WWIBD?

These days I’m more than a little surprised to find myself as a “systems thinker.” I tend more and more to look at people, places and organizations and respond through the filter, WWIBD? – What Would an Integrated Brain Do?
It turns out that an optimally integrated brain continually seeks neural synchrony, and it apparently does [...]

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Orchestrating a Seven-Brain Symphony

The long-held notion of the brains we were born with being primarily located inside our skull is a hypothesis that doesn’t seem to be holding very well at the center these days. Much like intelligence, which science pretty much considered a single entity, until Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner argued for a varied collection, there appear [...]

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On Neuro-Gastro Integration

At a seminar on child neural development last year, I was sitting in the audience marveling at two single neurons that had just received a rousing ovation. Bruce Perry, the developmental psychiatrist, had played us a video of a single neuron from the auditory cortex in a baby being activated at the same time as [...]

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The Neurophysiology of Make-Wrong

I was 24 years old when I met my father after an absence of nearly twenty years. Like many fatherless kids, I had no idea what I’d missed by his absence, although alexithymia – no words for emotion – seems to be one thing I gained. We spent a number of days together trying to [...]

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Good at the End

There’s an awareness practice in Buddhist Psychology known as The Three Noble Principles. I’ve used this practice in many different venues over the years and find it to be a good one to help me recapture a positive focus – in lectures, work settings or just my daily life doings. The Three Noble Principles are: [...]

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