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The brain thinks, but the heart knows.
emotions are chemical feedback, the end products of experiences we have in our external environment.
emotions—which are energy in motion—are the chemical residue of experience.
when we experience a traumatic event, we tend to think neurologically within the circuitry of that experience and we tend to feel chemically within the boundaries of the emotions from the event, so our entire state of being—how we think and how we feel—becomes biologically stuck in the past.
her autonomic nervous system back into balance because the ANS controls all the automatic functions that happen beyond the brain’s conscious awareness—digestion, absorption, blood sugar levels, body temperature, hormonal secretions, heart rate, and so on.
We can knock our brains and bodies out of normal physiology just by thinking about an all-too-familiar past or trying to control an unpredictable future.
the memory of an event can become branded neurologically in the brain, and that scene becomes frozen in time in our gray matter,
Emotions are the chemical consequences (or feedback) of past experiences.
Think of learning as your brain getting an upgrade. When you pay attention to knowledge or information and it makes sense to you, this interaction with the environment leaves biological impressions in your brain.
For the most part, your brain is a product of the past. It has been shaped and molded to become a living record of everything you have learned and experienced up to this point in your life.