{"id":567,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:49:57","slug":"reptilian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Reptilian Language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The R-brain, the oldest and simplest, is responsible for our survival. Its neural circuitry is mostly innate and stable.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">When confronted, it knows <a href=\"?p=707\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">only<\/span><\/a> 2 options:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Action, such as Fight or Flight<\/span>, or<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">NO-Action, such as Freeze or Surrender<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The basic ruling emotions and actions such as: <a href=\"?p=973\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">love<\/span><\/a>, hate, fear, lust, consume, seek a mate, get married, breed, riot, obey, eat, kill, worship, buy, drink, compete, get more, guilt, sin, seek differences, and judge appear to emanate from this first stage of the human brain complex. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">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. Some people call this \u201cthey reacted with their heart\u201d, but it is not.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The &#8220;language&#8221; of the R-brain is visual imagery. Reptiles communicate by visual symbolic representations, each with their specific meaning. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The courtship of many reptiles, <a href=\"?p=992\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">birds<\/span><\/a>, and mammals consists of the male showing his ability to provide food, and establish &amp; protect a nest before he will be considered a suitable mate. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In the reptilian brain, sex, aggression and territoriality are treated the same way. Territory is acquired by force and defended. Here, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">might is right&#8221;<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/brain-stem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"227\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=568\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The R-brain, the oldest and simplest, is responsible for our survival. Its neural circuitry is mostly innate and stable. When confronted, it knows only 2 options: Action, such as Fight or Flight, or NO-Action, such as Freeze or Surrender The basic ruling emotions and actions such as: love, hate, fear, lust, consume, seek a mate,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582,"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-567","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\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}