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Even though we desire to live in our best day, it’s hard to get out of the Worst Day Cycle because our brain doesn’t know how to behave. If we don’t know something or are exposed to something new, we have no emotional chemical marker for our thalamus to categorize the situation as homeostatic (our norm or equilibrium). That’s when our amygdala gets triggered. The adrenaline rush of fear shuts down the cognitive thinking and reasoning part of our brain. When we are afraid, we automatically go into denial because our brain seeks homeostasis whenever possible. In other words, it seeks what it knows; it seeks comfort. It doesn’t recognize the difference between good and bad. That is why, in general, positive thinking is not as important as learning to feel positively, because our thoughts about a situation are derived from what we are feeling. This chemical reaction, the feelings we have been firing for so long, is more powerful than our thoughts. Our brain and body become addicted to the feelings associated with our trauma and our worst day because they have been firing more than any other feeling. We can’t remember our best day or live our life to its fullest potential because we don’t have that chemical addiction inside our brain and body to do so. It’s like telling ourselves, “Don’t do that, it is wrong,” but somehow we can’t stop ourselves from doing it. We end up repeating the behavior that we already know will end badly.