Navigating Emotional Dynamics: Dr. Christopher K. Slaton on Embracing Authenticity and Resilience in Self-Leadership

Ever wondered how your emotions intertwine with your identity and impact your interactions with the world? On this episode of the Brain's Body Podcast, hosted by Dr. Christopher K. Slaton, we promise to unravel the fascinating dynamics between emotion, self, and character. We explore how emotions are born from the intricate dance between the brain, body, and environment, and how these influences shape our thoughts and actions. Dr. Slaton shines a light on how emotional and physical pain can trap us in patterns that prevent us from fully experiencing life. Through the power of character, discover how to rise above these challenges, fostering a sense of self that empowers thoughtful and effective responses.
 
 Join us as we tackle the crisis of self that emerges when we refuse to engage in meaningful self-reflection and face the consequences of our actions. Dr. Slaton examines the tendency to fabricate realities that align with our biases, a behavior that erodes trust and damages relationships. We delve into the importance of processing real data, learning from our experiences, and embracing the outcomes of our decisions. Through this exploration, discover how to align your brain, body, and senses to navigate life's complexities with clarity and resilience. Witness how embracing reality can transform your life, fostering an environment of trust and authenticity.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:03

Welcome to the Brain's Body Podcast hosted by human systems scientist Dr Christopher K Slayton, author of Brain Talk Learning the Brain's Body with Dr Slayton Live. Today's podcast is about emotion and the crisis of self. Emotion is the physical, chemical or biological outcome of any contact the body and brain experience. It arises from interactions between you and your surroundings. Feelings, on the other hand, are the nerve signals that carry these emotional experiences to the central nervous system. They are the result of physical, chemical and biological exchanges between the brain, body and sensory networks. The mind is shaped by these physical, mental and emotional experiences.

Speaker 1 0:44

Thought is a product of the brain's messaging system processing emotions and reflecting on past experiences. The interplay between emotion and reflection represents the exchange of energy, action and feelings, resulting in either reactive states of mind or thoughtful responses. When we experience pain, whether emotional or physical, it can trap us in a cycle of resistance. Pain often causes us to hold on to reflective images of hurt and sadness. This defensive state of mind can build walls that block us from processing the experience fully. Instead of allowing ourselves to feel and heal, we resist changes in thought and reflection, preventing the received path, the brain's way of processing and integrating experiences, from functioning properly. In other words, we resist the very need to work through the crisis of self and instead get stuck in a cycle of avoidance. So what?

Speaker 2 1:31

does it take to be you when you are under the influences of hurt, pain or sadness, angry, fearful, anxiety, knowledge, self-knowledge, self-understanding? More importantly, character Character is a social process variable that you can experience multiple times, because you can feel it internally and then externally, you can see it in your action, your responses, and so, when you're moving through pain, hurt and sadness, you want to have character, which is a sense of self that allows you to rise above what you're experiencing and focus on how you respond to the crisis of self, because you know who you are, you know what you are, you know what your weaknesses are. But how do you move through those weaknesses to your strengths? Well, that's what you're building. You start from where you are and you move forward. But if you understand character, character simply means it is the body, the things of the body, that you're studying to ensure that your brain's responses are appropriate to the environment and the challenges that you're confronting. Because your brain is in the lead of your body, because you're focused and when you focus, your senses are organized, your body is able to do what it's instructed to do by the brain more easily. Because you're preparing the body to receive the commands of the brain because you're focused and you're working through the pain, hurt and sadness. It's still there, but you're working. You're at work from the inside out. And what are you trying to do? Perform. Perform through what, what it feels like to be upset, what it feels like to have a state of mind that weighs you down, because it's real. You're experiencing these things externally and your brain has to stay in the front because you have to move through thought with reflection. I'm saying forward and backward feet. I'm saying, yes, you want to reflect, but you want to reflect forward too. You want to propose a new way of responding from where you are in your understanding of the past as you take that step. That's character, because you're in the lead and you're stepping up to the challenge of self. Can I lead myself? And in doing so, my physics are observable to others and I give them the opportunity to follow and as they follow, I can read and interpret their behaviors and acknowledge whether or not my strengths are prevailing over my weaknesses.

Speaker 2 4:17

Because what are we talking about? The brain's body? When we talk about the brain's body, we're talking about brain-body-sense messaging, and what I'm saying to you is that, simultaneously, you're receiving these signals from your brain, your body and your senses. That have to be coordinated. And you can't do it unless you're cooperative. Because when the information flow starts, in the sense path transfers to the received path, you have to be coordinated. And you can't do it unless you're cooperative, because when the information flow starts and the sense path transfers to the received path, you have to calm down. You have to calm down.

Speaker 2 4:43

When I say calm down, you have to cooperate. You can't resist, you can't run away. You breathe, you take in air, you settle down, you collect a sense, a feel for self to move through self crises, because your brain has to learn how to respond with you in a state of chaos. That's why you want to calm down, that's why you want to learn how to read your sense path and interpret your receive path. So the brain is progressively taking the lead of the body. Where you're practicing, receiving sense data to focus the brain's response forward feed.

Speaker 2 5:32

So you're dangerous, you're a technology and I want you to experience the ultimate experience, which is you. You're technology, the way you sense, feel and focus your ego. So in those moments where yesterday couldn't nobody say or do anything around you because you thought they were trying to take up your space. No, you settle down, calm down, let that information flow occur, because what you're doing, you're collecting a sense of feel for the moment, character, and before you respond, that reflection is a synthesis. Now, here it comes, the brain's power. All of a sudden everybody's like where did that come from? I didn't even see that coming, because they didn't know you were informing your brain for your knowledge base that you're simultaneously creating, because now you have a sense of feel for understanding your body, for understanding your states of mind. Because what are you doing? You're learning how to live inside your body, you're learning how to learn inside your body, you're learning how to think through your body and you're learning how to respond as a technology. Now, how does information technology respond? Because you're an information processor, since I received that research how to open myself up so I can process the information with less and less fear of not being able to perform at the level that's required in social space.

Speaker 2 6:59

I don't go adrift, I get attuned to the environment, because that's what I'm practicing Sensory organization. How do I put my brain leading my body and my neurotransmitters connected to my telepathic and my neurotransmitters connected to my telepathic sense of feel for self and the brain. Wow, we just did it. The environment meets the neural interaction of self. Now what's going on? You're connected, physically and mentally You're connected. What does that emotion do? That emotion is like wow, I feel it. That's emotion, it's in the environment and then it's inside your neural system too. So what happens when that negative emotion hits that positive emotion that you control? Well, now you got thought, because that's what the brain's producing. Thought over emotion. Calm down, collect a sense of feel for self, be cool, wait a minute, feel yourself happening. What happened? Oh, I know what happened. I didn't perform.

Speaker 2 8:06

Can you deal with that consequential thinking? Because that's the crisis of self. You don't want to understand the consequences, no matter what. You don't want to accept the fact that you did this to yourself because you refuse to process information flow in accordance with reality. You want to put your own twist to it. Oh well, this I see it. No, that's not how you see it, that's how you want to fabricate it.

Speaker 2 8:29

That's the erroneous side of thinking, when you make stuff up that's not real, and then you get into it and you say it's real. Now, here's what I'm saying Okay, that's the way you want to do it. But now what happens when your folks need you the most? They can't believe in you, they can't trust you, but they'll follow you and they'll follow you into the hole of Christ himself, where they're fully resisting reality. So nothing's real around them, so no one trusts anyone, because everybody knows everybody else is lying to themselves, christ himself not being able to or wanting to handle the real data processing tasks of living, learning, thinking and responding to contact interaction and allowing your brain to process that information. And you deal with the consequences. You deal with the choices good and you deal with the consequences. You deal with the choices, good and bad. You deal with the bad decisions, good or bad. This has been Doc Slate Live. The Emotion Brains Body Podcast, the Crisis of Self. Be back shortly.