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Spotlight on Science:
The Scientific Foundation of Mindsight

Cultivating Well-Being:  The Mindsight Institute harnesses the power of science and the wisdom of reflection to create an approach to health that focuses on a Triangle of Well-Being: Mind, Relationships, and Brain.  These are three irreducible elements of human experience: each has influences on the others and contributes to a state of well-being. 

Bridging Disciplines:  By drawing on a variety of often independent ways of knowing, the Mindsight Institute utilizes a field called "Interpersonal Neurobiology" (IPNB), which finds the similar patterns that emerge from separate approaches to knowledge.  A professional library of texts, written by Dan Siegel and published by WW Norton, explores this exciting new area.  The Mindsight Institute serves as the organization from which IPNB first developed and is the principal educational source for learning in this area.  Linking science, clinical practice, education, the arts, and contemplation, the Mindsight Institute functions as an educational hub from which these various domains of knowing and practice can draw and enrich their individual efforts.

Dan Siegel is the Founding Editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which offers an extensive professional library exploring this exciting new field (WWNorton.com). The Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (MindGAINS.org) also provides further information and membership activities related to IPNB in the various domains of its professional applications.

Highlighting Integration:  At the heart of the Mindsight Institute's approach, and of IPNB's findings, is the concept of integration.  Integration is literally defined as the linkage of differentiated components of a system.  In an individual mind, integration involves the linkage of separate aspects of mental processes to each other, such as thought with feeling, bodily sensation with logic. In a relationship, integration entails each person being respected for his or her autonomy and differentiated self while at the same time becoming linked to others in empathic communication.  For the brain, integration means that separated areas with their unique functions, in the skull and throughout the body, become linked to each other through synaptic connections. These integrated linkages enable more intricate functions to emerge—such as insight, empathy, intuition, and morality.  The terms we use for these three forms of integration are a coherent mind, empathic relationships, and an integrated brain.