Dr. Arpaia explained that the brain’s purpose is self-preservation—but the problem is, the brain goes into overdrive and starts recognizing the personal law in places it shouldn’t. Even though I know that plain bowl of saffron white rice is perfectly safe, it makes me sick anyway. The brain behaves similarly with emotional trauma: When we create a personal law in response to trauma, the law can become hardwired into your brain so strongly that when you encounter even vaguely similar situations much later, your mind reacts with irrational intensity. I had a personal law that I had the same
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