What image comes to your mind when you think of a “Caveman”?

Most likely it would be a picture of someone with a sloped forehead and a comparatively smaller head. A sloped forehead maybe a suggestion of a left prefrontal lobe that is under-developed. This area controls your emotions of aggression. This is also the same area that sustains your feelings of happiness.

The small head of the Caveman according to research suggests a variation in the size of the amygdala(Part of the brain), which has been carried from the reptilian stage of brain development. People who tend to be emotionally chaotic and break into volatile rage have a relatively smaller size of ‘ amygdala”.

The brain of the emotionally volatile people gives them ‘False Positives’, which means they sense ‘Danger” in situations where such a strong response is not required. The overactive Brain(Amygdala) sees danger where there is none.

If you are someone struggling with problems of emotional control; you need to first understand that you are not a caveman. By that, we mean that you do not have to be quick in your responses unlike a man staying in a cave in the forest. You do not have to protect yourself from wild beasts.

In our contemporary world, most of the dangers do not need an immediate reflexive response.

It is better to take your “Timeout”, think before taking an action. The best thing you can do when you start to feel your blood flushing around your ears, or your body trembling out of rage is to leave the situation immediately. Those few minutes of a break will buy you time to start to collect data, rational evidence for and against and process better. The outcome naturally is more productive and you can be creative with the solution.

Return to the situation when you have calmed down completely and you have found a better way to proceed with the problem.

What we are suggesting is: Beware of your tendency to react in an angry caveman way. Step back instead of aggressively moving forward.

When you are in doubt, just try to get out!

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