Physiologically wired to judge and blame

If I don't see myself reflected in someone else, it does not necessarily mean they are not being real.  It may also mean that I myself am not being real or that I am unaware of that quality in myself. It is sadly easier for most of us to judge and blame than it is to love and accept, ourselves and others.  The ego is hardwired to judge and blame as a safety mechanism because physically a little region of the brain called the Amygdala essentially runs the show.

The Amygdala activates faster than any other part of our anatomy in order to make sure we survive a threat to our existence.  As the ego believes existence is everything it physically experiences, this can include threat to life, threat to sanity, overwhelming emotions and sensory overloads.  The brain receives information via the senses and if a threat is perceived, the Amygdala starts driving the bus, with most other areas shit down to ensure complete focus on survival only.  This is a fabulous way to ensure our survival. Our secondary organs (i.e., kidneys, pancreas, spleen, etc) are turned of for greater efficiency of the system.  The blood gets pumped only to our major organs and muscles. Our senses become hyper alert and stress how mines are released to prepare the brain and body for the expected harm.  We are flooded with stimulants for improved physical accuracy and strength and opiates for increased endurance.  This means we enter an altered state of reality and feel pain or pleasure differently for a time.  It is a state where digesting food, sleeping, resting, relaxing, thinking and feeling feelings is almost impossible and for some, even speaking may be impossible.  All of this is the brains perfectly natural and instinctual reaction to danger.  It is designed ton preserve is at all costs and for the most part, it works sensationally well.

The Amygdala has no sense of time or space so during danger we will be unable to perceive where we are or how much time is passing.  This is why it can seem like time flies or stands still.  In this altered state of reality, the chemicals cutoff access to my rational, thinking brain donut won't slow me down with thoughts when I need to act, to fight or flee.  Fight and Flight is the only focus right now and the brain ensures it.  If it can do neither in the face of danger, it will put us in a Freeze state instead.  In Freeze, we dissociate completely from the reality in order to survive.  This is the state where we can actually leave our body to float above it, become catatonic, increase the endorphins (opioids), or even enter deaths door.  Freeze is the final gift the brain gives us before we cease to exist according to Peter Levine in his book Waking The Tiger.  We learn to perceive our environment through the Amygdala and it is this that creates the capacity for judgment and blame, aka: always looking for perceived threats.

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