Worry and Stress Response... 'Primitive' Brain on Autopilot!

Worry and Stress Response: Our 'Primitive' or 'Survial' Brain

The signal that activates our stress response, begins in the primitive or animal brain. It's one of our built-in, basic survival instincts. This instinct triggers an automatic reaction or set of behaviors that kept our early ancestors alive when a stressor, aggressor or potential threat appeared on the scene. Things like a pride of hungry lions being spotted nearby.

Primitives who did not follow or mimic their tribe or parent's behavior of being worried, alert and cautious when lions were close, most likely became the pride's dinner! As a result, these individuals had a reduced chance of producing future generations. So, these laid back, inattentive ones are probably not *our* relatives. Our ancestors are more likely the ones who were hyper-vigilant in potentially threatening situations. This makes many of us genetically predisposed to over stressing and over worrying!

We still have this primitive brain and a fight, flight and freeze response although today, threats like lions, no longer exist. We can however, fret, worry and stress out when the stock market dips, our job/livelihood is in jeopardy or a loved one dies or leaves. Although now, as evolved humans, we're able to engage our thinking or modern brain to help us realize that being overly worried and stressed does more harm than good!

To help us stay out of the worry 'groove' and avoid going into a stressed out, panic mode, we've been given a gift called the Emotional Freedom Techniques. Thank you Gary Craig!

We can do EFT tapping to help relieve the worry stress and the associated symptoms or body sensations i.e. tension, tightness, clenching, discomfort, pain etc. With EFT, we have a powerful tool to help retrain our body's energy system to respond differently to stress caused by worry... regardless of it being real, imagined/perceived or remembered.

Not only can EFT tapping help us clear energy blocks and disruptions in our body, it can also assist us in connecting to our wise self, higher self or inner coach so we can more easily soothe our stressful thoughts and feelings.

It is *very* self empowering when we do not have to rely on going outside of our selves for comfort, soothing, reassurance and guidance. Many times this outside help; loved ones, family, groups, pets, things or substances (i.e. food, alcohol, drugs/meds), can be inconsistent, unreliable and sometimes very harmful to our health and wellbeing.

What a blessing it is to have the comfort and support of The Emotional Freedom Techniques/EFT, available right at our own finger tips... 24/7!

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To your tapping success! Karen