Brain's Body Podcast: Help to Improve Mental, Physical, and Emotional Healing Through Self-Learning

Dr. Christopher K. Slaton
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Hosted by Dr. Christopher K. Slaton. The Brain’s Body Podcast responds to the hidden physical, mental, and emotional causes of growing up hurt by major life events in home, school, neighborhood, and workplace networks that affect the way you live, learn, think, and respond. That sets up the goal of the Brain’s Body Podcast, to discuss the needs of children, parents, teachers, and health and human service professionals using human systems science. Human systems science is the study of brain, body, and sense events. This is help, to explain the natural process flow for the experience of mental, physical, and emotional health. The brain is the body. The Brain’s Body is a Learning System. This is process learning. Dr. Christopher K. Slaton is an author who talks to the brain, not the body. Learn why a sense of feel for self and the brain in the lead of the body is a necessary experience. With more than 30 years of experience studying the home, school, neighborhood, and workplace networks of children, parents, teachers, and health and human service professionals he explains how you help to improve sense and receive path functions. As you are learning how to help move energy, action, and feelings through your sense and receive path functions, you study ways to manage and control the flow through a sense, feel, and focus process cycle. This is level one of the Brain’s Body Learning System.Dr. Slaton Live discusses the infrastructure for personal, academic, social, and occupational success through the way you may choose to live in a home; learn in a school; think in a neighborhood; and respond in a workplace as test sites of the Brain’s Body Learning System. Help restore your sense and receive path functions. You want to master how you learn to live in a home; to help you master how you learn to learn in a school; to help you master how you learn to think in a neighborhood; to help you master how you learn to respond in a workplace. In other words, at level one: you may learn how to lead a family; how to apply your education; how to participate in government; and how to develop your business through the Brain’s Body Learning System. Dr. Christopher K. Slaton is the author of Education and Science: The Brain's Body, Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events.

  1. 3D AGO

    Brain, Body, And The Quiet In Between

    Send us a text Thought can feel like a spark, but it starts as contact: breath against ribs, feet on the floor, a memory touching a feeling. We explore how the brain and body trade signals to convert raw sensation into clear meaning, and how that loop—sensing, focusing, interpreting, and reflecting—turns confusion into insight. By tracing the rotations between physical and neural states, we show why emotional regulation and thoughtful action are not opposites but partners in a single, living system. We walk through three core insights from human systems science. First, sensing is the gateway to understanding both inner cues and outer context. When we focus on nervous system responses—muscle tone, breath rhythm, visual orientation—we can see how the mind scans for connection and steadies the flow of feeling into thought. Second, imagination is a learning engine that moves us from memory and emotion into thought and reflection, creating safe space to test patterns, redirect energy, and practice change without overwhelm. Third, active cooperation inside the self—listening to signals, pacing actions, naming what we notice—turns internal conflict into guidance rather than noise. Along the way, we offer a useful frame: the body produces noise, the brain shapes sound, and the senses translate between them. When those sense-and-receive pathways get tangled, insight stalls. Balance returns by sequencing transitions—memory to emotion, emotion to thought, thought to reflection—so each step has time to inform the next. If you’ve ever felt stuck in rumination or hijacked by urgency, this lens gives you practical handles to slow down, tune in, and move forward with clarity. Ready to keep exploring the brain–body conversation and the evolving crisis of self? Subscribe to Brain’s Body, share this episode with someone who thinks deeply, and leave a review telling us where you feel the shift first—heart, gut, or head. 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

    5 min

  2. JAN 23

    The Power of Brain Thinking: Intentional Reflection for Growth

    Send us a text Moving Beyond Habitual Behavior This episode of the Brain’s Body Podcast explores how intentional, reflective thinking—referred to as “Brain Thinking”—can drive meaningful personal growth and improve performance, both in sports and everyday life. Instead of remaining stuck in reactive, habitual patterns, the podcast emphasizes the importance of embracing change and making conscious choices that foster progress. Learning from Experience For example, after missing a shot in basketball, a player who engages in brain thinking reviews their technique and makes deliberate adjustments to improve, rather than repeating the same action and expecting a different result. This approach highlights the value of self-reflection and adaptation as pathways to success. Breaking Through Plateaus The story of swimmer Mia further illustrates this point. When Mia reached a plateau and her performance stopped improving despite consistent practice, she chose to break out of her routine. By analyzing her strokes and consciously adjusting her technique, Mia overcame her stagnation, regained confidence, and experienced renewed progress. Central Message The central message of the episode encourages listeners to reflect on their experiences, adapt their approaches, and intentionally pursue growth. This mindset is presented as key to achieving greater success, not only in athletic endeavors but also in everyday life. 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

    4 min

  3. JAN 1

    Brain Leads, Body Follows, and Mood States Undergo Change

    Send us a text This podcast explores the dynamic relationship between the brain and body, challenging the common habit of interpreting mood through physical cues alone. It introduces the “brain talk” method, which emphasizes using neural feedback loops and reflective storytelling to translate bodily sensations and emotions into clear, actionable insights. By learning to lead with the brain—labeling states, connecting feelings to memory, and choosing purposeful actions—the approach fosters discipline, calm, and deeper self-understanding. Practical steps and recognition of the brain’s driving role help individuals move from overwhelm to clarity, turning pain into meaningful growth. The conversation opens with a clear challenge: most of us read bodies before we listen to brains. We scan faces, posture, and tone for mood, then decide what must be true about a person. Yet that habit blurs the deeper signal underneath. The brain stores memory, links it to emotion, and generates the inner voice we use to make sense of experience. When our attention stays on the surface, we miss the neural story that explains what the body expresses. This episode reframes that gap as a method: brain talk. Instead of asking what the body shows, we ask what the brain is trying to lead, connect, and resolve.  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

    8 min

  4. 12/15/2025

    Neurophysics Of Self

    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

    2 min

  5. 11/25/2025

    Healing The Hurt Child Within

    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

    8 min

  6. 11/19/2025

    A Comprehensive Guide to Human Systems Science and Autonomous Learning

    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

    7 min

  7. 11/14/2025

    How Human Systems Science Shapes Mental Health and Self-Awareness

    Send us a text Human Systems Science in the Best Interest of the Child's Mental Health and Self-Awareness. Available NOW! https://www.humansystemsscience.com  Human System Science emphasizes that our senses form the foundation of our identity, acting as the entry point for signals that shape emotion, thought, and self-awareness. By distinguishing between how the body reacts to external cues (the physics of self) and how the brain organizes and interprets them (the neurophysics of self), we can map out two central regulatory pathways: the sense path and the receive path. Effective self-awareness arises when the brain and body communicate smoothly. The brain uses attention and perception to guide the body, while the body sends back signals—such as breath, heart rate, and muscle tone—that require interpretation. When these exchanges synchronize, individuals, especially children, become better at identifying emotions, making choices, and recovering from stress. However, if these pathways become misaligned, sensations may overwhelm thought, or thinking may race ahead of the body's signals, impacting mental well-being. Human System Science offers practical strategies to support mental health by improving this brain–body communication. Predictable routines and sensory breaks help stabilize the body, while simple scripts and focused goals clarify the brain’s role. Micro-resets keep behavior on track, teaching that emotions are signals to interpret—not obstacles to avoid. Through reflective storytelling, vague feelings can be translated into actionable steps, fostering greater self-understanding and emotional management. Ultimately, this approach helps children and adults develop a sense of agency: recognizing that managing emotional states is a skill, not a matter of luck. By coordinating the sense and receive paths, individuals build a clearer narrative of self, leading to improved mental health and more resilient self-awareness. If this lens helps you see your own patterns—or a child’s—with more clarity, share the episode, leave a quick review, and subscribe so you don’t miss future deep dives into the brain–body connection. 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

    4 min

  8. 11/05/2025

    The Neural and Physical Rotations of Self: Brain Talk

    Send us a text What if the mind is not floating above the body but built by environmental influences, trained through countless moments of sensation, movement, and meaning? We open the door to “brain talk,” the ongoing dialogue between memory, emotion, and sensory input that shapes a lived sense of self. Rather than treating thoughts as disembodied, we follow the route from raw signals to experience—the neurophysics of the self—and show how trained states become what most of us call the mind.    From there, we get practical. We outline a simple framework that helps kids develop three foundational skills: sense, feel, and focus. At home, predictable routines, playful contact, and calm repair teach a child’s nervous system how to settle and re-engage. In the classroom, cooperation, shared goals, and structured feedback turn attention into belonging and effort into mastery. Out in the neighborhood, community activities add healthy unpredictability, letting kids practice timing, communication, and recovery under light pressure—the same adaptations they will need in future workplaces.    Along the way, we challenge old splits between body and mind and offer a grounded view of mental health as a trainable set of patterns. If you are a parent, teacher, or caregiver, you’ll hear concrete ways to help a child map internal states to real-world action. If you are simply curious about how experience becomes identity, you’ll get a fresh language for what your brain and body are already doing: translating sensation into self, moment by moment. If this resonated, follow the show, share it with someone who cares about child development, and leave a quick review to help others find these ideas. 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

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Hosted by Dr. Christopher K. Slaton. The Brain’s Body Podcast responds to the hidden physical, mental, and emotional causes of growing up hurt by major life events in home, school, neighborhood, and workplace networks that affect the way you live, learn, think, and respond. That sets up the goal of the Brain’s Body Podcast, to discuss the needs of children, parents, teachers, and health and human service professionals using human systems science. Human systems science is the study of brain, body, and sense events. This is help, to explain the natural process flow for the experience of mental, physical, and emotional health. The brain is the body. The Brain’s Body is a Learning System. This is process learning. Dr. Christopher K. Slaton is an author who talks to the brain, not the body. Learn why a sense of feel for self and the brain in the lead of the body is a necessary experience. With more than 30 years of experience studying the home, school, neighborhood, and workplace networks of children, parents, teachers, and health and human service professionals he explains how you help to improve sense and receive path functions. As you are learning how to help move energy, action, and feelings through your sense and receive path functions, you study ways to manage and control the flow through a sense, feel, and focus process cycle. This is level one of the Brain’s Body Learning System.Dr. Slaton Live discusses the infrastructure for personal, academic, social, and occupational success through the way you may choose to live in a home; learn in a school; think in a neighborhood; and respond in a workplace as test sites of the Brain’s Body Learning System. Help restore your sense and receive path functions. You want to master how you learn to live in a home; to help you master how you learn to learn in a school; to help you master how you learn to think in a neighborhood; to help you master how you learn to respond in a workplace. In other words, at level one: you may learn how to lead a family; how to apply your education; how to participate in government; and how to develop your business through the Brain’s Body Learning System. Dr. Christopher K. Slaton is the author of Education and Science: The Brain's Body, Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events.

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