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When relational connections are integrative—when we are honored for differences and when compassionate linkages are created—our brain’s integration grows. Integrated brains enable optimal regulation to unfold: how we regulate our attention, how we experience our emotions and moods, how we manage our thoughts, memories, relationships, behaviors, and morality—each of these depends on neural integration. The simple intraconnected reality of energy flow and well-being, for us as human beings, is this: Relational integration stimulates the growth of neural integration, which is necessary for
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A way to summarize what research has found regarding these direct and indirect impacts of attachment in our lives is: safe + seen + soothed = secure.
A foundational way of defining a relationship is as the sharing of energy. Our communications and connections are all about energy streaming through our lives—how energy is shared.
In many ways, what we come to call “emotion” can be defined as the integrative flow of energy from the body through the subcortical areas to cortex. Emotion can be seen as a shift in integration, embedding within its contours meaning, sensation, and relational connection: We experience emotions as directly related not only to our relationships but also to our bodies, including regions of the brain that establish value or meaning.
Both differentiation and linkage are needed for integration to emerge.
Energy and information flow are the fundamental essence, or “stuff,” of experience.
