Our Emotional Life

Welcome.

     Our Emotions are a wondrous and amazing part of our life. Our emotions can guide us and help us make good decisions, or our emotions can rule us and make our life miserable. You are about to take an amazing journey into your emotional Life. This course titled, Our Emotional Life: The Neuroscience of Our Emotion is concerned with how our brain affects our emotions and personality. The way our brain builds itself in early childhood and youth; the way our brain establishes it's neural connections between various areas of the brain, determines our ability to think rationally, control impulses, control our emotions, have confidence, and determines our emotional temperament, and personality. 

     Stress is a normal part of our life.  Moderate stress for as little as twenty days alters our brain. Excessive stress and negative emotions change our brain's architecture reducing neural connections between certain areas of our brain, altering our perceptions leading to worry, anxiety, depression, impulsive behavior, bad habits, self-defeating behaviors, and personality issues. When this occurs we become lost inside our emotions, manifesting fear and anger through various negative thoughts, emotions, and self-defeating behaviors.

     We will learn about three specific areas of our brain the reptilian brain, limbic system, and the prefrontal cortex, and how these areas impact control of our emotions and behaviors. Changes in our brain due to excessive stress create a state of overreactive emotions, and confusion that steals our life, in the form of time lost, and decreased quality of life. 

     This course is designed for people that want to learn about their emotional life, how our emotions develop, their impact on our lives, and how to improve understanding and control of our emotions. Our emotional life is an important aspect of our life. No one’s life is perfect, we all struggle, but along with that struggle, we all deserve joy and laughter. The knowledge provided here will lead us to a deeper understanding of the process required to improve our emotional life. Having an understanding of how our brain, emotions, and personality develop allows us to recognize our brain's neuroplasticity, and increases our ability to change and improve our emotional life.

     The goal of this course is to use the knowledge learned to work towards improving our emotional control, decreasing stress, anxiety, and depression, improving confidence, having better relationships, decreasing impulsive behavior, and increase our ability to make positive choices. Using knowledge based on scientific and psychological research we will learn about certain structures of our brain and how they contribute to our emotions, behaviors, and our personality.

     Our Emotional Life courses are based on well researched, up to date content. All reference materials are available on our emotional life website.                    

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 What This Course is Not

      This course is not a quick fix. You aren’t going to learn three things that will instantly change your life. When people offer quick-fix results from a course don’t believe it. Real improvement requires commitment, time, practice, and a good facilitator. I use the phrase ‘quick fixes unfix quickly’. Through our environment and experiences, we have been practicing to be who we are for a long time, helping to create our emotions and personality. Our emotional and behavioral patterns, our strengths and weaknesses became habitual, and will not change or improve through short term fixes. Accomplishing anything of value requires commitment and perseverance.

What you can expect from taking this course  

    This course is designed to give you a basic understanding of three areas of our brain, the reptilian brain, the limbic system, and the prefrontal cortex, and how these three areas of our brain contribute to our emotions and behaviors. Most courses focus on one aspect of you as a person. I focus on you as a whole. No personality trait or skill lives alone. Emotional control, confidence, our coping skills, impulse control, will power, and self-regulation all depend on each other.

     We will learn how stress can change our brain and create emotional and behavioral problems and cause our brain to rewire itself and create distorted thinking, a lack of focus, and poor choices. We will also learn how we can reverse these brain changes and rewire our brain and reduce stress, improve rational thinking, and emotional control.

     Once you finish the course you should have a healthy understanding of how your brain builds itself and creates your emotions and behaviors. Understanding how our brain works and contributes to our emotions and personality is only the beginning. This knowledge can then act as an impedes for continued learning, taking additional courses that teach methods for improving aspects of your emotional life that you want to improve.  

Course Objectives:

• Learn how your brain develops and contributes to your emotions and personality.

• Understand your brain's neuroplasticity, and your ability to change and improve your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

• Learn how your brain's reptilian brain, limbic system, and prefrontal cortex interact and contribute to balanced emotions and rational thinking.

• Understand how stress creates fear, anxiety, depression, a lack of confidence, bad habits, obsessive thinking, and negative behaviors.

• Increase emotional awareness.

• Open up your mind and heart to questions you may not have asked yourself, and discover issues that need resolving.

• Increase confidence and positive self-image

• Improve control of your emotions

      Learn to understand your emotions, where they come from, and how they affect your life. Emotions can guide us or rule us depending on the way our brain builds itself and how we learn to recognize and deal with stress. Do it!  Keep Learning!

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