What Happens in your Brain During Stress
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What happens in your brain during stress |
| Neural pathways in your brain create patterns of thought. Once these pathways are created, thoughts are likely to be repeated because repetition of a thought decreases the biochemical resistance to that thought happening again. In this way the connections between two brain cells on the neural pathway become stronger.Imagine, for example, walking through a dense forest. On your first walk, you fight your way through with a machete because of the resistance you encounter. The second time is not as hard because you’ve already started a pathway through the jungle. And every time you go through, you widen the pathway a little more and encounter less resistance. The pathway becomes a track, a small road and ultimately a large road.
Your brain forms habits in the same way: Every time you think a negative thought, you build strong connections of negative thoughts, resistance is reduced and the chances increase of having the same negative thought again. Monitoring your thinking is therefore vitally important. Breaking a habit can be difficult at first, because it also involves the process mentioned above, but stick at it and it becomes easier. Simply stopping a bad habit is often not enough, though; you must replace it with a new good habit and make it the focus of your new thinking.
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