The Brain

The Brain

1. Divided

   • Right hemisphere
     • emotional, non-verbal, experiential, autobiographical
   • Lower
     • basic, innate reactions, survival
   • Left hemisphere
     • logical, linear, linguistic, literal
   • Upper
     • Thinking, imagining, planning

2. 5 strats to integrate

   • 1. connect and redirect
     • tune into the emotions, creativity, and experiences and gain understanding (right + left)
   • 2. Tell Stories
     • revisit emotions and understand (left)
   • 3. Appeal to Upstairs Brain
     • avoid triggering the lower level (upper)
   • 4. Exercise the upstairs brain
     • practice, elaborative learning, empathize (upper + right)
   • 5. Move or Lose It
     • literally exercise and create awareness (all of them)

3. Neural Networks

   • there are billions of points of contact or synapses
   • through repetition they become relatively permanent
   • "complexity from simplicity" (opposite apparent)
   • Neuro transmitters

4. Neurons

   • receive, integrate, and transmit info
   • fundamental building block for nervous system
   • nerve pulses