While the brain is our most complex organ, its main objective is simple to keep us alive and achieve our goals. It does this by helping us breathe, eat, walk, and talk. The basic essentials to our survival, it is geared to search for any dangers in our environment. And primes us to respond quickly. What's more our brain gives us the ability to plan ahead, solve problems, experience emotions, store memories, and communicate with others.

All the things that make us human. Our brain is the control center of our entire body, driving our every thought, feeling, and action. Just how do our brains do this? There are three main regions within the brain that serve a specific function as we interact with our environment. At the base of our brain is the primitive region.

In the middle, the feeling region, and at the front and top of our brain is the thinking region. While these three regions have their own special function, They operate as one connected network to keep us alive and reach our goals. The primitive region of our brain looks after those basic life functions that just happen automatically, like our breathing and heart rate.

It also helps coordinate our basic physical movements such as our balance and posture. More than this, it plays a key role in scanning our environment to search for those things that may threaten our chances of. This helps the instinctual part of our brain kick into action automatically. The middle feeling region of our brain plays a significant part in our emotional and social experiences through life.

This is the part of our brain where emotions and impulses, such as anger. Fear and pleasure come from. It is activated when our primitive region detects a threat in the environment and triggers our fight or flight response. This region drives many of our behaviors and habits and helps us form memories and attach feelings to them, particularly when we experience strong feelings such as fear or.

Lastly, the thinking region is the largest and most highly developed part of the human brain. It stores our memories, allows us to plan, enables us to imagine or analyze a situation, find a solution, and communicate with others. It is the part of the brain where we can take control of decision making and emotion and override our automatic responses from our primitive and feeling.

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