Sentences with phrase «primitive part»

The snake brain is the most primitive part of the human brain.

This is a very primitive part of our brain that is one of the driving forces that activates our fight or flight response.

The same event has happened, yet the negative thinking is going to start bringing me down into the anxious primitive part of the brain.

People hold onto anger because a very primitive part of their brain thinks this protects them.

The same event has happened, yet the negative thinking is going to start bringing me down into the anxious primitive part of the brain.

It's stored in more primitive parts of the brain and even affects how we process and experience new information.

The most primitive part of the brain — the same reward pathway activated by food and sex — lights up in response to altruistic giving.

«The low road» of course refers to the reactions typical of the more primitive parts of our brain, or «reptilian brain,» as it's called.

These are faces distorted with a terrifying intensity of emotion, provoked and fueled by the most primitive part of the id.

On the other hand, when emotions escalate, the «Downstairs Brain,» the amygdala, the more primitive part of the brain, surges into action, especially when its alarm bell senses danger.

Rather, he claims that elimination is a primitive part of prehension; as Whitehead states, «Objectification involves elimination» (PR 340 / 517).

The MER is controlled by a primitive part of your brain called the pituitary.

By not giving enough thoughtful attention to the present moment, we are setting up ourselves to make decisions based on the emotions from our primitive part of our brain — the amygdala — which is set up to impulsively react in «fight or flight» mode.

It would be surprising if co-sleeping with parents didn't reduce a child's separation anxiety — a panic response arising from a primitive part of brain that also processes information about physical pain (Panskepp 2000).

If the baby is taken away from their parents or treated roughly at birth there are more connections made in the hind - brain — the primitive part of the brain, survival mode.

Separation anxiety is a panic response arising from a primitive part of brain that also processes information about physical pain (Panksepp 2000).

In two rounds of shocks, my brain learned to activate complex pathways — starting in my prefrontal cortex and trickling through to more primitive parts — every time I saw a green screen.

Scientists know the nose taps directly into a primitive part of the brain.

Indeed, lipid changes in the cerebellum, a primitive part of the brain similar in all vertebrates, were comparable between humans and chimps.

The amygdala is the most primitive part of our brains and, when under stress, activates the «fight, flight or freeze» response (helpful when facing a sabre tooth tiger but it shuts down our ability to problem - solve).

Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book helps you identify your «monkey mind» — the primitive part of the brain where anxious thoughts arise.

Therapy has been the only environment that is created for the primitive part of the brain that only understands experience.

Anger is an automatic reaction generated in the primitive parts of our brain that existed before we developed the ability to think and use logic.

There's an open secret at the heart of both contemporary science and ancient wisdom traditions — the primitive part of our brains can't distinguish between an external threat, like footsteps in a dark alley, and an internal threat, like grief or shame or rage.

Mind mapping is very much (but not exclusively) a «bottom - up process,» emerging from the most primitive part of your brain, which explains how it is so robust.