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Mush Brain
What To Do About It
Part 1
by Susan Dunn

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You're frustrated, hurt, betrayed, scared, desperate, or desperately in love and there you sit, stand, walk or stomp around, with nothing "intelligent" coming out of your mouth.

Maybe you cry, maybe you lash out, maybe you stammer, maybe you pout or roll your eyes in disgust, maybe you sit, moony-eyed and tongue-tied or say exactly what you meant not to say, and through it all you realize nothing you're doing is helping anything. Where is your brain when you need it the most?

When we're under strong emotions, our brains turn to mush. What is going on?

Why This Happens

What happens is we're under threat. That's how our primitive brain is taking it anyway, the one that's there to preserve us in the short-term, and is not thinking about things in the long-term. Our thinking brain (neocortex) has been disabled.

When emotions surge, out reptilian, or primitive brain, has taken over. This brings with it physiological responses that affect us - your head is pounding, your pulse is raising, your blood pressure goes up, you have trouble breathing and your stomach is in knots.

Your body is on full alert to protect you from a threat. It doesn't want you to think, it wants you to act - fight or flight. And the reason you're feeling this way is you fear the same things are going to happen to you - you'll either be abandoned or attacked.

What You Can Do

What can you do when you're in this state? Well, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. These emotional states are part of life. We welcome the positive states, and dislike the negatives states, and both are going to happen.

Polishing up on your emotional intelligence competencies can help you understand these states better and deal with them more constructively.

Your thinking brain is still around, if you can learn how to access it. You're probably familiar with such recommended techniques as taking a deep breath and counting to 10, or taking a time-out, or self-soothing techniques.

And if you're like me, at the time these pressured-events occur, being told to take a deep breath is like being told to take a warm bath when you've just lost your job. It doesn't work for you unless the groundwork has been laid.

What Else Can You Do?

Work on this proactively. When you understand better your own feelings and how they work, and how to express them appropriately (because not all of them need be expressed), you're prepared.

Emotional Intelligence starts with self-awareness. Start by getting in touch with your own feelings. Check in with yourself several times a day. This is not the "How are you?" "Fine," sort of interchange. Ask yourself how you are feeling emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. Then answer yourself!

You're Angry ... and What Else?

Start with angry, which is an onion of many layers of feelings. Learn how to sort through them. When you remember to add in your physical state, for instance, you may find that one of the major components of your anger at the time is that you're exhausted, or it's 90 degrees in the room and you're sweltering, or you haven't eaten in 6 hours and you're hungry - looking for kill!

So, while you do feel angry, there's a huge component there that's related to your internal state. Another day, another time you'd be far less angered.

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