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“The Sacred Space Between Stimulus and Response As Viktor Frankl famously noted, between stimulus and response there is a space.”
As Viktor Frankl famously noted, between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
When an intense emotional trigger fires (an insulting message, a sudden conflict, unexpected bad news), the amygdala floods your bloodstream with adrenaline within 250 milliseconds. Force a mandatory 10-second pause before speaking or typing.
Neuroscience proves that assigning precise descriptive vocabulary to an emotional state ('I am experiencing acute vulnerability and frustration') dampens amygdala hyperactivity by activating right ventrolateral prefrontal structures.
