The Brain
a response to help you fight off whatever has made you anxious, your brain floods your central nervous system with adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones tell your body that something scary is about to happen. Their role is to help you cope with danger.
What is fight or flight?
This part of your nervous system takes over to calm your body down.
What is the Sympathetic nervous system?
This intenral body part weights about 3 pounds on average
What is the human brain?
This beats faster when our brain and nervous system detect possible real or false danger.
What is the heart?
breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth, sometimes counting the length of inhale and exhale.
What are breathing exercises?
When the amygdala alerts the brain to danger, this should kick in and help you come up with a rational, logical response.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The division of the nervous sytem involving the brain and spinal cord
What is the central division?
a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It happens when something you eat or drink something that’s cold. It chills the blood vessels and arteries in the very back of the throat, including the ones that take blood to your brain. These constrict when they’re cold and open back up with they’re warm again, causing the pain in your forehead.
What is a brain freeze?
This in the arms and legs, dialate to make room for increased blood flow.
What are blood vessels?
Stimulating this through singing, laughing, gargeling.
What is the Vegus nerve?
The deeper structure in teh brain that is central to emotional processing. monitors the body's reactions to the environment, evaluates an event's emotional significance, and organizes responses that a person may or may not be conscious of.
What is the Amygdala?
This dividsion of the nervous system has a direct role in physical response to stress and is divided into the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
The average person does this about 1-2 hours a night
What is dreaming?
We may feel discomfort in this area due to digestive system changes.
What is the stomach?
Determining if our fear is real or this.
What is irrational?
The outermost part of the brain, used for thinking and decision making.
What is the cerebral cortex?
The SNS signals these to release hormones called adrenalin (epinephrine) and cortisol
What are adrenal glands?
This is caused by a chemical reaction in your brain combined with the muscles and nerves of your neck and head.
What is a headache?
When this increases, our palms and body may become sweaty.
What is respiration rate?
math facts, grounding exercise, counting down by 7's
What is rational thinking?
During fight or flight response, your brain floods your body with these two hormones.
What is adrenaline and cortizol?
This division of the nervous system consists of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems.
What is the peripheral division of the nervous system?
During the mummification process, Egyptians would usually remove the brains through this.
What is the nose?
All of these are intended by our body to help us deal with an emergency.
What are symptoms of anxiety?
This produces endorphins and can help with anxiety.
What is exercise?