Silencing Our Threat Alarm Unleashing the Power of Mindfulness

3 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Marc Haine. This content was uploaded by Marc Haine. This is a YouTube video titled "Silencing Our Threat Alarm Unleashing the Power of Mindfulness" (published 2024-02-03). It features a single speaker explaining how the amygdala acts as a threat alarm and describing research-based benefits of long-term mindfulness practice in quieting the amygdala, reducing chronic threat anticipation, and helping people gain more balanced perspective about the future.

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It's called our amygdala and it's almost like our threat alarm. And anytime we sense that there might be something negative or a threat, which is a lot because again, our world is uncertain. We never really know what's coming our way. It goes off. And with long-term practice of mindfulness, that amygdala has been proven to get more quiet, to start to Shut up a little bit and stop telling us that the worst thing in the world is gonna happen tomorrow or next week or in 6 months. It gets a little bit more quiet and we get a little bit more perspective to also consider what might go well for us in the future.