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Can Neurochemicals and Hormones Really Unlock Your Peak Mental Performance?

8 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of the video, the speaker explains that emotions are not merely mental events but are stored in the body as neurochemical and energetic reactions. Citing the book The Body Keeps the Score, they describe how a thought triggers a chemical response that creates an emotion, which, if left unprocessed, remains active in the body and subtly drives behavior patterns such as shame, avoidance, or substance use. The speaker then outlines a coaching approach: helping clients recognize, process, and release these stored emotions so that the prefrontal cortex—the brain’s higher‑order thinking region—can become fully accessible. This access enables clearer problem‑solving, critical thinking, and the intentional creation of emotions that support desired actions.

my way out or drink my way out, right? Which is just compounding the situation and creating more shame.
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then we go days and weeks, you know, and then it just like— if— I don't know if you have ever read The Body Keeps the Score, like he talks about like these emotions are stored in our body. It's an energetic, right? It's a chemical reaction. You have a thought, it chemically reacts and creates an emotion, right? It's stored then in the body. So if we don't process it out, it's running in the background and it's driving behavior patterns. So like teaching my clients, like, how do we process these emotions? How do we let them go so we can access the prefrontal cortex? So the higher part of our brain, right? How we can access that and think from a, a place for a higher level of thinking. We problem solve, we can critically think and create the emotions that we need to create to take the actions that we want to take.