Psychology, Research, Neuroscience, Brain, and Social Science
This article is about long-term and short-term Learning, which can help us and our children change behavior. Understanding how Learning takes place is not rocket science but brain science. As always, Choose Love.
This is about learning to self-regulate through mindful anxiety so we can be there for our dysregulated children as role models. This is the most effective way to teach our precious children. Learn about Oxytocin and the chemistry of connection
Studies have shown that performing one random act of kindness a day will reduce your stress, anxiety, and depression. Your body is flooded with the same hormones that make you and the other person you’ve helped calmer, healthier, and happier.
Stop reacting and start responding. We know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Living out our good intentions is more science than art. It is more practice than theory. As parents, our children learn more from our behaviors than our words. Here is a secret to better behavior for parents and children, and humans in general.
This article offers advice to parents to celebrate children’s failures along with their successes. Failure is an essential building block of success.
Celebrate Your Children’s Failures — Along with Yours!
This seasonal yet always appropriate article covers a summary of my journey into the power of love and its evolutionary framework.
This article covers the inherant behavioral feedback loops that get established through the emotional consious or unconsious triggers (stimulus) that casue learned behviors (reactions) for good or for bad. The term neurophysiologic refers to both body and mind. We have body/mind feedback loops that are both positive and negative. Scientific research has measured how we communicate and are connected on a cellular level.
This article is part of a series on Self-Awareness that shows scientific research that connects our level of mindfulness directly to behavior regulation in adults and children. The key is self-awareness which generates activity in our brains that is beneficial to us
Research suggests that willpower or self-control may be sharpest in people who are sensitive and open to their own emotional experiences. Willpower, in other words, may relate to ’emotional intelligence’,” said Michael Inzlicht, associate professor of psychology at UTSC.
We have emotions for a reason. Anger in response to injustice can signal that the situation needs to change;
sadness in response to loss can signal that we’d like to keep the people we love in our lives.
Previous research has shown that mindfulness can be an effective tool to help regulate our emotions. But why? A new model suggests that the ability to control one’s behavior—a concept that researchers call executive control—may play a role.
