The Behavioral Stack

Recorded December 18 2023

Description

In this Frankly, Nate offers a personal reflection on his learnings about ‘awareness’ vs ‘focus’ and how this knowledge could be used as a guide toward more thoughtful behaviors. The human body’s system has evolved through time and the layers were built sequentially, each interacting and reacting to the systems below it. By becoming aware of this and attempting to balance them from the bottom up, we could move away from the reactionary tendencies that many in our culture are now pulled towards. How does an overstimulating, dopamine driven modern environment affect our brains ability to cope? How do our behaviors change when our systems are in a constant state of fear or dissatisfaction? What would the world look like if we spent more time reflecting and realigning rather than in perpetual fight, flight, or freeze mode?

00:16 - Limbic reset

02:56 - Wisdom Traditions

04:01 - Left Brain Dominance

04:23 - Dick Schwartz, Internal Family Systems

05:52 - Microbiome

06:36 - Enteric system, homeostasis

06:55 - Parasympathetic, Sympathetic

07:23 - Hippocampus, Amygdala

09:39 - Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

10:55 - Most people have trauma - fight, flight or freeze

13:55 - Homo economicus