Glen

Exploring health, diet, neurological disorders, the brain & nervous system. Keen surfer - Student of psychology. #SystemsThinking

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

The #nervoussystem learns through prediction, experience & emotion. We can change our thoughts and breathe deeply all day, but the brain is often updated by what we repeatedly experience and feel. Mind-body work can help, but lasting change often comes through lived experience.

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

Decisions that appear to be gut reactions from the outside are rarely spontaneous on the inside. Instead, they reflect rapid pattern recognition built through experience and repeated exposure.

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[Glen @AutonomicGC]

The military doesn't prepare people for extreme situations by simply telling them what might happen.

They use drills, simulations, and repeated exposure.

Experience is how the system updates.

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

We can spend hours predicting what might happen.

But the biggest updates often come from what we never saw coming.

Experience supplies information that #prediction alone cannot generate.

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

Microscopic differences in #brain wiring can lead to very different subjective experiences.

The existence of synaesthesia demonstrates that more than one kind of brain and mind is possible.

The way we experience the world isn't the only way a human can experience it.

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

When we become attached to an explanation, we stop trying to understand the system and start defending our position.

Complex systems rarely have simple answers. The goal isn't to win an argument. The goal is to learn from each other and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

[Yazid @TheLetterAleph]

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[Glen @AutonomicGC]

@TheLetterAleph & I still catch myself doing it from time to time.
I've often wondered whether it was a sign of, or an instinctive attempt to regulate, a dysregulated nervous system. The idea that these behaviours may be part of the body's attempt to maintain equilibrium really resonates with me

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

@TheLetterAleph I really like this DANC hypothesis.
Growing up, I always had what looked like a tic where I would repeatedly force a yawn & blink hard. It was something I did almost automatically. Eventually, I forced myself to stop because it looked a bit strange, but the urge was always there,

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

Put your assumptions on the table.

Make them visible.

Invite criticism.

Be willing to redraw the map.

#SystemsThinking

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

"In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly letting go and dancing with the system."

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

I've just finished Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows.

The book is about systems, & I found myself constantly relating many of its ideas to the nervous system, which is itself a complex system.

Here are some of the quotes I wrote down in my notes that really stood out to me

[Glen @AutonomicGC]

"We can't control systems or figure them out, but we can dance with them."