Send us a text

Consider the possibility that your most effective tool for change is a language intrinsic to your experience—sensation. This discussion examines the neurophysics of self, highlighting how the brain leverages sensory input as a messaging system to shape identity, attention, and decision-making processes prior to observable actions. From the initial cue you perceive in an environment to the internal dialogue guiding your choices, subtle signals accumulate and contribute to significant shifts in daily life.

We correlate these internal mechanisms with the physical and social environments you encounter: At home, design elements such as lighting, organization, and acoustics influence your foundational state. In educational settings, learning preferences impact how the brain processes feedback and develops sustained focus. Within communities, environmental cues condition your perceptual filters for awareness and engagement. In professional contexts, workplace norms and scheduling structures can either overwhelm the nervous system or foster productive, stable patterns. Across all these domains, the brain continuously generates experiential fields that inform reflection, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships.

The practical section introduces process learning, emphasizing methods to communicate productively with your brain rather than focusing solely on behavioral responses. Techniques include employing deliberate self-talk to regulate predictive and feedback mechanisms, labeling sensations, setting explicit intentions, and making strategic adjustments to your environment. These evidence-based tools facilitate reliable shifts in mental and physiological states and are immediately applicable to human systems design. They enable individuals to optimize their environments, recognize and update outdated stress responses, and select strategies that align with authentic objectives. For those seeking to transform sensation into clarity and purposeful action, further resources and strategies are available. We encourage sharing this information and providing feedback regarding which context—home, school, neighborhood, or workplace—you intend to redesign first.

Support the show

Education and Science: The Brain's Body, Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events. www.brainsbody.net *Improving Mental Health and Self-Awareness: www.humansystemsscience.com * Brain Talk: Learning the Brain's Body with Dr. Slaton Live. www.drslatonlive.com Also: Dr. Christopher K Slaton: Amazon.com., Barnes&Noble.com * #TheBrainIsTheBody, #ParentLeadership, #ChildDevelopment, braintalk@drslatonlive.com

Send us a text

Support the show

Education and Science: The Brain's Body, Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events. www.brainsbody.net *Improving Mental Health and Self-Awareness: www.humansystemsscience.com * Brain Talk: Learning the Brain's Body with Dr. Slaton Live. www.drslatonlive.com Also: Dr. Christopher K Slaton: Amazon.com., Barnes&Noble.com * #TheBrainIsTheBody, #ParentLeadership, #ChildDevelopment, braintalk@drslatonlive.com

Send us a text

What if your mind had a backstage intercom and the body was always listening? We open that channel and walk through a clear human approach to healing and self-learning—grounded in human systems science and built for the moments that test your composure at home, at work, and in the spaces between. We start by mapping the “science of self,” where brain–body signals shape how we live, learn, think, and respond. You will hear why cooperation with internal processes expands awareness from muscle and mood to neurophysics: how sensory information moves, integrates, and loops through prediction and feedback. From there, we unpack the “physics of self,” the idea that the brain’s eye surveys the whole body, and why that self-visibility can feel uneasy yet unlock real agency. Together we contrast snap environmental reactions with deliberate inner processing, showing how attention, reflection, and insight convert raw signals into wise responses. Guided by eight reasons to embrace brain talk, we translate complex neuroscience into everyday tools. Dr. Christopher K. Slaton introduces practical process skills: read to your brain with clear inputs, write to encode and update memory, draw to compress complex patterns, act with small reliable behaviors that the nervous system trusts, and participate by leading the body while holding a focused thought. Along the way, we explore managing sensory pathways, navigating change, and turning reactivity into resilience through steady loops of sensing, naming, mapping, and training. If you’re seeking a grounded way to understand emotional spikes, somatic signals, and the tug-of-war between urge and choice, this conversation offers a path you can practice today. Listen, try one process skill this week, and tell us what shifted. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs steadier days, and leave a review with the skill you plan to use next.

Your choices feel different from your reactions for a reason. Explore human systems science, the physics of self, and how to manage sensory pathways with practical tools. Hit play, then share: what changed your awareness most?

Support the show

Education and Science: The Brain's Body, Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events. www.brainsbody.net *Improving Mental Health and Self-Awareness: www.humansystemsscience.com * Brain Talk: Learning the Brain's Body with Dr. Slaton Live. www.drslatonlive.com Also: Dr. Christopher K Slaton: Amazon.com., Barnes&Noble.com * #TheBrainIsTheBody, #ParentLeadership, #ChildDevelopment, braintalk@drslatonlive.com