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April 17, 2023

Webinar – Hvorfor agerer du, som du gør, i forskellige arbejds- og private sammenhænge?

On Friday, April 14, Frank Poulsen from Zenbusiness gave an educational and humorous presentation entitled: “Why do you act the way you do in various work and private contexts?”
There is a huge difference in how appropriately you can act in both a  work and private situation, whether it is one or another center in the brain that controls you in the current situation. Our brains are complex and fascinating organs that control our behavior, emotions and thoughts. But which specific centers in the brain control us, and how can we influence these centers ourselves to achieve more positive behavior in a work and private situation?
The webinar tells about how our brain sometimes works with us and sometimes against us.  You should imagine your brain as a car with four people sitting in it. These four people can take turns driving the car, and they drive very differently, but the individual driver cannot learn to drive differently than they do. This means that if one of the drivers drives inappropriately, it is not about teaching the person to drive differently, but about changing the driver of the car. This is an image that provides an understanding of  how the brain controls you in your daily life and thus hopes that the most appropriate driver is behind the wheel.
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1. The Reptilian Brain : The first developed part of our brain. When you feel threatened, your reptilian brain is likely to take the lead. Your reptilian brain is what keeps you alive and protects you from, among other things, external threats  .
The reptilian brain has three strategies it can “offer,” each of which has some emotional characteristics when it feels threatened:
 1. Fight : This is where your body gets ready for battle. If you go into ‘fight mode’ when you are under pressure, you will experience feelings such as:  Inner tension, impatience, touchy, angry,  aggressive.
2. Flee : Here you are trying to find a way out, and therefore your gaze becomes more flickering. When your brain goes into ‘flee mode’ you are unfocused , restless, claustrophobic, anxious.
3. Freeze : When you go into ‘freeze mode’ your body freezes when you feel threatened. This is where your brain goes into a state of standstill, despondency, need for protection and takes on a negative outlook.
Do you know which box you fall into when you are pressured or threatened? and do you know which box your partner falls into?
2. The frontal lobes : The most recently developed part of our brain and what particularly distinguishes us humans from other species. When our frontal lobes are online, we can do some things that only we can do.  Here are some of the most important ones:
  1. Activity/pause regulation : Your ability to sense when you should be active and when you should be at rest.
  2. Attuned communication : Your ability to tune in so that communication is well-balanced.
  3. Emotional balance : So you are in a sensible place emotionally and not in an extreme.
  4. Response flexibility : That you can insert reason between what you experience and your  response.
  5. Empathy : Your ability to see something from another person’s perspective.
  6. Self-insight : Your ability to draw your own inner landscape map.
  7. Intuition : Your feeling about, for example, other people, without me being fully aware of where the feeling comes from. 
How do you get from the reptilian brain to the frontal lobes?
To be able to go from your reptilian brain to your frontal lobes, you need to focus on the sensory things around you, preferably for a minimum of 3 minutes, it could be:
  • The sounds around you.
  • Different parts of the body.
  • Visual impression.
  • The clothes against  the body.
  • Attentive to the coffee/tea/food
  • Pay attention to your breathing 
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