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Key takeaways from Your Brain Is Not for Thinking

In stressful times, this surprising lesson from neuroscience may help to lessen your anxieties. Open at source

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The scientific name for body budgeting is allostasis.
In body-budgeting terms, however, this distinction between mental and physical is not meaningful. Anxiety does not cause stomach aches; rather, feelings of anxiety and stomach aches are both ways that human brains make sense of physical discomfort.
Your brain’s most important job isn’t thinking; it’s running the systems of your body to keep you alive and well.
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