Lisa MurphyFounder and Luminaria at Limited to Limitless Transformational Consultants

What is Fear? (Real or Imagined, Visceral or Surface)

17 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken presentation defining fear as an innate, evolutionarily-given response rooted in the 'lizard' (reptile) brain. The speaker outlines a three-part brain model (lizard/reptile, mammal, human/thinking), cites Webster’s definition of fear, and notes there are ways to address real/visceral fear so survival needs are met.

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Fear is not imagined. Fear is given to us at birth in our lizard brain. We have three parts of our brain. We have our lizard brain, we have our mammal brain, and then we have our thinking or our human brain. Webster defines fear as to be afraid of someone or something as likely to be dangerous, pain, painful, or threatening, or an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. There are ways to deal with fear, real fear, so that we can walk through it, so that we still have that survival need met. That lizard brain. That's all our lizard brain is looking for. And I know some people call it a reptile brain, but I really like.