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Understanding the Human Brain's Functions

The document discusses the differences between the conscious and unconscious brain. It notes that the unconscious brain can manage hundreds of tasks simultaneously, while the conscious brain struggles with more than a couple things. It also explains that the older, reptilian parts of the brain developed earlier than the neocortex, so under pressure people tend to revert to primitive fight or flight responses.

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Understanding the Human Brain's Functions

The document discusses the differences between the conscious and unconscious brain. It notes that the unconscious brain can manage hundreds of tasks simultaneously, while the conscious brain struggles with more than a couple things. It also explains that the older, reptilian parts of the brain developed earlier than the neocortex, so under pressure people tend to revert to primitive fight or flight responses.

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Introduction - October 2012

Id love to start this introduction by saying that Ive always been


fascinated by the human brain, but I cant. In fact my interest
didnt really start until I started training to become a Life Coach.
danger and anxiety where none should really exist (giving a
speech or presentation is a great example), but equally it can
warn you when danger is present when you were completely
unaware of it at a conscious level.
Your unconscious brain can literally manage hundreds of tasks
simultaneously. Its a plate spinning, ball juggling, multi-tasking
genius. Yet your conscious brain starts to struggle with more than
a couple of things and your performance degrades severely when
you try and manage three or four things in your conscious
memory at once.
The problem is, the newer part of your brain (the neocortex)
which is responsible for planning, sensory perception, language,
spatial awareness and conscious reasoning is in evolutionary
terms, still very young. Whereas the reptilian part of your brain
(the basal ganglia and part of the limbic system) has had a head
start (no pun intended) of a couple of million years or more.
That is why when you come under intense pressure, you will tend
to revert to reptilian responses (fight, flight or curl up into the
fetal position and do nothing) that often make no sense in a
modern society which is by and large far safer than we are often
led to believe by the fear mongering media.
If you had met me at a party a decade or so ago, Im sure you
would have walked

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