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Harvard Medical School was and is at the forefront of the neuroscience revolution,

Within each of us is an inherent drive toward health—a push toward integration. But life happens, and we may sometimes find that integration is blocked. This blockage can come from impairments to linkage, as in unresolved trauma. Blockage can also arise from impairments to differentiation, whether as a fallout from childhood neglect or as a result

When you and your partner are operating out of your new brain, you can help manage and quell some of the emotional responses coming from your old brain.

In Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Dan Siegel describes nine benefits to the brain and nervous system that

Another bottom line: Anything we can do to increase children’s capacity for cognitive control will help them throughout life.

Each one of us has within us those potentialities, those capabilities, those gifts that if shared in unity and respect and kindness and compassion, will transform the world we live in. (Chief Phil Lane, Jr.)

we recognize that this mental event was not the totality of who we are, we gain the reflective distance and the freedom to take responsibility for our actions and feelings.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

If you see chaos and/or rigidity, you know she’s not in a state of integration.