SELF-DEFENSE; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Three Brains

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Rory Miller (or Marc MacYoung or even someone else they quoted) came up with the three brains in an attempt to explain to laymen, like myself, those aspects of our brains that lead us toward conflict and violence. The three brains encompass many aspects and facets of how our brains are formed and how the brain controls how we think, feel and act. They are, “The human (logical brain fairly recent evolutionary creation of nature), the monkey (the emotionally driven egoistic survival-status seeking-emotional-self-centered, etc., oriented brain) and the lizard (the brain part that is more instinctual and connected to when we acted to survive on the plains of the Serengeti being chased by Lions; procedural memory access oriented).

This sub-principle is about learning how the three work, how to make one over another take control and how they affect our behavior, especially when in a conflict and when acting in a violent way. It is about learning to apply certain skills learned through such disciplines as karate and martial arts to wholeheartedly and holistically work all three brains toward a goal of, in this instance, staying within the self-defense square in the event avoidance, deescalation and escape-evasion fail us, requiring the application of force in a violent way. 

It is this training, practice and application of the three that will provide you the data necessary to take one of the more important aspects of the self-defense, defense, through articulation - to the first responder, etc.

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