What gets stored in our body through our senses has a lot to do with our early experiences

and our early memories and in our internal working model.

And so our bodies prepped for those kind of things, right?

So that, you know, one thing interesting, sensitive to that, similar to that, is a lot

of, there's been some pretty interesting old and recent research using FMRIs, et cetera,

looking at the amygdala's of the different attachment styles.

And that there is an impact when we are looking at emotional faces.

Our amygdala is activated when we are at our hypothythals.

When we're looking at emotional faces.

So we're going to be assessing for that emotional face, is that threatening or not.

And you know what's so interesting is, like the individuals with insecure attachment,

both avoidant and preoccupied or anxious attachment, have a heightened amygdala response

to emotional faces.

So that doesn't mean that they're aware of anxiety, doesn't mean that they're aware

of fear.

It's just that in an engagement where an emotional face happens, that there's a heightened feeling

of threat and ready to respond.

So when we're in those activated internal working models and we see a threatening face,

or we see an angry face, our bodies are going to get activated whether we know it or not.

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