{"id":223,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"the-gate-keeper?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"The Gate keeper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Gate Keeper ?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Brainstem-animation.gif\" style=\"width: 345px; height: 336px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <a href=\"?p=509\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Reptilian- or R-brain<\/span><\/a> is activated when the organism perceives a threat. As long as it perceives a threat, it will try to suppress feelings of joy and remain in a serious mode. When confronted, this gatekeeper knows <a href=\"?p=707\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">only<\/span><\/a> 2 options: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1) Action, such as Fight or Flight, or <br \/>\n2) NO-Action, such as Freeze or Surrender<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The primary emotions and actions such as: <a href=\"?p=973\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">love<\/span><\/a>, hate, fear, lust, consume, seek a mate, breed, riot, obey, eat, worship, kill, shop, drink, compete, get more, guilt, sin, and judge appear to emanate from this brain part. <\/p>\n<p>When we are out of control with rage, it is the primitive emotions within our reptilian brain that override the rational components of the neo-cortex. It communicates via visual imagery. Reptiles communicate by visual symbolic gestures, each having a specific meaning. <\/p>\n<p>In the reptilian brain, sex, aggression and territoriality are treated the same way. Reptilian territory is acquired by force and staunchly defended. Might is right. <\/p>\n<p>There is no &quot;unconscious or dream state&quot; in reptiles because they are 24\/7 in a waking state. Thus, our reptilian part is awake 24\/7, and controls our &ldquo;sleep and dream state&rdquo;, when the left hemisphere is &quot;relaxing and house cleaning&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Certain chemicals repress this brain part during our waking hours, but it is still functioning like &ldquo;an invisible hand&rdquo;. Since it is not satisfied with b<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">eing relegated to the &quot;night watch&quot; of an inert body, it makes us act and often attract certain &#8211; sometimes unpleasant &#8211; events, enabling it to feel alive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=215\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gate Keeper ? The Reptilian- or R-brain is activated when the organism perceives a threat. As long as it perceives a threat, it will try to suppress feelings of joy and remain in a serious mode. When confronted, this gatekeeper knows only 2 options: 1) Action, such as Fight or Flight, or 2) NO-Action,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}