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Dealing with our fears in is something we have been doing for millions of years, it all came about from what is called our lizard brain … also known as the amygdala. This primeval brain stem is our lower brain, where basic emotions function from. Call it a memory bank for emotions … fear being one of them.

When it comes to making snap judgments, which can cause fear to rear its ugly head, it is something which happens on a barely conscious level. This is the ‘lizard brain’ at work. To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. This is why we can do irrational things when we are in a tight spot. Fear can be stored as emotional memories, and that is what can trigger certain physiological actions within you. In order to overcome and rationalise a particular fear emotion you need help in shifting those particular memories.

So when you are in a tight spot and take instant fight or flight action, it is the lizard brain which sits at the base of the skull that takes over. Evolutionists tell us that we’ve had this ‘lizard brain’ since we were, well, lizards. In the context of fear, the lizard brain’s reactions to everything are limited to: eating, attacking, running away and mating. That is why you sometimes make irrational judgments.

Accommodating these fear emotions is like feeding a hungry lion, it will only become hungry again and you have to go through the same cycle. So why not just rid yourself of these fear emotions for good, as that is the answer to the fix you require. You wouldn’t get out of your car when travelling around a wild animal park and embrace a wild lion, and that is how you have to see your fear. Do not embrace it as it will bite you nastily. Yet some therapists say you should embrace your fear! Well of course now you can see that this advice is very risky, as unsafe as asking you to embrace a wild lion! Why? Well because all what you are doing is storing that fear emotion within your lizard brain’s memory banks, and then it can be drawn on again and again to make you feel just as bad the next time you are confronted by what it is you are feared of. So do be warned.

Why is it dire to allow these fear memories into your life? To accept these negative thoughts reinforces the emotion of fear. Accepting the feeling can reinforce it even more at a later stage. Some therapists advise you to accept the feeling of fear so as to nurture your true self. This is unreliable as it causes more emotional memories to be stored in what is known as the lizard brain, and hence your fear is perpetuated.

How do you overcome this and escape being the grip of fear? Self-help guru and best selling author Stephen Richards says, “When fear strikes you it is your lizard brain, scientifically known as the amygdala, which takes over. Your nervous system is flooded with powerful neurochemicals. Hence your senses, such as hearing and vision, become heightened. The amygdala blocks out anything that competes for your awareness, this why the fear grips you so much. Naturally at this stage all of your resources are devoted to keeping you alive. The number one fear is public speaking followed by asking someone out on a date. This is fear of rejection.”

What is fear? Fear has been described as a neural circuit that has been designed to keep the organism (you) alive in dangerous situations. The amygdala determines the significance of the stimulus and triggers emotional responses like freezing or fleeing. This is a process that would best be described as the ‘emotion of fear’. The amygdala is the storage area where the memory of fear is kept.

Why is it that when you get an attack of fear that occasionally you can become incapacitated? Simple, it is related to the hyperactivity of the amygdala! This almond sized object is the storehouse for the memory of fear! The amygdala can misinterpret physiological signals from the body and cause inappropriate actions. Then in the cold light of day you can see how ridiculous you behaved, but too late … the emotion is stored. This is how your fear/panic manifests itself. The definition of panic is a heightened state of anxiety. This fear/panic feeds off itself in a positive feedback loop and jumps to faulty conclusions.

There are many physiological changes that take place within the body when, say for instance, you come head to head with the very situation you are scared of which could be: fear of heights, needles, intimacy, germs, snakes, birds and even women in some cases, as some men are completely petrified of having to meet and speak to a woman. When in a scary situation that really is not as scary as you would think if you thought logically, then that is when the fear manifests itself in the form of: chest pain or discomfort, nausea or stomach distress, hot or cold flashes, shortness of breath or smothering sensation and so on.

Once this emotion of fear has been turned on it is difficult for the cortex to turn it off. Fortunately there are methods of reducing fear and inhibiting the fear response. So just how do you go about overcoming these ‘false’ alarms? Well there is something called ‘immersion’ therapy; you are literally thrown into the very situation that brings on the fear within you. Then there is cognitive therapy, you are slowly exposed to what it is you have a fear of.

You may well have done the rounds and tried just about every remedy that is out there. Maybe you have downloaded all of those glitzy MP3s that do little more than bring you computer viruses or just simply clog your PC while you get around to trying them one day. You need something tangible, something that really gets to grips with fear and something that actually works rapidly.

So how do you beat the fear in such situations without resorting to hypnosis or subliminal messaging? One of the most powerful ways to do this is now available to the public. International best selling mind power author Stephen Richards has developed a potent way to help you overcome your fear, which is a roadblock of irrational thoughts about uncertain situations that stops you progressing in life.

Technology since the days of hypnotherapy has moved on, now there is a far quicker way to channel new thought processes into the mind and to empty that emotion memory bank which is full to the brink with fear memories. This is where you can move things up a gear and integrate the fix into your busy lifestyle without hours and hours of costly therapy.

While many methods of helping you overcome fear claim success, they can involve a great deal of mental effort. Some retraining of the mind, such as hypnotherapy, requires frequent therapy sessions over several weeks. When testing how such an audio CD could do away with the traditional methods of therapy it was found that in less than 30 minutes the main track was able target the core of the problem.

To go in blindly and hope to tackle the seat of what is behind your fear is not something you want pay a therapist to do, it’s expensive. This CD can be used as little or as often as need be. The sole objective of the “Releasing You From Fear CD” is to detach the fear emotions from the amygdala, thus giving a clean restart for when you are up against what sparked your old fears off. The seat of emotion is tackled, and that is what works in a direct way.

Stephen Richards is an internationally acclaimed author of over 60 titles, who coaches entrepreneurs how to manifest the success that is the natural consequence of living their hearts’ desires with integrity, authenticity, and passion. He has designedthe “Releasing You From Fear CD”. He has helped hundreds of thousands of people through personal and professional transformation.

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