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Andrew Huberman || Optimize Your Brain

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

The Interreception Extereceptive Relationship

The amitla is a tether that tends to bias us towards behaving or not, depending on what's being tethered. So for instance, if if i suddenly see a dark object walk past my window at night, and i'll pause. If it comes closer, and my stress level goes up, then i now am in this high state of vigilance, a k fear. The midula will then essentially, it's not onsible for the relaxation. It's responsible for me changing my behavior in response to that relaxation. In relaxed states, we tend to be very open to new contingencies - mostly because our internal state isn't locked to events around us. When we are in

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