Whatever in life any notable

memorable event happens, there are a number of

internal experiences that occur involving different regions of the brain and it's

worthwhile actually understanding some of this as it will set up tonight's topic.

The events, which could be a threat or an opportunity or notable experience with some psychologists, clinical

psychologists might call the stimuli.

I'm just going to call the event.

Let's say one of our ancestors was hunter and gather and they were picking berries from a bush.

And then suddenly out of the blue a snake

lashed out at them and tried to bite them.

And that would be the event.

And then there's the arousal, the physiological activation that would occur, which is pulling one's

hand back trying to escape the snake.

And then there would be two other experiences.

There would be an emotional expression,

perhaps shouting, a yell, a look of shock in the face, and there would be a thought,

holy crap, I almost got bit by the snake. What the...

Why didn't anybody tell me this bush had snakes and etc?

So the...

Right there in the arousal or the activation, the emotion and the

thought or the interpretation of what happened, we have three different significant regions of the brain in control

and all doing their various separate tasks to help us survive.

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