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TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN The three brains operate simultaneously in our mind, but they do not necessarily cooperate with each other. In fact, each brain has its own agenda and different goals it wants to accomplish. To make matters worse, each brain often wants totally different things for us at the same time! And to make matters even worse, most of what’s going on inside our brains, especially in the reptilian and the mammalian brain, are happening unconsciously. That means that most of the time we’re totally unaware of what’s really going on in our mind. The three brains are each competing for our attention and trying to influence our decisions and behaviors without us even consciously knowing that this «Battle of our mind» is going on. These unconscious processes affect you at every moment to a far greater extent than you may be aware of. To be unaware of the hardwired processes of the unconscious mind is a cause of great frustration and suffering for billions of people across the world. Simultaneously will awareness of these processes give you a great advantage towards understanding yourself, overcoming and regulating your anxiety, and achieving self-confidence and happiness. Our mind is constantly trying to mediate a compromise between the three different brains. As an analogy you may think of the mind as the team and the three brains as the players, and that your three players most of the time don’t even try to play on the same team. The reptilian brain • anxiety regulation, fight-or-flight, aggression, and automatic processes The reptilian brain is the oldest and most primitive part of our brain. It’s located deep within the brain close to the brain stem and the spine. It’s responsible for our central nervous system and the automatic functions of our body. These functions include among other things: temperature regulation, food digestion, hair growth, breathing, heartbeat, and blood flow. Imagine the hassle if you had to 153
TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD: PROF. M. M. NINAN consciously think about digesting your food or remember constantly to keep your body at the correct temperature. It’s a good thing that the reptilian brain takes responsibility for these actions so we can focus our attention on other things. The most important task of the reptilian brain in regard to our mental health is that the reptilian brain is responsible for our unconscious anxiety mechanism (UAM). If you’re driving on the highway and a car swerves in front of you the UAM activates and prepares your body for action. This makes you alert and able to respond to danger immediately. In response to threats in the environment the UAM automatically triggers anxiety. Just try to envision if you had to stop and think if it’s actually dangerous that a car swerves in front of you. Thankfully this «evaluation» has already been done by the reptilian brain in a few milliseconds! Therefore you don’t have to waste valuable time when your survival is at stake to stop and think when you need to instinctively react either with a fight or with a flight response. It’s of great survival value that our body reacts with immediate fight-or-flight energy when danger is suddenly upon us, because to stop and evaluate everything that might be dangerous might be very dangerous. However the reptilian brain triggers the UAM not only to external threats such as oncoming traffic or dangerous animals. It has also learned that some of our feelings might be «dangerous» to our survival. Therefore the anxiety response is triggered whenever feelings that are forbidden or perceived as dangerous to our survival gets activated in our body. When the threat is external we call the anxiety response «fear», but when the threat is internal and comes from perceived dangerous feelings we call the anxiety response «anxiety». However, most people have low skills at discerning between the two, therefore many mistakenly interpret their anxiety to mean that they’re afraid. But anxiety doesn’t mean that you’re afraid, it simply means that your unconscious mind is covering up your feelings. Let’s use as an example a young girl that gets angry at her mother. Her reptilian brain «knows» unconsciously that she’s dependent on the mother for survival since the mother protects her and nurtures her. Therefore any rupture in the attachment bond will be perceived as a threat to the girl’s survival by the reptilian brain since the mother gives the girl shelter, food, protection, and human connection. Unless the girl receives help from her mother to accept and regulate her feelings, the UAM will set in and give the girl anxiety instead of anger if her anger isn’t tolerated by the mother, because unaided her anger will trigger unconscious guilt which will trigger the UAM. Since the main motivation of the reptilian brain is survival it understands that if the anger towards mother were to be unleashed it could result in dramatic consequences. In the most extreme case it would lead to the death of the mother if the raging girl actually killed her. In that extreme scenario the girl would then be alone in the world with no one to protect, shelter, or feed her. The attachment instinct therefore trigger guilt in the girl as a consequence of her aggressive impulses to ensure the girl’s survival. The reptilian brain will always trump the mammalian and the primate brain, because it holds the UAM ace card. This because the reptilian brain believes it more important to survive than to express feelings or to «love». 154
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