You are NOT a victim of this.
What is your brain?
This part of the brain becomes hyperactive in survival mode.
What is the amygdala?
This nervous system activates rest, repair, digestion, and healing in the body.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Emotions are not just feelings but also this.
What are chemical responses in the body?
This emotional addiction often feels like “I work better under pressure.”
What is stress or anxiety?
Meditation and mental rehearsal help do this in the brain.
What is rewiring neural pathways?
Being in a constant state of stress and distress.
What is survival mode?
Less stress, relaxing, mindfulness, calm
What are traditional meditation benefits?
When this loop keeps repeating, the body begins to expect the emotion.
What is emotional addiction?
This emotion can feel temporarily powerful and justified.
What is anger?
Avoiding people, places, and things is an example of managing this.
What are triggers?
This survival emotion focuses on past pain or loss.
What is sadness?
New neural pathways, new personality/identity, rehearsing future.
What is transformation meditation?
What is Dispenzas meditation approach?
This behavior often shows up when the body is craving familiar emotional chemicals
What is creating drama?
This emotional state keeps people stuck in self-blame and self-attack.
What is guilt or shame?
Neural pathways weaken when they are no longer this.
What is used or fired?
Living in survival mode long-term prevents this.
What are growth, healing, and creativity?
This branch of the nervous system is responsible for stress and survival responses.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
first step in the emotional cycle: something happens
What is an experience?
When happiness feels “wrong,” the body may be addicted to this baseline.
What is sadness or depression?
Thoughts create chemicals, chemicals create feelings, and feelings do this.
What is reinforce thoughts?
Joy, Gratitude, Love, Abundance, etc.
What are "elevated" emotions?
This part of the mind is responsible for conscious thought and active thinking.
What is the analytical (conscious) mind?
The physical sensation we feel when chemicals reach our cells is called this.
What is an emotion?
This emotional addiction is maintained by stories like “everything happens to me.”
What is victimhood?