Well, the vision board was back in March and I forgot all about my ipad wish…funny that! Then my new son-in-law was selling his ipad and had heard that I might be interested and so suddenly I was face to face with my nemesis!To cut a long story short we got the ipad and with mixed feelings I am beginning to learn all about it. It’s been great to Facetime my daughter who moved to Switzerland and friends and family in South Africa but beyond that I am still slowly incorporating it into my life.
And here is the underlying resistance:
Brain research is telling us that our powerful social brain functions best when we are face to face where it can add powerful subtexts of voice cadence, micro expressions and emotional cues to the words. Yet much of social technology does not allow that, leaving our social brain starved of vital data and our bodies reacting to the lack of information, often in reactive ways. The social brain is not being allowed to do its' constant job just out of our awareness helping us move forwards smoothly.
When there is no channel for the social brain to attend to then the orbital frontal cortex, which hunts for that information and helps us inhibit reactivity, is flying blind.
Daniel Goleman wonders if this is not a big part of the problem of intense e-interactions called’ flaming’.
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