Ask yourself "Where am I?" to interrupt fear's grip. Your amygdala can't answer the question, so it loosens its hold, letting you see what you're actually feeling: fear, anxiety, fatigue, or something else. It's how you become your own best friend.
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is, can you get back to yourself? Can you come back? And do you have methods to check in with yourself? I call it being your own best friend, right? And can you ask yourself, where am I? A simple question. And it's, it's a longer explanation, but the amygdala is what is controlling, keeping us in fear, right? And I, I describe it as a fist grip tightly. And as soon as we ask ourselves a really good question that the amygdala cannot answer, it has to soften. So what's happening here when we ask ourselves, where Where am I with this genuine return to ourselves with an inquiry? Am I in fear? Am I in possibility? Where am I right now? I'm in anxiety. I'm just tired, right? So asking yourself, where am I?