How to Manage Your Physiology When You're Afraid

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Our courage circuits are wired.
Our courage attributes are wired.
We are slightly above boiling point.
When we approach a amygdala hijack or autonomic overload, our frontal lobe starts to take a back seat.
Our limbic brain, our lizard brain started to come forward.
This is advantageous for certain things.
When we touch a hot stove, we don't want to have to think about pulling our hand away.
In most environments, however, we want to think through challenge and stress.

Rich draws upon 20+ years of experience as a Navy SEAL Officer where he completed more than 13 overseas deployments – 11 of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. Through his career, he has achieved multiple leadership positions – to include the Commanding Officer of a Navy SEAL Command.

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