I would like again to quote Dr. Joseph Dispenza, from the video “What the Bleep?! Do We Know Anyway?”  Dr. Dispenza specializes in neurology, neurophysiology and brain function.

Dr Dispenza said that “there is a part of the brain called the hypothalamus.  The hypothalamus is like a little mini factory.  It is a place that assembles certain chemicals that match certain emotions that we experience.  Those particular chemicals we call peptides.  They are small chain amino acid sequences.

In the hypothalamus, we take small chain proteins called peptides and we assemble them into certain neuropeptides or nerve hormones that match the emotional states that we experience on a daily basis.  So there are chemicals for anger and there are chemicals for sadness.  There are chemicals for victimization and there are chemicals for lust.  There is a chemical for every emotional state that we experience.

The moment we experience that emotional state in our body or in our brain, the hypothalamus will immediately assemble the matching neuropeptide (nerve hormone) that is then released through the pituitary into the bloodstream.”

What does this mean to us?  It means that our body physically responds to the emotions that we are feeling and it responds instantly.  It also means that we interrupt these chemical reactions by changing the way that we are feeling.  The best way that I have found to do that is by applying the powerful stress-reducing tool of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).