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Lessons About the Brain with Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Behavioral Design Podcast
Are You Anxious?
More women than men over the age of 65 die from heart attacks because they've gone to the hospital, to the emergency room with a tight chest. Your brain is attempting to create a story that makes sense of those sensations so that it knows what to do to keep you alive and well. Once you understand that, you can take anxiety, and you can dissolve it into determination or enthusiasm. I watched this happen for the first time when my 12 year old daughter was testing for her black belt in tae kwon do. Her sensates were like butterflies flying through your body. And i thought, oh, my god, he's saying, get enough energy to make yourself feel better. You
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