How To Stop Being Hijacked By Something The Size Of An Almond!
Whenever we feel threatened, a part of our brain called the amygdala (ah-mig-da-la) activates. It is an almond shaped structure in the brain and the name is derived from the Greek word for almond. This is part of a primal set of circuitry that evolved to warn us of things like attacking animals or falling rocks. It works closely with the hippocampus, a memory centre, to catalogue threats we’ve encountered. Another part of the brain, called the ‘prefrontal cortex’, is the cent
