theselfdrivingyou

A science-based framework for interrupting automatic habits and reclaiming personal agency.

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Most emotions and behaviors initially originate from our self-driving system, while we are the conscious driver who makes sense of the result.

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Our self-driving system automatically responds to cues in our environment relating to defense, food, and mating using survival circuits.

We are the conscious driver at the wheel who ultimately determines whether to go with survival responses or not.

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We have circuits in the brain that make up our self-driving system, providing our first thoughts and responses to all we encounter.

At the same time, we have executive circuitry that gives rise to our conscious driver at the wheel who can take control and drive any time we want.

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Mindfulness is Mental Training that Strengthens Attention

Each time we place attention on our anchor, realize we have lost focus, and return our attention to the anchor, it’s one rep. After thousands of repetitions, we strengthen our attention circuits.

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Acceleration is part of our design - Chronic acceleration is not.

Experience can miscalibrate our self-driving system, making it prone to chronic acceleration.

We can apply the brakes by deliberately slowing our breath anytime our vehicle accelerates.

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Artificial and Biological networks take a similar approach to learning.

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*CONSCIOUSNESS IS A SPECTRUM*

Our self-driving system performs 80-95% of the driving.

If we completely align with our self-driving system, it can perform 95% of the driving. However, if we actively engage our conscious driver, we can lower that to 80%. The choice is yours.

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**Consciousness is the processing of self-driving processing. **

We are the conscious driver, acting as the supervisor, who processes self-driving decisions after they happen, deciding whether to go with them or not.

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Our brain has a circuit it defualts to when we are at rest and not focused on externals.

Known in neuroscience as the default mode network, it generates mind-wandering when active. These are self-driving thoughts about past or future scenarios involving ourselves and others.

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The brain uses the autonomic nervous system to speed up and slow down as we move through the world.

These become the sympathetic gas and the parasympathetic brake that our self-driving system uses to drive based on what it processes, all initially outside awareness.

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Life experiences can miscalibrate our self-driving system, making it prone to triggering chronic acceleration, initially outside our awareness.

By deliberately slowing our breath, we can take the wheel with our drivers and apply the brakes at any time.

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Life isn't personal - it's plastic.

The Self-Driving You is Available in all formats on Amazon or Audible.

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Our driver circuits prevent us from being purely autonomous, allowing us to rise above our self-driving system by taking the wheel and providing corrective action whenever we choose

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Our self-driving system produces painful emotion and uses stored automated external behaviors to provide relief.

We are the conscious driver who attaches to the result.

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We have a self-driving system that provides our first thoughts and actions to what we encounter.

We are the conscious driver who experiences and processes the result, deciding whether to go with it or not.

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Genes and the environment are inseparable. They continually interact throughout our lives to determine who we become with Gene Environment Interaction (GXE).

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Our caretakers were our programmers in childhood, but we can use consciousness to reprogram ourselves the way we want in adulthood.

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The brain isn't made of isolated parts.

It is a highly interconnected network that integrates information, collectively functioning as a single unit, giving rise to who we are.

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@Crazymoments01 Play it in reverse, and it is a tattoo remover.

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Mistakes are not personal. They are how the brain learns.

Excerpt from The Self-Driving You, read by RJ Malyk.
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