Your Reptile Brain and How it Controls You.

Although we think and believe that we are in control just one day of observing your self will prove to you that most of your life is run on auto-pilot and in a subconscious way. Especially your emotional and habitual life. Unless your have training when your emotions hit you have little control.

Your brain is an amazing bit of kit, however the control centres for survival and reproduction are base in a very early part of your physiology. The parts of you that decide weather you live or die are very old in fact your are run by a brain similar to a T-Rex.

Only a small part of your subconscious mind is similar to your inner child. The rest is a lizard. Herpetology was a passion for many years ( study of reptiles) and recently it has come in useful again as I look deeper in to the human mind.

Our brain at it’s core has a lizard that controls all our survival emotions. It has been around a few million years longer than man and served the dinosaurs well for millions of years. Down this page are links for those of you who want to delve deeper into how our early brains still function with in our minds. You might want to begin with the anatomy of the human brain .

Basically you have three brains in your skull. Each built one on top of the other. Interconnected with different functions programs and memories. a bit like three computers joined together. They all have different functions and distinct abilities.

The first of which is our lizard brain.
The reptilian brain consists of the upper part of the spinal cord and the basal ganglia, the diencephalon, and parts of the mid-brain all of which sits on top of your spinal column like a knob in the middle of you head. This part of you controls your body’s vital programs breathing, heart rate etc.

Guess what gets activated when you are afraid? This part controls rigid, obsessive,compulsive, ritualistic and paranoia and is still very active even in deep sleep. Still similar and driven by the same basic survival programs as T-Rex. It is responsible for your basic survival. Its focus on fight, run away, freeze and to look for food and sex and territoriality. Guess what gets activated when you are afraid?

You can see how when you go into a stress response and have all those amazing chemicals in your body you loose your higher brain functions and many of your later programming and social habits. This part looks after you and includes your brain stem and your cerebellum.


The second brain in you is the.

The mammalian brain. This is your Limbic Brain this comes off the first brain and looks a bit like a limb. This part of your controls your more complex emotions such as memory, love , compassion and other emotions. It is made up of your hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus. If you have a mammal pet then you know that your dog shares some of the emotions that you have and often when you feel higher emotions it is this part of your early brain that is being fired off.

Just like your old survival brain a skilled hypnotist or neuro-linguistic programmer can fire this area of your brain off for desired results. So can that bitch at work.

Your third brain neocortex. This is the part of your head that you share with the higher apes. Ours is just a little bit bigger and has more wiring in. It sits above your limbic brain that sits on your reptile. All stacked one on top of the other. This part of deals with the higher functions such logic and time words and symbols.

This is why when you have a subconscious incongruence your older brains will win and take over. With it comes all those painful emotions. One of the tricks is to get your limbic and your reptile part working together. If they agree with you neocortex you win if not they will take over and run the show.

This is why when stress hits us or we feel fear of loosing something, mate, prestige, ego or create an imaginary threat to our life your subconscious mind will generate some very old and primitive resources. We can learn to control most of these it does take practice and knowledge..

Begin by using the “Big Four”