Monthly Archives: July 2019

Anti-Bullying

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Joel

Anti-bullying Play Anti-bullying is a lesson that can be learned from play. Jaak Panksepp found play dominance emerges when two rats are allowed to play together repeatedly. One rat tends to become “the winner,” meaning it ends up on top … Continue reading →

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Attention Therapies through Affective Neuroscience

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies reach places in the mind and body where words cannot go. Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us. Attention Therapies and Affective Neuroscience combine to form a comprehensive self-therapy. But … Continue reading →

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Functions of Play

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Joel

You might not think of Play in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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Comorbidity R Us

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity Comorbidity invokes scary images for me. Maybe it is because I taught high school English and broke complex words by their root, prefix, and suffix. Morbid (Oxford English Dictionary)  is from classical Latin morbidus; diseased, sick, causing disease, unhealthy < morbus … Continue reading →

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Caring

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Joel

SEEKING (expectancy) RAGE (anger) FEAR (anxiety) LUST (sexual excitement) CARE (nurturance) PANIC/GRIEF (sadness) PLAY (social joy) CARing We can counter virtually all mass violence with CARing. That sounds so easy. But it means warm and loving care from birth on. That does not seem so hard. But … Continue reading →

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Priming the Pumpers

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Joel

Embodied Cognition Embodied Cognition describes the interrelationship between mind affecting body and body affecting the mind. It has a lot to do with our tendency to think in metaphors, best illustrated by priming.

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