The Neurobiology of Humanity

The Value in Emotion – Processing

Posted on April 2, 2024December 12, 2024 by Chele Yntema

Integration leads to optimal regulation... In essence, "emotional regulation" is how we use our minds, bodies, and relational processes to enhance integration. To achieve regulation, an integrative state of coherence, in the moment and across time, the mind both monitors and modifies the flow of energy and information to differentiate...Read More

The Value in Emotion – Understanding

Posted on April 1, 2024June 16, 2024 by Chele Yntema

The ability to involve conscious processing with something as fundamental as the creation of meaning, social relatedness, and perceptual processing certainly does give us an increase in the flexibility of our responses to the environment. Having a consciousness of emotions is especially important in the social environment.Without it, we are...Read More

Patterns of Self-Protection: Attachment vs Authenticity

Posted on February 17, 2024December 13, 2024 by Chele Yntema

Are there times in your life when you find yourself in connections, conversations, collaborations, or relational dynamics that leave you feeling like you could not show up as your authentic Self? For many of us there have been interpersonal interactions throughout our lives that seem to have this uncanny ability...Read More

Functional Fundamentals – Fundamental Nature of Self & Other Experiencing in the World

Posted on April 7, 2023December 14, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Functional Fundamentals of Humanity Without a theory of human beings there can be no theory of psychotherapy. Lapworth & Sills, 2010 Fundamental Nature of Self & Other Experiencing in the World Whilst I share my fundamental belief in the Divine herein, I do not subscribe...Read More

Functional Fundamentals – Fundamental Constitution of Self

Posted on April 6, 2023November 8, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Functional Fundamentals of Humanity Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde Fundamental Constitution of Self It is important to ground psychotherapies on a knowledge of affective processes and thereby to understand how...Read More

Functional Fundamentals – Defining Wellbeing & Suffering

Posted on April 5, 2023November 8, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Functional Fundamentals of Humanity The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. Gabor Mate Defining Wellbeing and Suffering When we appreciate the fundamental nature of human experience and the fundamental constitution of Self as it relates to Other(s) and the World we...Read More

Framework Fundamentals – Co-Regulated Connection

Posted on April 4, 2023May 19, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Therapeutic Fundamentals of Practice When we are held in safety by another’s non-judgmental receptivity, we naturally open to more awareness of sensation, feelings, and the thoughts that arise from and accompanying them. The stability of our joined windows of tolerance makes what was intolerable and...Read More

Framework Fundamentals – Compassionate Collaboration

Posted on April 3, 2023June 30, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Therapeutic Fundamentals of Practice Outcome is enhanced when the therapist uses modalities and defines goals consistent with the life experiences and cultural values of the client. No single approach is equally effective across all populations and life situations Collins & Arthur, 2010 Compassionate Collaboration Compassionate...Read More

Framework Fundamentals – Contextual Coherence

Posted on April 2, 2023May 26, 2024 by Chele Yntema

MIND BODY CONNECTION & the Therapeutic Fundamentals of Practice When a person is in a more coherent state there is a shift in the relative autonomic balance toward increased parasympathetic activity (vagal tone), increased heart-brain synchronization and entrainment between diverse physiological systems. In this mode, the body’s systems function with...Read More

Neuroception

Posted on April 28, 2021August 8, 2021 by Chele Yntema

Neuroception is the term coined by Stephen Porges to represent our innate capacity to move toward or away from social engagement. More specifically it is a body to brain process that senses or “detects and distinguishes” safe from dangerous or life threatening environments (including both situational and relational stimulus). Porges...Read More

Homeostasis

Posted on April 26, 2021May 24, 2024 by Chele Yntema

Though we may not always pay attention to it, within every living thing there is an inherent and adaptive awareness. It is an awareness that gives rise not only to the basic functionality of our living and being Self, but so too to the emergence of our sensing, perceiving, interpreting,...Read More