Emily McDonald: Can You Rewire Your Brain?
Stress and fear trigger a fight-or-flight response that creates 'tunnel vision' (deer in headlights), reducing prefrontal cortex activity and logical thinking. Conversely, calmness dilates time perception and allows for takeawayHe bridges neuroscience with spirituality, showing how visualization, self-concept shifting, and practices like meditation can physically rewire neural pathways to alter perception, reduce stress, and improve performancesummaryThe brain does not see reality directly; it constructs perception based on past experiences, memories, and emotional states. This is illustrated by the kitten experiment where kittens raised seeing only horizontal lines takeaway














