Your Brain Is a Prediction Machine

Your Brain Is a Prediction Machine

(And It’s Not Always Great at Weather)

If your emotions feel “bigger than the moment,”

you might not be “too sensitive.”
You might just be running an old prediction. 🤖

Here’s the science-y (but friendly) version: your brain is constantly forecasting what’s about to happen, based on two things:

1. What’s happening inside your body (heartbeat, breath, tension, gut sensations)

2. What happened before (memories, patterns, old stress)

So if your body is tense and your mind has a history of “this goes badly,” your brain can basically yell:

“Incoming storm! Take cover!”

......... Even if you’re just… reading a text message.

Where “pain bodies” sneak in 🤔

In Logical Too language: a pain body is like an emotional program that learned, long ago, “This is dangerous.”

It doesn’t care that you’re safe now. It cares that you were not safe then.

And when it activates, it tries to protect you… by hijacking you.

A tiny practice: “Update the Forecast” ☀️

Next time you feel the surge, try this:

1. Say (out loud if you can): “My brain is predicting.”

2. Name 3 body sensations: “tight chest… warm face… clenched jaw.”

3. Ask: “What’s the simplest explanation right now?”

4. Take one slow breath and add: “I can respond in 60 seconds.”

That last line is gold.

You’re telling your system: We don’t have to react to the forecast.

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If this post felt uncomfortably accurate, welcome.

That’s not a bad sign.

That’s awareness turning the lights on.

You are not broken. You’re patterned.
And patterns can be updated.