How Survival Mode Stunts Creativity | Dr. Mariel Buqué

It's hard to dream from a place of survival. It's hard to create something beautiful from that place.

When we're in a nervous system response, and that's, you know, survival mode. You're in a chronic nervous system overhaul. Right? So our nervous system is designed to actually make it so that whenever we are in a fight, flight, freeze or fawn, any non essential functions, any non essential, like organ functions, bodily functions, our brain, even like the cortical region of our brain, all of that is mildly shut down. So if you're talking about, like alchemizing and creativity and like, all the things that you want, like, really requires for you to get into your creative mind, and if your cortical brain is not fully functioning, then you're not really going to get to that actualization.