When it comes to tackling fear head on and seeing how we react in different situations we have to look back a few hundred millions years to get the answer. The brain stem is the oldest and smallest region in the evolving human brain; this is where our basic emotion of fear is stored. This is called the ‘lizard brain’. It is more like the entire brain of present-day reptiles.
When it comes to making snap judgments, which can cause fear to rear its ugly head, it is something which happens on a barely conscious level. This is the ‘lizard brain’ at work. To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. This is why we can do irrational things when we are in a tight spot. Fear can be stored as emotional memories, and that is what can trigger certain physiological actions within you. In order to overcome and rationalise a particular fear emotion you need help in shifting those particular memories.
Brainy evolutionists tell us we have had this reptilian brain thing going on for millions of years. This is why we sometimes act irrationally when in a tight spot. When our reptilian brain kicks in we act automatically and without thinking about what we are doing, hence we can become injured while fleeing nothing more than a false reaction. This can be brought on by the most mundane of things.
The reptilian brain sees something and reacts, simple as that. If we are hungry and it sees food it wants it. If it sees a threat it makes you run from it. If it sees an attractive person then it wants a date. There’s nothing flash about it, this is why you react as you do in certain situations. These emotions from past events are stored in your emotional memory bank of the amygdala.
Why is it dire to allow these fear memories into your life? To accept these negative thoughts reinforces the emotion of fear. Accepting the feeling can reinforce it even more at a later stage. Some therapists advise you to accept the feeling of fear so as to nurture your true self. This is unreliable as it causes more emotional memories to be stored in what is known as the lizard brain, and hence your fear is perpetuated.
How do you overcome this and escape being the grip of fear? Self-help guru and best selling author Stephen Richards says, “When fear strikes you it is your lizard brain, scientifically known as the amygdala, which takes over. Your nervous system is flooded with powerful neurochemicals. Hence your senses, such as hearing and vision, become heightened. The amygdala blocks out anything that competes for your awareness, this why the fear grips you so much. Naturally at this stage all of your resources are devoted to keeping you alive. The number one fear is public speaking followed by asking someone out on a date. This is fear of rejection.”
When you are in the grip of fear and without realising it, your almond shaped and sized amygdala inside of your head takes over your reactions. Neurochemicals are released like an avalanche into your nervous system, and at that point you are running on auto-pilot and not in full control of yourself! Your main senses are supercharged to the hilt; everything becomes so much more blown up. Anything else is blocked out, all what you are relying on is shear ‘seat of the pants’ fly by wire emotions! So next time your fear takes over you will have an understanding of where it stems from. Of course you could try something else other than just waiting for the stages of fear to run their course. Many have tried hypnotherapy but it can prove to be expensive as many sessions are required to retrain the mind. Then there are subliminal messages which you can listen to, but these can be unreliable. Stephen Richards has developed something that goes beyond simple hypnosis or subliminal messaging.
Top of the list when it comes to fear is speaking in public or at meetings. Second on the list is asking someone for something, perhaps asking someone out on a date that you have taking a liking to. The fear of looking a nerd and being told “no” is the stumbling block. This is fear of rejection. What makes you freeze when fear comes on? Easy! It is caused by the overreaction of your reptilian brain, the amygdala! This then stores the emotions of fear, but it can act in a way that causes you to act unreasonably … like running off, finding it difficult to breath or even fainting and so on! To correct this is quite easy; it just means resetting the memory of fear within you.
When you are focused on an impending situation you have wrongly construed as ‘dangerous’, like public speaking or going on an aeroplane when you are feared of flying, the body undergoes many changes that prepare it for intense action, albeit this is a falsely activated call to arms. This brings on symptoms like: difficulty in breathing, increased body temperature, localised sweating, decreased motility of the stomach, constrictions in the stomach and intestines, as well as making your hair stand on end.
Turning off the emotion of fear is not that simple once the floodgates have been opened. The brain’s cortex cannot get a grip on it; it overrides anything logical that might have a remote chance of running through your head. However there is some good news … there is a way to fix this problem. These false alarms are what bring on the attack of fear. So if we can empty the stored information that is waiting to be triggered then we can totally eradicate that particular relationship between the amygdala and what sets the fear off. Then it will no longer recognise the situation as a life threatening nature. Many have tried immersion and cognitive therapy … all to no avail. Now there is a way to beat the fear without even having to come into contact with what sets it off.
You may well have done the rounds and tried just about every remedy that is out there. Maybe you have downloaded all of those glitzy MP3s that do little more than bring you computer viruses or just simply clog your PC while you get around to trying them one day. You need something tangible, something that really gets to grips with fear and something that actually works rapidly.
So how do you beat the fear in such situations without resorting to hypnosis or subliminal messaging? One of the most powerful ways to do this is now available to the public. International best selling mind power author Stephen Richards has developed a potent way to help you overcome your fear, which is a roadblock of irrational thoughts about uncertain situations that stops you progressing in life.
In order to really make inroads into eradicating your fear a specially designed audio was formulated that uses techniques to get right to the core of the problem, and in rapid time. By using up to date methods with brainwave technology it was found that it defeated the need to use outdated self-hypnosis or subliminal messaging.
Many of the older methods to help fix irrational fear use hypnosis or subliminal messaging, but what if you do not get to hear ever word of the subliminal message? You’re right to think that things could go wrong if you only pick up the odd word of the subliminal message here and there. Think of the consequences. Then there’s hypnosis, you would need hours and hours of expensive hypnotherapy to retrain your mind. Yes it works, but how much money do you want to throw at it? Now with the “Releasing You From Fear CD” by Stephen Richards you can use up to date methods that far surpass the ‘dated’ therapies currently on offer.
This remarkable up to date method designed by Stephen Richards used in the “Releasing You From Fear CD” is unique because it targets the zone of the amygdala. It totally disarms the harboured memories of the specific fear emotion that is causing you distress. Methods previously used to target this area did not take into account the fear emotion and how your lizard brain reacted in certain trigger situations. Minor obstacles and irritations which were once magnified and a cause of the cycle of fear can now be fixed.
Free yourself of unexplained fears today when you use the soothing audio CD by self-help guru Stephen Richards. Find out more from his site. This article, “Why When You Know Your Fear Is Totally Ridiculous Do You Still Allow It To Control You?” is available for free reprint.