Mustang, Mustang. And welcome to the second section of the strategic radical transformation course. Today we're going to be walking through the device which consists of the brain mind interface. We're going to be walking through the different elements that make this interface possible, and how we can truly use it to our advantage on this journey, we begin by talking about the brain setup. The modern brain that sits between your years is a product of radical evolution over millions of years. Now, as we evolved from the primates to the homosapiens, we are today the brain itself has enabled us to live the life that we do.

Now the brain is made out of different elements. So there is the ones that we are going to be talking in particular today are the ones that have the most impact upon our lives and on our personal transformation. The first one that I want to talk to you about is the amygdala, which is also known as the lizard brain. The reason it's called the lizard brain is because this is the most ancient part of your brain. So this is the part of your brain which is responsible for the fight or flight response. So it has only two responses, you see it has the flight, or fight response.

So either you stay and fight through a situation, or you flee from a situation towards safety. Now this part of your brain responds to raw stimulation that is received from your senses. So it's very important to understand that this is the basis of the most raw response that you can have to a situation which is fight or flight. When you find yourself in a dangerous situation where you need to respond, and time is of the essence. This is the part of your brain that jumps into action. Now consider a situation where you actually have time to respond.

This could be an argument this could be in negotiation, this could be any kind of a confrontational, or conversational situation. The first response of your physiology is to use the amygdala to immediately jump to a fight or flight response. However, they are more advanced parts of your brain which can help you create a more intelligent response to the stimuli that you're receiving. The brain is a chemical dance, there are certain chemicals that are released in your brain. The instant you receive certain life threatening or dangerous stimuli. The moment you feel insecure, you play your brain is essentially hijacked so that the signals cannot go into the more advanced parts of your brain.

The latest part of our brain sits in the near frontal cortex, particularly the prefrontal lobes. Now these prefrontal lobes are responsive For the most intelligent decision making you can do this part of your brain uses the wealth of experience that you've gone through. It takes into account all the situations and situations of others that you might have heard about. To be able to come up with the most accurate response to a certain situation. This is your best possible response. But here's what happens the moment you find yourself in a dangerous situation, and the stimuli reaches the amygdala, certain chemicals are released in your brain.

Immediately that hijack disconnection between the amygdala and your prefrontal cortex. It takes about 20 milliseconds for information to pass through the amygdala up to the prefrontal lobes. Now, these are the most crucial 20 milliseconds in your life. This will decide whether you have given the most optimal response to a situation or have you fallen to your base angsting and not use the gifts that evolution has given you. A great way to make sure that you are able to use your prefrontal lobes is to delay your reaction. Now I'm not saying that if you're in a life threatening situation with a gun to your head, or a knife to your back, when time is of the essence that you delay a response, I'm talking about situations when you can spare those 20 milliseconds.

In situations where your amygdala is telling you to engage in a fight, or in an argument and you pause for just one second, it just takes one second for your prefrontal lobes to kick into action and give you the best possible response. So good technique is to count backwards from 10 to one. This allows you enough time to truly absorb the stimuli for your entire brain to give you solution which is in your favor. The best possible outcome for that situation. So we need to understand our brain chemistry. I'm going to be talking more about how we can really control the physiology of the brain.

How we can control the flow of these chemicals which are hijacking your brain and keeping you from providing the most efficient and the most intelligent response to any situation in your life. So we're going to talk a little bit more about that in the next lectures to come. So what did we understand? We understand that there are two important parts of the brain. One is a very old ancient part of the brain which is responsible for our survival essentially, this is our legacy from our caveman days and we are even before this is the part of the brain that kept us safe from predators in the wild. And we learned about the latest part have our brain about the most advanced processor in this entire system on this device that we call the brain mind interface.