This is why we are addicted to stress.. #shorts #braintap #brainwaves #biohacking #brainhacking

Name: This is why we are addicted to stress.. #shorts #braintap #brainwaves #biohacking #brainhacking
Uploaded: 2023-08-09T14:30:06+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: The speaker explains that attempting to meditate while already anxious can paradoxically amplify stress and anxiety. The brain does not differentiate the…

9 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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The speaker explains that attempting to meditate while already anxious can paradoxically amplify stress and anxiety. The brain does not differentiate the nature of the activity; it simply registers the time spent on it as something the person wants to do more often. This creates a feedback loop where individuals become addicted to their own stress, worry, and fear, mistakenly attributing it to family heritage. In reality, these patterns are choices that cause the brain to wire itself around stress‑related ideas, perpetuating the cycle.

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When you're stressed out, anxious, nervous, and then you go try to meditate, you're actually amplifying stress, anxiety, and discomfort into your life. And that's because your brain doesn't discern upon what you're doing. It only says, this is what you're spending your time doing. You must want to do it more often. So people get addicted to their stress, to their worry, to their fears. They even start to claim it as part of their family heritage, which is ridiculous. We can learn from our parents, but it's not part of us. Those are choices we make. So what happens is the brain begins to wire around those ideas.