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Richard Davidson: Stress and the Brain

First Person Plural: EI & Beyond

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The Autonomic Nervous System

Humans have this amazing capacity to anticipate the future and to reflect on the past. But it also is the source of a huge amount of suffering, because we can anticipate potential threats that we basically create in our mind. And we respond to them as if they're real. So whether it's a real threat or imagine what's going on in the body? Can you just run through that checklist for us?

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