Subconscious Mind Power #7

Subconscious Mind Power Secret #7: The
Subconscious mind responds to emotion.

Emotion seems like another unscientific subject, but according to
brain researchers like Dr. Pierce Howard from the Center for
Applied Cognitive Studies in North Carolina, there’s a strong
neurological and biological basis behind emotions.

In the 1990s, researchers were able to map emotions to specific
locations in the brain, especially part of the brain called the limbic
system. One part of the brain that’s especially important is called
the amygdala, which is located at the tip of the temporal lobes on
each side of the brain.

One of the amygdala’s functions is to evaluate your surrounding
environment for threats and danger. If your amygdala thinks
something is dangerous or unsafe, it stimulates the emotions of
fear and the release of hormones related to the fight or flight
response. This explains why there is a scientific basis for why we
feel so much physical fear and anxiety anytime we leave our
comfort zone. Your brain perceives a threat, and it stimulates fear
and physical discomfort, so you pull back into safety and comfort.

With new brain imaging technologies, we’ve been able to see that
when you’re in a highly emotional state, the neural connections
are stronger, longer lasting, and the firing threshold is lower. This
shows us that we can speed up the formation of new thought
patterns and help develop new habit patterns and achieve goals
sooner when we get involved with deep feelings and emotional
reasons why we absolutely MUST reach our goals.

Emotion is like a goal turbocharger, but it works both ways.
Negative emotion is like a self-fulfilling prophecy, which explains
why the things you fear the most have an uncanny way of
happening to you.