{"id":20861,"date":"2015-02-18T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=20861"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:33:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:33:33","slug":"what-if-your-brain-didnt-recognize-fear-invisibilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/es\/journal\/what-if-your-brain-didnt-recognize-fear-invisibilia\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Your Brain Didn&#8217;t Recognize Fear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you imagine what your life would be like without the presence of fear? Not in a way of being overly risky or courageous, but in a way of actually being incapable of experiencing fear as an emotion\u2014what would that be like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/invisibilia\/377515477\/fearless?showDate=2015-01-16\" target=\"_blank\">recent episode<\/a>\u00a0of National Public Radio\u2019s\u00a0new podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/invisibilia\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cInvisibilia,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0host Alix Spiegel explains how the abundance and intensity of stimuli in the modern world evokes a high level of fear in most of us\u2014often unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p>True fearlessness actually does exist, however. It\u2019s an effect of an extremely rare disease called Urbach-Wiethe. Only about 400 people have ever been recorded with the condition. Symptoms include a hoarse voice and small bumps around the eyes, as well as calcium deposits in the brain. When deposits form in the amygdala structures (the area in the brain that is critical for processing emotional fear), the response of fear is subdued. In the\u00a0particular\u00a0Urbach-Wiethe case discussed in the episode\u2014that of\u00a0a\u00a0woman referred to as\u00a0\u201cSM\u201d\u2014the subject\u2019s fear emotion has been completely eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The amygdala in SM&#8217;s brain had completely calcified.\u00a0\u201cWhich is why, biologically, SM [can\u2019t] feel fear,&#8221; says\u00a0Spiegel.\u00a0&#8220;That bit of brain [can\u2019t] signal to the rest of her body that it [is] time for her heart to start racing and her palms to sweat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The segment then explored the dangers associated with not having fear\u2014such as increased vulnerability to dangers that most people would try to avoid. SM uses logic, rather than emotion, to try and avoid danger. SM does not see dangerous situations as threatening, so they do not evoke the trauma that we would associate with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like such an odd bargain,\u201d says Spiegel, reflecting on this revelation. &#8220;If you have no fear, more terrible things will happen to you, but you don\u2019t personally experience them as terrible. If you have a lot of fear, fewer bad things are likely to happen, but it\u2019s very probable that your life is more painful to you. So is it better to be fearful or fearless? Which side of the continuum do you choose?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So is it better to be fearful or fearless?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Urbach-Wiethe is so incredibly rare, it\u2019s not like the rest of us who\u00a0have\u00a0the fear emotion can just choose to suppress it. What we can do, however, is shift our perspective on what we choose to define as scary, dangerous, or threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Your fear emotion is conditioned to kick into gear, but you can train your brain to come from more of a place of logic and discernment, instead of straight panic or worry. The key is take out the trauma around the fear itself, since so often we are fearful of the projections of what could happen, rather than what actually plays out.<\/p>\n<p>We are conditioned to be careful, to be scared, to avoid, to run, to hide. This so often can pull us away from the experience of being vulnerable and open, which detracts from the full experience of life. Give up fear when you can, and rely on it when you must. Use your head to define the weight of the situation, and free yourself of traumatizing thoughts and debilitating stories.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/invisibilia\/377515477\/fearless?showDate=2015-01-16\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;border-color:#cccccc;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;-webkit-border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#000000;padding:0px 32px;font-size:23px;line-height:46px;border-color:#ffffff;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;-webkit-border-radius:0px;text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #ffffff;-moz-text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #ffffff;-webkit-text-shadow:0px 0px 0px #ffffff\"> Listen to the full episode here.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Flickr user\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jetheriot\/\" target=\"_blank\">jetheriot<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kim-fuller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20941\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kim-fuller.jpg\" alt=\"kim-fuller\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>Kim Fuller grew up in the Colorado mountains and has always found beauty and inspiration through nature and movement. She is currently a freelance journalist and yoga teacher based in Vail. Her writing and photo work has focused on health, wellness, recreation, food, and travel since 2007, and Kim began her yoga practice in Boulder, followed by her first teacher training with Real Evolution Yoga at Peace Retreat Costa Rica in November of 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine your what your life would be life without the presence of fear? 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