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Decision making – Heart over Head or Vice Versa

We often find ourselves in situations when our mind and its logics battle against the heart and its emotions regarding several decisions. Have you ever wondered why it happens that a certain area pulls a decision towards itself and you tend to repel from the other one?  Some research studies discard the notion of ‘Heart vs Mind’ claiming it as an illusion and stating that the only function a heart performs is of pumping blood essential for survival and only the brain allows us to think and behave whereas psychologists tend to differ and believe that human beings are emotional creatures and fail to apply logic in certain situations and though convinced by the fact, they still point out that every person is unique in making choices that are based on many other factors too (like individual differences, age, conceptions, relationships, wisdom etc.) . Decisions can be as small as what to have for lunch and as big as choosing a career path. Many a times, we get carried away by our temptation
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FEAR

“Fear is an unpleasant feeling triggered by the perception of danger, real or imagined” It is the most common phenomenon found in both human beings and animals. It exists in various forms and kinds most of which you probably might not even be aware of. So what exactly is fear? How do you figure out what you are actually experiencing is fear or something else? How can you overcome it? To answer all of the above, we need to understand in the first place the actual meaning, occurrence and forms of fear. Fear, in its literal sense means an emotion (either real or imagined) that alerts our mind to a certain threat or danger. When we experience something new, our brain has a tendency to release certain hormones, the most common one which we all are aware of is adrenaline which generates extreme emotions, fear being one of them. We often find ourselves in situations when our hands become cold, we feel extremely uneasy, nauseous and have increased heart rate, all these are nothing but
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