When I introduced the concept of the Reptile Brain to the martial arts community many years ago, many were enthralled, many were sceptical. Once upon a time, the mention of the ‘reptile brain’ would bring tumultuous laughter from most of the scientific community. Nowadays however, it is a different matter with this area of the brain now being recognized by the wider scientific community. It even has an area of the whole brain allocated to it. The reptile brain is actually the ‘brain stem’ that area of the base of the skull that holds so much significance to we in the internal martial arts.
To break it down into its individual components we also see that they are widely used in sensory stuff.
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