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The need to stay calm. Neuroscientific evidence that calm is a possible response to stress. Is there a difference between pain and stress?
[The problem isn't chronic pain, it's chronic stress. Fear of abandonment/experience of abandonment, dependence as inevitable?]
(Ross says)
...die prematurely. In short, a sustained stress response can kill certain brain cells! At present, we know that this neurotoxic effect can be produced in both experimental laboratory animals and those confronting real-life stressors in the wild, and that comparable changes can occur simply as a function of aging.80 Sin....
Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions", Oxford University Press, 1998, 119
Psychologists have traditionally had a difficult time generating a satisfactory definition of “stress." In psychobiology, it is much easier: Stress is anything that activates the pituitary-adrenal system (the ACTH-cortisol axis). Everything that is typically considered to be a stressor in humans generates this brain res....
Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions", Oxford University Press, 1998, 118
What is less well-known is that in 1924 Pavlov made another momentous scientific discovery related to trauma. The thaw in St. Petersburg during the spring of that year caused the River Neva to flood Pavlov’s basement laboratory, inundating the cages of his experimental dogs who were trapped in the icy water with no mean....
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma", Penguin Books, 2015, 77
Pavlov showed that after exposure to extreme stress, animals find a new internal equilibrium different from the previous organization of their inter- nal housekeeping. The traumatized dogs kept acting as if they were in grave danger long after the waters of the Neva had receded. When he measured their physiology he foun....
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma", Penguin Books, 2015, 77
Being in tune with other members of our species via the VVC is enormously rewarding. What begins as the attuned play of mother and child continues with the rhy thmicity of a good basketball game, the synchrony of tango dancing, and the harmony of choral singing or playing a piece of jazz or chamber music—all of which fo....
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma", Penguin Books, 2015, 86
Body awareness puts us in touch with our inner world, the landscape of our organism. Simply noticing our annoyance, nervousness, or anxiety immediately helps us shift our perspective and opens up new options other than our automatic, habitual reactions. Mindfulness puts us in touch with the transitory nature of our feel....
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma", Penguin Books, 2015, 210
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