Quotes About Brain

Your anger—along with other strong emotions and bodily functions and instincts—springs from your downstairs brain.

As we join in this moment in the physical realm—making appointments to be in the same space at a given interval of the clock—our nervous systems align their firing patterns as two sets of electrochemical entities phase shift

while the downstairs brain is well developed even at birth, the upstairs brain isn't fully mature until a person reaches his mid-twenties.

The upstairs brain remains under massive construction for the first few years of life, then during the teen years undergoes an extensive remodel that lasts into adulthood.

The amygdala's job is to quickly process and express emotions, especially anger and fear.

The problem, though, is that especially in children, the amygdala frequently fires up and blocks the stairway connecting the upstairs and downstairs brain.

When we teach mindsight, we take moments of conflict and transform them into opportunities for learning, skill building, and brain development

not only is the upstairs brain under construction, but even the part of it that can function becomes inaccessible during moments of high emotion or stress.

So does that give them a get-out-of-jail-free card ("Sorry, Mom, that I squirted our new puppy's face with Windex. I guess my upstairs brain wasn't fully engaged")? Hardly. In fact, it actually gives us parents even more incentive to see that our kids develop the faculties that result in appropriate behavior.

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!

As we'll explain in the coming chapters, these everyday parenting challenges result from a lack of integration within your child's brain. The

The drive to understand why things happen to us is so strong that the brain will continue to try making sense of an experience until it succeeds. As parents, we can help this process along through storytelling.

Conforme los niños se desarrollan, sus cerebros «reflejan» el cerebro de sus padres.

upset, logic often won't work until we have responded to the right brain's emotional needs.

integrar y cultivar tu propio cerebro es uno de los regalos más afectuosos y generosos que puedes ofrecer a tus hijos.

El ejercicio aeróbico no sólo es beneficioso para los sistemas cardiovascular y músculo-esquelético, sino también para el sistema nervioso. Aprendemos con más eficacia cuando estamos activos físicamente.

Instead, by telling the story with Marco, Marianna helped focus his attention both on the actual details of the accident and on his emotions, which allowed him to use both the left and right sides of his brain together, literally strengthening their connection.

Los cambios cerebrales que se dan durante los primeros años de la juventud establecen durante la adolescencia cuatro cualidades en nuestra mente: búsqueda de novedades, implicación social, aumento de la intensidad emocional y experimentación creativa.

In terms of development, very young children are right-hemisphere dominant, especially during their first three years.

Self-regulation appears to depend upon neural integration.

like sound decision making, control of their emotions and bodies, empathy, self-understanding, and morality—are dependent on a part of their brain that hasn't fully developed yet. Since

del cerebro, sabemos que el hijo de Tina experimentaba grandes oleadas de emociones del cerebro derecho sin el equilibrio lógico proporcionado por el cerebro izquierdo. En un momento así, una de las respuestas menos eficaces que podía dar Tina era ponerse directamente a la defensiva («¡Claro que te hago cosas bonitas!») o

fin y al cabo, el cerebro izquierdo lógico del niño estaba en ese momento totalmente inactivo. Por consiguiente, si Tina hubiese respondido con el izquierdo, su hijo habría sentido que ella no lo entendía o que no le importaba lo que sentía. Se hallaba inmerso en un aluvión emocional, no racional, del cerebro derecho, y una

Una paternidad basada en el cerebro pleno nos permite ir más allá de la simple supervivencia.