The task of the mind, in terms of what we witness scientifically that it does most effectively (and not from a theological perspective), is to regulate the flow of energy and information. Energy refers to the literal electrochemical communication from neuron to neuron. And information refers to those meaningful perceptions, whether conscious or nonconscious, that are coursing through our lives every moment, that are correlated with that very neurobiological energy. Shame has a tendency to disrupt this process of “regulating the flow of energy and information” by effectively disconnecting
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