Therapy for Life
  • Home
  • Information
  • testimonials
  • Blog
  • Contact Me
Come to the calm of a well functioning brain.

Ah Sweet Revenge...

1/21/2019

0 Comments

 
Have you ever wanted to do it, hit someone, ram their car, say things that You Thought were to hard to keep in?  I have!  Here is some information about the brain (my new love story) and that reactionary part of it.
We have ingrained in our brain (amygdala) the "eye for an eye" reactionary process.  Yes that idiot cut in front of me and I want to track him down.  It's not fair what that person did or said to me.  Our amygdala is trained to go into Socking "Em Mode.  It's just a part of us that works in this way.  This can create systemic turmoil.  Because the amygdala is activated, this means that we are ready for a threat of attack.  What happens when this is activated?  We don't sleep, there is non-stop rumination, irritability, hyper-arousal, and distractability that often keeps us from functioning our best.  As Confucius said, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"
So how do we get past this influence?  It takes a behavioral step of finding a personally gratifying and socially constructive.  So let's Show 'Em instead of sock 'em.  As the Buddha spoke to this conflicted emotion, "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.  Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.".  But how about If we learn to turn the other cheek and build something meaningful, to ourselves and others. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Hello, my name is Dana Lee Collins M.A.,L.P.C.  I am a psychotherapist that has been trained in the art of neurofeedback.  This science helps to heal the brain of trauma.  I am dedicated to helping people heal.

    Archives

    January 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    August 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Information
  • testimonials
  • Blog
  • Contact Me