Sub-Category
Neuroception
Planted on:
Apr 28, 2024 5:04 PM
Last tended:
May 5, 2024 11:46 PM
Garden Sprouts
Because neuroception is an automatic process that does not require cognitive processing, it may yield faulty results, including a misinterpretation of situations in the environment. This is because the brain can’t access rational thinking or communication skills when it is in a threat mode.Neuroception can be faulty, considered as either adaptive or maladaptive, when defense strategies are mis-matched with the actual risk of the environment. For example, a neuroception of safety and inhibited defense systems would be adaptive, while activated defense systems in a situation without danger would be maladaptive.Ongoing misattunement shapes our nervous system to be more sensitive to danger so that we lean more toward patterns of protection. If neuroception is shaped within safety, it adapts to monitor cues in appropriate ways and activate defense behaviors only when necessary. But when neuroception is shaped within unsafe, unpredicatable or unsupportive environments, the radar will lean toward protection. In this event, there will often be a mismatch between a person’s autonomic state and the actual enviroment or situation around them.We create stories about our lives and exeriences based on our physiological states.
Category
Nervous system