PEYTON QUINN
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Peyton Quinn
Peyton Quinn revolutionized the martial arts world with the publication of A Bouncer's Guide to Barroom Brawling in 1990, which outlined how to recognize and avoid trouble before it starts, how to manage adrenal stress in intense verbal and physical confrontations, the real nature of predatory people, and related topics. He recently applied these barroom-altercation principles to a broad range of typical life scenarios in his new book Freedom from Fear. A brief description of the book from his Web site www.rmcat.com
Peyton Quinn provides practical ways to handle stress, whether it is an office conflict or a life and death struggle. By reading Freedom From Fear, you will better understand our innate, ancient biochemical "fight or flight" mechanism. You will learn the psychology of handling difficult bosses, harassing co-workers, and even street thugs. The book will show you the root of most human conflict and miscommunication. "You can be assertive in any type of negotiation without being aggressive or insubordinate. By understanding communications, you will be more effective in the business world, on the street, in the home, or even in your quest for romance and love." Peyton is an articulate and interesting character. He lives in Lake George, Colorado, so it wouldn't be difficult for him to get to Aspen.
TOPIC: Adrenal stress conditioning.
Experiences that occur under an adrenal stress conditions are stored differently in the brain than things experienced or learned under non-adrenal conditions. Adrenal memories are in some way connected to the “frog brain” which is more directly associated with gross motor skills. This is why you automatically stomp on the non-existent brake pedal on the passenger side of the car, without super conscious thought, when teaching your kid to drive!
The significance of this is that in our everyday lives we are exposed to some adrenal conditioning in any human conflict, be it at the office or on the street.
In fact, anywhere and anytime we engage any level of the adrenal complex discharge into our bloodstream some level of pre-conscious behavioral conditioning occurs. The result is that we can be unconsciously conditioned to give “knee jerk” response behaviors to other people's actions or words and in other situations that elicit that previously conditioned adrenal cue.
This conditioning and its resulting response behaviors occur at the sub-conscious level.
Hence, we are often not immediately aware of some of our counter productive and even irrational behaviors that we automatically engage in under stress. Once this process is experienced and understood in the light of the conscious mind, then we have the power to modify or re-direct this innate “fight or flight” mechanism to elicit more productive and rational responses to fear and stress.
