Nervous System
What are the 3 nervous system states?
fight
flight
freeze
What are the 3 levels of the brains
reptile, mammal/limbic and human/cortex/new brain
Who is the most important person for you to be in consent with?
Yourself!
Cough or sneeze into a tissue or sleeve.
What was the message in the talk this morning from Ronnie Woods?
Hope
What does autonomic nervous system refer to?
The parts of your body that work automatically
what nervous system responses is our reptile brain responsible for?
fight/flight/freeze
What do healthy boundaries look like?
Semi permeable. You let healthy things in and keep unhealthy things out.
What practice should you be doing frequently and for at least 20 seconds at a time to keep yourself healthy?
Wash your hands
Who started AA (name 2 people)
Bill W and Bob Smith
Name 4 responses that can happen in your body if your're in fight or flight?
increased heart rate, muscle tension, hair stands up, anger, anxiety, fear, increased temperature
What is our mammalian brain/ limbic system responsible for?
connection, emotions, co-regulation
What is the foundation of boundaries
Knowing where you are in space?
How many feet away from someone should you stay to be practicing proper social distancing?
6 ft
Name the first 3 steps.
1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2)We came to be aware that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Name 3 responses that are associated with freeze?
depression, disassociation, immobility, checking out, brain fog, confusion,
What is our cortex/human brain responsible for?
thinking, reasoning, meditating, awareness, logic
What is the difference between intellectual and somatic consent?
intellectual consent - thoughts
somatic consent - feelings
Why is corona virus called a novel virus? And what are the implications of this?
It's never existed in humans before/ it mutated from animals.
This means we have no immunity to it.
Name Steps 4, 5, 6, and 7
4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
5)Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6)Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
7) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is the name of the theory of the nervous system that includes fight/flight and freeze?
Polyvagal Theory
Which part of the brain is strongest/ most powerful?
reptile brain
Why is being in touch with our yeses and our no's important for setting boundaries
So that we can tell people what we're a yes to and what we're a no to. If we don't know our yeses, and no's, how can we tell people what we're a yes to and what we're a no to?
What are some foods, drinks and spices you can eat to support your immune system? (name 3)
Bananas, apple cider vinegar, cayenne, cinnamon, honey, lemon juice, oats
Name steps 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
8) Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
10): Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.