01/16/2020
Let's talk FEAR vs PANIC/GRIEF with dogs.
***Using Jaak Panksepp's Primary Emotional Systems in Affective Neuroscience****
Plus with what we know with Flight, Fight, Fiddle and Freeze.
https://youtu.be/0feoNniPRk0
What if your reactive or fear aggressive dog is actually in the PANIC/GRIEF Primary Emotional System and asking for help in the moment?
Why do I ask this?
All Primary Emotional Systems are influenced and overlap each other.
SEEKING assesses the situation, finds the dangers and seeks positives to help you LIVE.
RAGE makes you fight to live.
FEAR makes you run away because shouldn't fight it to live.
CARE helps you feel safe and wanted and be social.
LUST h***y
PANIC/GRIEF helps you SEEK others for emotional and physical security.
PLAY means you're social, your brain is learning, automatic rewards, new positive pathways handling stressors easily. Increases cognitive function and you're ability to stay social.
So if your dog can SEEK you for their basic needs, then they are higher on the emotional System scale.
When you start to get nervous, your brain wants up.i to SEEK out help from your trusted source.
Once you feel safer, your brain is going to get rid of most your stress chemicals by crystallizing and releasing through urine.
So what is automatically going to happen when you feel less stressed?
You'll feel better.
Then you can choose to destress your way.
How ever you see fit.
The sooner you meet someone's emotional needs, the further up on the emotional system scale you stay.
That means staying in a social mindset.
That means building upon social connection.
Strengthening bonds with a trusted source.
So I do not believe MOST pet dogs are actually in the FEAR Primary Emotional System.
They are influenced more by the PANIC/GRIEF (panic distress) Primary Emotional System and asking for your help to stop from going lower down the Emotional System scale.
Why?
Our pet dogs pretty much are almost always social and SEEKING us for any need they have at home. At least.
We provide constantly.
So they really rarely feel FEAR in its innate way.
Nor RAGE.
PANIC/GRIEF is the Primary (limbic system, not your critical thinking brain) Emotional System where Panic Distress, your need to (cry out) for security in just about every mammal (birds and crocodiles too) to meet your need for comfort and to feel safe then and there.
If we provide that constantly, then your dog is more likely to use this Primary Emotional System to get your attention to leave.
Hint...
If your dog is leaving quickly without you?
That's FEAR in its primary form.
Nothing matters and they must survive. They don't feel safe.
Scott Stauffer
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Your Bay Area K9 Life Coach
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What if your reactive dog is actually in the PANIC/GRIEF Primary Emotional System and asking for help in the moment? Why do I say this? All Primary Emotional...
