How Your Reptilian Brain Controls You #DailyWisdom

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

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0:00.0	If you look at the evolutionary process,
0:02.0	cerebral cortex is a very recent happening.
0:06.0	There is a certain part of your brain which is referred to as the reptilian brain,
0:11.0	which dominates you.
0:12.0	If you do not consciously activate your cerebral cortex,
0:16.0	your reptilian brain takes over everything and automatic
0:20.0	because there are a million years of experience there.
0:22.6	You can't throw it away of survival.
0:25.6	This cerebral cortex and the longing to expand is a more recent happening.
0:29.6	Unless you every day nurture it and water it and make it grow, you will live like a reptile.
0:36.6	Someone said mind is like a parachute. it works only when it's open.
0:40.3	If it doesn't open, it's a disaster. The tools, fundamental tools to expand or to open the gates of the mind were given to you.
0:52.3	Tools work only if you use them. Hello? You have to use them, learn to use them, day in and day out. Then you see it opens up. Everything.

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