Consciously Responding Or Unconsciously Reacting?

One of the main goals of our brain is to help us survive, with that goal in mind we  develop coping strategies and defences, these ways of 'surviving' get stored in our lower brain and become automatic unconscious circuitry.

The lower brain (limbic and reptilian or primal) as it is sometimes called,  stores all our emotional memory,..these emotional memories get 'triggered' by events and  other people, or even by our own thinking... it is this triggering of emotional memory that causes a lot of conflict in relationships.

There are brain based tools that  we can use to help us 'bump up' our brain state, if we are feeling a little bit stressed we are likely in brain state 3 (see diagram)

If we feel very stressed it's likely we are in brain state 4, in brain state 5 we are extremely stressed..(Our survival circuits are stored in brain states 4-5) survival circuits are encoded at a young age, and can be rewired with practise.

There are different tools for each brain state that we might find ourselves in, in our next post we will be looking at how we can start to rewire the stress response, using brain training tools.

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