56 Affect Regulation: How Mindfulness Can Help Integrate (Heal) Your Brain
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Trauma impairs integration in the brain. When you experience trauma, the neural circuits in various regions of your brain do not make enough connections with one another. Here’s the good news: there is something you can do to promote integration in your brain. In the book Aware, Dan Siegel shares a mindfulness practice that he developed called The Wheel of Awareness. The Wheel of Awareness helps people to integrate the various regions of their brain. And integration leads to emotional stability, which is to say affect regulation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I am going to just dive right in |
| 0:09.2 | Here's the opening premise of today's episode |
| 0:13.6 | trauma |
| 0:14.8 | Impairs |
| 0:16.7 | Integrative functioning in the brain |
| 0:20.3 | Neuroscience has demonstrated that what happens in your developing brain when you're a kid and you experience trauma or abuse |
| 0:28.1 | is that your brain's natural process of integrating |
| 0:33.9 | gets blocked |
| 0:35.8 | Now, what does that mean? |
| 0:37.8 | It means that when you experience trauma or abuse the neurons in certain regions of your brain are |
| 0:47.0 | Prevented from linking up with and connecting well enough with the neurons in other regions of your brain |
| 0:55.2 | Integration refers to the connection between neurons in different parts of your brain |
| 1:02.6 | Trauma impairs |
| 1:05.2 | Integration in the brain it blocks it in other words when you experience trauma |
| 1:11.2 | The various regions of your brain do not make enough neural connections with one another |
| 1:17.6 | More specifically your |
| 1:19.6 | medial prefrontal cortex and your orbital prefrontal cortex do not develop thick |
| 1:26.4 | Neuronal connections with your limbic system |
| 1:29.7 | Why is integration important? What's the big deal with neurons in one part of your brain linking up with neurons in another part of your brain? |
| 1:39.7 | Integration is such a big deal because when neurons are well connected |
| 1:45.3 | Your brain is more stable and |
| 1:49.7 | When you hear the words stable, I hope you are thinking about affect regulation |
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