Yes, we don't have to act on it. There is a learning curve for those who have a more highly reactive amygdala. Old habits die hard and many people have an issue in changing the way they respond to some stimulus/triggers. I actually finished reading a book explaining how excellence and habits are being developed since birth. I have found it fascinating that a skill, a response, is actually leaving marks through a process called myelination. Throughout our lives we grow this and it is like the wrapping around the cables. The more developed practice you do, the more "wrapping" around your neurons. I find it fascinating because we have this little mass closed inside our skull, deprived of light, sitting in the dark and yet being such a marvelous piece of machinery: our brain Neuroscience is just awesome.
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