Social websites harm children’s brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
By David Derbyshire
Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centered.
The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield will make disturbing reading for the millions whose social lives depend on logging on to their favorite websites each day. But they will strike a chord with parents and teachers who complain that many youngsters lack the ability to communicate or concentrate away from their screens.
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By Melissa Shawn
Your human brain is a magnificent and mind-boggling piece of creation. When you stop to think about it, this piece of complex tissue alone insists that something infinitely greater than us is going on here. And yet, the brain has its limits and was never designed to be the vehicle of its own evolution.
To explore the brain’s limits in terms of its own evolution, I will refer to it as a P-brain. Even as I say this, your own P-brain has probably interjected to offer some information about what I may mean by P-brain. Perhaps your brain offered this information: “P-brain must mean pea brain, a common way of saying that someone doesn’t have a very high level of intelligence. I think I may be about to feel insulted.”
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By Melissa Shawn
This perspective will be very useful to you if you can suspend your thoughts about what I am going to say, and instead just experience the truth of it in your heart. As you read, you may get a sense that you already understand the ideas being presented intellectually, but perhaps you are still missing a living, breathing, heart-based knowing. The truth presented here is so simple–but when our brains take charge of processing it, we end up making a complicated mess of it.
Whenever we “fall in love with someone else” — whether this is platonic love for a friend, romantic love, or just love of a certain quality in another — we are really falling in love with ourselves. Whatever it is you find to love in the other is actually portraying an image of that which you deeply love in yourself. It is never (yes, never) THEM you love; you are loving an image of YOUR OWN SOUL — reflected by the other so that you can see it and love yourself more. This is no different than seeing your physical self reflected back in a mirror so that you can see it, except it is your soul being reflected rather than your body. It is YOU that you are loving any time you love another. In loving an other, you are seeing that which you deeply love about yourself—but aren’t consciously connected to. And so the “other” comes along and hands you the gift of conscious connection to your own self love.
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