• When the going gets tough…

    Things are tough. No two ways about it. Personally, people are taking strain. There is fear and uncertainty. Our amygdala’s have commandeered our brains and our behaviour. Uncertainty abounds and people are somewhat panicked. There is a phenomenon known as the amygdala hijack, coined by Daniel Goleman in 1996 (Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ). To understand this, you need to know that the amygdala in our brain (in the temporal lobe) is responsible for giving meaning to emotions, and attaching associations and responses to those emotions. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias…

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