Dan Siegel’s webinar “How Mindfulness Can Change the Wiring of Our Brains” which I found by accident in
March 2011, says we can heal from emotional childhood damage. And in his own office, Siegel actually used "neuroplasticity" to re-wire a 92 year old lawyer called “Stewart.”
Stewart was an extreme case of how many Americans live. We live in “head talk” in our frontal cortex, pretty much
in dissociation, out of touch with the emotions in our mammalian limbic brain. Stewart lived entirely in his thinking brain. He said he didn’t know what a "feeling" was. But he was a very successful lawyer.
Emotions? Many Americans think the objective is to get rid of ‘em, just “grow up” and be rational like Spock on Star Trek. “Too many Americans are spurred to achieve (at work, in academia, etc.) rather than to attach (to other human mammals)," warn three top psychiatrists in “A General Theory of Love.” We’ve been taught our performance is our identity, so we over-perform, thinking non-stop.
Dan Siegel says that emotions in fact are sanity and mental health, according to the latest neuroscience
Read more: http://attachmentdisorderhealing.com/Daniel-Siegel-4/
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