 And today we're going to talk about this word. What is it? Beer. Beer. All right, so what happens, what comes to mind when you think of that word? Surprise, surprise, scared, tensing up. So what we're going to talk about today is what specifically happens physiologically inside your body when we encounter fear. Can anybody tell me what kind of physiological things happen? The heart race. OK, it's good. So heart rate. Adrenaline. Heart rate. Adrenaline. Keep going. Acid lactic. Lactic acid. OK, what else? Constriction, vasoconstriction. Vascular constriction, increased blood pressure, right? Blood pressure, what else? Blood pressure. What else? Think of a time when you were scared. Oh, it narrows your sight. Vision, right? Vision is changes, right? What else? Thinking changes. Your processing. OK, processing, thinking changes. Sure. OK. Panic. You like to panic? Panic, all right. That is a result. Sure. All right, we can put it over this side. What else? Flight or flight? Flight or flight, OK. Flight or flight, what else? I don't know if it's like things just slow down, just everything is just live. Oh, you're stupid. Slow down. Are you going to flash? Things slow down when you get scared. That's pretty good. OK, what else? Actually, yeah, that is a vote. Report that thing is slow down when you get scared. Anything else? There's more, come on. Negative thinking? Yeah, sure. Negative thinking, OK. Helplessness. Helplessness, OK. Talking about some physiological things, not emotions. More physiological things. How about increased perspiration? Sweating, right? What else? You guys ever have to meet a girl that you really like or something at the top? Uncomfortable? Anxiety. Anxiety, that's emotion. But what's physically happening in your body? What do you feel in your body? Shaking, sure. What else? Crazy. What does that mean? It's kind of like butterflies in your stomach, right? OK, so butterflies, OK. And what else? There's also a decrease in saliva, you know, when your mouth gets dry, right? So less decrease in saliva. What else is there? Increased stomach acid, that's similar to that. Increased blood pressure, increased circulation. Redirection of your blood to where? To your muscles. Vital organs, OK. What happens to your arms and hands? Can you feel cold? Why? It's because your body is actually preserving the blood into your vital organs. So blood flow to vital organs, OK. What else is there? Something that is not very cool. Something that's very embarrassing. You piss in your pants, or you shit in your pants, OK? So that's another thing to happen, too. Piss or shit in your pants? Yeah? Yeah, OK. Now if you really analyze and evaluate what's happening to your body, can you kind of see what picture is happening? OK, when your vision, your pupils are actually dilating when you're scared. What happens to your vision? Actually, now you can see more, right? And your focus is better or worse? Worse. No, it's better. No, your focus is increased. Yeah. You see? It's supposed to increase your chances of survival, so yeah. It's supposed to be like a survival mode. Your focus increased. You read some police reports when they had to shoot the guy. All they see is the target, down to the most finite detail when they're scared. So what's number one? Your vision actually enhances, doesn't it, when you're scared. OK, let's look at the adrenaline. What does adrenaline do? Gives you more energy, it pops you. Gives you more energy so that you can run faster. You can hit harder. You can move faster. It's that pain? Right. You can also, yeah, take more pain without feeling it. What does a heart rate do? Goes up. More oxygen to the muscles that you need. What is a decrease in saliva? Do you need to talk when you are fighting? No, so it preserves that energy, preserves that energy so you can use it for something else. What happens when you let flow to the vital organs? Keep it running, OK? What happens when you piss and shit in your pants? You get lighter. You're released every day, so you don't have to worry about that. You don't have to carry that literally shit with you, OK? You can move faster when you have less weight, OK? What happens when you perspire? You get slippery. Keeping the body cool. Keeping the body cool. Controls your body heat. What happens when you feel crazy? And what is that? It's actually an acid in your stomach. It's called cortisol, right? Increase cortisol levels in your body. What does cortisol do? It's a hormone. What does it do? It's a bad thing. It helps in bicep constriction. So cortisol is not good if you have it constantly, because it leads to stress and it leads to heart disease. But in that situation, in that moment, what does cortisol do? It does all these things. It actually triggers a lot of these things, OK? So in the midst of fear, what actually happened to you? You're ready to fight for a run. You become sort of superhuman for that moment, OK? Now, it's not good to obviously have that occur in your life repeated, but when you need it, your body is actually turning you into a superhuman. So how does that help you when the next time you get scared or the next time you feel these fears? You're using it. OK? So there's an article I forgot to bring today, but it's by a doctor, a PhD, and he says, the difference between people who panic and the people who survive is through training and discipline. What does training and discipline do? It makes you turn this into something that's going to kill you or something that's going to give you energy, because fear itself is just energy, isn't it? All this is all chemical reactions. All this is energy. So are you going to be able to use it for good, to help you, or are you going to let that energy basically kill you? And the difference is in the training. How do we train our minds? How do we train our bodies to be able to handle this? Because even the most trained cops or military people, you ask them, they are scared shitless when they encounter life and death situations. Everybody. Nobody is free of fear. But it's how much you train your mind, how much you train your body, and that's what we do in here, are we? What we train are our mind and our body so that we can have a way to deal with all these and recognize what these are, making you a super human. So that's the lesson on fear today. I hope that helps you out. So we'll see you soon in the next class. So what do you think about that? Any comments, questions? I don't know if your soul was there. So unless you have to practice and practice or when something like that happens to you, you have to. Yes.