In my last section on parenting kids, seriously, I explained the left and right brain. Now I will explain the upstairs and downstairs brain.
The downstairs brain controls: emotions, bodily sensations and actions i.e., anger, breathing, blinking, fear, fight or flight
The upstairs brain controls: thinking, planning, imagining, processing, self understanding, control over your body, morals
The brain works best when it is balanced – or ‘integrated’. To vertically integrate the two, we want to work from bottom to top. We want to be able to take the natural, nature instincts from the bottom, and evaluate and control them with the upstairs brain; To think about our emotions and physical feelings from the downstairs and make the right decisions with the upstairs.
With in mind, there are two type of tantrums: upstairs brain tantrums and down stairs brain tantrums. But remember, its not just kids who have tantrums – adults flip their lid too.
Learn more about how these two types of episodes vary inside your brain, and how best to handle them, on my page!
When we handle our own and our kid’s emotions, feelings and actions correctly, we help curb future meantal health struggles and increase emotional intelligence.
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