Utilizing The Brain State Model To Respond Instead of React To Children's Behaviors

Here's a helpful explanation from Certified Instructor Angela Fraley about the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model that's specifically for parents but can also apply to educators! 🧠 Are you new to the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model? Here's some more information about the three brain states:

🔴 Survival State: In a Survival State, we feel triggered by a threat to our safety. The skills we can access in this state are flight, fight or surrender. We can’t think clearly when a tiger is chasing us. In the modern world, the tiger may be a disrespectful child, but our brain’s evolutionary skill set is the same: fight, flight or surrender.

🔵 Emotional State: An upset Emotional State is triggered by the world not going our way. It limits our ability to see from another’s point of view. This upset, unconscious state keeps us on autopilot, so our words and tone match those of key authority figures from our childhood. We revert to disciplining in the same ways we were disciplined, even if we know these behaviors to be ineffective or hurtful.

🟢 Executive State: The Executive State is the optimal state for problem-solving and learning. As we learn to regulate and integrate our internal state to be one of relaxed alertness, we are able to access our own brilliance. We are empowered to change and make wise choices. An integrated executive state frees us from past conditioning, attunes us to the feelings and experiences of others, enables us to remain focused enough to set and achieve goals, and allows us to consciously respond instead of automatically react to life events.

Watch more of Angela's free webinar, "Wishing You Wellness: Parent Self-Care," here: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-lea...