Neuroscience and the Fear Factor

Neuroscience is really making significant headway (yes!) in the study of the mind and brain.  For me, this is fascinating stuff.  I like the science aspect for sure, but even the artist in me is able to come out and play as well. 

This is because I REALLY enjoy pulling different aspects from different areas of specialization and putting them together in an original unique viewpoint.  Or, at least my version, as there is really very little new under the sun.

 It’s just that there are aspects of Truth that got lost or buried over the ages and now they are re-surfacing in a different form.  Let’s talk about fear.  Fear is an emotion that has impacted humankind for a very long time. 

It may show up in different ways, and it may be called different things, but it is one of the greatest controllers of your behavior.  Those individuals who seek ego power and control have used it mercilessly at various points in history.  Well, some things never change! 

Fear is the polar opposite of love.  It is even hardwired into our neurophysiology (the way your brain and nervous system works).  So, get used to it.  It is not going away anytime soon.  The key to an empowered life though is to learn to FEEL the fear, but DO what you need to do ANYWAY!. 

There is literally a place in your brain, the Amygdala, known as the fear center.  It’s nature’s way of ensuring our survival; however, for the mass majority, it works overtime!  While it is true that at one point in our history we had to run for cover from all sorts of physical threats. 

Only now, we allow ourselves to get suck into ‘what if’ worries all too easily.  We focus too much on what is perceived as wrong instead of looking for what is optimistic in the situation.  We expect the worse and focus on what we DON’T want, instead of what we do. 

This is partially why most people have no idea what their life purpose is, or what they are searching for.  I had fallen into this trap at one time in my life, but I found the courage – and this is the key- to say ‘ENOUGH’! 

If all I had to look forward to was death, there would be no point to living.  Courage is the ability to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’.  The fear factor is not going anywhere, but I have the CHOICE to not allow it to run my life. 

Neuroscience is revealing more every day about how our brain is wired by our mind.  Change your mind and train it, and you will be able to change your brain.  Once your brain is ‘re-wired’ with new habit patterns, you can automatically live out a different version, or story, for your life. 

I have learned strategies and processes from my training from personal experience, coaching, NLP and other methods to accelerate this  process.  The more I learn, the more creative I become.  Neuroscience helps to explain to a great degree the science behind these processes. 

I believe that the time has come for us to wake up to our True Nature and our own inner resources and stop the domination of the fear factor.  What do you think?