"Differentiated parts become linked together."
“The brain is the social organ of the body.” “The brain is not limited to what is in skull but is the extended nervous system that is the mechanism by which energy and information flows.” “The nervous system is about connecting the inside with the outside.”
“The mind is not just the activity of the brain.” “The mind is in your body and in your relationships.” “Our minds are created by our relationships.” “Relationships are what the brain requires for its healthy growth.”
“Relationships are the sharing of energy and information flows. The mind is the emergent, self-organizing process arising from both our bodies and our relationships.” “The mind is an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.”
“The self is not singular, it is distributed.”
“Mindsight is the way we can focus attention on the nature of the internal world. It’s how we focus awareness on ourselves – our own thoughts and feelings – and how we focus on the internal world of someone else.” “The way we develop mindsight is through our relationships with our parents, initially. Parents reflect to us what they see in our inner world – not just noticing our behaviours – but reflecting back to us our feelings.” “When parents don’t provide clear feedback then the lens of mindsight becomes distorted. We may not be able to see within ourselves or within other people.”
“When we make sense of our own lives we can strengthen our mindsight lens.” “Thoughts have a quality of absolute certainty. When you give people the power to do what the mind really does – which is shift degrees of probability of energy flow – and bring them down to this open space which we call awareness, you actually strengthen the capacity of the mind to not only see things clearly, but to integrate experience. This is the way you stay fully present to another person and also to yourself.”
“Integrative communication in relationships stimulates the growth of integrative fibres in the brain.” “When integration is present harmony unfolds. When integration is impaired you get either chaos or rigidity or both.”
“You can define what a healthy mind is.”
“Health is defined as integration.” “Integration is defined as the linkage of differentiated parts: You allow separate things to become specialized in what they do in a system and then you connect them to each other.” “Differentiated parts become linked together.”
Quotations taken from various video presentations by Dan Siegel.
