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Tonight what are we talking about? We're talking about the growth choice. What growth actually

means what does it look like? How can we measure it and what are the keys to it?

You're probably all familiar with how important early precognitive experience is the disproportionate impact that infancy experiences have and the development of the brain.

bulk of the synaptic connections of the right brain

are shaped in the first three years of life.

And so the right brain, of course, organizing so much of our emotional responses, our feelings,

our unconscious predilections, is shaped by early emotional interactions

with between ourselves and others who provide care for us.

And these experiences, whether we felt seen, understood people were either responsive or unresponsive to our seeking attention.

These experiences, the patterns, the tens of thousands of interactions of childhood, are stored unconsciously in areas of the right hemisphere, shore suggests in an area called the right

orbital frontal and their story is what some psychologists called schemas,

internal working model. psychologists called these early experiences that were so influential,

internal working models, some people call them parts.

The Buddha called these early experiences

that were so influential informative,

Nama Rupa.

Nama Rupa is the precognitive experiences that shape our perspectives of the world,

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