The document summarizes 10 key threads or concepts from Dan Siegel's neuroscience masterworks. The threads discuss how the human mind emerges from patterns of energy and information flow within and between brains. It is shaped by internal neurological processes and interpersonal experiences. Experiences within relationships shape the genetically programmed maturation of the nervous system. Emotions serve as a central organizing process in the brain. How people share their individual perspectives is fundamental to feeling connected to others. Autonoetic consciousness allows for mental time travel to represent the past, present, and future self. The influence of important individuals in one's development lives on internally. Expressing emotions serves social communication purposes. As adults, understanding and care from others while experiencing similar mental states is important

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Dan Siegel’s…

3. Thread 1:
The human mind emerges from patterns
in the flow of energy and information
within brains and between brains.
(pg. 2)

4. Thread 2:
The mind results from the interaction of
internal neuro-
physiological
processes and
interpersonal
experiences.
(pg. 2)

5. Thread 3:
The structure and function of the brain
are determined by how experiences within
interpersonal
relationships,
shape the
genetically
programmed
maturation
of the nervous
system.
(pg. 2)

6. Thread 4:
Emotions serve
as a central
organizing
process
within
the brain.
(pg. 4)

7. Thread 5:
Children raised in families that discussed
people’s emotional reactions tend to be more
interested
in and
able to
under-
stand
others’
emotions.
(pg. 46)

8. Thread 6:
How two people come to share their
individual representational worlds is
a fundamental part of “feeling felt” and
establishing
a sense of
inter-
personal
connection.
(pg. 161)

9. Thread 7:
Autonoesis is the experience in which we
are able to perform “mental time travel,”
creating representations of the self in the
past, present and future.
(pg. 65)

10. Thread 8:
The psyches of those who have been an
intimate part of our human development
live on within
us in both the
details and the
structure of
the ongoing
story of our
lives.
(pg. 66)

11. Thread 9:
One purpose of expressing emotion is
considered to be social communication,
since people
display more
affective
displays of
emotion in
public than
they do
when alone.
(pg. 128)

12. Thread 10:
As adults, we need not only to be understood
and cared about, but to have another
individual
simultaneously
experience a
state of mind
similar to
our own.
(pg. 22)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.alltreatment.com/your-brain-on-drugs
Slide 3 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Hide-My-Lies-89932739
Slide 12 - http://www.learning-mind.com/possible-to-read-each-others-minds-say-scientists/
Slide 2 - https://www.upaya.org/newsletter/view/2010/06/21
Slide 6 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Cerebral-Dysfunction-299393033
Slide 5 - http://www.glaad.org/blog/what-watch-weekend-110-12-shameless-season-premiere
Slide 11 - http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/10/07/execed.anger/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Slide 10 - http://bit.ly/1Y3fCB7
Slide 14 - http://www.alltreatment.com/your-brain-on-drugs
Slide 9 - http://physiologizing.blogspot.com/2014/01/mental-time-travel.html
Slide 8 - http://www.nimble.com/blog/linkedin-connections-strategies/
Slide 7 - http://filmword.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Slide 4 - http://jared.realizingresonance.com/2012/02/25/emergent-consciousness-and-freewill

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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