There's this interesting stage of development the Buddha calls Nama Rupa, which is early in our development

before we have our

clings and cings and cravings and

and Nama Rupa essentially is considered to be the stage where we have

personality development Nama being all of the psychological core traits and

Rupa being the physical traits the way we hold our bodies, the way we move, etc.

And to explain what is the how Namarupa is formed, if you're a religious Buddhist you will likely say that Nama Rupa is a sort of

of wrote personality that comes from a previous life into your present life.

I'm not a religious Buddhist, I'm a secular Buddhist and I don't particularly include

rebirth and my understanding of the traits that are passed from one set of family lineage your parents to you.

I actually, in my heretical ways tend to think of Nama Rupa as those events, those important psychological experiences that happen in the first two years of life, that

due to the way human beings develop are after about age four, completely forgotten, completely lost, but their influences remain because they're stored in the unconscious parts of the brain.

This is actually easier to understand than it sounds.

When we are in our personal use of life, we connect with people entirely through nonverbal means,

essentially through movements and emotions, facial expressions, tears, tears, gestures, etc.

That's how the baby connects with the parent.

And during those early years,

almost all of the interactions are governed

by your right hemisphere. Your left hemisphere doesn't actually come online until it really doesn't start dominating consciousness for

for several years later,

and it's because of that great migration of consciousness

from right to left

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