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An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems
Hidden Brain
Are You Using Rituals to Help You Cope With Anxiety?
Rituals evolved as mental technology that helped individuals cope with all kinds of anxieties and then was co-opted by groups. When people do things in synchrony, does it change the way they think and feel? Yes, absolutely. And this is one of the reasons why rituals are so powerful. Our brain simply infers that if we move in the same way as other people, then we are more like those people and we feel more rapport with them.
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