“Though emotions are themselves critical to making rational decisions, they were designed for a world in which dangers took the form of predators, not pollutants. Our emotions push us to make snap judgments that once were sensible — but may not be anymore.”
What makes you feel safe? What makes you fearful, even terrified? And what about that constant underlying feeling of anxiety that so many people experience without even knowing it?
I have learnt over the decades that our emotions always show us where our thoughts are really focused. A feeling of fear takes us rapidly AWAY from what we want to experience and powerfully attracts to us to more feelings like itself.
So this article, “10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong,” from the magazine Psychology Today is not only fascinating, but offers up some useful insights and evidence to help us become more aware of that “under the radar” stuff so we can let go of hanging on and believing it to be real.