The PRIMAL MIND (Emotional brain) – What will you get from this article?

Is this FOR you?

By the end of this article, you will have:

☑️ Realised WHAT functions your PRIMAL MIND (Emotional brain) does for you

☑️ Discovered HOW your PRIMAL MIND thinks

☑️ Became aware of HOW your PRIMAL MIND drives your life, daily decisions & even this present moment!

Is this like YOU?

Did it ever happen to you to :

� Got crazy mad, enraged or got too emotional?

� Jumped to conclusions? Even if it could have felt later like paranoia?

� Got too suspicious or anxious, even if there were NO factual reasons?

What will you learn?

You will learn about your PRIMAL MIND and its:
– Functions
– Thinking & conclusion processes

Reminder – Why learn this?

Once you recognise the THOUGHT PATTERN of your PRIMAL MIND (Emotional brain), you will be in an improved position to:

✔ Gear yourself toward the impact & results that you want
✔ Increase your well-being & self-confidence
✔ Manage any unwanted thoughts or behaviour stemming from your PRIMAL MIND

E-motion brings motion !

Recap previous article – Your PRIMAL MIND & the Brain Architecture

The PRIMAL MIND represents your limbic system.

Your limbic system is essentially the hub of your emotions, it has also several other functions & it follows several patterns.

For simplicity purposes, we will refer to it as your PRIMAL MIND.

As highlighted in this article, it is a major KEY part of your brain architecture, you can read it to understand what you are made of.

PRIMAL mind (Emotional brain) functions

PRIMAL Function #1 – Emotions

Emotions are mental states linked to pleasure or displeasure (PAIN or GAIN)

Different emotions & different intensities :
–  Hate 😓 – Love 😍
–  Anger 😡 – Happy 😀
–  Sad 😰 – Upbeat 😜
– Anxious 🥴 – Confident 😁
– Lazy 🥴 – Motivated 🫡

PRIMAL Function #2 – Instincts

Your instincts are your:

– Innate way of acting/responding:
Example:
Hunger, thirst, sexual desires …

– Fast & quick in its response

PRIMAL Function #3 – F.F.F responses

Your F.F.F responses are your FIGHT, FLIGHT & FREEZE mechanisms against dangers & threats.

Freeze is to stay still & hope that the threat will go.
➔ It can be avoiding, siding with, or giving in to the “threat”.

⚠️ Note: Instincts & F.F.F responses

Instincts & F.F.F responses are your most natural responses.

These are innate responses to situations linked to a:
– Massive pleasure (Gain)
– HIGH-level threat (Pain)

Examples: Instincts & F.F.F responses

Instinct example # 1 – Smile when seeing & hearing babies (Gain)

Instinct example # 2 – Rush when crossing the road & noticing an incoming vehicle (Pain)

Instinct example # 3 – See a dog coming towards you, do you pet it OR do you avoid it?

PRIMAL Function #4 – Personal radar

Your PRIMAL mind is CONSTANTLY :

✓ Scanning information to detect :
– Gain, pleasures & benefits
– Pain, danger, threats & attacks

✓ Fulfilling your needs

✓ Checking in with CONSCIOUS & UNCONSCIOUS “Survival” questions:

Example: Day-to-day scenario: Someone giving away furniture to you
– Person: “You can take this furniture, I don’t use it”
– You: “I actually don’t need it, I don’t have enough space”
– Person: “It will cost me to remove it, so please take it”

→ Notice, how the conversation is driven by each party trying to fulfil their needs:
– I don’t use it”
– I actually don’t need it
– It will cost me

⚠️ Note: When answering these “Survival” questions
If answering “Yes” about a MASSIVE GAIN or MASSIVE PAIN

➔ Your PRIMAL mind takes over your WHOLE thinking!

PRIMAL Function #5 – Tap into unconscious memories

Your PRIMAL mind can allow you to remember your most unconscious & forgotten memories.

These can be memories that you may have forgotten about, they remain in your unconscious mind until something/someone may trigger it.

Once you see or hear something that may make you remember, that trigger may remind your PRIMAL (Emotional) mind that you saw or heard this before.

Example:
Hearing the theme song or the opening sequence of your childhood cartoon.

Maybe your favourite Disney or anything else that you watched during your childhood.

How does your PRIMAL MIND (Emotional brain) mind think?

Thoughts & conclusion process: FEELINGS + IMPRESSIONS

 Examples of statements with FEELINGS + IMPRESSIONS :
– “They are looking a bit weird to me”
– “They seem dodgy”
–“ As soon as I met them, I knew I couldn’t stand them”

➔ Where is the FACTUAL evidence with such statements?

NO rationality & 100 % subjective

This thought process & conclusion of FEELINGS + IMPRESSIONS = leads to:

= No or LOW RATIONALITY
= 100 % SUBJECTIVE (“ME focused”)

Examples: NO RATIONALITY & SUBJECTIVE
– “Everybody is against ME!”
– “Why is it always ME that gets it wrong?!!”
– “It never works for ME !!”

Conclusion process: conclude first & search for evidence later

The PRIMAL MIND formulates conclusions/opinions by:

1rst: Make a conclusion
It is based on: FEELINGS + IMPRESSIONS

2nd: Search “Non-factual” evidence
To back up the “Impression” conclusion

Examples: PRIMAL conclusions

1rst: Conclusion
– “I don’t like these people”
– “They look odd and shady”

2nd: “Non-factual” evidence search
– “They look like the people who robbed me”
– “I don’t know, that’s what these people do”

❓ Are these patterns familiar to you?
Do YOU follow these patterns, or do you know someone following them❓

⚡ Whenever you can recognise any PRIMAL thoughts, you can increase your:

 ✓  Self-awareness
 ✓ Self-management

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