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Traditional thinking has been seeing mind (or soul) as distinct
from body. Current scientific has shown a correlation between brain
activity and mind processes. It is also expanded our definition of
mind beyond its narrow definition.
In other words, what we call mind could be described
as an interaction
between our
brain,
the rest
of our nervous
system, the other systems in our body, and our environment
(for the most part, the cultural and social factors that affect our
engagement
with
the world).
Daniel Siegel, MD, author of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain, says:
"The mind is an embodied and relational regulatory process."
Also:
"We do think of the mind as a noun, rather than a verb, and that use of linguistic categorization—like the mind is a noun, an entity, rather than a process—gets us into a lot of trouble; because this is a fluid, dynamic, moving process, and when you really see it that way, all sorts of windows open up as opportunities to help people transform the process that is the mind. And rather than being fixed in the notion that the mind is like an object, when you see it as a verb, as a process, you can actually work with it in a more effective manner."
See more about the process of change.
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