==Affect upon the Amygdala of Americans by repetition, by the DS, MSM, etc=

Think about this anons, how many times over the last 4 years have Americans been programmed to fear Russia, and President Trump’s name with it, along with all the lies have repeated both at the same time with “danger”, possibility millions of times or more.

For those who have a fear based response in normal life, (fight or flight) are now completely programmed with basically a terror response, from the MSM, politicians, subversives etc

No wonder, if it only takes a couple of repetitions to produce the fear response, how these citizens almost can’t break the programming. Many have not voluntary accepted the lies, they listened and the more they did the deeper the fear. When patriots try revealing the truth and facts, it has little or no effect.

Question: meme anons, is there anyway by image & word memes, calm the amygdala down, so they can release the fear?

How can we help deprogram them? I know my families response to Trump, because they are left leaning, is almost terror or extreme anger, when his name is said.

Amygdala

The amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the brain’s temporal lobe, attaches emotional significance to memories. This is particularly important because strong emotional memories (e.g. those associated with shame, joy, love or grief) are difficult to forget. The permanence of these memories suggests that interactions between the amygdala, hippocampus and neocortex are crucial in determining the ‘stability’ of a memory – that is, how effectively it is retained over time.

There's an additional aspect to the amygdala’s involvement in memory. The amygdala doesn't just modify the strength and emotional content of memories; it also plays a key role in forming new memories specifically related to fear.Fearful memories are able to be formed after only a few repetitions. This makes ‘fear learning’ a popular way to investigate the mechanisms of memory formation, consolidation and recall

Understanding how the amygdala processes fear is important because of its relevance to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects many of our veterans as well as police, paramedics and others exposed to trauma. Anxiety in learning situations is also likely to involve the amygdala, and may lead to avoidance of particularly challenging or stressful tasks.

QBI researchers including Professor Pankaj Sah and Dr Timothy Bredy believe that understanding how fear memories are formed in the amygdala may help in treating conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/where-are-memories-stored

The Physical Effects of an Amygdala Hijack

In his book The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk calls the amygdala your brain’s “smoke detector.” It detects fear and prepares your body for emergency response. When you perceive a threat, the amygdala pumps stress hormones into your body. This deeply instinctive function is the fight, flight, or freeze response Daniel Goleman called an “amygdala hijack.” As psychologists put it, “You’ve been triggered.”

Being triggered has a strong physical effect. Your heart rate increases, breathing becomes shallower, your limbs or voice might quiver, your throat constricts, and your neck tightens. Conflict mediator Diane Musho Hamilton points out that these responses are “not meant for relaxation. They’re designed to move us to action.”

Furthermore, when it’s hijacked, the amygdala shuts down the neural pathway to your prefrontal cortex. This creates a disorienting effect, limiting your ability to see other perspectives and reducing your memory function. This makes it hard to remember all the facts, including what may be good about yourself and others.

When the amygdala is running the show, you’re not your best self. You’ve got to find ways of regulating your nervous system and developing freer and more helpful ways of interacting.

4 Steps to Manage Your Overactive Amygdala

This article gives ways to control only if they are aware of it.

https://www.mattnorman.com/how-to-calm-down-the-overactive-amygdala/

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Yes I agree and I’m reading some therapies in which to heal or control fear that many have

The interesting therapy is “exposure therapy” which meme anons have been doing with great success. This reminds of my friends friend, a progressive and atheist that hated Trump, but she was inspired to protest the LA lockdown, and there she met 1,000s of patriots and a trump supporters, she met lots of good people, her fear was removed by seeing the reality there are good people and patriotic Americans that are Trump supporters. She told her friend, I now understand what FOX has been saying all these years. One “exposure” incident created an opening and she’s reporting the cognitive dissonance this created, is hard to overcome, but she’s even starting to like and support Trump.

Sorry anons for me minimizing our effect on society

How to Calm the Anxious Brain

There are more types of exposure therapies out there, but LeDoux argues that whichever one you go with, it’s important to conduct the exposures in different settings, at different times of the day, with and without the presence of the therapist. By exposing the client to a wide breadth of situations, the fearful CS-US association can be disconnected across multiple scenarios, increasing the chances of its eventual extinction.

As a form of implicit treatment, exposure therapy is useful in controlling the nonconscious processes underlying anxiety disorders, but explicit forms like cognitive behavioral therapy use conscious memory to correct cognitive errors and false beliefs. I view exposure therapy as the way to close the door to the physiological sensations we don’t actively think into existence, while cognitive behavioral therapy shapes and molds the content of conscious thoughts we have to lessen the behaviors of worry and avoidance.

https://moretothat.com/how-to-calm-the-anxious-brain/