Using Reason Instead of Emotions When Confronted by a Leftist

 When confronting a Conflict, Use Your Reasoning, Not Your Emotions

"But the Lord God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:8).

The brainstem bridge or annular pons connects the Spinal Cord and the Medulla Oblongata with higher brain structures. The spinal cord communicates sensory information from the body to the brain through numerous nerve pathways and sends motor orders from the neocortex to the musculoskeletal system.

The higher brain structures, the "Neo Cortex," is the fourth brain where God could communicate with man and man with God. Man lived in harmony with God, the Universe, and his environment in an innocent bliss. Having God’s knowledge and wisdom, man knew every mystery of the Universe. But the disobedience to God's laws severed this relation of man with his Creator

With the disobedience came the fear of death, and the function of the medulla oblongata was altered. Therefore destabilizing the blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing. With the emotion of fear of death, the man started to act according to his impulses and instincts of animal behavior.

 When man hears the Lord's footsteps a conflict wreaks havoc on his brain. Since then, we have been repeating the same behavior as man experimented it the first time he was confronted with a danger to protect himself whenever a sense of a peril threat. In our modern context, we don’t fight like a badger with a coyote or run away like a rabbit from a fox. But our basic impulse to protect ourselves is automatic and unconscious, and we behave like an animal.

We have two amygdala, one on each side of the brain, behind the eyes, and the optical nerves. Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, in his book The Body Keeps the Score, calls this the brain’s “smoke detector.” It’s responsible for detecting fear and preparing our body for an emergency response. But this has never been this way. God Created man to act and behave according to his ways. The factor of fear was not in God's intelligent DNA creation; instead, Composure, Courage, Bravery, Confidence, and Fearlessness were encoded in man's DNA, and in a peril episode, we can return to God's grace and "then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16). 

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8,9). 

Since the fall of man, when we perceive a threat, the amygdala sounds an alarm, releasing a cascade of chemicals in the body. Stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol flood our system, immediately preparing us for fight or flight. When this deeply instinctive function takes over, we call it what Daniel Goleman coined in Emotional Intelligence as “amygdala hijack.” In common psychological parlance, we say, “We’ve been triggered.” We notice immediate changes like an increased heart rate or sweaty palms. Our breathing becomes more shallow and rapid as we take in more oxygen, preparing to bolt if we have to.

The flood of stress hormones creates sensations like a quivering in our solar plexus, limbs, or voice. We may notice heat flush our face, our throat constricts, or the back of our neck tighten and jaw set. We are in the grip of a highly efficient but prehistoric set of physiological responses. These sensations are not exactly pleasant — they’re not meant for relaxation. They’re designed to move us to action.

The active amygdala also immediately shuts down the neural pathway to our prefrontal cortex so we can become disoriented in a heated conversation. Complex decision-making disappears, as does our access to multiple perspectives. As our attention narrows, we find ourselves trapped in the one perspective that makes us feel the most safe: “I’m right and you’re wrong,” even though we ordinarily see more perspectives.

And if that wasn’t enough, our memory becomes untrustworthy. Have you ever been in a fight with your partner or friend, and you literally can’t remember a positive thing about them? It’s as though the brain drops the memory function altogether in an effort to survive the threat. When our memory is compromised like this, we can’t recall something from the past that might help us calm down. In fact, we can’t remember much of anything. Instead, we’re simply filled with the flashing red light of the amygdala indicating “Danger, react. Danger, protect. Danger, attack.”

In the throes of amygdala hijack, we can’t choose how we want to react because the old protective mechanism in the nervous system does it for us — even before we glimpse that there could be a choice.  It is ridiculous.

Practicing Mindfulness in Conflict

Mindfulness is the perfect awareness technique to employ when a conflict arises — whether at work or home. It allows us to override the conditioned nervous system with conscious awareness. Instead of attacking or recoiling and later justifying our reactions, we can learn to stay present, participate in regulating our own nervous system, and eventually develop new, more free, and helpful ways of interacting according to the Word of God in the Scriptures.

In In the middle of a conflict demands a willingness to stay present, to feel intensely, to override our negative thoughts, and to replace them with the Word of God. Reciting verses like: “Put on the whole armor of God so that you can confront the devil's schemes.” (Ephesians 6:11). “You are my refuge; You will protect me from danger and surround me with songs of liberation.” (Psalm 32:7). 

(SSee 40 Bible verses to meditate when confronting the perils and conflicts we encounter in our daily lives in these times of distress).   - https://dailyverses.net/es/proteccion#:~:text=El%20camino%20)

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