January 12, 2025

“The middle prefrontal cortex—the region that calms the emotionally reactive lower limbic and brainstem layers—stops being able to regulate all the energy being stirred up, and the coordination and balance of the brain is disrupted”

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“they are 1) bodily regulation, 2) attuned communication, 3) emotional balance, 4) response flexibility, 5) fear modulation, 6) empathy, 7) insight, 8) moral awareness, and 9) intuition”

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“The middle prefrontal region coordinates the activity of a part of the nervous system that controls bodily functions such as heart rate, respiration, and digestion”

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“*sympathetic*, which is often compared with a car’s accelerator, and the *parasympathetic*—the brakes”

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“Balancing the two allows us to drive the car of the body smoothly, so that we lift up off the brakes when we press the accelerator, and vice versa. Without such coordination, we can burn out, revving up while trying to slow down.”

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“Our feelings are aroused enough for life to have meaning and vitality, but not so aroused that we feel overwhelmed or out of control.”

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“*Response flexibility* harnesses the power of the middle prefrontal region to put a temporal space between input and action. This ability to pause before responding is an important part of emotional and social intelligence. It”

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“*Empathy* is the capacity to create mindsight images of other people’s minds. These you-maps enable us to sense the”

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“*Insight* allows us to make me-maps enabling us to perceive our own mind.”

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“*Openness* implies that we are receptive to whatever comes to our awareness and don’t cling to preconceived ideas about how things “should” be. We”

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“But with reflection we can observe ourselves with openness and objectivity. We”

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“Before we reconnect with others, we need to be sure we are connected with ourselves. To reconnect with myself, I needed to check in with the essential components of mental life—”

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“The intentional focus of attention is actually a form of self-directed experience: It stimulates new patterns of neural firing to create new synaptic linkages. You may be wondering”

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“By harnessing the power of awareness to strategically stimulate the brain’s firing, mindsight enables us to voluntarily change a firing pattern that was laid down involuntarily”

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“Serotonin helps smooth out anxiety, depression, and mood fluctuations.”

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