Connection Mode
How to Change Your Brain for an Easier Life
Chapter 1 (24 min)
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part 1 Our Nervous System: Features, Nuances, and Hiccups
1 What We May Not Realize
2 Why We Do Not Want to Be Stuck in Protection Mode
3 How Our Nervous System Skews Relationships
4 When Our Brain and Nervous System Haunt Us
5 The Path to Connection Mode
Part 2 The Lower Brain Connection: An Unexpected Possibility
6 How the Lower Brain Came into the Story
7 When the Lower Brain Is Not on People’s Radar
8 In the Meantime
9 Changing the Lower Brain
Part 3 The Nervous System’s Trifecta: Getting Started Right Now
10 Restoring Our Nervous System’s Flexibility: The Basics
11 Fast Ways Back to Connection Mode
12 Repairing the Landscape
13 Replenishing Our Nervous System
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: A Quick Guide to Connection Mode’s Lingo
Appendix B: Our Nervous System at a Glance
Appendix C: The Lower Brain Connection
Appendix D: The Nine Tapping Points
Further Reading