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When the Brain Talks Back: A New Language for the Crisis of Self · The Brain’s Body Podcast: The Brain Is the Body

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Brain's Body Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your co-host, Bob, here with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christopher K.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slayton, your host.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's jump right in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, I want to begin with change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not change as a slogan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not change as a program.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not change as another traditional method placed on top of the same communication problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am talking about the kind of change that begins when the old language no longer explains what people are living through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parents feel it, teachers feel it, children feel it, communities feel it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something is happening in the space between how we speak, how we listen, how we respond, and how we understand the self.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what I have been naming as the crisis of self.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words I use in this work did not come from theory alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: They come from interaction, from lived experience, from moments with parents, teachers, children, and people trying to make sense of what the brain, body, and senses are communicating before language can fully explain it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am reminded of Thomas Kuhn's 1970 work on paradigm shifts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kuhn helped us understand that when traditional systems can no longer solve the problems inside their own framework, new language is required.
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  SPEAKER_00: New questions are required.
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  SPEAKER_00: New ways of seeing are required.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where human systems science begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human system science is not an attempt to repair the traditional approach, it is an investment in a new approach to the communication problems associated with the crisis of self.
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  SPEAKER_00: It asks, what happens when the brain talks back?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens when the body responds before the words arrive?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens when the senses carry information that the self has not yet learned how to recognize?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the foundation for my next book, Human Systems Science, How the Brain Talks Back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today, I invite you into that work through what I call a signature brain talk information processing game, a simple experience designed to help you sense and feel response speed, accuracy, memory, hesitation, reaction, and connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because human systems science begins with this idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: The brain communicates with the body through the senses to inform self, discipline self, and focus self through a sense of feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as you hear today, don't just think about the words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sense them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feel them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice how your brain talks back.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this language speaks to something you have lived, taught, parented, questioned, or felt, I invite you to stay connected to this work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen closely to your own responses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Try the signature brain talk exercise with someone you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what happens in the space between the question, the body's reaction, the brain's response, and the senses process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then bring that awareness back into your conversations, with children, with parents, with teachers, with families, and with yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not just a podcast conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the beginning of a new language for change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Subscribe to Brain's Body Podcast, share this episode with someone who is trying to understand the crisis of self, and join me as I continue developing the research behind my next book, Human Systems Science How the Brain Talks Back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when the traditional approach no longer works, we do not simply need better answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need new ways to sense, feel, listen, and respond.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't forget to add your support to this cause.
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  SPEAKER_00: Subscribe now.