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Daniel J. Siegel is a renowned psychologist and author known for his contributions to the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology. His research focuses on how the brain influences our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and how these processes shape our personal and social relationships.

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“Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)”

Source: The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

“Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235)”

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“Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.”

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Book:Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Source: Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation