throughout our lives, completely outside of our conscious awareness.

If you looked at brain scans, what you would see were these immense,

very impressive lightning storms all this electrical activity occurring in vastly

different regions of our brain it would look chaotic and you'd see all of these different firings and then darkness and then

firings that were cascading across a kind of a night sky,

but you wouldn't be able to discern a pattern

and even the most skilled clinician

who was reading an fMRI or a Meg or a pet scan wouldn't be able to tell from these

electrical storms what exact affect emotional stay we were in what what we were thinking, whether we were depressed or happy.

It's extremely complex. What we can see is, I'm just going to give you at first like a very very reductionist

broad overview of what's happening in your brain at any given moment you've got these pulsating signals from your central processing region,

your thalamus that are being sent by axonic fibers all the way to different sensory processing regions to help you process, you know, the data from light that is, uh,

that has left impressions on your retinal nerve sounds, body sensations, You've got an amigula which is constantly scanning

for threats, always beneath the level of awareness and it's sending in one tenth of a second signals letting the rest of your body know

whether it feels you're safe or in danger, whether it feels there's an opportunity or there's nothing much

going around you it organizes within one tenth of a second the sends out the neural cluster the neural

signals that will initiate fight,

fight, freeze or fawn reactions.

Then you got the Streatum, which in response signals out all of the habitual behaviors that we fall into things like walking how we digest, how we, the routines of our day, how we move through space.

Then you've got a central nervous system that's sending all of these afferent signals down

C nerve fibers to your muscles and to your glands releasing hormones and then efferent nerve signals come back and tell you how your body's

doing all that's being processed by your somata sensory lobe and you've got a hippocampus which is scanning through all the present events and

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