Margot!!
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THIS is so interesting. I hope is interesting to this community too.
Our Brain looks for pain, if the nervous system is aroused at all, the brain assumes the pain is still present. It predicts it based on the state of our nervous system!
The flow state helps to reset the nervous system and when you approach a topic instead of avoiding, your brain interprets nervous system arousal as a call to action. When you avoid a topic your brain interprets that as danger and the amygdala fires up (fight flight or freeze).
This is just a snapshot of what was interesting to me AND if someone has a different interpretation let's talk about it!
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability
Steven Kotler1, Michael Mannino1,2*, Glenn Fox3 and Karl Friston41Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, 2Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, United States, 3University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4University College London, London, United Kingdom
You can read it here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2026.1812957/full (Frontiers | The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability)
Our Brain looks for pain, if the nervous system is aroused at all, the brain assumes the pain is still present. It predicts it based on the state of our nervous system!
The flow state helps to reset the nervous system and when you approach a topic instead of avoiding, your brain interprets nervous system arousal as a call to action. When you avoid a topic your brain interprets that as danger and the amygdala fires up (fight flight or freeze).
This is just a snapshot of what was interesting to me AND if someone has a different interpretation let's talk about it!
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability
Steven Kotler1, Michael Mannino1,2*, Glenn Fox3 and Karl Friston41Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, 2Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, United States, 3University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4University College London, London, United Kingdom
You can read it here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2026.1812957/full (Frontiers | The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability)
