Your Brain as a Car

• Driver sits on the Front left side
  • Thinks
  • Makes Decisions
  • Freewill sits in this sit
  • This part controls the wheel, brakes, and gas
  • The Adult part of the brain
  • Is confused or overwhelmed by stress
  • Stress comes from outside/other drivers
  • Stress comes from inside/other passengers
  • Bottom line Behavior sits in this seat—this is what you do
• The Navigator sits on the right front side
  • This is your conscience
  • Your moral values and belief system resides here
  • This is your Parent within
  • This part has the map and looks where you have been, where you are, and where you are heading
  • It influences the Driver by telling the Driver what it Believes you should be doing
  • It feels guilty about the past (what you did or did not do)
  • It feels worried or concerned about the present (what you are doing or not doing)
  • It feels anxious about the future (where you are or are not heading)
  • It is in continual dialogue with the Driver while keeping alert and watchful of the other passenger in the backseat
• The Child sits in the backseat
  • All the primary emotions of anger, fear, and joy reside here
  • Anger, fear, and joy can be combined to make all the other emotions
  • The child sits in front of a surround sound movie screen that has all the memories/movies of the past
  • Movies/memories can be past, present, or future if stored as real
  • The child does not know the difference between real and imagined
  • The child thinks in pictures, images, and emotions but not so much in words
  • The child sees what is going on in the front seat and senses if the two adults in the front are in agreement
  • The child also looks out the window of the car but sees like a child and not an adult
  • The emergency brake—the fight/flight mechanism is in the backseat with the child
  • Therefore the child does not drive the car but can cause it to brake and can hijack the brain
  • The child is not immoral but amoral
  • The child moves towards pleasure and away from pain
  • Memories of pain are stored in twice the chemical quantity as pleasurable memories at the cellular level
  • The child works on Feelings and emotions regardless of whether they are real or not they are real to the child
• Congruence or harmony is where the Adult, Parent, and Child are in agreement
  • All information comes into and is screened by the amygdala—the part that directs all sensory data throughout the brain
  • The wiring from the amygdala is shorter to the back of the brain—the child, then the front of the brain—the adults
  • Therefore we react before we think and are then left to explain are actions to ourselves and others
  • As a man/person thinks in his heart (his inner child) so is he
  • Out of the heart (the inner child) the mouth speaks
  • In Romans 7:14-28 Paul describes the conflict between the child and the adult parts of the brain
  • In Romans the 8^th chapter he describes how we have to learn to walk by the Spirit and not be sight
• The insula is the GPS or God Positioning System that fires into the gut
  • Our gut level feelings are up to 70% accurate
  • Decisions made in the brain and not the gut are only on the average 25% accurate
  • We need to learn to trust our gut
  • The insula is more active and developed in people who meditate and pray
• Bottom line: All parts of the brain need to listen to the insula and learn to trust our gut