The amygdala is no bigger than your fingernail, but it is the hub or control center for your emotions and determines what emotions to trigger, from elation to temper tantrums and worrying yourself sick. It is the switch for FIGHT or FLIGHT.
This personal warning system alerts you to problems real or imagined by making you feel horrible, by triggering stress-related hormones, such as cortisol (a hormone that, in excess is bad for your heart but good for adding belly fat—YUK!) and adrenaline. These hormones’ job is to bring you to a heightened state of UH-OH or OH CRAP! Along with sensations of muscle tension, anxiousness, sweaty palms, heavy breathing, and rapid heartbeat. That is your brain’s way of telling you to STOP, doing whatever it is you are doing!
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