The Whole-Brain Child

CHAPTER 5 The United States of Me Integrating the Many Parts of the Self “Is there anything Josh can’t do?” ...

thoughts in his mind. Some were fueled by deeply embedded implicit memories that required an in ...

brain, because it’s from this place that we make our best decisions; it’s also the part of the b ...

and feelings giving him so much trouble were simply diʃerent aspects of himself. They were just a few ...

Mindsight let him see what was happening in his own mind, so he could understand that he was the one giving a ...

wanted to focus on. As Tina explained to him, in giving all of his attention to these few fearful rim points ...

miserable. He saw that he could make choices to improve diɽcult circumstances by making decisions that litt ...

homework, even though school usually comes fairly easily to her. Unless she integrates her feelings of frustra ...

experiences as well as how they respond to their world. Over time, with practice, they learn to direct ...

for noticing sound (to hunt or to avoid being hunted, for example), we ɹnd much larger auditory cente ...

Once his parents learned about mindsight and explained the wheel of awareness to him, Jason ...

legs, and face—so he could then direct his attention toward something that would relax him. ...

onstage for the holiday concert at his school, and nervous about going on a sleepover at his friend’s house. Mindsi ...

back to their hub? In other words, what if they can’t seem to bring together the diʃerent p ...

We need to help children understand that the clouds of their emotions can (and will) roll on by. Th ...

Whole-Brain Strategy #9: SIFT: Paying Attention to What’s Going On Inside In order for kids to develop ...

diʃerent thoughts, desires, and emotions whirling around within them, they ɹrst need to become aware ...

sadness, and so on. They can identify tension in their body when they’re nervous, then learn to relax ...

they’ll be trapped in black and white, like old TV reruns we watch over and over again. When they have ...

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