This basic awareness is therefore often accompanied by a background feeling of anxiety that keeps you vigilant.

Vigilance and Anxiety: Your brain’s baseline resting state activates a “default network” with one of its functions is to track your environment and body for possible threats.

They listed six ways your brain keeps you avoiding or dodging sticks: The phrase “dodging sticks” is used to explain how the brain is built more for avoiding than approaching. with Richard Mendius, MD, they explain that humans have been suffering since the beginning of time basically from these feelings of fear, anxiety and negativity in a large part because of how the human brain operates. In the book, Buddha’s Brain - The Practical Neuroscience of, Happiness, Love and Wisdom by Rick Hanson, PH.D. In today’s society, anxiety, fears and negativity seem to be more prevalent or becoming the norm.

“Mind over matter” is a phrase many have heard and possibly have spoken in an attempt to provide encouragement in others, or to find within yourself the will to persevere.

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