Defense Physiology-Why do I need to Know?

Why is it so important to know about the defense physiology?

The defense physiology takes up a lot of your energy; it takes 60 to 80% or even more of your energy to hold yourself in the defense physiology.  The defense physiology is brought about by the primal brain.

There are three parts to the brain, the frontal lobe, the limbic brain and the reptilian brain, which I refer to as the primal brain.

The frontal lobe is where we process our conscious thought and where we have the ability to make decisions.  This is what sets us apart from animals, they do not have a frontal lobe, and they do not have the ability to make a conscious choice.

The limbic brain is where our emotions are and also is concerned with the functions of the body.

The primal brain works in order of priorities of the body, in other words the heart would keep beating before the function of the leg.

The top four priorities of the brain are first of all survival, then feeding, reproduction of cells and the ongoing of the species and the fourth being the auto immune system.

The first priority of survival is flight, fight, fear and faint or freeze.

So the primal brain only knows now, everything that has happened in the past or it thinks it will happen in the future is happening right now.  If there is a fear it will put this as the top priority and put the body in a defense physiology therefore this programming is always there until there is release of that programming.  With that release it enables the body to use the energy in other priorities of the body.

When the body is consistently out of the defense physiology you will hardly if ever get sick, since the body has all of the available energy to use for the other functions in the body.

I will be talking in later posts about how to release the programming that is holding the body in defense physiology.

Live Well,

Darren Gibson