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<speak> <emphasis level="strong">Our tricky Brain Loops</emphasis><break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> Essentially, when we are stressed, our ancient brain mechanisms take over and dominate our body and mind, reacting with a hyper focus on survival, and threat orientation, leading to increased attention to the negatives. This can create stress, depression, anxiety and burnout.<break strength="x-strong"/> See the visual above for more context on this. The way to respond to this productively is through mindfulness and compassion, we will spend our program doing just that.<break strength="x-strong"/> Given our tricky brains, a key message to remember is:<break strength="x-strong"/> <emphasis level="strong">It’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility!</emphasis><break strength="x-strong"/> In other words, it’s not our fault we have a tricky brain, with a “better safe than sorry” mentality, it’s not our fault we are prone to feel threatened and anxious during stress, it’s simply our “factory setting”.<break strength="x-strong"/> It is however our responsibility to respond to our tricky brains, and to other people with mindfulness and compassion in order to maintain stability and care in our lives.<break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> <break strength="x-strong"/> </speak>