Our emotional systems interact with our brain. “Emotional systems tend to monopolize brain resources”, as mentioned by LeDoux. “It’s much easier for an emotion to control a thought than for a thought to control an emotion.”
The studies made by LeDoux exploring the brain gave us new insights about psychology. Research on the neural foundations of emotion and cognition, for example, has demonstrated that the amygdala transmits projections to nearly every fragment of the brain, involving segments responsible for high-level cognition, but the number of projections back to the amygdala from cognitive regions is less. This insight can help us understand why emotion can sometimes overpower cognition.
Over the past few years, we became more conscious of the neuroplasticity of our brains and how our thoughts and emotions are influenced not just by what we are taught, but also, by everything we are exposed to during a day. To put it another way, learning occurs all the time. The brain never stops working. Whatever we are exposing it to, it is processed. Much of what we are processing, we are not even aware of.
Just think of it as a movie camera. It continuously takes pictures of what it sees and records what it hears, and not only is all that information is processed, but it is also structured, helping us to build our thoughts and beliefs. This information creates networks or “roads”, which can then be used to communicate this data. This film that your brain records is the unconscious lesson that we constantly are leaning. So how aware are you of exactly what kind of film you are creating every day?
Positive feelings. Positive mind!
The impact of positive feelings is that they can team up to enhance almost every area of our life, our career, relationships and health. It awakens our brains when we restate these signals in our heads, allowing us to be reinforced positively. Often saying and vocalizing the same messages over again can help us direct our brains in the right direction. Let’s reflect on it, when we are having a bad day, bad month, bad break up, whatever it is or may be. Instead of taking control of the bad day, the day controls us. And vice versa. What matters is how our emotions are balanced — how much of each type of emotion, positive or negative, we experience.
References: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2920-c1
https://womanrises.com/2020/06/04/learn-how-to-reprogram-your-subconscious-mind/
