Chapter 3 - The First And Second Dart Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are second darts?
They are the ones we throw ourselves continually afterwards.
What is the truth about most second darts?
They are thrown at ourselves by ourselves when there are in fact no inherent actual first darts that have hit us.
How does suffering make its way through your body?
SNS & Hypothalamic Padrenal systems of suffering
What neurological functions does your brain go through in an imagined negative event and how is this different from an actual one?
Thalamus sends wake up signal to the brain stem.
Norepinephrine is released.
SNS sends signals to your major muscles and organs.
Hypothalamus prompts the pituitary gland to get the adrenal glands to release epinephrine and cortisol.
What does the prefrontal cortex do?
Goals
Plans
Directs Action
What does the Anterior Frontal Cingulate Cortex do? ACC
Steadies Attention
Integrates thinking and feeling
What does the Insula do?
Senses the internal state of your body
Helps you be emphatic
What does the Thalamus do?
Major relay station of the brain for sensory information.
What does the Brain Stem do?
Sends neuro modulators to the rest of the brain
What does the Corpus collosum do?
Sends information between the two hemispheres of the Brain.
What does the Cerebellum do?
Regulates movement
What does the limbic system do?
Regulates emotion and motivation.
Includes vasoganglia, hypocampus, imigdula hypothalamus, pituitary gland
What does the vasoganglia do?
Involved with rewards
What does the hypocampus do?
Forms new memories and detects threats
Imigdula do?
Alarm bell. Responds to particularly stimulating stimuli
What does the hypothalamus d?
Regulates primal drives hunger, sex, survival, makes endorphins, stress hormones, stimulates pituitary gland
What are the physical consequences of SNS AND SPNS over stimulation?
Gastrointestinal
Users
Immune
Vulnerabilities to diseases
What are the mental consequences of over stimulation of SNS HPAA?
Makes them more sensitive to future situations. Creates trace memories which shade and overshadow future events.
What are first darts?
They are the negative things that happen to us.
What is one of the only parts of the Brain that can grow new Neurons?
Hypocampus
What is the most important neurotransmitter for keeping an up beat mood?
Serotonin
What are the three wings of the Autonomic Nervous system?
Sympathetic - fight or flight
Parasympathetic - steady state activity
Enteric Nervous System - gastrointestinal
What is Buddhisms aim with regards to the nervous system?
Perfect balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
