How It Works The Emotional Brain

The rational part of the brain only uses 10% of it, while the emotional part uses the remaining 90%, education is essential that the emotions.

During the nineties of last century, Joseph Le Doux neuroscientist demonstrated the dominance of the emotional brain on the rational brain in certain situations.

According to the neurologist Antonio Damasio, when the brain makes decisions in order to regulate an emotional balance that affects the entire body. Thus, it is essential to educate the emotional brain to learn to control their instincts and emotions using their intelligence.

The emotional part of the brain

Scientists put the control of emotions in the limbic system, so we call this structure "the emotional brain." This system consists of three main elements with specific functions:

- The thalamus, which sends sensory messages to the neocortex brain (the neocortex is considered the thinking part of brain);

- The hippocampus, which is believed to play an important role in memory and the interpretation of what we perceive, and

- The amygdala, which is the emotional control center.

The limbic system as a whole is present in both hemispheres of the brain and regulates emotions and impulses that we experience.

The zero emotional

Eduardo Punset, uses this concept to define the point at which they are formed neural circuits that will determine how to handle situations any child from the emotional point of view throughout his life. In this way the circuit is closed, although the expression and control of emotions can be learned after the fact, always have to start from the neural basis is formed until the age of two years.

The key to fostering emotional development in children will be in the inter-relationships that exist between the small and the people which it relates.

Stern understands intersubjectivity on the one hand, as the capacity to recognize another person as a separate center of subjective experience with which they can share their own subjective states (from two years) and on the other hand, as a specific form relationship that develops between the child and his mother (birth through age two)

Specifically, the sensorimotor period is present instersubjetividad type specific, primary intersubjectivity, which refers to the ability to share affective states arising within the dyad-infant attachment figure. The emotional brain development depends on the quality of these relationships intersubjetivodad.

The emotional brain power

Writers such as Goleman and Larry Dorsy have found that emotional centers of the brain are connected to the system inmunológco that fights germs and cancer, and cardiovascular system.

All emotions are impulses to act and every emotion prepares the body to act specifically. Below are some examples of the relationship between emotions and physiological responses:

Ira: blood flows mainly into the hands and the heart beats faster, accompanied by an increase of adrenaline in sangre.Temor: the blood is concentrated in the muscles, especially in the legs to facilitate huída.Felicidad: brain activity focuses on the central part, inhibit negative feelings and experiences an increase in levels of energía.Amor: relaxation occurs in the body and a general state of calma.Sorpresa, the retina can get a greater amount of light to more easily detect the changes in the medio.Disgusto: there is an inhibition of the evacuation, insomnia and hypertension risk Sadness: there is a decrease in the levels of endorphins necessary to strengthen the system is inmunológico.Conocer key

The emotional brain is common to animals and humans, yet only the latter are capable of being trained to control their emotions. Thus, the person who owns a developed emotional intelligence will be located in a top rung of evolution because enjoying better health and establish successful relationships with others.



Jenny Hernandez War

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