The Synaptic Nervous System

We're switched between these three states by unconscious automatic processes which are well below the level of consciousness. This is not the brain making a cognitive choice. What switches us from calm to anxious and threat detect to shut down? It's associative regions of the amygdala, the hypothalamus the doula your brain stem,. Response is stimuli we are not aware of in the background while we're thinking our thoughts engaged in our day to day life.