Those Rascal Feelings &  Values
  • OVERVIEW: FRF
    • FRF: CHPT ONE
  • OVERVIEW: CLINICAL
    • TOC 1-12 >
      • CHPT 1 Welcome To Many From Many >
        • CHPT 1 Vault
      • CHPT 2 Aunt Sarah Shares >
        • CHPT 2 VAULT
      • CHPT 3 Lessons for Lisa >
        • Vault 3 Lessons for Lisa
      • CHPT 4 An Angry World >
        • Vault Four: Angry World
      • CHPT 5 Damn & Hot Damn >
        • Vault 5 Damn & Hot Damn
      • CHPT 6 Brain Bishop & Being >
        • Vault 6 The Bishop, The Brain & Being
      • CHPT 7 Little Steps >
        • Vault 7 Little Steps Go a Long Ways
      • CHPT 8 Conflict Moves You >
        • Vault 8. Conflict Moves; Conflicts Are.
      • CHPT 9 Valuing Values >
        • VAULT 9 Valuing Values
      • CHPT 10 John Deere Caper >
        • VAULT 10 John Deere Family Snafu
      • CHPT 11 Nothing is Here. >
        • VAULT # 11 Nothing is here.
      • CHPT 1 2 Antithesis for Nothing >
        • VAULT 12: Anathesisis for Nothing
    • TOC 13-25 >
      • Chpt 13: Choc. Chip Caper >
        • Vault 13 The Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper
      • Chpt 14: Couples / Pairs >
        • Vault 14 Couples Come in Pairs
      • CHPT 15 Plus & More >
        • Vault 15 Strengths in Action
      • Chpt: 16: Action Truisms >
        • Vault 16 Raportee With Nadi: Truisms in Action
      • Chapter 17 We all Hurt >
        • Vault 17 We all Hurt
      • CHPT 18 Parents Lead, + >
        • VAULT 18 PARENTS LEAD
      • CHPT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS >
        • VAULT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS
      • CHPT 20 Out & In: >
        • VAULT 20 Out & In:
      • CHPT 21 Where is Papa? >
        • VAULT 21 Where is Papa?
      • CHPT 22 Who Knows Bill? >
        • VAULT 22 Who Knows Bill?
      • Chpt: 23: Millenials >
        • Vault 23: Millential-Baby Boomers Clash
      • CHPT 24 Ending / Beginnings >
        • Vault 24 Endings/Beginnings
      • CHPT 25. Q's & A's >
        • Q & A Overview One
        • Q & A Overview Two
        • Q & A Overview Feelings
        • Q & A Overview Values
        • Q & A Overview Relationships
        • Q & A Overview Politics
        • Q & A Overview Parenting
        • Q & A's Reading Lists
      • FOR POTENTIAL EDITOR/READERS
      • Getting Outside Help

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Some Definitions from the Neurosciences

Tunnels and Plasticity

Some people have a majority of positive life experiences and a corresponding

number of positive emotions and some people have a lot of early negative life

experiences and negative emotions. In each human’s brain, emotional tunnels

develop for both types of emotion. The tunnel that is used more often becomes the

dominate tunnel. Later on in life, just before discharge of an emotional based

discharge, the brain’s structures seek dominant tunnels into where it can funnel the

discharging electronic impulses.


This creates patterns to our responses and re-enforces that early life experiences

impact significantly on present emotions.

 
This recent evidence is quite solid and valid. Yet few mothers and fathers accept this,

let alone counselors and clinicians. This important factor remains an important

variable in great dispute.  In addition, many individuals and many clinicians do not

know that recent research is challenging much of what Gray says. That is one reason

I am sharing this here
[1] 


​What is Brain Plasticity and how does that work?

​
One finding that greatly over shadows all other findings is that the brain is able to

change, adapt and  grow, throughout its life. This is covered under the concept  of 

“brain plasticity” and much is being written on this important principle. Out now are a

several books on this topic; some written for professionals and some for lay people

or clients.



A psychiatrist and a therapist, both researchers, Siegel and Payne, have already

written at least five books on their application of the neurosciences and the brain.

Their main focuses is on child development and parenting children of all ages. Their

most recent book,
No Drama Discipline, explores ways of disciplining kids in

relationship to developmental age and their brain’s accompanying development. 

They also clearly join the parenting focus on discipline rather than punishment as a

parenting tool.  Discipline helps the youngster learn, grow and influences brain

development. They see discipline serving as a teaching tool rather than as a

punishment. They want parents to give up their yelling or being reactive around their

kids and replace that with connecting positively with their child, redirecting the child

to the right behavior so that their offspring build better behavioral and relationship

skills for the long-term. They ground their conclusion in research, showing how the

brain changes with experiences, especially the part responsible for sound decision

making, empathy, and morality. (Siegel, 2014).”


Some books to consult on the neurosciences are listed at the end of this appendix

​with all books cited in the ending bibliography. 





Human Brain:This is the central organ of the nervous system located in the head of a

human being  protected by the skull.  It area known as the cerebral cortex, especially

the frontal lobes, is associated with executive functions such as vision, self-control,  

planning, reasoning and abstract thought. The human cerebral cortex is a thick layer

of neural tissue that covers most of the brain. The cortex is divided into four "lobes",

called the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe. Within each

lobe are numerous cortical areas, each associated with a particular function,

including vision, motor control, and language. The left and right sides of the cortex

are broadly similar in shape, and most cortical areas are replicated on both sides. In

most people, the left hemisphere is "dominant" for language, with the right

hemisphere playing a minor role. In other functions e.g. -spacial-temporal  reasoning,

the right hemisphere is dominant.



The human brain is protected by the thick bones of the skull, suspended in

cerebrospinal fluid, and isolated from the bloodstream by the blood-brain

barrier. However, it is susceptible to damage and disease. The most common forms

of physical damage are closed head injuries such as a blow to the head, a stroke, or

poisoning by a variety of chemicals which can act as neurotoxins. Infection  of the

brain, though serious, is rare because of the biological barriers which protect it. The

human brain is susceptible to degenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease,

multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease,  mostly as the result of aging. A number

of psychiatric conditions e.g. schizophrenia and depression are thought to be

associated with brain dysfunctions. The brain can also be the site of brain

tumors and these neoplasms can be benign or malignant (Authors 2015). 
 

Human mind Your mind is a set of cognitive facilities that enables

consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment and  memory. A tradition of  inquiry

into philosophy, religion, psychology and cognitive science has sought to develop an

understanding of what a mind is and what its distinguishing properties are.


The main question regarding the nature of mind is its relation to the physical brain

and nervous system – a question which is often framed as the Mind-body

problem, which considers whether mind is somehow separate from physical

existence and instead comes  from physical phenomena such as neuronal activity

(physicalism), or whether the mind is identical with the brain or some activity of the

brain.  Whatever its relation to the physical body, it is the  mind that enables a being

to have subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to

perceive and respond to stimili with some kind of agency and to have consciousness,

including thinking and feeling (Authors M. , 2014).


Neurosciences. This is the scientific study of the nervous system.

Historically, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology.

 

Plasticity. Neuroplasticity, also known as brain plasticity, is an umbrella

term that encompasses both synaptic plasticity and non-synaptic plasticity--refers to

changes in neural pathways and synapses due to changes in behavior, environment,

neural processes, thinking, emotions, as well as changes resulting from bodily

injury. Neuroplasticity has replaced the formerly-held position that the brain is a

siologically static organ, and explores how - and in which ways - the brain changes

throughout life.


​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity.

 

How to Help Facilitate the Changing of a Belief (Value)


  • OVERVIEW: FRF
    • FRF: CHPT ONE
  • OVERVIEW: CLINICAL
    • TOC 1-12 >
      • CHPT 1 Welcome To Many From Many >
        • CHPT 1 Vault
      • CHPT 2 Aunt Sarah Shares >
        • CHPT 2 VAULT
      • CHPT 3 Lessons for Lisa >
        • Vault 3 Lessons for Lisa
      • CHPT 4 An Angry World >
        • Vault Four: Angry World
      • CHPT 5 Damn & Hot Damn >
        • Vault 5 Damn & Hot Damn
      • CHPT 6 Brain Bishop & Being >
        • Vault 6 The Bishop, The Brain & Being
      • CHPT 7 Little Steps >
        • Vault 7 Little Steps Go a Long Ways
      • CHPT 8 Conflict Moves You >
        • Vault 8. Conflict Moves; Conflicts Are.
      • CHPT 9 Valuing Values >
        • VAULT 9 Valuing Values
      • CHPT 10 John Deere Caper >
        • VAULT 10 John Deere Family Snafu
      • CHPT 11 Nothing is Here. >
        • VAULT # 11 Nothing is here.
      • CHPT 1 2 Antithesis for Nothing >
        • VAULT 12: Anathesisis for Nothing
    • TOC 13-25 >
      • Chpt 13: Choc. Chip Caper >
        • Vault 13 The Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper
      • Chpt 14: Couples / Pairs >
        • Vault 14 Couples Come in Pairs
      • CHPT 15 Plus & More >
        • Vault 15 Strengths in Action
      • Chpt: 16: Action Truisms >
        • Vault 16 Raportee With Nadi: Truisms in Action
      • Chapter 17 We all Hurt >
        • Vault 17 We all Hurt
      • CHPT 18 Parents Lead, + >
        • VAULT 18 PARENTS LEAD
      • CHPT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS >
        • VAULT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS
      • CHPT 20 Out & In: >
        • VAULT 20 Out & In:
      • CHPT 21 Where is Papa? >
        • VAULT 21 Where is Papa?
      • CHPT 22 Who Knows Bill? >
        • VAULT 22 Who Knows Bill?
      • Chpt: 23: Millenials >
        • Vault 23: Millential-Baby Boomers Clash
      • CHPT 24 Ending / Beginnings >
        • Vault 24 Endings/Beginnings
      • CHPT 25. Q's & A's >
        • Q & A Overview One
        • Q & A Overview Two
        • Q & A Overview Feelings
        • Q & A Overview Values
        • Q & A Overview Relationships
        • Q & A Overview Politics
        • Q & A Overview Parenting
        • Q & A's Reading Lists
      • FOR POTENTIAL EDITOR/READERS
      • Getting Outside Help