and so I began … this study …
my name is denise Ingebo … I’m an independent theorist in neuroscience, the study of NS … at lay level … and
I formally began studying neuroscience, academically, when admitted in the Univ. of Oregon, Clark Honors College
in the Independent Study Program, in Eugene … and I continued independently … until after a number of years
… I published a book, a draft, called … The Conscious Stream: Review Edition … with Universal Publishers
since then … now that the model is more fully developed … a new edition of this book … is in the works …
in fact, the first 8 episodes of this radio program … match the first 8 chapters … of the new edition …
so, if you like challenges … or new ideas … and … are interested … in checking out … a new physical model …
that explains how the NS … forms our conscious experience … instant by instant … and especially if you believe
our emotional … or mental health … is as important … as any other part of our health …
I’d like to invite you … to consider this new model … (showing … how the NS works at the lay level )
to see if it resonates with the truth, as you know it … and to see if you can recognize … how we can use it …
to support and improve … this part of our health …
now, this is a simplified model of how the nervous system works … at the lay level …
we now have these kinds of lay level models for how some of the body’s other systems work
but until now, we haven’t had one for the NS … that we can actually relate simplified activity in the system …
to what we experience … the series of sensations, thoughts & feelings, which is insight we can use to keep …
the feelings that come up in consciousness … in balance …
so, this model is described in the same kind of every day … lay-level language doctors & teachers use …
to give us insight … into how other parts of our body … work … in terms we can relate to …
so, for ex., instead of needing to know all the chemical elements of the digestive system … and how they work together
their chemistry & interactions, we just need to be familiar with the vitamins, minerals & categories of food groups
that keep the body nourished … food categories like carbs, fats & proteins … that we can relate to particular food
and with this insight on how this system stays in balance, when we experience a certain symptom, like scurvy, we can take Vitamin C to restore our health or we can practice a balanced diet that maintains nutritional balance, in the 1st place
Q: why would we need a lay-level model of how the nervous system works?
A: we already have lay-level models on how some of the body’s systems work — and they help us relate and adjust what we’re familiar with about the system, to the terms of its good functioning — to keep it in balance, for example, when we are familiar with the kinds of foods that make up a balanced diet, we can keep them in our diet, to balanced nutrition. In the nervous system, when we know how the subtle patterns of muscle tension we call “feelings” are formed and released to form a reversal of tension we experience as emotional balance, we can do what it takes to support this balance