Heather Berlin
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Once you've trained, the training lives in your neural circuits.
It's what people call muscle memory.
So letting go isn't chaos.
It's actually trusting the control you've already built in.
And once you have, your whole job is to not think about it because when you start to infuse that top-down processing, while it's good in some cases, in those particular cases, it can be detrimental.
And, you know, we've seen that even just with patients with brain damage.
You know, this one patient, he actually had his hippocampus, the part of the brain having to do with long-term memories, was completely damaged.
And so he couldn't even hold consciousness from one minute to the next.
So every minute he felt like, I'm just waking up now.
He said, I'm waking up now.
I'm just waking up now.
And so he was, you know, in an institution.