What is emotional brain power?

Your limbic brain (the emotional brain) works in concert and sometimes at odds with the neocortical brain (that directs the abstract mind--the cognitive functions of language, problem-solving, physics, mathematics).  We know much about the neocortex's power to weave and unravel abstractions.

Mirror neurons (the cells of nerve tissue) are connected to the brain's emotion region, the limbic system, and re-create the experience of others intentions and feelings within ourselves.

Leaders know, and science has discovered, emotionality's deeper purpose: the timeworn mechanisms of emotion allow two human beings to receive the contents of each other's minds.  Emotion is the messenger of love; it is the vehicle that carries every signal from one brimming heart to another.

"To function well with other people, we need to understand where they're coming from so as not to misread their intentions," says Regina Pally, a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and a clinical professor at UCLA.  "Mirror neurons are what let us understand
others' emotions."   The same cortical neurons that process the sense of touch also fire when you see someone else touched. 

Mirror neurons also let us feel another person's pain.  We feel the sensations of others in our own emotional brain as if we would be having those same sensations.

The limbic brain is the center of advanced emotionality. What one sees, hears, feels, and smells is fed into the limbic brain, and so is data about body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, digestive processes, and scores of other somatic parameters. The limbic brain stands at the convergence of these two information streams; it coordinates them and fine-tunes physiology to prime the body for the outside world.

Within the effulgence of their limbic brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance--a symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other's inner states.  It is limbic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multilayered
experience.

Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to a limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply, just as two mirrors placed in opposition create a shimmering ricochet of reflections whose depths recede into infinity.  Eye contact, although it occurs over a gap of yards, is not a metaphor.  When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achieve a palpable and intimate apposition.

Exercise the power of your limbic brain by looking deeply into someone's eyes today.

Sources: A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, M.D., Fari Amini, M.D., and Richard Lannon, M.D.
The Wall Street Journal's Science Journal, March 4, 2005

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