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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