Generally curious..
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Your brain is both very complicated (that means very hard to understand) and very simple. When you are scared it does something to help you get out of the scary situation. Your brain pushes special chemicals (that’s kinda like medicine) through your body. It let’s you run fast and think fast and be strong. That’s very helpful if it’s a bear or a bully.
But our brains aren’t used to new kinds of scary things, like scary pictures on the internet or being worried about handing in home work late or your best friend not playing with you today. Being strong or fast doesn’t help. Our brains are simple though and think that’s a threat so it gives you the special chemicals to help.
The problem is the chemicals your brain sends out is only good for a short, otherwise it is bad for your body like your heart or other inside parts. So when your feeling scared and your heart is racing try and count your breaths, that’s like the mindfulness we’ve been practising in class.
(I’m a teacher and this is pretty much how I’d explain it to my class)
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