Top 54 Daniel J. Siegel Quotes
#1. To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.
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#4. If we use how we were taught yesterday to teach our children today, we are not preparing them well for tomorrow.
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#5. While many different animal species have nervous systems that enable anticipation of events - for example, learning that a flashing light is associated with a reward in a conditioned learning experiment - planning for the future seems to be a prefrontal invention.
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#7. Say yes to the feelings, even as you say no to the behavior.
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#8. By helping them understand the rules and limits in their respective environments, we help build their conscience.
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#9. As children develop, their brains "mirror" their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of those, impact the child's brain. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well.
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#10. Between the two. Harmony emerges from integration. Chaos and rigidity arise when integration is blocked.
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#11. From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.
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#12. The healthy move to adulthood is toward interdependence, not complete "do-it-yourself" isolation.
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#13. Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we've written to anyone else.
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#14. If the sponge (mirror) neurons are our receiver, then our subcortical areas are the amplifier. These subcortical shifts are what changes in us when we attune to someone else.
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#15. Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan ... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.
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#16. Rather than simply telling them what to do and demanding that they conform to your requests, you'll be giving them experiences that strengthen their executive functions and develop skills related to empathy, personal insight, and morality.
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#17. When we spend money on others, for example, we feel more content than when we spend money on ourselves. This is a kind of well-being rooted in meaning, connection, and equanimity - called eudaimonia by the ancient Greeks and in modern times perhaps called "inner" or "true" happiness.
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#18. Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.
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#19. In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?
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#20. So the more we give our kids practice at considering how someone else feels or experiences a situation, the more empathic and caring they will become.
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#21. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children. Another
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#22. Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great benefitto couples trying to find their way to better communication and deeper, more fulfilling ways of being with each other. Bravo!
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#23. As scientists put it, the brain is plastic, or moldable. Yes, the actual physical architecture of the brain changes based on what happens to us.
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#24. Mindfulness is a form of mental activity that trains the mind to become aware of awareness itself and to pay attention to one's own intention.
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#25. 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 stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.
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#26. It's also crucial to keep in mind that no matter how nonsensical and frustrating our child's feelings may seem to us, they are real and important to our child. It's vital that we treat them as such in our response.
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#27. While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.
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#28. The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information.
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#29. Given that the limbic area shapes how we appraise the meaning of events, knowing the hand model and seeing the limbic area's distinct location from the higher areas of the cortex can help us realize that sometimes a "feeling" is indeed not a fact.
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#30. this posterior firing of maps of the body represents a primary cortical representation and may involve the parietal lobe - a region that may turn out to play an important role in self-awareness and a sense of identity (for further
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#31. WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of
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#32. For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.
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#33. The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences.
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#34. Not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.
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#35. (If you're in a public place and your child is disturbing everyone around you, it may be necessary to take him outside while you attempt to appeal to his upstairs brain.)
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#36. One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our brain's firing patterns, as well as the power to shape the architecture of the brain itself.
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#37. This is the PART we play in helpful communication. PART means that we are present, attune, resonate, and create trust.
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#38. 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
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#39. brain imaging studies show that the experience of physical pain and the experience of relational pain, like rejection, look very similar in terms of location of brain activity.
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#40. We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)
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#41. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.
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#42. Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.
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#43. avoid solving and resist rescuing, even when they make minor mistakes or not-so-great choices.
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#44. Mindfulness exercises produce literal changes in the brain's connections, significantly affecting how well a person interacts with other people and adapts to difficult situations.
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#45. Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.
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#46. Everything they see, hear, feel, touch, or even smell impacts their brain and thus influences the way they view and interact with their world - including their family, neighbors, strangers, friends, classmates, and even themselves.
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#47. Reduce words Embrace emotions Describe, don't preach Involve your child in the discipline Reframe a no into a conditional yes Emphasize the positive Creatively approach the situation Teach mindsight tools
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#48. The amygdala, along with related areas ... , plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.
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#49. The changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood.
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#50. Inviting our thoughts and feelings into awareness allows us to learn from them rather than be driven by them.
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#51. We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.
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#52. Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
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#53. Mindsight is a teachable skill at the heart of being empathic and insightful, moral and compassionate.
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#54. For example, one of the most powerful ways we connect with our children is simply by physically touching them.
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