anxiety

[katiekin]

It's embodied -- it's neurological as well as everything else. It has a kind of life of its own, not connected to the sites to which it attaches. It's neurons firing, hormones going up and down in  "sympathy", memories and emotional associations triggered with the amygdala and affecting the hippocampus.

Hail and befriend? Learn and connect? Savor body sensations and cognitive processes?