By Alyson Hallett
You I knew from the moment I saw you. Told no-one, told only myself and then silently. Buried your face in the beaten tundra of my heart. All seeds start in darkness, need secrecy to discover what they're carrying, what they contain. Love spoke a language I couldn't spell because it spelled me: I was love's lips and tongue and servant. The seed conspires with unseen things and even if we watched through the sides of a transparent pot we still wouldn't grasp the magic of those first roots or shoots. Equally, I never understood how you came out of the wastelands and into my home. If I think of the seed, then I'd say our meeting was conceived long ago. It was etched into a parabola of snow. It was sand in a camel's hoof. It was in the scent of a badger when my great-grandmother walked home one moon-lit evening. The seed of our meeting had been evolving for centuries: when you knocked on the door I opened my soul and said come in. "Point, Line and Plane.
The point is the first thing that can be done. It is without dimension and is not in space. Without an inside or an outside, the point is the source for all that follows. It is represented as a small circular dot. The first dimension, the line, comes into being as the One emerges into two principles, active and passive. The point chooses somewhere 'outside' of itself, a direction. Separation has occurred and the line comes into being. A line has no thickness, and it is sometimes said that a line has no end. Three 'ways' now became apparent.
From Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy - found by Kristina. If the amygdala is constantly monitoring something as subtle as changes in the facial expressions of others, then it can play a pivotal role in the individual differences we see in how reactive some people are to the social signals of others compared to their peers. The implications of this for healthy interpersonal interactions are enormous. For example, if amygdala reactions were overly sensitive to the facial reactions of others, one might take a simple facial movement of a friend, one that was not intended to convey disapproval, as a certain slight.
Aberrant amygdala reactions could play a part in exacerbating a host of psychopathologies. Indeed, numerous studies have identified abnormal amygdala responses to facial expressions across a variety of psychopathologies involving emotional dysfunction such as major depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. More importantly, amygdala responses to facial expressions have been used to predict treatment outcomes in both depression and generalized anxiety disorder with lower pretreatment levels of amygdala response predicting better treatment outcomes. Read more: Face to Face with the Emotional Brain - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences |
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April 2014
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