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Why do some of us respond to challenge with fear, brokenness, despair?

636 views · Nov 8, 2023

Charlie Harary

A message about understanding and overcoming fear through resilience and courage.

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challenge impacts your brain in very specific ways we were built to survive God created us with a brain that is really good at staying alive so we have a part of our brain called the amydala in the back of our heads and that hijacks whenever there's danger and it gets us in a situation where it moves our body into fight or flight that's the body living in the world of survival right the executive function shuts down we don't think creatively we're not focused on the present we worry about self and so what happens when you're in

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  1. 0:00challenge impacts your brain in very specific ways we were built to survive God created us
  2. 0:31an environment where your survival is threatened is your body your mind immediately sends you down

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