he three parts of the coping brain are known as the thinking (nuero-cortex) emotional (mammalian) and reptilian (survival). The reptilian brain is also known as the primitive brain and is the instinctive brain function found in animals and mammals, as well as humans. It’s the most powerful and oldest brain function, since without it we would not be alive. Its number one job is survival so our instinctive survival lies in our reptilian brain. It provides us with many coping skills that are instinctual, such as attack or hide response, aggression, anger display, fear, revenge, tribalism and territorial behavior, and reproductive instinct. While these are instinctive impulses we have, they can be harmful if used at the wrong time and situation.
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We can use it to figure out how to cope with challenges and we create new brain coping cells. With each time we become smarter on how to act and respond to stress. With each success we become more confident in our coping ability. Knowing there is nothing wrong with us if our feelings get hurt is key, by knowing we are not alone or the only one we understand its not just us that feels this way, it relieves stress. We learn that everyone gets upset but not everyone learns to cope properly. Taking responsibility for our own feelings is important because we cannot control what others do and say to us but we can control the way we react and let it affect us. Coping skills increase our self- management ability. The more we practice and use them the easier it becomes to get over the next stressful experience. We are born with instinctive coping impulses but we need to learn coping skills from our neocortex. We also need to have the courage to face difficult feelings and situations and deal with them, not try to suppress them or numb them with drugs or alcohol. Our brains tell us when we are hurt but also have the ability to learn coping skills to heal the wounds and get stronger with practice. Ignoring or suppressing and storing our hurt feelings is a bad coping skill that can be dangerous to our brain. It affects our ability to feel safe and like ourselves. Pretending or hiding from things doesn’t help us to get through or over anything, it just kicks the can down the road. Sooner or later we have to deal with pain. When we are upset our brain is too, when we are under stress, so is our brain. There are chemicals and hormones in and from our brain that affect our ability to concentrate, learn, and feel better. Our thinking brain is the captain and contains 85% of the brain cells for learning, 6 x’s larger than our instinctual brain
We can use it to figure out how to cope with challenges and we create new brain coping cells. With each time we become smarter on how to act and respond to stress. With each success we become more confident in our coping ability. Knowing there is nothing wrong with us if our feelings get hurt is key, by knowing we are not alone or the only one we understand its not just us that feels this way, it relieves stress. We learn that everyone gets upset but not everyone learns to cope properly. Taking responsibility for our own feelings is important because we cannot control what others do and say to us but we can control the way we react and let it affect us. Coping skills increase our self- management ability. The more we practice and use them the easier it becomes to get over the next stressful experience. We are born with instinctive coping impulses but we need to learn coping skills from our neocortex. We also need to have the courage to face difficult feelings and situations and deal with them, not try to suppress them or numb them with drugs or alcohol. Our brains tell us when we are hurt but also have the ability to learn coping skills to heal the wounds and get stronger with practice. Ignoring or suppressing and storing our hurt feelings is a bad coping skill that can be dangerous to our brain. It affects our ability to feel safe and like ourselves. Pretending or hiding from things doesn’t help us to get through or over anything, it just kicks the can down the road. Sooner or later we have to deal with pain. When we are upset our brain is too, when we are under stress, so is our brain. There are chemicals and hormones in and from our brain that affect our ability to concentrate, learn, and feel better. Our thinking brain is the captain and contains 85% of the brain cells for learning, 6 x’s larger than our instinctual brain