Dan Siegel: Name it to Tame it

[@Continental123-i2n]

So--- It's the "Outer Brain" (Upstairs, What You're Currently Concsious or Aware Of) -- and the "Inner Brain" (Downstairs, What You are Not Really Conscious of Verbally, Can't Articulate--- UNTIL Attention is Put On It by the Outer Brain and Given a Name---- And then it (the Inner Brain that is Running You) Calms Down, Is more Ok with What Is, Regardless of What -- It Is )

[@FOURTEEFIVE]

This comment needs an edit it hurts to read haha xx

[@davealderson-ej5td]

Bonjour Veronique, activer les sous-titres pour en Francis.

[@tbillyjoeroth]

What if we name it wrongly? If it's fear but I name it anxiety? Does it not work?

[@ireneplett6093]

What a marvellous insight! Thank you for sharing.

[@wjb4578]

It can't be this simple. But I guess it can be because I've never looked up how to regulate/process emotions, so I've had no clue on how simple it can be.

[@veroniquelemiere7663]

Comment avoir le sous-titrage en français ? Il paraît que c'est possible...

[@mathews0618]

Just rhyme, got it

[@defenderofwisdom]

In retrospect, I think "name it to tame it" actually just ends up "Name it to shame it, and shame it to inflame it." This tactic feeds against the core strategy of just and good social change.

[@FOURTEEFIVE]

Why do you say shame

[@byronelton5211]

I don't really follow. I don't know the grander context of this video, but isn't he talking about stress response occurring throughout your limbic system causing anxiety and that by connecting those two portions of the brain through identification and articulation that we get an autonomic neural relaxing response sent back to the limbic system? How is this problematic, and prevent good social change? I'm asking this curiously.

[@user-wk9ui8ob2n]

I don't follow this logic either...

[@MYTHFROMNATURE]

I think because of how the society is and how they can be abrasive and offensive, the name that has been used may be abused.

[@spiritledwellness8142]

I think I hear what you are saying. I experienced a lot of shaming for naming emotions as a child. When I named emotions and shared the reasons for my feeling with my caregivers, they could not accept that their behaviors had been triggers. So, their response was to shame and blame me for my feelings. So, based on this experience, I think your "Name it to shame it" scenario would likely occur in unsafe emotional environments. If a person has had a lot of trauma and not experienced compassionate connection with someone, then their assumption might be that naming it would always lead to shame. In my experience with a compassionate counselor, I found healing from naming it. Naming it did tame it for me. However, naming it before work with a counselor would only produce shame because I did not have the voice of compassion of my counselor in my head. Instead, I had the old shaming voices of my childhood caregivers.