The Nervous System
What is the nervous system?
A breathing technique that uses a square shape
What is box breathing?
The three pound organ that is the control center of our body
What is the brain?
The state we enter when we are over stimulated to the point of being out of our window of tolerance
What is hyperarousal?
The animal class that cats and humans belong to
What are mammals?
The two branches of our nervous system responsible for the "fight or flight" and the "rest and digest" responses
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
The process of spending time around someone with a more regulated nervous system to help downregulate our own nervous system
What is coregulation?
The three regions that the brain is divided into according to the triune brain model
What is the front brain (neocortex), the midbrain (mammalian brain), and the back brain (reptilian brain)?
The process of our nervous system becoming less activated, such as moving from a state of hyperstimulation back into our window of tolerance
What is down regulation?
The number of hours a cat sleeps
What is roughly 12-16?
The two main parts of the central nervous system
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
The one aspect of our nervous system that we can consciously control to regulate our nervous system
What is our breathing rate?
This roughly almond-sized portion of the brain is responsible for the feeling of fear and the activation of threat responses
What is the amygdala?
The state we are in when we are not over or under stimulated, when we are feeling calm, when we are feeling pretty neutral
What is the window of optimal arousal?
True or False- Cats can taste sweetness
False
What does TIPP stand for
A natural physiological mechanism the human body experiences if you put your face in water that downregulates our nervous systems
What is the dive response?
The process that describes the continuous wiring and rewiring of our brain
What is Neuroplasticity?
The tool to measure emotional distress
What is the SUD Scale?
The cartoon cat that loves lasgna
What is Garfield?
The four most common forms of threat responses, also known as the 4 F's
What are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses?
A plan you make to prepare ahead for a possibly stressful situation
What is cope ahead?
This model of describing the major functions of specific brain regions breaks the brain down into three major sections
What is the triune brain?
A way you can expand your window of tolerance
Mindfulness/meditations, self soothing activities, grounding techniques, therapy, movement, adequate sleep, nutrition
The book store in Seattle where you get to pet cats
Twice sold book tales