Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences..

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially se….

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experienc….

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life storie….

We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead t….

Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familia….

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like..

Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and cr….

We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221).

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Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal d….

The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the million….

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with th….

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus ….

From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our ….

Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book….

Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relation….

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will….

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short..

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other..

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves.