Predictive Error In The Brain! Heres The Proof Your Brain Is Faking Trauma! Your Whole Life Might Be A Prediction!

There are these experiments where they trained people to experience anxiety, but as determination. Because exactly the same physical state could be experienced completely different. And what they discovered is that at first it's really hard, but you practice, practice, practice, and then eventually it becomes really automatic. So the first thing to understand is that Dr. Lisa Feldman Barra. Is a world leading neuroscientist. Her groundbreaking research reveals that emotions like anxiety and trauma are built by the brain. And we have the power to control them. The story is that you're born with these innate emotion circuits, but you're not born with the ability to control them. That's false. Really what's happening is that your brain is not reacting, it's predicting. And every Every action you take, every emotion you have is a combination of the remembered past, including any trauma. And so you don't have a sense of agency about it. Because it happens really automatically. Faster than you can blink your eyes. How does this change how we should treat trauma? Sometimes in life, you are responsible for changing something. Not because you're to blame. but because you're the only person who can. I mean I had a daughter who was clinically depressed, was getting D's in school, she wasn't sleeping, she was miserable. At first she was so resistant, but then she made the decision that she wanted to be helped. And did she recover?

Yes, she did. So if you want to change who you are, what you feel understanding these basic operating principles is the key to living a meaningful life. So what is step one? To being able to make the change. So Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me thirty seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started. And if you enjoy what we do here.

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