So today basic introduction to the brain and practices that can heal the brain after experiential

promise and challenging life events.

So, I'm just going to jump right in.

If I could find, yes, here we go.

Here is the, so, right above your spinal cord,

right at the base of your brain is what's called the brain stem, and medulla,

it's where all of the nerve fibers going to and from the body arrive at the brain for being parsed out to different

areas for processing, especially the thawmas.

Your brainstem is what is called your reptilian brain occasionally.

It's referred to that because it really hasn't developed in the last 200 million years. It pretty much is responsible for the basic survival survival ongoing events like breathing,

digestion, circulation, and it's also the host of some very basic survival instincts.

The reptilian brain is notable because besides looking after these very important self-regulating

homeostatic processes in the body, but the reptilian brain also has the capability of

inducing a what's known as an immobilization state, especially very early on in life when we're overwhelmed with fear or we are in a situation

where it seems that death is imminent. The brainstem is colonergic and it releases a set of

coline that essentially induces a death like state in the body. The point of this is for animals that would have been trapped in the past, the last ditch effort to survive

and attack would have been to essentially play dead. Human beings still have this capability and in very, very, very rare events,

this version of the freeze state. There are actually two freezes or two forms of a mobilization

we're capable of. But this free state is what people experience when they're in an overwhelming catastrophe suddenly they're in

in war and suddenly a bomb goes off their attack by a grizzly bear where it just seems that there is absolutely no hope of survival.

And it's there to not only offer us what little chance we have of surviving an attack, but also it essentially stops all the incoming information to the brain, stops the processing. So it induces a blackout which is useful because if you are going to die very violently you don't really want to be in a lot of pain or present while it's happening.

So it's there to give us a chance of surviving predators by pretending we're dead, but also to cut off all the flow of incoming

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