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Name: Mindsight
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Author: Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel

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What’s in it for me? Learn to apply mindsight to get in touch with your inner self.

Life can be a troubling experience. Traumatic events during childhood can deeply affect us until old age. Injuries to our bodies can transform the way we perceive the world, and conflict in our social environments, be it at home or at work, can lead to stress and depression.

What can we do to find our way back to ourselves, to understand how we make sense of the world and how to live in harmony with our social environments?

We can apply mindsight, a set of psychological techniques designed to help us understand and reshape our inner worlds.

In these blinks, you will learn what mindsight entails, how it relates to your mind, body and social relations and how you can apply it. You will see various examples where mindsight is a valuable approach and will learn about its power to bring about positive change.

You’ll also find out why

an ocean is a good metaphor for your mind;
what watching movies with the sound turned off can teach you; and
how mindsight will facilitate dialogue with your partner.

Mindsight allows us to learn about the connections between mind, body and attitude.

Have you ever been in the middle of an important discussion when something pushes you over the edge? You might suddenly grow angry, your mind might go blank or perhaps you’ll feel an uncontrollable urge to leave the room as quickly as possible. Sound familiar?

Many of us experience reactions like this. They can be deeply confusing, leaving us at a loss to explain our own behavior. To understand these situations, we need to understand our internal worlds – and to do this, we need mindsight.

Mindsight is the skill that allows us to reflect on the connection between the body and the mind. This is central to learning how to regulate powerful emotions. Mindfulness techniques such as meditation are examples of mindsight, as they increase our awareness of our heartbeat and breathing.

But mindsight isn’t just something to practice when you have quiet time to yourself; it is a tool that you can use when life gets loud, messy and overwhelming. For instance, watching your kids scream and fight over food can make you upset. However, your children aren’t the direct cause of your growing distress – it’s your increasing heart rate.

By turning your attention and awareness to your heart rate, you can learn to regulate its influence on your emotions and get a better grip on the situation before you. By remaining calm and patient, you’ll be able to settle the conflict between your children, rather than exacerbate it by reacting with frustration.

As well as looking into your own internal landscape, mindsight encourages us to see the world through the eyes of those around us. This is something all humans are innately capable of, even though we often take it for granted; without the capacity for empathy, we would struggle immensely.

This is a challenge faced by Barbara, one of the author’s patients. During a car accident, the mother of three suffered damage to her prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that enables us to use mindsight to empathize with others. Having lost her sense of empathy, Barbara has struggled to maintain caring relationships with her kids and friends.

So what does a life with good mindsight look like? Let’s take a closer look in the next blink.

The goal of mindsight practice is a balanced, harmonic self.

Some of us are addicted to rigid morning routines. Others start to squirm if something feels too “planned.” Whether you’re strict or spontaneous, too much focus on either extreme can make you hard to be around, and unhappier in the long run. Your best bet is to find the right balance by creating a harmonic self.

Having a harmonic self is all about keeping your personality balanced. With a balanced personality, you’ll be able to adapt to external changes, but will also stay stable and true to your core values.

Mindsight is brain training that keeps us resilient and emotionally healthy in everyday life.

Mindsight can be a powerful part of psychotherapy. With a deeper understanding of how brain activity shapes the way we see the world, you’ll be able to harness the power of mindsight. So how does it work?

Mindsight is like training for your brain. It teaches us how to reflect on thoughts and helps us create new connections between them. The more we associate two ideas with each other as we reflect on them, the stronger the neural relationship between those ideas will become.

Mindsight helps us train the right side of our brains to acknowledge and manage discomfort.

You might think that talking about your feelings is simply a matter of opening up. Sometimes, we experience emotions that we’re not even aware of. But just like any other skill, becoming aware of our emotions can be learned; practice makes perfect!

This is a central focus of mindsight-based therapies. Mindsight targets the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for our emotional awareness. Though we’re more comfortable exercising the rational capabilities of the left hemisphere, the right hemisphere is the side we should exercise to deepen our understanding of our own feelings. Thankfully, this isn’t too hard to do.

Mindsight helps us see how feelings are fleeting experiences, not our defining character traits.

While it’s all too easy to tell someone to “keep their temper,” emotions can be very tough to manage. Many people find emotions overwhelming and distressing, but mindsight helps us realize that they’re all just fleeting parts of the human experience, rather than ingrained behaviors that indicate we’re somehow flawed and dysfunctional.

Meditation exercises, for instance, train people to focus on one thing and one thing only. Such exercises require that, if you do get distracted, you bounce back and return to your focus. This is a great way to experience how thoughts and feelings are just temporary experiences, rather than the foundations of your personality.

Negative childhood experiences might shape how we see our world today, but we can use mindsight to overcome them.

Who were your teachers in the first years of your life? Your parents, most likely! But parents do far more than teach us to read or how to ride a bike. We also learn a great deal from everything that they teach us subconsciously.

For better or for worse, our upbringing shapes how we interact with people today. Kids raised by parents who only showed affection inconsistently often feel that they can’t trust anyone when they become adults – not in friendships, not at work, not even in loving relationships.

Use mindsight to be receptive rather than reactive to your partner when addressing relationship problems.

Many of us know what it’s like to have stupid fights with our partners. It starts out with one person addressing a problem, but soon seems to devolve into fighting for the sake of fighting. What prevents these discussions from being resolved peacefully? In the end, it’s a matter of attitude.

The key is whether you’re reactive or receptive toward your partner. This one factor can have a massive influence on the quality of your relationship as a whole – so it’s pretty important stuff! But what does it mean?

Mindsight can help us with both past trauma and an uncertain present.

We’ve already learned how our childhood experiences can shape our adult lives. However, even experiences from young adulthood can have an impact on our attitudes today, without us even realizing why.

Blackouts and angry outbursts due to excessive drinking or traumatizing experiences mean that some of our most painful memories are buried and forgotten. Even so, they continue to affect us on a subconscious level.

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Mindsight (2010) introduces the reader to the many factors that shape the way we react to life’s challenges. Emotional responses are tied to our bodies, brains and childhood experiences. With mindsight, we can learn to manage our emotions in order to improve our relationships and well-being.

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Our state of mind can turn even neutral comments into fighting words, distorting what we hear to fit what we fear.

—Daniel Siegel

Wer Mindsight lesen sollte

Readers interested in the relationships between the human body, brain and behavior
Anyone interested in contemporary approaches to psychotherapy
Individuals looking for guidance in dealing with uncontrollable emotions

Über den Autor

Dr. Daniel Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and received his medical degree from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous scientific articles, has contributed to several books and also wrote The Developing Mind, a book that gained international acclaim.

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