The Emotional Brain

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Rewiring the brain can be especially difficult when emotional memory is involved. Essentially, emotional memories can block your ability to earn new things, and therefore they can truncate potential. If you have ever experienced math anxiety or resisted trying something new for fear of embarrassment, you can easily see how emotions get in the way of learning. Often these blocks are buried deep in the subconscious and take some time to resolve. Brain Refreshing exercises help people identify and eliminate these emotiona blocks.

The role of emotions in the brain may be much more far-reaching than the personal limitations they impose. Emotions may also have great social impact.

Neuroscientist James LeDoux has been a pioneer in identifying how fear arises in the brain. Not only has he identified the location in the brain where fear is processed, he has also identified the mechanism by which the brain creates habitual fears, such as phobias and prolonged anxiety. In addition, he has described how this can play out on the cultural level, in the form of ingrained prejudices used to justify war and other human rights atrocities.

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