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Could you speak more about the emotional brain versus critical brain?

Absolutely. So I think about this very simplistic, right? The emotional brain is often

we call the mingla or you fight or fleets. So you face to face with a bear, you better run,

right? Otherwise, it would be having this lovely conversation. That's their emotional brain.

Then the prefrontal cortex, which is the front part of your brain, your thinking brain,

is the one that you organize, you plan, you think critically.

And the two of them compete for energy.

So to that, if you are fully in your emotional brain, it's really hard to focus.

Why is that?

Because you do not have to think to run.

You just don't.

Like, if you're face to face with the bear, you better run. You just don't. Like if you're face to face with the bear, you better run. I mean,

I don't know if you guys ever went for a jog, but you don't have to sort of think, oh, I'm

going to go for a jog. Like you don't. You go for a jog. So that fight, flight or freeze

comes from the emotional brain, which robs our ability to think critically. And so the idea

here is if you want to have less in anxiety, is to really be able to

activate your thinking brain as much as you can. Research shows that it calms down your

emotional brain. That's why in cognitive behavior therapy, you ask people to write their homework

is because writing, thinking brain. Thinking brain is on. There's less of the emotional brain.

And it's really important

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