Credits
First of all i will like us to know what is fear:
Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that start with a stressful stimulus and end with release of chemical that can cause heart racing,breathing quicken and energized muscle,your body goes into fight mode ready to do everything to make you safe. Fear works in this way like cockroach frightening you,slam on the door in an empty apartment
HOW FEAR AFFECT OUR BRAIN
Fear begins in the thalamus which recieve signal from your body sense they are two type of fear namely:
(The low road and The high road*)
The High road: is the quickest rational response to life threatening like feeling a knife on your throat then the thalamus alert your amygdala,your amygdala trigger emotional response .
The other fear (The low Road): is non life threatening The brain take the more rational high blood response like you if u see cockroach skittering across the floor. The amygdala alert the sensory cortex , the cortex alert the hippocampus and spur it to compare the current threat to past one. Hippocampus is the brain memory center.
Fear can also play trick with your memory and your perception of reality.
Fear can also affect your body like weaken the creation of long term memories and damage the hippocampus.
HOW TO CONTROL FEAR IN THE BRAIN
If u want to control fear in your brain you need to ask yourself the following questions:
What am i afraid of?
What triggered this fear?
What is the worst that can happen?
If u can answer those questions on your own then your brain is ready to overcome fear. According to studies is good for treatment of psychological disorder.
MORAL LESSON: Don't let your fear control u,U Should be the one to control fear.