Mirror Neurons

Faces, Voices and the Brain-Heart Brake: The Divine Science of Tibet

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Facial Expressions, Tantric Buddhism, Prayer, Jungian Archetypes, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Neuroscience, God, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Religion News

Breakthroughs in the neuroscience of empathy, emotions and our conscious control of the breath have radically changed our view of our nature, helping explain the stubborn power of spiritual imagery, prayers and ritual.

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Why Magical Thinking Matters In Marriage

Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Science of Love, Marriage Advice, Love at First Sight, Happy Marriage, After the Wedding, Weddings News

What about the magic of love and marriage? How much is scientific, real, and how much is illusion, a supernatural belief in destiny?

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Are We Putting the (Knowledge) Cart Before the (Emotional) Horse?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Education, Assessment, Cognitive Science, Brain, Data, Bullying, Memory and Cognition, Education Reform, School Bullying, Video, Education News

In school reform, we dramatically overvalue the importance of academic learning, and assume that merely focusing on better curricula and clearer standards will carry the day. Yet the research suggests otherwise.

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6 Problems That Can Lead To Infidelity (And What You Can Do To Solve Them)

Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Marriage and Infidelity, How to Prevent Cheating, Marriage and Love, Mirror Neurons, Cheating, Marital Happiness, Marriage Infidelity, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Hurtful interactions are repeated over and over and get lodged in the brain. Love-inducing chemicals are on hold and it seems like the end of love and passion. And the relationship is ripe for infidelity.

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The Elder Care Blues: Where the Birds Scream

Janice Taylor | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Geriatrics, Buddhist Studies, Neuroscience, Mirror Neurons, The Elder Care Blues, Caretakers, Caregivers, Gandi, Caregiving, Healthy Living News

As "we" are the caregivers, we are our respective parents' lifelines. It is understandable that in their vulnerable state they might act out in this manner.

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How To Get Your Needs Met In Marriage

Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Marital Therapy, Getting Along With Your Spouse, Marriage Counseling, Get Your Needs Met, Happy Marriage, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Marital partners need mutuality, reciprocity, and equality. We want it all and if we learn how to communicate our needs, we can have it all.

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Why Strong Women Make Better Wives

Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Inner Beauty, Strong Women, After the Wedding, Mirror Neurons, Gender Roles, Marital Autonomy, Weddings News

Many women in the 21st century still bifurcate their gender roles. They reserve their strengths for their work life and lose sight of them in their marital lives.

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Why Equality Is Essential To Marital Bliss

Dr. Fran Cohen Praver | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Dominance, Mirror Neurons, Red Flags, Dominance-Submission, Submission, Marital Equality, Love Is Blind, Dominance and Submission, Weddings News

High in the skies of euphoric love, if any red flags pop up, you manage not to see them. Once you fall in love, parts of the brain go dormant -- the parts responsible for wariness, suspicion, discrimination.

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Compassion And The Shadow

John Stanley | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Eco-Theology, Mirror Neurons, Eco-Buddhism Project, The Shock Doctrine, Green Faith, Climate Change, Eco-Buddhism, Religion and Science, Humanity, Climate Change Denial, Carl Jung, Buddhism, Compassion, Cognitive Neuroscience, Religion News

As climate chaos disasters unfold, we might witness a sustained rise in collective compassion, leading to genuine international cooperation and unity of the human species. But there's also our shadow.

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Are Your Emotions Contagious?

David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Mirror Neurons, How to Be Happy, Emotions, Emotional Contagion, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Mirror Neuron System, Love and Relationships, Emotions Contagious, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News

Ever noticed that you feel happy around happy people and sad around sad or depressed people? This is known as "emotional contagion" and is facilitated by an interconnected network of cells in the brain.

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Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know)

Mark Matousek | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Oxytocin, God, Atheism, Goodness, Empathy, Altruism, Obama, Religious Lies, Healthy Living News

It is through mirror neurons -- not God -- that we redeem ourselves, achieve salvation, and are "reborn" in virtuous ways once co-opted by religions. Evolution knew what she was doing.

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Neuroscience, Meet Conceptual Art

Carl Schoonover | Posted 05.25.2011

In making the case for the raw aesthetic appeal of neuroscience data, I focus on the powerful ideas that have given us this striking visual vocabulary.

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I'll Have What She's Having: How Mirror Neurons and Music Increase Pleasure

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parietal Lobe, Bonnie Raitt, Oxytocin, Suzie Heumann, Mirror Neurons, Pleasure, Taj Mahal, Music, Love, Ecstatic States, Tantric Sex, Orgasms, Sex, Spiritual Sex, Tantra, Orgasm, Sacred Sex, Healthy Living News

Do you have music playing when you make love? I hope you do so let's assume you do. Do you notice that you like to put on the same play list, over and over, at least some of the time? The one you remember having the best lovemaking to?

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The #1 Mistake in Modern Communication

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 11.17.2011

This article is going to be short. It will contain one main message. It's an important one. The message is this: No emotional communication via email, text or voicemail (AKA asynchronous media). Ever.

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'Empathic Civilization': Amazing Empathic Babies

Alison Gopnik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Babies Imitation, Jean Piaget, Empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Mirror Neurons, Morality, Babies, Books, The Empathic Civilization, Books News

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

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'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Empathic Understanding, Resurrective Ideology, Trauma, Mirror-Neurons, Economic Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Collective Trauma, Loss, Global Terrorism, Death, Jeremy Rifkin, George W. Bush, Arianna's Reading, The Empathic Civilization, Books News

If we can help one another bear the darkness rather than evade it, perhaps one day we will be able to see the light.

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'Empathic Civilization': Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain

Richard Restak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Empathy, Meditation, Arianna's Reading, Mirror Neurons, Human Brain, Books, Empathic Civilization, Brain Science, Books News

In our culture we're taught to think of ourselves as independent and self-actualizing. In reality, our brain is uniquely constructed for experiencing other people's thoughts, emotions and actions as if they were our own.

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'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Our rush to universal empathic connectivity is running up against a rapidly accelerating entropic juggernaut in the form of climate change. Can we reach biosphere consciousness in time to avert planetary collapse?

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Moving From Lack to Hope

Adele Israel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restorative Justice, Mirror Neurons, Producer Responsibility Law, Clean Elections, Change Congress, Liberation Ecology, Democracry, Wester Organization of Resource Councils, Frances Moore Lappe, Lack, Diet for a Small Planet, Concentration of Wealth, Western Colorado Congress, Denver News

Frances Moore Lappé is a humorous, energetic dynamo. She's a democracy advocate, as well as a world food and hunger expert. Her Grand Junction speech was titled, "Getting a Grip on Democracy."

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How Your Neighbor Can Make You Fat (or Thin)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mirror Neurons, James Fowler, Carl Jung, Social Contagion, Nicholas Christakis, Healthy Living News

What kind of connection can exist invisibly, without people talking to each other, watching how each other behaves, or even knowing about each other's existence?

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