“Heartminded, as the title expresses, is an antidote to many technological societies, communities, and groups, that need to revision compassion as the central role for civility and care,” said Julia Gentleman Byers, distinguished senior fellow, Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University.
Many of the obstacles to the flourishing of a more empathetic, supportive, and loving society have to do with what author Fred Previc calls a supra dopaminergic society, where individuals compete in search of pleasure, riches, and status. The consequences of this greedy and pause-less lifestyle are a disconnection from both our bodies, our neighbors, and other living beings and, often, the emergence of symptoms of depression and anxiety, and addictive disorders. In Heartminded: Conscious Evolution from Fear to Solidarity, Dr. Silvia Casabianca wants to persuade readers that we can all do better. This book stems from both her professional and personal experience, her advocacy for social justice, a vocation as an educator, and her curiosity, especially about the science of the human brain. Writing is one of his passions. Learning love and compassion is her goal.
Science is proving that we humans are hardwired for love and compassion, gifts that reside in our genes, our physiology, and our chemistry. “These gifts can be nurtured and harnessed to solve many of the problems we struggle with––from the interpersonal to the geopolitical. Millennia of human experience have led us to this moment when we are perhaps finally ready to weave together all we have learned about the mind, body, and soul and come to recognize, embrace, and enact our true, loving nature,” said editor Tom Wallace.
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