Welcome to Grade 4

Welcome to Grade 4

Thursday 9 January 2020

MINDup

  MINDUP

Lessons taught this week:

Parts of the Brain and How They Help Us






Preventing False Alarms with our Amygdala

Flipping your lid- reacting before pausing, thinking and responding in a reasonable way.
When our amygdala is active during a false alarm (no danger) it prevents messages going to our prefrontal cortex.  In the coming lessons we will be learning strategies in preventing false alarms.




We actually don't want to get rid of the thoughts and feelings and urges.  We just want them out of the way so they don't prevent us from seeing clearly.