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No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we “feel like ourselves.” However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
As many neuroscientists have affirmed, this evolution has led to the higher mammalian brain being composed of three parts. The oldest is the reptilian part of the brain, which controls all automatic responses that regulate the body. This is the instinctive part. Above that is the old mammalian or limbic brain, governing feeling and emotion. And on
... See moreRobert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature

Frontal areas like the prefrontal cortex regulate the ability to organize, plan, and handle change. Another area of brain machinery important for control of behavior that we introduced in Chapter 2, a forward region called the anterior cingulate cortex, may be particularly relevant for determining what the brain engages in at a given moment.
Craig Surman, Tim Bilkey, Karen Weintraub • Fast Minds
When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Philosophy of the Mind
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The right is intuitive, emotional, visual, spatial, and tactual, and the left is linguistic, sequential, and analytical.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The automatic reactions that control our emotions come from neural associations within our memory networks that are independent of our higher reasoning power.