Welcome back to our Sunday bonus episode, where I share an article with you from a different

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with the post and commentary as we optimize your life. Effectively respond to danger by calming

your daily worries by Ingrid Y. Helander of ingrid Y. Helander, LMFT.com. Do you effectively respond when

faced with true potential danger? It's hard to know when a worry is real or imagined, and when you

should run from danger or think about it. A common problem for sure. Over time, you may have lost the

ability to differentiate between

primal fear and worry. Your innate primal survival gift is the ability to feel and decipher your

body's messages, your felt sense or emotion, to interpret them accurately and respond. For many of us,

that ability has become obscured and weakened with a mind and body uncertain about

what is a true danger and what is a chronic worry. I was listening to Oprah's Super Soul podcast

yesterday, in which she was talking about responding to our body's innate signal of predatory danger

to protect ourselves from attacks. In it, she offered some clear instructions,

especially for women, to pay attention to, and respond to the feeling of danger and to override

learned polite behavior. Over and over, Oprah repeated the feeling you get when you are in

the presence of danger, and it is an important instruction.

Listen to your gut, she says, and far be it from me to disagree with Oprah. She's right.

Humans do have the same safety sensors as animals. The problem is, we override our genuine

instincts with thoughts and worry. You know the thoughts. I need to be kind. I don't dare

anger anyone. I'm being ridiculous and paranoid. He won't like me. People will make fun of me.

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