It’s a mistake to take the commonsense approach and try to ignore or minimize the messages sent by our brains’ alarms. Remember, that only causes the alarm to up the ante and increase the volume of its demands for attention. Like triggers, emotions can get blown up into major crises or catastrophes by the alarm when we don’t take the alarm’s caution signals seriously. On the other hand, when the thinking center responds by showing respect for the emotions generated by the alarm, the alarm turns down the volume of stress chemicals.
