It always there, the response from the stimulus as input to the higher order parts, but we don't have to act on them automatically. We can learn to process and take time before responding in the moment. Who knows what our fullest potential is indeed ;)
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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.