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Your anxiety perfectly explained by a Neuroscientist

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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Chronic Anxiety and Its Effects on the Nervous System

Chronic anxiety strengthens the connection to the prefrontal cortex, but not in way you would like. And it increases its capacity to down regulate the regulator. Mindfulness does the exact same thing, but it works in exactly the opposite fashion. The more anxious this treas nurse is getting, the more he or she is able to down regulating the responses of the people in the know and say, no, no, sorry, no. This has gone straight, 30 straight teru history. That's what your brain is designed forsucas, primary gall not happiness. Our biggest problem then, and we saw this with your brain, then we went up into the fast wave activity and beat activity and

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