At these moments, we are not focused on fixing a problem or remedying a symptom. We are not in the role of expert, but rather of compassionate collaborator or guide.
The connection between us helps to catalyze healing, and true wisdom emerges from an inner knowing rather than from analysis or theory.
In earliest development, our interactions with caregivers shape our nervous system and psyche. The same qualities that promote secure attachment—attunement and resonance—facilitate healthy emotional, social and intellectual development.
Daily Grounding and meditation practice grows new neural networks. If you are lost in your own thoughts and self presencing, and captivated by your own internal perceptions, it will be difficult for you to get to the 7th sense of Mindsight.
Mindsight is being aware of your sixth sense but being present enough to be aware of the other person's non-verbal and verbal communications at the same time. There is a spaciousness and resonance present. With attunement we focus our signals from others and embed this flow of energy and information from their internal state deeply into our nervous system…we literally soak in what we sense inside another to shape our internal world.
In CHPC we arrive at attunement by sharing breath, holding hands, making gentle steady eye contact. We have not even talked about oxytocin and how oxytocin loops are palpable and exponential yet, but we will. Established pair bonding behavior creates oxytocin loops and this is the ideal state for the development of new neural networks. This new experience in the here and now balances with the attention on the past trauma and a person can begin to develop trust and love.
Develop a peaceful place inside of yourself that you can return to at will and it will build in its own resonance over time. Grounding is the learnable skill that can provide this ability to you. Get "into present time" with them. Theory of What Mirroring provides Presence The counselors attitude begins with presence. The right hemisphere tracks non verbal information and is especially attentive to the 7 somatic communications signals given by: 1 eye contact 2 facial expression 3 tone of voice 4 posture 5 gesture 6 timing 7 and intensity of emotion Grounding provides the opportunity for Presence.
Resonance Established pair bonding behavior creates oxytocin loops and this is the ideal state for the development of new neural networks. Ground, Breath, become Present.
Attune, breathe, connect, give statement of intention. Long Description. Cancel Update Criterion. Additional Comments: Cancel Update Comments. Additional Comments:. Rating Score. Finally the work of Dr. Eric Kandel a Nobel prize winning psychiatrist and neuroscientist opened my eyes to how experiential learning can actually shape our physical brains. Since then I have been hooked whenever I find someone writing or talking about ways to base our psychology in our biology.
According to Dr. These neurons have been shown to operate in preparing us to imitate the observed behavior of another person — for example, if I see you reach for an apple, the mirror neurons in my brain will fire as if I had reached for the apple myself. Mirror neurons also are likely to operate with emotional behavior as well, so that if I observe someone crying I myself will probably experience sadness. Those internal bodily sensations are then carried back up through the spinal cord and finally relay back into the cortex of the brain in a particular area called the anterior insula, which is the point at which we develop conscious awareness of our internal feelings.
This attunement can then be sensed by the other person, which creates resonance. Hence the importance of the therapist maintaining his or her capacity to be present, to attune and to resonate when seeing a patient. One of the comments Dr.
Siegel made in both of these chapter that I strongly agreed with is that attunement and resonance in the clinical encounter are hard, much harder than simply asking a patient questions designed to establish a diagnosis.
Siegel introduced, for that emotional experience. You have to be able to tolerate feelings of fear, sadness, rage, etc… while remaining flexible and functional. Siegel offers many exercises in these chapters designed to help therapists widen and stabilize their windows of tolerance.
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