Tag Archives: Affect

Awakening Into Awareness 20 Body Keeps the Score

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Joel

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: the past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert … Continue reading →

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Awakening Unto Awareness 8 PLAYrooms

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Joel

Healing Power of Reading Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 7 PLAY

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Joel

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

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Awakening into Awareness 5 CARE

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Joel

Seeking CARE Most neuroscientists accept the LUST and RAGE brain systems, because both emotions are manifested in animal behavior and because these emotions are patently essential for survival.

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Awakening Into Awareness 4 LUST

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Joel

LUST Lust is perhaps the most complex of the seven primary affects.  It is easy to see that FEAR, for example, is an emotional affect because it produces undeniably robust emotional feelings and it generates actions like freezing and running … Continue reading →

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EFT Tapping

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Joel

EFT Tapping Emotional  Freedom Technique or EFT Tapping is an accupressue no-needle technique to optimize emotional mental health.

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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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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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