Navigating the Crisis of Self: Dr. Christopher Kevin Slaton on Brain-Body Harmony and Emotional Mastery

Can you truly navigate life's complexities with a more resilient and reflective mindset? Join us as we uncover the secrets to mastering the delicate balance between the brain and body with Dr. Christopher Kevin Slaton. In our first chapter, "Understanding the Brain's Body Transformation," Dr. Slaton explains the profound impact of our environments on our behavior and perceptions. Discover how distinguishing between reacting and responding to stimuli can fundamentally change your approach to life's challenges. By examining the flow of sensory information to the brain, you'll learn how to build inner confidence and manage negative emotions more effectively.
 
 In the following chapter, "Decoding Body Language and Emotions," we delve into the often-misunderstood connection between our external appearances and our true inner experiences. Dr. Slaton sheds light on how our brains shape how we present ourselves, emphasizing the need to look beyond physical observation to utterly understand the self. This episode offers a compelling exploration of our neural selves, encouraging listeners to appreciate the complexity of their inner lives. Tune in for these valuable insights and more with Dr. Slaton and transform the way you perceive and interact with the world around you.

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Understanding the Brain's Body Transformation

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Welcome to the Brain's Body Podcast . I am Dr Christopher Kevin Slayton , host and author of Brain Talk . Learn the Brain's Body with Dr Slayton . Live Now in the social crisis of self we continue to work on when the social physics of self can encode certain states of mind . The body is the lead of the brain , it's the lead of the brain , and that's the problem with the crisis of self is that you read your external self and when you're in crisis , you're driven by the physics of self . So what you're feeling is the anger and aggression as signs of the body's force of intimidation and you work through that . And so when you do that , you offset the transformation of self and the brain , where the brain takes lead of the body , and instead you're more prone to react rather than respond . React means spontaneously just lash out . Respond means the information flow goes through the process loop of forward and backward feeding and in that forward and backward feed is how you think , reflect and handle emotion . You can sense contact , but you cannot truly feel self , other people and the environment because of the way you experience homes , school , neighborhoods , workplace networks . Now you know , those are the foundational pieces that the research comes through . I mean everybody lives in a home , attends a school , involved in a neighborhood and want to reach the workplace . And those are the killing fields . I call them in my literature because as you go through those things the teasing , the bullying , the peer pressure , the gang , assimilation , all those things are part of what you have to go through , move through . That impacts your ability to sense contact and transfer pure knowledge that you can respond through when you're in crisis . But when you're overwhelmed and lack experience , it's sensory-seed path transformations . I mean from your sense of self to your sense of feel for self , which means that it's neural , the physical , neural you . Then it's more complicated because when you look in the mirror , what do you see ? You see the physics of self , and so , if that's your framework and that's what you emulate in terms of how you respond , you want to change what you see , not what you feel . So you hide from what you feel , because it's easy to think that you can change the things of self , but you can't , not unless you transfer that information to the brain and practice sensory-seed path functions to receive , process and respond to the influences of homeschooled , main work-based networks . And so the social context transformation between sense contact and environmental interaction results in a state of mind . See , that's why we always defer , because you may see the mind as the brain . I see the mind as a product of the brain , but in the things of the body , because your response to pain , hurt and sadness blocks the flow of information . And if you're looking at yourself in the mirror , you can see the tears , the eyes watering up . You can see the physics of the body and that become a static state of mind because the reflection on the experience that is causing you to feel and look that way is being ramped up because you can see it . You may ignore how it feels , but you can see it , you can experience it and get up in it , and that's a static state of mind .

Speaker 1 4:02

I'm also saying that the mind is changeable . That's a behavior pattern . It's changeable because what you have to do is learn how to sense and receive the contact , transfer , the interaction , and begin to observe how your brain responds . So now you're looking from the inside out instead of the outside in . Now you're learning how to observe the invisible you , the neural you in action , because that's what you want to do . You want to change the behavior pattern . So you have to understand why I talk about the brain being the body , because easier for you to understand that your brain has to be a lead of your state of mind , because that's what you want to change , because that's what's broke the way you look at the world through an external lens . I mean , you don't like people , you don't like neighborhood , you know the external environments that influence pain , hurt , and you develop a wall of resistance too in terms of processing that stimulus . And so , therefore , you become caught up in the crisis of self because you're not experiencing , thinking through the things you feel , because you're denying it . You say I don't feel anything , but in fact you do . But now , self-actualization is also what I talk about in literature .

Speaker 1 5:28

So when I'm talking about the brain's body , I'm talking about self-help , I'm talking about how do you recover when your brain has been diminished by the experiences of other people and then self being disturbed and then reacting rather than responding , lacking the experience of performance in terms of how you observe the brain at work , to build inner confidence in your capacity to respond to negative energy , negative action , negative feelings . Negative energy , negative action , negative feelings , because your brain is in a lead and your transformation from a sense of physical you to a neural , physical you is the cognitive variables that I talk about , social cognitive transformation to the neural side , where you begin to understand what's happening on the inside of you and why you feel the way you feel , why you respond the way you respond and when you do react , why you react . Because you have to be able to answer these questions on the front lines and contact the interaction with other people in the environment to improve self-actualization . So what we're talking about is healing time . But we talk about healing time in the sense that first you got to understand the difference between the body-mind and the brain-body .

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I'm saying , when you're in crises , I want to help you get through the crises of self by understanding that the physical you is the block Because it harbors the animosity that builds when you face complexity . That requires a higher level of cognitive interaction that you are resistant to delivering because you've been hurt , upset as a major life event , so you don't want to participate . So you don't participate and when you fail to participate that means there's no cooperation , so the brain does not have the path or the path to send that forward feed when you're aware of allowing that energy to move through you because you're trying to understand the consequences if you don't . And that's what healing time is . Healing time is like when you're sitting down , you're meditating , trying to reflect , reflect through what your body and what are you , your brain's body . So when you do reflection , you're reflecting on the brain , inside the body and how it feels to look externally at the things that you're trying to solve People , self , home , school , neighborhood , family , education , government , business , systems external to you that have a lot of influence on how you think , how you respond , how you participate . So here we go , because the Christ himself is what we're talking about , but we got to know how to heal .

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So when I talk to you about the mind , don't think I'm not talking about the brain , because I am , because the brain produces the mind as a consequence of the experience and the way I interpret it is what happened . Why does it continue to happen ? That self-defeating behavior continues to happen ? Because there's static states inside your action of the body and people respond to your body and not your brain , because that's what they see State of mind . They see a state of mind and they respond to the state of the mind as it's perceived , and so that anger , hurt , pain and sadness they can see it and feel it on your body and you want to change that by accepting that negative flow of energy . So the brain cooperates and what the brain is going to do is change the delivery process so that , yeah , you smile when you're frowning . You smile because you act through the feelings , instead of getting upset and lashing out , you hold up and you observe how they respond to your levels of being cool , calm and collected to perform , because now you're performing , you are the actor through your sense of feel for self understanding .

Decoding Body Language and Emotions

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I can feel myself in the way they're looking at me . I'm looking at them , look at me and I can read their behavior . That they think they know what's going on inside of me , when they don't , because they're just looking at my body as a state of my mind . But my mind is not . My brain in my is what's allowing me to change the way I present my sense of feel for self . No one's accustomed to that , because you're not supposed to be a feeling system , but you are . Stay tuned . It's been Dr Slade and Live . Thank you for listening .