How The Brain Works

There are 3 main regions within the brain that serve a specific function as we

interact with our environment:

• At the base of our brain is the primitive region
• in the middle the feeling region
• and at the front and top of our brain is the thinking region

While these 3 regions have their own special function, they operate as one connected network to keep us alive and reach our goals.

The primitive region of our brain looks after those basic life functions that just happen automatically, like our breathing and heart rate. It also helps coordinate our basic physical movements, such as our balance, and posture. More than this, it plays a key role in scanning our environment to search for those things that may threaten our chances of survival. This helps the instinctual part of our brain kick into action automatically.

The middle feeling region of our brain plays a significant part in our emotional and social experiences through life. This is the part of our brain where emotions and impulses, such us anger, fear, and pleasure come from. It is activated when our primitive region detects a threat in the environment and triggers our fight or flight response. This region drives many of our behaviors and habits and help us form memories and attach feelings to them particularly when we experience strong emotions, such fear or happiness.

Lastly, the thinking region is the largest, and more highly developed part of the human brain. It stores our memories, allows us to plan, enables us to imagine or analyze a situation, find a solution, and communicate with others. It is the part of the brain where we can take control of decision making and emotion and override our automatic responses from our primitive and feeling regions. Our thinking region activates our likes, dislikes, hopes and ambitions. Those thoughts that make us uniquely human and different to all other animals on this planet.

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