Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How quickly can we heal something that's been inside of our body, inside of our mindset for decades that we've never let go of?

And it's a part of us. How quick are we able to do that from past trauma?

Here's the deal with trauma and it's kind of an interesting thing because when you're

traumatized, some threat or some danger or some condition in your outer world

through your senses is changing how you

feel in your inner world and the quotient of change between the way you normally

feel in some alarm state when you change your internal state and move into that emergency mode,

you narrow your focus on the cause and the brain freezes an image

and takes a snapshot and that's called the long-termterm memory and now that image is branded holographically

into the brain.

So then we remember experiences better because we can remember how they feel

and that memory then changes the person's biology. So they

think neurologically within the circuits of that experience and they feel

chemically within the boundaries of those emotions and how we think and feel

becomes our state of being.

So now the person biologically has changed and many times it's the strong emotion that begins to select and instruct the gene that creates disease.

Why?

Because if the environment signals the gene,

and that's the truth, that's epigenetics,

and the end product of an experience

and the environment is an emotion,

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