We are on a half second-time delay — the kind of delay radio stations use to avoid broadcasting words that might violate Federal Communication standards. What we believe is happening this moment happened a half second ago. Our brain made a half-second calculation of what we require for survival and tossed out the other 99 percent of the data. Continue reading
Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Some are born neck-deep in “it”. We are not all born equal, although there are basics for most of us. For example, all newborns have very little activity in the cerebral cortex.
Epigenetics
GLYX-13 Amazing Molecule“The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne sold over nineteen million copies. Want to be driving a Jaguar convertible sports car? According to “The Secret”, all you need to do is picture yourself driving it, parking it in your garage, owning it; believing in all that. You can pretty much get or do anything in life with “the power of attraction.” Continue reading
Jaak Panksepp called the seventh affect system the Play System.
You might not think of PLAY in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, it definitely is. Playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate. Continue reading
Jaak Panksepp discovered that the lower brain seems to be organized in such a way that one primal affective state prevails at any one time. He calls this monomania and it causes the upper thinking neocortex to follow the lower brain and also focus obsessively or ruminate on one thing at a time. And so Panksepp considers a goal of therapy to facilitate taking control of one’s passions by understanding the “low-minded” ways. Continue reading
The brain is built from the bottom up. At the bottom is the reptilian brain and surrounding the top of the brain is the neocortex or as Jack Panksepp would put it, our “thinking cap.” In between is the limbic brain where our primary emotions reside. Affective neuroscience studies how these powerful emotional systems arise from ancient neural networks situated within the limbic brain. Continue reading
“Total Self-Renewal through Attention Therapies and Open Focus” (Sample chapters on Amazon.)
Alternate Title: “Attention Therapies for Total Self-Renewal with 50 Bits–All We Have– Attention”
