{"id":189,"date":"2016-05-04T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/wp\/?p=23"},"modified":"2016-11-27T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T15:44:44","slug":"uncertainty-and-your-frontal-lobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/04\/uncertainty-and-your-frontal-lobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainty and Your Frontal Lobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty triggers fear. Fear triggers anxiety. It all takes place in the frontal lobe of your brain where &#8220;executive&#8221; decisions are made. It&#8217;s where we determine what emotional response is appropriate for what confronts us. It&#8217;s also the place where mindfulness meditation does its work. All this is well documented in the scientific literature.<\/p>\n<p>Cortisol is the stress hormone, which when released can exaggerate our sense of danger, often resulting in inappropriate responses. Actions you might regret.<\/p>\n<p>We use expressions like &#8220;cooler heads prevailed&#8221; to describe situations when extreme stress is reduced through mental control of neuro-chemistry. That ability comes with maturity. It&#8217;s also comes by developing emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when it is necessary to choose &#8220;fight&#8221; over &#8220;flight&#8221;. The decision to stand your ground and not walk away is better made when hormones like cortisol aren&#8217;t flooding your frontal lobe. There&#8217;s no doubt that practicing mindfulness helps that cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty triggers fear. Fear triggers anxiety. It all takes place in the frontal lobe of your brain where &#8220;executive&#8221; decisions are made. It&#8217;s where we determine what emotional response is appropriate for what confronts us. It&#8217;s also the place where mindfulness meditation does its work. All this is well documented in the scientific literature. Cortisol is the stress hormone, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind-power","category-mindfulness","category-neuroscience","post_format-post-format-image","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}