Understanding how the brain works, Why we feel the way that we do and what we can do about it.

The ‘Intellectual brain’ and the primitive ‘emotional brain’

Primitive opt out clauses are:

Depression,

Anxiety, and

Anger

The primitive mind is:

a negative mind.

It is an obsessional mind

It is a vigilant mind

It is not an intellect it can’t be innovative. It has to refer to previous patterns of behaviour. If what we did yesterday ensured our survival then we are encouraged to do it again.

So how do we create this anxiety which causes us to move from the intellectual sensible part of the brain to the angry, anxious and depressed part?

• Anxiety is caused by negative thinking. (worry)

• It is not the events in ones lives that necessarily cause the perception of crisis. It’s our thought patterns surrounding the events of our life.

• Our brains can not differentiate between our imagination and our reality.

• Every negative thought that we have is accumulated and stored.

We say it is stored in a stress bucket

Thankfully, we do have a method for emptying our bucket and it is known as REM sleep, rapid eye movement.

The physiology

When we produce a constant flow of serotonin we are nice, happy, coping, individuals!

Hypnotic Trance is a natural state during which the two minds come together and focus on the same thing and when we are in that state we have access to the subconscious mind.