Creativity Research:
Stanford Researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity — and to stifling it. Click here to read more about how we stifle creativity when using our executive functions (organizing, planning, managing)
How Presence impacts our brain:
Dan Siegel on Interpersonal Connection – speaking from a Medical System Perspective
Dan discusses how Presence impacts healing from a scientific perspective. Daniel Siegel, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA. He says “integration that happens interpersonally stimulates the activity and growth of fibers in the brain that are integrative”. The complex system of the brain coordinates and balances through “differentiate and link”. “Interpersonal integration catalyzes/cultivates neural integration”. “Self Regulation – attention, emotion, affect, mood, thought, physiology, relationships – every aspect we can explore depends on integration in the brain”. (Approx. 30 mins.)
