BB: Neuroception

Hey everyone Caitlin here.

Thanks for watching another episode of baldin breakdowns, where we're

looking at big concepts, big ideas and lots of big

feelings. And this week the concept is neuro section, which

I'm super excited to talk about.

I'm really glad that you guys voted for this in

the polls because I've been wanting to do something.

Um it's kind of science heavy and lets me nerd

out in that sense.

A euros option is not necessarily a new concept.

Um it's one that I think has come more into

the realm of understanding and education about mental health, about

health in general, about well being.

Um and for me, it has completely transformed my understanding

and my therapeutic approach to anxiety, stress, trauma, even sadness,

hopelessness, depression.

So many of these things that we understood from a

very different lens, um my understanding of them has completely

transformed with this concept of neuro section.

So getting into it Euro section is a subconscious process

um that uses tons of neural circuits throughout our body.

And essentially it is constantly scanning and re scanning our

environment. So imagine second by second, even as even as

I'm sitting here filming this video, there is a second

by second process going on in my body that's scanning

all the things that I can see, all the things

that I can hear, all the things that I can,

you know, smell and thinking everything to assess if there

is safety, if I'm in a safe place or if

there's any level of threat.

And so in real time, let's say, as I'm filming

this right now, I have something stuck in my throat.

And so I kind of feel nervous right away because

even though it wasn't a conscious connection, I am feeling

slightly threatened and there are these circuits scanning the current

environment, what's currently happening and saying, oh no, you're choking,

you, you're going to have to start this thing over.

And that's stressful.

So now I feel anxious that's happening in real time.

And this is a process that's constantly going on behind

the scenes.

Mhm. So neurosurgeon and this, this constant scanning in our

body is needed.

It's an important process.

And especially if you think about evolution and going back

200 gatherer times 10, 11, 12,000 years ago, it is

an extremely essential process because the threats, the the indications

of risk in those environments were lethal risks, right?

It was, you know, you're out hunting and alliance is

going to come and kill you or the ice age.

I'm not, I'm not a big history person.

So I think my time one is roughly accurate but

having that ability to not waste any conscious resources.

But really just use this kind of subconscious process.

Using all these neural circuits to determine and assess if

there's any level of threat is needed because then what

it does is it creates this reaction of anxiety where

we're now more alert, we're more vigilant and we're more

able to notice when these threats are coming closer and

closer and also kind of react quicker.

Um, that's kind of the typical sequence of anxiety when

there's this threat to your system.

The problem, though, is that threats today are not anywhere

near the same and there, most of the time, not

an immediate lethal threat and our bodies still interprets them

that way.

So threats today are not lines, improvements coming to eat

us. It's not the ice age.

It's things like debt, things like heartbreak.

When you're rejected.

When you hear someone arguing or you're in the middle

of an argument and someone's yelling.

Um, a threat could also be looking at your to

do list and seeing a huge list of items.

Even something as simple, simple as the weather, right?

If you go outside and it's raining or it's stormy,

you're not often consciously making this connection that, oh, this

is this is something threatening or scary.

So now I'm going to feel anxious or sad or

worried. But this process going on subconsciously within your body

is doing that.

And that's why part of the reason why we'll see

a lot of depression and a lot of worsened mental

health in the winter months, right?

Because in an evolutionary sense, cold and not being able

to have much daylight were significant threats to your well

being to your ability to survive.

So when there is this constant scanning of threats, um,

the challenges that one threats today are not lethal in

most cases, but we can still assume them as such.

And if we've encountered any type of trauma and even,

you know, trauma being considered as prolonged stress when we're

in a chronically stressed environment or if we grew up

in a really chaotic environment, our body's ability to scan

and accurately assess for threats is like gone.

Our system is kind of mis calibrated and so a

lot of times people ask me, well, why am I,

why am I feeling like this?

Why am I this dress?

I know it's not logical.

I don't need to think like that, but it's not

logical. This is a biological neural process of scanning and

it doesn't matter if something is logically a threat, it

is perceived as a threat.

And so we naturally take it as such.

And then there's that chain of reactions of feeling anxious,

feeling worried or feeling panicked, of getting angry of being

sad. All of these things happen as a result of

this underlying subconscious process that we often aren't even aware

of. So that's the reception a little bit over six

minutes, but I don't care.

Uh, and I will see you guys next week for

another episode of balding breakdowns.

Five, Okay.

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