Avoiding the Emotional Hijack

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Naming our feelings can help us manage stressful or upsetting situations, but sometimes emotions hit us out of nowhere, and we get surprisingly strong reactions to situations in day-to-day life. This section introduces the idea of the amygdala hijack and provides some suggestions for dealing with it.

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The Amygdala Hijack and the Fight or Flight Response (Links to an external site.) explains in more detail how the amygdala, a part of our brain designed to protect us from threats, can sometimes lead to intense, out-of-proportion emotional reactions to the situations we encounter in day to day life, —a.k.a losing it.

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In the video below, Kirsten Johnson explains how strategies such as mindfulness can help us to create a pause between stimuli and automatic reactions, which can help us to avoid the amygdala hijack.

Amygdala Hijack & Emotional Intelligence (Links to an external site.)