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Unlocking Brain-Body Harmony: Dr. Christopher K. Slaton on Mastering Emotional Balance and Social Engagement · The Brain’s Body Podcast: The Brain Is the Body

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: I want to see you move.
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  Speaker 1: Baby, I'm so damn drawn to you Cause I want us the things you do, I can't help it.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: I'm so drawn to you I never wanna leave Welcome.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: That's the line, the brain's body, the ultimate experience, and what an experience it should be, because we're talking about something that we all should be aware of at this point, because we're talking about brain, body and sense messaging.
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  Speaker 1: So, for you, what is the experience messaging?
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: So for you, what is the experience?
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Because the ultimate experience should be you becoming more familiar with your brain's talking systems.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the way that the brain interacts with the body through the senses and messaging, so that you begin to understand the physical, mental, emotional and social aspects of living these days, to become more informed, because now you're aware that your brain communicates and that you interact with other people, which makes it harder for you to perform, because the emotion and the social aspects of your sense of self, which is connected but disconnected because you have the external self.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: So what I'm talking about is brain, body, sense messaging.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: So what is the ultimate experience?
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Because that's the fascinating component is that I want you to understand where you get your creativity from, and so listen and compare for yourself.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: When you sense to feel, to focus, what are you doing?
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: You're focusing your brain, body and sense systems so that you can begin to understand the information flow between self, the environment and your brain.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm talking about is living these days, become more informed on why self-motivation is a product of the experience of self.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you understand the experience of you externally and internally, then you're connected to understanding your human potential.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Because that's then you're connected to understanding your human potential, because that's what you're coming to terms with is your identification of your capacity to do certain things.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: So action learning is one of those things that I talk about a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the base, and the base is what is the ultimate experience?
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  Speaker 1: The ultimate experience is the brain's body.
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  Speaker 1: When your brain is functioning at the high level that we're talking through, that means you're able to read and interpret social, cognitive events and activities.
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  Speaker 1: That is the external environment and your sense of feel.
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  Speaker 1: You're able to read and interpret the external and the internal through brain-body connections, because everything's making sense to you metaphysically, because the body's physical and your sense of feel is neural, and when you connect brain and body.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: That's just a term I want you to use to comprehend the messaging system.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: See, because that back and forward flow that you're experiencing, that you may be discomfort with, is the fact that that emotion has to be balanced.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: And you balance that emotion through practices, you know, being aware of what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: First, two words is sense and receive.
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  Speaker 1: Sense the body, receive the brain.
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  Speaker 1: See how simple that is, because what I'm talking about is how the brain messages the body and the senses transfer information forward and backward.
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  Speaker 1: That's the complication.
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  Speaker 1: But when we're talking like this, want you to settle down, understand.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: What I'm talking about is how your brain and body interact.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Even when you're in conflict with another person, your brain and body is interacting and you have to know how to understand and comprehend those messages that's coming to you.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: And you have to know that your goal is to be non-emotional when you're participating.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: And that's why I use focus the sense to feel, to focus the brain.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the brain is focused, the emotion is there, but it's being contained because you have a line of care, and care is what makes the difference.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: So what's the ultimate experience?
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  Speaker 1: The brain's body when it's functioning through signs of care For who?
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  Speaker 1: Self, other people and the environment.
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  Speaker 1: Because what are you trying to do?
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to reach for your human potential to be successful from where you are in the crisis self.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you can hide it, we can hide it, but many of us are moving through the crisis self.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: That just simply means that there are times when our sensory seed path functions are not operating at the fullest capacity.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: So our thinking may be cluttered with the abnormal things that you're going through, because the normal things you go through is contact, interaction, cooperation.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: But then when other people get involved and there's other things involved, you can become more and more anxious and aggressive because you're moving through states of knowing and not knowing.
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  Speaker 1: So when I I'm talking about the sense of feeling, you can get angry at me because I'm talking about the unknown.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: When I talk about the body, you're comfortable because you can see that.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: When I talk about the environment, you're comfortable, you can see that.
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  Speaker 1: But when you can transfer that environmental knowledge to the internal processing of your brain and understand, that's what you're doing now.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: You're handling that emotion, that emotional flow.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: Now you're handling the reflection, the bad experience.
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  Speaker 1: You're handling it and you're channeling it simultaneously because now, when you send it through the receive path, the brain sent it forward, feed.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: And what is the brain doing?
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  Speaker 1: Ultimate experience is you, because you're experiencing.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm talking to you, because these are things you're already going through.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: What I want you to do is ground yourself in action learning, because action learning allows you to use the body and behaviors that you're aware of to transcend your sense of self to a sense of feel for self, where you begin to understand you're managing everything.
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  Speaker 1: But it takes practice.
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  Speaker 1: This doesn't happen overnight, so we live each day, become more informed.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a strategy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grounded in it.
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  Speaker 1: So, when you turn to reflective storytelling and we begin to talk about reflect, because you reflect on the experience of contact, you want to know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: So you reflect from a state of Now.
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  Speaker 1: The brain does a reflective orientation process, that's, collect information from your whole body, right, and then it sends data forward.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: No, it's condensed data, it's processed data and it's in response to that initial contact.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: So you go through contact to interact, to participate, to perform.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I left out a critical point.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing without cooperation, and that's the key.
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  Speaker 1: When you're in crisis, you got to understand something.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that you go through contact and what's missing, even when you interact, is that you got to cooperate, because your brain's got to get that information.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: When you're going through the crisis itself, you'll block it.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't want to deal with that unknown baggage.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: You know, because you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know where you are, you know what's happening with you.
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  Speaker 1: Can you take any more pain, hurt and sadness, or can you accept the flow?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying to you, gotta.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to let that data go through your sense and receive path functions so that that forward feed is loaded with thought and reflection created because you participated, you cooperated.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what the brain does.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: It's going to respond.
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  Speaker 1: It's designed to solve the problem.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: That's what it's going to do.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: It's going to solve the problem.
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  Speaker 1: So when I'm talking about reflective thinking or reflective storytelling, I'm talking about you, and your brain and your senses are telling a story.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Right, and I use these five things that I'm talking about.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: I talk about the brain, I talk about the body, I talk about the senses, because you experience each of them when you read, when you write, when you read, when you write, when you draw, when you act, when you perform.
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  Speaker 1: You experience each one of them and it's magnificent.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: When you talk about the experience of self, because you go to another level Once you become more aware of what you're practicing.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: You're practicing sensory organization right, because you are communicating internally, externally, because when you're doing these exercises internal, but when you release that information flow, it's external.
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  Speaker 1: Other people can experience it.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: So now you got backward and forward feet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about that's what I'm talking about when I say that when you reach this point of brain-body learning, you're fluid.
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  Speaker 1: But you're not only fluid because you now know what your capacities are and you know what you're working on, because you can't lie to yourself.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Either you're able to do it or you're not.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: You're either able to control the emotion, reflect forward and backward and dialogue simultaneously beyond self with other people and the environment.