Brain Food: Action Reduces Fear

These stories and the meanings we attach to them, give rise to irrational fears. Holding onto fear shuts down the prefrontal cortex in your brain - the region that’s responsible for activating creativity and for good decision-making.

Like a basketball player may shoot free throws, by practicing this regularly, we forge new pathways in our brain. Instead of reinforcing all of the fear-based nightmares running through our minds, we learn to steer directly into our fears in service of owning what we want. Doing this regularly means that when the bigger challenges show up, we’re pr

So-called lower creatures enjoy freedom from psychological fear. When a cheetah attacks a gazelle, it panics and fights for its life. But if no predator is present, the gazelle leads an untroubled life, so far as we know. We humans, however, suffer terribly in our inner world, and this suffering gets translated into physical problems. The stakes ar

What you believe about yourself and your world is the primary determinant to what you do and, ultimately, how well you do it.