The Pointe Church

the have you ever heard that the brain won't let you feel anxiety and fear at the same time? I said, excuse me? Anxiety and gratitude. Sorry. Have have you ever heard that your brain won't let you feel anxiety and gratitude at the same time? And I was like, this is crazy. It's revelatory. My mind was blown. And so I researched it, and it's true. It's true that genuine gratitude and anxiety cannot exist at the same time in the brain. The brain uses a similar, section of the brain in order to feel those feelings. Overlapping brain regions within the limbic system, particularly the amygdala and hippocampus, it make it very difficult to feel them both intensely at the same time. And when you start thinking thoughts of gratitude, it releases cortisol, which calms down your fight or flight response. Isn't that so cool? It's so cool. So gratitude is the win, which we all know and we've all heard before. Right? I think, that's why sometimes when we hear that verse out of James one that says, count it joy when you experience trials of various kinds, We kinda roll our eyes a little bit because we're like, you ain't never been through this. I'm going through a bit of a wilderness.