Thank you for this interesting link.I find everything which educates me on the mechanisms of the mind is very helpful.I need to understand how I used to and still react to situations, in order to progress and heal.
I especially liked the chapters on the Amygdala and emotions and the mind control tips offered to take change of our life.
My perpetrators used evil mind control techniques in order to abuse me with the hope of not leaving traces and trying to erase my memory.
The miracle of the mind is that , at one point, it has the capacity of reconnecting the patterns of the neurones and reprocess itself.

I did a workshop on Optimism (back in the day when I was functional) that focused on the amygdala.

We all naturally have an existing state of arousal - we are always on alert. This has been the case since man began - always on the alert for danger, but we evolved. We no longer have to fear lions and tigers and bears, but we do have other things we are constantly, subconsciously looking for.

In my workshop, I used the example of being bitten by a dog as a child. A lot of people are afraid of dogs. This can often be explained by the rapid-fire response of the amygdala, warning the body through the nervous system that the dog poses a danger because it was programmed that dogs are dangerous.

I am acutely aware that my amygdalae are entirely out of whack but there's hope: neuroplasticity. My workshop was called "Retrain Your Brain." It focused on how we can change our neural pathways, contrary to was previously believed by creating new associations. So if that person who's afraid of dogs because they were bitten by a child, makes a mindful effort to have good experiences with dogs and stays attuned and aware, eventually the phobia dissipates and the amygdala's response is changed.

I find all of this extremely fascinating.

*bitten by one as a child.

You are very welcome Moonface. I completely agree.The more we know about how our brains work the better off we are in understanding how abusers were able to perpetrate abuse upon us in our pasts and how to prevent it from happening to us in the future.It never ceases to amaze me how beautifully complicated the human brain is and its ability to heal itself.

Paige I completely agree.When a person is in denial or even at the earlier stages of healing their amygdalae and other brain substructures are still damaged from the abuse that they incurred but with time,healing and reprogramming this damage can be totally reversed.It is absolutely amazing.I love the dog analogy by the way.What a brilliant way of simplifying one of the very complicated parts of our brain and how it works.