Our Brain
Help us stay safe from danger.
What 3 parts of your brain are involved in stress response?
Amygdala - identifies threats, begins initial response
Hippocampus - helps associate current stress with past experiences
Prefrontal Cortex - decision-making, helps regulate response by evaluation
When everything is calm does our brain return back to normal using all parts?
Brain stem, Limbic and Thinking? True or False.
True
Basketball game finals and you think you are not ready? What does FAWN look like.
Talking your way out of playing the game either with to yourself or someone else.
What is the SURVIVAL brain control?
Breath, heart rate, movement, exercise, sleep and the list goes on. (Basically the stuff that helps you stay alive).
Can our brain always tell the difference between danger or stress? Yes or No.
No.
What is survival brain responsible for?
Your body
Can homework and fighting with friends or parents trigger the flight, fight, freeze or fawn response? True or False.
True.
Calm down your body, can help you calm down your brain stem. True or False.
True. If you can calm down your body you can calm down your survival brain. What are some of the things you can do?
Breathe, exercise, or have a shower.
What is the Limbic system responsible for ?
Emotions
When your brain is stress and thinks your in danger, how does it respond?
It responds by trying to help you stay safe.
What is the limbic system?
Emotional brain
Stressful or anxious about Homework, feelings of anger or irritable, what can this be categorized?
Fight response.
If we calm down our thoughts we are calming down which part of the brain?
LIMBIC system. -Emotional brain.
What are some of the things you can do?
visualization, meditation and mindfulness.
Higher functioning thinking. Reading writing communicating, solving problems.
Name the 5 Fs.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn,
What is the third part of your brain that has a part in your stress response?
Frontal Lobe (SMART brain)
Anxious about a math quiz what might FREEZE look like?
procrastination or avoiding.
Talking to a counsellor, reading, journaling and writing thoughts down.
When you are stressed or feeling anxious your brain thinks you are in danger? True or False.
If you see a bear and he wants to eat you. What might your brains response be? Name one.
Fight.
Run. (FLIGHT), Freeze, Fawn.
When all the energy is sent to the BRAIN Stem and LIMBIC part of the brain what happens to the other part?
Have a presentation to do and you feel panic. What could this be categorized as?
FLIGHT
How to create new path ways in our brain that help us calm our stress or anxiety?
PRACTICE the more you practice the stronger it gets and the more it becomes easier to help calm your anxiety or stress.
When your brain thinks you are in danger what happens?
It sends extra energy to the SURVIVAL Brain (Stem) so you can run fast and fight danger and to your emotional brain (LIMBIC) because it helps us decided the best way to respond.