Sublime

We come to know our own minds through our interactions with others. Our mirror neuron perceptions, and the resonance they create, act quickly and often outside of awareness.

Well-being emerges when we create connections in our lives—when we learn to use mindsight to help the brain achieve and maintain integration, a process by which separate elements are linked together into a working whole. I know this may sound both unfamiliar and abstract at first, but

I love the expression of the great French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: “Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.”

is the right hemisphere that has the capacity to distinguish specific examples within a category, rather than categories alone:

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

MWe invites the integrative linkage of connection and the differentiation of individuality.

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

[I]t can make sense to think there exists, inside your brain, a society of different minds. Like members of a family, the different minds can work together to help each other, each still having its own mental experiences that the others never know about.”

Mental activity stimulates brain firing as much as brain firing creates mental activity.