Daniel J. Siegel, MIND: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human (Norton, 2017).
"By mind, I mean all that relates to our subjective felt experience of being alive, from feelings to thoughts, from intellectual ideas to inner sensory immersions before and beneath words, to our felt connections to other people and our planet. And mind also refers to our consciousness, the experience we have of being aware of this felt sense of life, the experience of knowing within awareness." (1)"Mind is the essence of our fundamental nature, our deepest sense of being alive, here, right now, in this moment." (1)
"Yet beyond consciousness and its knowing within awareness of our subjective felt sense of being alive, mind may also involve a larger process, one that connects us to each other and our world. This important process is a facet of mind that may be hard to measure, but is nevertheless a crucial aspect of our lives we'll explore in great depth in the journey ahead." (1)
"Though we may not be able to quantify in numerical terms these facets of our mind at the heart of the experience of being here in this life, this intrinsically felt subjective phenomenon of living, and the ways we can feel our connections to one another and the world, are subjective phenomena that are real. These non-measurable facets of the reality of life have many names. Some call this our essence. Some call this our core, soul, spirit, or true nature. I simply call this mind." (1-2).
SUMMARY
-The definition of mind has to do with energy and information flow, which is embodied and relational.-The major symptoms: rigidity and chaos.
-The main solution would be integration, which is "more like a fruit salad than a smoothie" (87).
-Use bottom-up (conduit) and top-down (constructor) together in a sense of balance.
"We stop seeing clearly because we know so much." (p. 130).
"All we have is now" (p. 251).
-The concept of self-organization.
-Four facets of the mind: information processing, subjective experience, consciousness, and self-organization.
-Neuroplasticity may be improved through mindfulness, awareness, attention, and presence. The importance of awe/openness to possibilities (287).
-9 aspects of integration (p. 90--)
-8 senses
p. 82
p. 87
p. 130