Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Your Body BELIEVES Your Thoughts...

8 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief lecture, the speaker explains how internal mental events—such as future-oriented images, memories, or imagined scenarios—can provoke the brain to release chemicals that make the body physiologically react as if the feared or dangerous situation were real. The process is described as a stimulus‑response loop where the thought, its associated emotion, and the resulting neurochemical cascade condition the body into a state of imbalance, effectively causing the body to "believe" it is experiencing the imagined threat.

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Our response to our own thought, an image of what could happen in the future, memory of the past, could actually cause chemicals to be secreted from the brain. That causes the body to actually believe it's living in that same environment of fear or danger. Because that thought, when you're seeing that thought in your mind or remembering that image, it's the image and the emotion, it's the thought and the feeling, it's the stimulus and response that's immediately conditioning the body into that state of imbalance.