{"id":223,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:48:27","slug":"the-gate-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"The Gate keeper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 345px; height: 336px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Brainstem-animation.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <a href=\"?p=509\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Reptilian- or R-brain<\/span><\/a> is activated when the organism perceives a threat. As long as it perceives a threat, it will try to suppress feelings of joy and remain in a serious mode. When confronted, this gatekeeper knows <a href=\"?p=707\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">only<\/span><\/a> 2 options: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">1) Action, such as Fight or Flight, or<br \/>\n2) NO-Action, such as Freeze or Surrender<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">The primary emotions and actions such as: <a href=\"?p=973\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">love<\/span><\/a>, hate, fear, lust, consume, seek a mate, breed, riot, obey, eat, worship, kill, shop, compete, get more, guilt, sin, and judge appear to emanate from this brain part. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When we are out of control with rage, it is the primitive emotions within our reptilian brain that override the rational components of the neo-cortex. It communicates via visual imagery. Reptiles communicate by visual symbolic gestures, each having a specific meaning.<\/p>\n<p>In the reptilian brain, sex, aggression and territoriality are treated the same way. Reptilian territory is acquired by force and staunchly defended. Might is right.<\/p>\n<p>There is no &#8220;unconscious or dream state&#8221; in reptiles because they are 24\/7 in a waking state. Thus, our reptilian part is awake 24\/7, and controls our \u201csleep and dream state\u201d, when the left hemisphere is &#8220;relaxing and house cleaning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Certain chemicals repress this brain part during our waking hours, but it is still functioning like \u201can invisible hand\u201d. Since it is not satisfied with b<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\">eing relegated to the &#8220;night watch&#8221; of an inert body, it makes us act and often attract certain &#8211; sometimes unpleasant &#8211; events, enabling it to feel alive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=215\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reptilian- or R-brain is activated when the organism perceives a threat. As long as it perceives a threat, it will try to suppress feelings of joy and remain in a serious mode. When confronted, this gatekeeper knows only 2 options: 1) Action, such as Fight or Flight, or 2) NO-Action, such as Freeze or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}