Using our emotional and thoughts system in a positive way

Avec : Andrew Newberg
meditation neuroscience

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You want to have those emotions but the ability to utilize them in a positive way.

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When we think about
our emotional system,

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how our brain operates

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there's a little bit of a balance
that's going on all the time.

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So we have the emotional centers
of our brain, our limbic system.

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We have our frontal lobes which
help to kind of regulate them.

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We have something called
the anterior cingulate

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which is in the middle. It's kind of the fulcrum

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that balances them. And so you
know when you get angry at somebody

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your emotional centers go up

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and your thought centers go
down and you stop thinking

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you know and then you start reacting.

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On the other hand with the notion of
discipline or meditation or prayer practice,

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well, as your frontal
lobe starts to go up

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your emotional responses
start to go down a little bit.

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And so what you want is the ability
to have those emotions

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but the ability to utilize
them in a positive way

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and to try to keep them
focused into something

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that becomes more constructive for both
you as well as for the world around you.

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But there's always that
kind of battle going on

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and the more you know you feed that
one side that more positive side

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the more those neural connections
grow,

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the stronger your frontal lobe becomes

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the weaker those very powerful
negative emotions become.

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And you wind up in a
different kind of mindset,

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a more peaceful kind of mindset.