When your brain detects change, it first asks: is this safe or a threat? Since change feels risky, your brain defaults to threat mode, flooding your system with cortisol and stress hormones while preparing you for the worst.
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When the brain senses change, what are some of the first things that start happening and where do we start feeling those?
The first things that really happen is like your, your brain goes into this mode of, of trying to understand, is this safe or am I threatened? And, and change oftentimes goes more threatened because our brains are trying to prepare us for this like worst-case scenario. And you know, there's rushes of different things. There's cortisol that, you know, goes up, there's stress hormones, right? There's different things in your brain that will, that will start firing. But the, the essential initial, let's call it the first look, is that question, is this safe or unsafe?