Richie Davidson - The Emotional Life of Your Brain (Complete)
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- On February 17, Richie Davidson joined the Dalai Lama Center and the UBC Institute for Mental Health for "The Emotional Life of Your Brain".
Named in Time Magazine's 2006 list of 100 most influential people, Davidson offers a new model for understanding our emotions -- their origins, their power and their malleability. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional "styles," including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain circuits that underlie each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions - if that is what we want to do.
Second step for social and emotional learning has wonderful tools for various ages and stages, including emotional discrimination cards along with reading and activities
Cards of diverse cultures and abilities of children their age
I AM A NEUROSCIENCE Researcher from INDIA. In India, general lifestyle several thousand years ago also was in full harmony with nature. Our scientists (of pre history era, we call them ""Rishi"" or ""Muni""..) were knowing all and it was made part of life of common living of everyone as ritual... even there are classical books in Sanskrit which speaks of Daily Routine and it includes aeverything what NEW neuroscience if exploring now, OLD neurology was limited to BRAIN only. MIND, mindfulness, hypnosis, gratitude,happiness(Sonja of UCLA is working for 27 years on this topic.... ) all new glossary is an essential part of INDIAN Lifestyle routine of those who still follow and are not influenced by other practices/cultures.
You are so absolutely right , Sir
Middleton i been in your meditation sessions i am grateful thank you
This is great. Clear and well-presented.
I loved it.
i've observed amongst friends in my circle of companions, i have more female than the male counterparts who'd give a toss to 'analysis' of 'the emotional life of our brain', AND actually would buy into it, ie, showing willingness to participate or expand the research. this phenomenon is interesting. then again, i might be the one who has NOT got a sophisticated circle of 'mates'.
Why meditative states are merely relaxation, and a novel procedure to get relaxed and stay relaxed.
In a 1984 article in the flagship journal of the APA, ‘The American Psychologist’, the psychologist David Holmes reviewed the literature on meditation and concluded that meditative states are no different from resting states. The article (linked below) was roundly criticized because resting was presumably a dormant and non-affective state, quite at odds with the fact that meditation has affective and cognitive entailments that go beyond mere resting. However, from the perspective of affective neuroscience, resting states are not simple non-affective states but are dynamic affective states that are continually modulated by information derived from inner thoughts to outward perceptions. This position is not difficult to understand, and can be summarized below and easily falsified through simple procedure.
The ideal for any scientist with a great idea is to be able to explain it in a minute, and to confirm or falsify it as quickly. The world record for this arguably goes to the English philosopher Samuel Johnson, who rejected Archbishop Berkeley’s argument that material things only exist in one’s mind by striking his foot against a large stone while proclaiming, “I refute it thusly!” So here is a novel procedure demonstrating the continuity of rest from mindful to ‘flow’ states, quickly refutable with a good swift kick!
Summary
Endogenous opioids are induced when we eat, drink, have sex, and relax, and are responsible for our pleasures. Opioid activity however is not static, but labile, or changeable. When elicited, opioid release is always modulated by concurrently perceived novel act-outcome expectancies which may range from negative to positive. If they are negative (e.g. a spate of bad news or bad implications of our behavior), opioid activity is suppressed and our pleasures are reduced (anhedonia), but if they are positive, then opioid activity is enhanced and our pleasures are accentuated as well (peak experience, ‘flow’). This is due to dopamine-opioid interactions, or the fact that act-outcome discrepancy, or positive or negative surprises, can induce or suppress dopaminergic activity, which in turn can enhance or suppress opioid release. This can be demonstrated procedurally, and if correct, can provide a therapeutic tool to increase arousal and pleasure, or positive wellbeing, and mitigate stress.
Basic Facts:
Endogenous opioids are induced when we eat, drink, have sex, and relax. Their affective correlate, or how it ‘feels’, is a sense of pleasure.
Fun Fact:
When we are concurrently perceiving some activity that has a variable and unexpected rate of reward while consuming something pleasurable, opioid activity increases and with it a higher sense of pleasure. In other words, popcorn tastes better when we are watching an exciting movie than when we are watching paint dry. The same effect occurs when we are performing highly variable rewarding or meaningful activity (creating art, doing good deeds, doing productive work) while in a pleasurable relaxed state. (Meaning would be defined as behavior that has branching novel positive implications). This is commonly referred to as ‘flow’ or ‘peak’ experience. The same phenomenon underscores the placebo effect, which describes how expectancies can increase dopamine and opioid activity, such as when a meal is tastier or a sugar pill reduces pain when we anticipate they will.
So why does this occur?
Dopamine-Opioid interactions: or the fact that dopamine activity (elicited by positive novel events, and responsible for a state of arousal, but not pleasure) interacts with our pleasures (as reflected by mid brain opioid systems), and can actually stimulate opioid release, which is reflected in self-reports of greater pleasure.
Proof (or kicking the stone):
Just get relaxed using a relaxation protocol such as progressive muscle relaxation, eyes closed rest, or mindfulness, and then follow it by exclusively attending to or performing meaningful activity, and avoiding all meaningless activity or ‘distraction’. Keep it up and you will not only stay relaxed, but continue so with a greater sense of wellbeing or pleasure. (In other words, this is a procedural bridge between mindful and ‘flow’ experiences that are not unique psychological ‘states’, but merely represent special aspects of resting states.) The attribution of affective value to meaningful behavior makes the latter seem ‘autotelic’, or reinforcing in itself, and the resultant persistent attention to meaning crowds out the occasions we might have spent dwelling on other meaningless worries and concerns.
A Likely Explanation, as if you need one!
A more formal explanation from a neurologically based learning theory of this technique is provided on pp. 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. (The flow experience discussed on pp. 81-86.) The book is based on the work of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge, who was kind to review for accuracy and endorse the work.
From meditation to flow
Affect in rest is labile, or changeable, and rest (i.e. the general deactivation of the covert musculature) is not an inert and non-affective state, but modulates affective systems in the brain. In addition, the degree of the modulation of pleasurable affect induced by rest is not dependent upon a species of attention (focal meditation, mindfulness meditation), but is ‘schedule dependent’, and correlates with the variability of schedules or contingencies of reward and the discriminative aspects of incentives (i.e. their cognitive implications). In other words, sustained meaningful activity or the anticipation of acting meaningfully during resting states increases the affective ‘tone’ or value of that behavior, thus making productive work ‘autotelic’, or rewarding in itself, and providing a consistent feeling of arousal and pleasure, or shall we say, ‘happiness’.
References:
Rauwolf, P., et al. (2021) Reward uncertainty - as a 'psychological salt'- can alter the sensory experience and consumption of high-value rewards in young healthy adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (prepub)
doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001029
Benedetti, F., et al(2011). How placebos change the patient's brain. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(1), 339-354.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055515/
The Psychology of Rest
www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
The Psychology of Incentive Motivation and Affect
www.scribd.com/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature
Meditation and Rest- The American Psychologist
www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist
The Psychology of Rest, from International Journal of Stress Management, by this author
www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
Berridge Lab, University of Michigan sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
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When we get hung up on, or distracted by, language, we miss the message. A rose by any other name...
poets and writers would disagree!
suggest you read "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr...
Thank you so much Dr !
can this help with someone who suffers from bi polar anxiety shcitzo depression and adhd..and how would u ask ur dr about it
Man,the test that you have for social intuition and and self awareness the scoring is so confusing...
too many words , just one is needed PRAYER
I don't think so, you need a lot more than prayer.
its so creepy when people treat other people like God... "his holiness" ... really?... eek.
Why? Divinity is an important aspect of ancient life.
Because all humans are the same, the only thing that changes is ones personal perspective of another person, but in reality it doesnt change the fact they are both the exact same.... so when someone views another person as something they are not, and then allows them to have so much authority over their lives... its a creepy thing.
Often social reality is reality.
No, it's "social reality" ... as you said.
A person may conform to a certain social perspective, but a perspective doesn't equate to reality...
Try to build a bridge using a incorrect perspective on math... :P
Social reality as it understood, and felt, is real. There's no need for conforming; it's just understood as what it is. As such, this understanding is an unconscious and associative process of recognition.
Children recognizes parents as moms and dads. Students recognize faculty as teachers and administrators. Tibetans recognize His Holiness as The Dali Lama just as Catholics recognizes the pontiff as Papa and Americans recognize the office holder of POTUS as The President and commander-in-chief.