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Quotes About Integration

Making sense of a past that made no sense is opening to the sensations of the past and putting them together now to see how they impacted you then, and how you can free yourself to live the life you want now. That's why making sense makes so much integrative sense. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we understand the way it has impacted us and how we liberate ourselves in the present to free ourselves for the future.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
We want to help our children become better integrated so they can use their whole brain in a coordinated way. For example, we want them to be horizontally integrated, so that their left-brain logic can work well with their right-brain emotion. We also want them to be vertically integrated, so that the physically higher parts of their brain, which let them thoughtfully consider their actions, work well with the lower parts, which are more concerned with instinct, gut reactions, and survival. The
~ Daniel J. Siegel
between the two. Harmony emerges from integration. Chaos and rigidity arise when integration is blocked.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Rather than trying to shelter our children from life's inevitable difficulties, we can help them integrate those experiences into their understanding of the world and learn from them. How our kids make sense of their young lives is not only about what happens to them but also about how their parents, teachers, and other caregivers respond.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Feelings are not a side component of a life well lived; they are essential ways we live as a whole, embodied being.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
But when we integrate those embedded experiences into our present consciousness and recognize them as implicit memories—not valid intuitions or reasoned decisions—then we begin to offer ourselves the means to become awakened and active authors of our own life story.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Serenity, courage, and wisdom are at the heart of temporal integration.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Using only the right or left brain would be like trying to swim using only one arm.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
As I've mentioned, research has revealed that people with dismissing narratives show physiological signs that their subcortical limbic and brainstem areas still register the importance of relationships. It's simply that the higher cortical areas, where consciousness is created, shut out this awareness in order to survive barren times. The key would be to align myself with these deeper subterranean circuits and bolster Denise's ability to integrate them into her life.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
When such resonance is enacted with positive regard, a deep feeling of coherence emerges with the subjective sensation of harmony. When
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Integrar el yo y el otro · Equipados para un «nosotros»: Busca maneras de sacar partido a la aptitud innata del cerebro para la interacción social. Crea modelos mentales positivos de relaciones. · Lo que puedes hacer:
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Para llevar una vida equilibrada, valiosa y creativa, llena de relaciones personales bien conectadas, es crucial que nuestros dos hemisferios actúen conjuntamente.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Once she had connected with him right brain to right brain, it was much easier to connect left to left and deal with the issues in a rational manner. By first connecting with his right brain, she could then redirect with the left brain through logical explanation and planning, which required that his left hemisphere join the conversation.
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la conciencia se fragmenta y eso da lugar a la experiencia de una mente disociada con problemas para regular la emoción, tratar con otras personas, manejar la frustración y simplemente avanzar en la vida de una manera coherente.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
One of the best ways to promote this type of integration is to help retell the story of the frightening or painful experience.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
A medida que los padres adquieren mayor conciencia y son cada vez más sanos emocionalmente, sus hijos cosechan los frutos y también ellos avanzan hacia la salud. Eso significa que integrar y cultivar tu propio cerebro es uno de los regalos más afectuosos y generosos que puedes ofrecer a tus hijos.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Time-in and the mindful awareness and presence it creates will enable your brain to literally grow more integrative fibers that create your ability to regulate emotions, attention, thinking, and behavior, and your sense of well-being and connections to others will be optimized. If carefully conducted scientific studies did not reveal this, I myself would look at this list and say, "That is too good to be true!
~ Daniel J. Siegel
As we'll explain in the coming chapters, these everyday parenting challenges result from a lack of integration within your child's brain. The
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Integrative communication (App):When individuals are honored for their differences and become linked through respectful and compassionate communication.
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upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs.
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As a result, she stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that someone else might be just as talented. You can guide her back into the flow of well-being so that she can achieve better balance within herself and move into a more integrated state.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Integration in this way is not the same as blending or making all the same and homogenous. Integration has the essential feature of retaining the differences and establishing connections that don't obliterate those differences.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Self-regulation appears to depend upon neural integration.
~ Daniel J. Siegel