Understanding Interest-Based Nervous System (Part 1)
It constantly scans our environment for cues: Should I be careful here? Is this a dangerous situation? Is this person a friend or foe? Am I properly hydrated and fed to deal with any threats? The autonomic system uses something called neuroception – a ‘sixth sense’ that operates outside our conscious awareness – to assess our environment and put pe
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The “other people” part is more important than you might realize. That’s because the brain is innately – that is, neurochemically – motivated to care for and connect to other people. When you have a purpose, you satiate that innate desire – and your brain rewards you for it. The reactivity decreases in various regions of the brain, like the amyg
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There are three basic systems at work, two enabling us to be ON, one enabling us to switch OFF. Both of the ON systems manage and direct our energies and attention towards or away from things in our world in anxiety, fear, reward or pleasure.
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The human nervous system is an intervening variable for how we respond to the world around us, and the same stimuli and experiences can impact all of us very differently.
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the auto-nomic nervous system consists of three neural circuits: the ventral branch of the vagus nerve (positive states of relaxation and social engagement), the spinal sympathetic chain (fight or flight), and the dorsal branch of the vagus nerve (slowdown, shutdown, and depressive behavior).