Mind to Matter by Dawson Church

Mind to Matter by Dawson Church

Author:Dawson Church [Dawson Church]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018-05-28T00:00:00+00:00


CHRONIC HIGH CORTISOL

So when we get stressed for a few minutes, are we wrecking our bodies?

The answer is no. Bodies are designed to handle quick spikes of stress and then return rapidly to their normal baseline. Just two minutes after a stressful event, our body has already disassembled the fast-acting adrenaline molecules it built in response to danger (Ward et al., 1983). Slow-burning cortisol takes about 20 minutes to dissipate (Nesse et al., 1985). Your body is designed to generate cortisol quickly in response to an objective threat and dissipate it quickly when the threat is gone.

So if cortisol and adrenaline molecules dissipate rapidly, how can our levels stay high over time?

By thought—especially thought that triggers strong emotion. This sends signals through the neural pathways of negativity in our brains.

We cause chronic cortisol production by turning our attention to those factors in the environment that stress us out. Negative thinking drives high cortisol even when there is no tiger in the grass. Our brilliant brains are able to ruminate about the bad thing that happened in the past or the bad thing that might happen in the future. Even if it never happened and will never happen, we can nonetheless focus on it, picture it, contemplate it, imagine it, talk about it, and catastrophize about it.

The body cannot distinguish between an actual threat and a perceived threat. It has no way of knowing that the imaginary threat we are conjuring up in our minds using negative thinking is not an actual threat to our survival. Purely by thought alone, we can drive cortisol up and produce corrosive effects on our cells.



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