The amygdala is actually two separated regions – each human has a left side and a right-side amygdala. Researchers are uncovering more each day as the connectivity and capacity of each side does differentiate with emotional reception, filtering, and sending order signals to the motor neurons via direct pathway and neurotransmitter release. When one begins to speak about regions of the brain the discussion can become quite deep and mired in academic language for specificity. A specificity of operational order, or functional associations that science and evidence has now determined is both unique and similar to any individual when compared with any other Individual
The idea that the amygdala is related to emotional response and control mechanisms is a short way to describe the detailed functional importance of how these regional structures of the brain influence choice and behavioral actions or reactions to stimuli. The amygdala plays a significant role in the limbic system processing of emotional associations and motor commands based on these heuristics. However, much of personality is agreed in the evidence to be both innate (already genetic inside of us) and environmentally induced or developed based on how our perceptions of circumstances determine our associated emotional connectivity.
The fear response is the highlighted discussion when one reads the literature regarding the amygdala’s primary role. However, harm avoidance is also taking a space on the center stage of the significance of amygdala influence for behavioral modification programs. For example, one may not be afraid of speaking per se, but will avoid speaking in public because of a thought that they might appear “stupid” or they might offend another. The result is the amygdala overrides the simple process of speaking or communicating. Hardly the same as the importance of fear when a loud boom goes off near your home, or when a creepy snake slithers through your garden on a sunny day.
The amygdala is associated with the anxiety levels a person feels based on how much negativity is bonded between a stimulus and the persons potential series of reactions. The good news is that the amygdala can be trained to respond in varying ways. Any person can use their own personality to create how they want to perceive the world and thereby influence the measures of how to respond emotionally to specific situations. More on how to train your amygdala can be both researched individually or of course, we are happy to talk with you about specific training options for you, of which the amygdala may be an area of focus that we look too for development of specific emotions or emotional responses desired.