Still, methods like mindfulness seem to offer an "organic" way to teach focusing skills without the risks that endless hours of gam ing pose for de-skilling kids in the social realm.16 Indeed, mindful ness seems to prime brain circuitry that makes us engage the world more, not withdrawY Whether a well-designed game can do the same for the brain's social circuitry remains to be seen.Psychiatrist Daniel Siegel of the University of California, Los Angeles, describes the wiring that links attuning to ourselves and attuning to others as a "resonance circuit" that mindfulness practice strengthens.19 A well-connected life, Dr. Siegel argues, begins with the circuitry for mindfulness in the brain's prefrontal executive centers, which do double duty: they are also at play when we attune in rapport.
Mindfulness strengthens connections between the prefrontal executive zones and the amygdala, particularly the circuits that can say "no" to impulse-a vital skill for navigating through life (as we saw in part 2).
Enhanced executive function widens the gap between impulse and action, in part by building meta-awareness, the capacity to ob serve our mental processes rather than just be swept away by them. This creates decision points we did not have before: we can squelch troublesome impulses that we usually would act on.
Still, methods like mindfulness seem to offer an "organic" way to teach focusing skills without the risks that endless hours of gam ing pose for de-skilling kids in the social realm.16 Indeed, mindful ness seems to prime brain circuitry that makes us engage the world more, not withdrawY Whether a well-designed game can do the same for the brain's social circuitry remains to be seen.Psychiatrist Daniel Siegel of the University of California, Los Angeles, describes the wiring that links attuning to ourselves and attuning to others as a "resonance circuit" that mindfulness practice strengthens.19 A well-connected life, Dr. Siegel argues, begins with the circuitry for mindfulness in the brain's prefrontal executive centers, which do double duty: they are also at play when we attune in rapport.
Mindfulness strengthens connections between the prefrontal executive zones and the amygdala, particularly the circuits that can say "no" to impulse-a vital skill for navigating through life (as we saw in part 2).
Enhanced executive function widens the gap between impulse and action, in part by building meta-awareness, the capacity to ob serve our mental processes rather than just be swept away by them. This creates decision points we did not have before: we can squelch troublesome impulses that we usually would act on.
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