Neurology of psychology (cognitive science)

Sugar_Rush · 08-08-2022 9:23pm

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So, understand that everything we feel in the body is mediated or transmitted through those little electrical spikes, action potentials, that propagate and fire and act through our body and brain.

They're the basis for feeling.

Signals or chemicals that affect mood, affect mood primarily as they in turn activate or block the nerves from firing, those electrical spikes from propagating (the means vary, ion channel coupled receptors, receptors coupled to signal proteins, etc.).

Here's a short clip demonstrating how chemicals discharged from one cell, signal to the next cell causing it to fire:

When this process happens, that's our "activation", that's our "excitation" (opposite of depression).

That's what causes the improvement in mood, feeling, in our functionality and performance;

And that is what we want to stimulate (that is what Prof Robertson is trying to stimulate with the self-instruction/cognitive-application, "I feel excited").

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On the other hand, when we talk about how we feel, we often speak of E-MOTIONS.

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So what is it? Is what we feel mediated in

neural excitatory spikes? Or
emotions?

Well, based on that we could draw the conclusion that, those physiological electrical spikes, are affected by emotion.

So for intents and purposes:

our nervous system itself runs and performs and functions,

on the basis of emotion.

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Sugar_Rush · 08-08-2022 9:29pm

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With me so far?

Everything we feel in our body and mind is mediated through electrical spikes acting in the nervous system
What we feel in relation to relationships, each other, "feelings", is mediated through emotion therefore
The efficacy of the nervous system itself, is mediated in our emotional well being, emotional performance.

Therefore, to replace Prof Robertson's form of self instruction, "I feel excited", with something potentially more efficacious to improve its outcome, we could clearly deduce that we simply need to replace that self-instruction with something more emotionally specific.

And in theory if we could do so, we again potentially optimized on a consistent basis the functionality and performance of the nervous system itself.

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And bear in mind, compromise in CNS performance can lead to, degeneration, deterioration and all those associated ailments.

So we're talking about a NON-DRUG-INTERVENTION to improve the performance of the CNS, potentially optimizing it.

Sugar_Rush · 08-08-2022 9:33pm

In doing so, using emotionally specific self instruction, not only would we be increasing CNS performance but,

BEING emotionally specific self instruction, as emotions dictate actions (thoughts/emotions/actions), we would in theory be therefore optimizing our actions, optimizing our behavior, our attitude.

In doing so = optimal situational management = optimal means to manage/address potential stressors.

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So in a sense we've come full-circle.

The very means to

improve the internal performance, performance of the nervous system, is the exact cognitive means to
address those external stressors that tax and burden the nervous system.

Sugar_Rush · 08-08-2022 9:34pm

Overall it seems so simple and obvious.

But, I guess like any novel concept, it can be difficult to catch on to, at least initially.

Sugar_Rush · 09-09-2022 8:05pm

Performance coach in Ireland called, Gerry Hussey?

https://soulspace.ie/

I read some of his material and it's remarkably similar.

Optimizing nervous system outcome by way of excitation increase, mediated in emotion.

He actually characterized e-motion as "energy in motion", which it is but it's precise etymology is "eccentric motion" meaning wave propagation.

Which is a concept of quantum mechanics which is also acknowledged in his material.

"Change your thinking, change your world".

Thinking = "I feel excited" according to:

https://youtu.be/mpN3xD_AC1k

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But there's a more effective thought intervention with more specific emotional focus?

Sugar_Rush · 09-09-2022 9:44pm

One thing I really liked about that book is how the author describes, the initial formation of thought process.

We adhere to a group or "tribal" mentality, so the unit can relate to one another and work as one.

But this does not necessarily mean that thought paradigm lends itself to our "best selves" (it even describes how this effects gene-expression).

Therefore a primary influencer of thinking is culture.

But it can also be a limiting and establishing an effective thought process is the true intervention to performance optimization.

Neurology of psychology (cognitive science)

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our nervous system itself runs and performs and functions,

on the basis of emotion.

Therefore, to replace Prof Robertson's form of self instruction, "I feel excited", with something potentially more efficacious to improve its outcome, we could clearly deduce that we simply need to replace that self-instruction with something more emotionally specific.