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Neurobiology for Yogis
The Mind, the Nervous System and the Self
mindness: " In my view, from its evolutionary inception, mindness is the internalization of movement." RL pg 5 mind: the patterns in the flow of energy and information...emanating from the activity of the neurons of the brain. DS the mind emerges from the substance of the brain as it is shaped by interpersonal relationships...DM 1 My view is that having a mind means that an organism forms neural representations which can become images, be manipulated in a process called thought, and eventually influence behavior by helping predict the future, plan accordingly, and and choose the next action." DE 90 What is the self? it requires relationship it has soma and psyche components it involves integration of multiple modalities Self-awareness self-discipline self -control self-regulation self- absorption self-inflation self-deprication self-worth I thoughts self-ing... Larry Rosenberg Buddhists: no self, annatta "Anatta or no-self, means that each of us is a process rather than a fixed, independent, eternal self, or concrete entity." Lama Surya Dass:Awakening the Buddha Within 119 "The self as we know it, doesn't really exist. The key phrase is "as we know it." The self is simply not what we think it is." LSD:ABW 116 " Not until self-centered, "psychological" issues receive top priority in the teaching, do students participate in authentic Zen, at lesst of the kind I have learned to value. Self-negation is at the core of the Zen Way." ZBR 67 Vedanta "I" , Atman, is not a self, not an evolute of prakriti (The) self is the centralization of prediction" The self is not born out of the realm of consciousness, only the noticing of it is (i.e., self-awareness). ... Understanding that the brain performs prediction on the basis of an assumed self "entity" will lead us to how the brain generates the mindness state." RL pg 23 "This temporally coherent event that binds, in the time domain, the fractured components of external and internal reality into a single construct is waht we call the "self"" RL 126 "Our notions of selfhood start from the way the brain represents our body image, our physical self-as its implicit main physical axis. This body image represent our soma. Infants soon begin to develop their representations of a implicit psychic self (their psyche) at many covert levels along the framework of thsi physical core. Only from this overconditioned psyche do we look out later into the world, and behave accordingly, for better and for worse." ZBR 24 The pejorative self vs the transformed self: Problem Self: Transformed Self an arrogant I An Actualized i A beseiged ME A buoyant me a clutching Mine A Compassionate mine " the self-other interface"' ZBR 18 "self as representations" subjective representational configurations" " the most fundamental finding in self psychology is that the emergence of the self requires more than the inborn tendency to organize experience. Also required is the presence of others, technically described as objects, who provide certain types of experiences that will evoke the emergence and maintenance of the self." Shore green 26
olfactory center as beginning of emotional center grows to encompass top of brainstem attunement: orienting response “ The behavior of an animal when it experiences and responds to novelty in its environment” (PL ‘tiger’ pg 93) “ instinctive, coordinated patterns of muscle movement and perceptual awareness”, reacting plus enquiring, what is going on here?, “orienting responses are the primary means through which an animal tunes into its environment. PL, tiger, pg 94 top of brain stem is thalamus: gateway of sensory information with connections to neo-cortex limbic system - limbic region - two powerful tools: learning and memory (DG) no longer just reactive also contains medial temporal lobes including hippocampus which may paly role in comnsious access to memory Neo cortex - thinking, reasoning, more complex information processing hypo-thalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis (HPA) “psychotherapy: “ systematic emotional relearning” DG emotional intelligence pg 225
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