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What they found instead, to their initial chagrin, was that our prefrontal cortices almost always slow down and grow quieter when we interact with others.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
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The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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Creative people are particularly good at exercising flexibility in activating and deactivating these brain networks that in most people tend to be at odds with each other. In doing so, they’re able to juggle seemingly contradictory modes of thought—cognitive and emotional, deliberate, and spontaneous.43 Even on a neurological level, creativity is m
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the main point of hemisphere difference, division versus cohesion.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
Numerous studies show that once we become attached to someone, the two of us form one physiological unit. Our partner regulates our blood pressure, our heart rate, our breathing, and the levels of hormones in our blood. We are no longer separate entities. The emphasis on differentiation that is held by most of today’s popular psychology approaches
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