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<blockquote data-quote="Grayson" data-source="post: 17115" data-attributes="member: 18"><p><strong>Fear</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can't agree with you there Starlord, they all have fundamentally different endocrinological triggers, emotional triggers and response paths.</p><p></p><p>As a Hunter-gatherer, fear is a marvellous gift from nature. In becoming fearful, the endocrine system floods your body with useful chemicals which remove the higher order brain functions from the equation, turbocharge the central nervous system and pump prime all the muscles. Your (now in control) hind-brain makes a decision based on an extremely simple set of checks and balances and you run like the wind, or fight like the devil.</p><p></p><p>Cognitive humans stuff this beautiful process up though, by dwelling on it both before and after the fact. In the instant of fear, you are no longer a modern human being with all the wonders of our modern world to safely cosset you. You are Cro-magnon man facing a charging Mammoth/attacking tribe and are instantly stripped of your modern ways, taken back 30,000 years and reduced to a set of competing glands and drivers. You run, you fight... simple.</p><p></p><p>But, we stress about these things. We precipitate the potential state of fear with worry. We analyse the act of fear with distress through hindsight. We make ourselves unwell. That is not what Nature/God* intended.</p><p></p><p>*Delete as appropriate.</p><p></p><p>Fear is a gift, it gives us power. Never stress over it, nor fear the fear itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grayson, post: 17115, member: 18"] [b]Fear[/b] I can't agree with you there Starlord, they all have fundamentally different endocrinological triggers, emotional triggers and response paths. As a Hunter-gatherer, fear is a marvellous gift from nature. In becoming fearful, the endocrine system floods your body with useful chemicals which remove the higher order brain functions from the equation, turbocharge the central nervous system and pump prime all the muscles. Your (now in control) hind-brain makes a decision based on an extremely simple set of checks and balances and you run like the wind, or fight like the devil. Cognitive humans stuff this beautiful process up though, by dwelling on it both before and after the fact. In the instant of fear, you are no longer a modern human being with all the wonders of our modern world to safely cosset you. You are Cro-magnon man facing a charging Mammoth/attacking tribe and are instantly stripped of your modern ways, taken back 30,000 years and reduced to a set of competing glands and drivers. You run, you fight... simple. But, we stress about these things. We precipitate the potential state of fear with worry. We analyse the act of fear with distress through hindsight. We make ourselves unwell. That is not what Nature/God* intended. *Delete as appropriate. Fear is a gift, it gives us power. Never stress over it, nor fear the fear itself. [/QUOTE]
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