“It went so fast that it was gone the moment his lips were ajar!
He never realized that it could get so far!
The damage it could do was spread north and south!
After all they were the hurtful words coming from his mouth!”
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist and author of “Whole Brain Living” and “My Stroke of Insight” but he is most well known because of his now famous 90 second rule!
The rule is that, ““When a person has a reaction to something in their environment, there’s a 90-second chemical process that happens; any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop.”
Basically this means that when you react to something in your environment that is if you are having a stimulus like anger or fear; there’s a 90-second process where your brain fires a signal and a stress hormone is released in your body to stimulate a fight, flight, or freeze response! That is the trigger point in simple terms.
Like the 3 body problem, this is like a beginning of a chain reaction or starting of a domino! If you can hold your emotion and let the firing for 90 seconds, the stimulus is lost and you will have a reset point!
Any remaining emotional response is caused by staying in that emotional loop by ruminating on a thought or event and creating ongoing emotional and physiological responses in the brain and body!
In the book called 30 days to a more powerful vocabulary by Dan Strutzel; the author tell about this rule and give a suggestion on how to make use of the hack of 90 second rule!
The author states how the moment you enter a new place, like say from work to home and you are stressed with the issues at work and all you want to do it put everything on someone; you simply reach home and for the first 90 seconds do not do anything! Simply stare at the clock and wait for 90 seconds! Basically this means that we must try to observe our response rather than engage with it! The better able we are to do this, the more power we have over what we express in the world when we’re under pressure!
After 90 seconds, the trigger or volcano has been extinguished and apparently you can have a controlled reaction! Alternatively you can simply listen to a soft song like that sung by birthday celebrity Bhupinder Singh for 90 seconds or more and have the same result!
If you are not feeling sleepy you can also read my blog for 90 seconds and am sure you will sleep well!
Shubh Ratri!
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