Description: Having anxiety and struggling with every day, I decided for this research I would write about how to overcome anxiety and somehow with researching, I have come to an understanding that we can overcome our anxieties by shifting what our mind is thinking.

Boubacar Diallo

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Instructor:  Brown

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                     Say goodbye to anxiety

  You are sitting and suddenly your hands start to sweat, your heart starts to race, and then you wonder and wonder but you are already lost inside in your own brain. Running through a maze that you feel like you can never get out. Hence you try to stay calm, but couldn’t. You tried to breathe in and out and for an instance, your worry went away so you smiled but that was just for a moment because it came back again and once again your still looking for a way out.  Perhaps you went to a counselor and for that moment you also thought you got it. Yet it only eases your stress in that counseling room but once you leave, your worry jumps back in. That’s anxiety and that is how it feels maybe you know it and maybe you don’t. You, Nevertheless, you shouldn’t give up because there is a thing, now Scientist from tranquility labs have proven that a lot of people who suffer from anxiety is because of one part of the brain. Therefore, you ask how?  Hence, here’s how, According to Al Wahabi,  Generalized anxiety disorder, arises from excessive activation of the brain mechanism underlying fear and the fight-or-flight response.  For example, when an individual is faced with a dangerous situation, two parts of the brain circuits become active and deliver sensory data about the situation to various parts of the brain. Telling the person they are in danger or something. Like when a person

when an individual is faced with a dangerous situation, two parts of the brain circuits become active and deliver sensory data about the situation to various parts of the brain. Telling the person they are in danger or something. Like when a person sees a fire or smells a fire.  The most important part of the brain the amygdala. A deeper structure that is the center to emotional processing. The amygdala functions to monitors how the body reacts to the environment calculate the significance of emotional events and put in order responses that an individual may or may not be conscious of.

The amygdala also works with another part of the brain structures to keep emotional memories in storage, including memories of frightening events. In people with anxiety disorders, however, this can become a problem. The amygdala may be so sensitive that it overreacts to situations that aren’t really threatening, inadvertently triggering the brain circuits that provoke an emergency stress response says Alhambra. Over time, anxiety becomes attached to situations, thoughts, and memories unrelated to genuine sources of danger. In this sense, the brain creates its own fears.  By knowing this scientist where curious if they could change the fears created by the amygdala or halt the fears. Hence, to see it is accurate they experimented 20 people with the phobia of elevators. First, they told 10 to go in the elevator singing the song “apples, mangoes, and bananas”. At first, they hesitated, anxiety and panic started to kick in. But the experimenters told them to sing as loud as they could and with that, they were able to go in and come out. While the other ten hesitated and couldn’t go in. This proved to the scientist that because the ten others were so focused on singing “apples, mangoes, and bananas.” They were able to shift their amygdala that is creating fear into positive thinking reducing their anxiety, which allowed them to face their fear.

Therefore, whenever you are lost in your fears or thoughts, remember that it is all in your head, and remember that you can alter it and you can change it.  The fact is it is your brain, and you are remote to your brain, so change the channel., In that case, next time, when you are afraid,

feel free to sing “Apples, mangoes, and bananas.” and know that you are not plagiarizing, it is a treatment.

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