The Biology of Perception

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16. Chronic high adrenaline levels

are another invisible but powerful cause of many social and physical problems right now. Another thing that blew my mind was how fetus respond in-vitro to the mother's adrenaline levels, as well as other chemicals being fed to it--condition the child's development to prepare for the world outside. If she is afraid all the time, her adrenaline levels will communicate that the world is very stressful.

Chronic high adrenaline levels burn out the adrenal glands--so that they fire off all the time and don't know how to turn off. They control 'fight or flight'--so even though this is a CHEMICAL source of fear, our minds become suspicious, paranoid, unhappy, mean and cruel, and we look for solutions on the mental level--instead of FIRST calming ourselves down.

When in fight or flight--we are in our reptilian brains--and blood is shunted from not only the frontal cortex--but all of the visceral organs in the abdomen--so chronic adrenal burnout--starves the internal organs of oxygen--for years too. Plus it prevents us from thinking rationally. Wow.

It is CRUCIAL for us to look around at all sources of stress--even that cup of coffee might be making your heart race--and take steps to find every way possible to re-train your subconscious--to not interpret every situation as a threat. It is actually a form of PTSD--when--day after day we expose ourselves to bad news--even on line--we are training our subconscious to BELIEVE this is an unsafe, dangerous, cruel, and doomed world. Plus we are being conditioned to believe that--we are POWERLESS to change it. And no matter what is really happening--if we already burn our our adrenals--we are in near permanent flight or flight conditions.

I worked for most of my life in emergency rooms, so I am speaking from personal experience here. This part of Lipton's lecture hit me smack dead center--because cancer and all other chronic stuff is exacerbated--if not brought on--by stress!! Bingo!!