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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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“At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.”

“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

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Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

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

“We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)”

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“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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“From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.”

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Author:Daniel J. Siegel