You can’t think your way out of this.

The Nervous System Learns Through Experience, Not Explanation

From a biological standpoint, your nervous system is ancient. Much older than language. Much older than insight. It evolved to keep you alive in environments where thinking too long meant getting eaten.

The nervous system learns through:

• Repetition

• Sensation

• Timing

• Rhythm

• Co-regulation

It does not learn through insight alone.

You cannot talk your way out of a startle reflex.
You cannot reason with your amygdala.
You cannot convince your body that the fire is not real while it smells smoke.

When the nervous system perceives threat, it mobilizes or shuts down automatically. Fight. Flight. Freeze. Collapse. Fawn. These are not choices. They are reflexes.

Insight can tell you why the reflex exists.

Only experience can teach the system that the threat has passed.