By David Korten | Website
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Wired to Connect
Scientists
who use advanced imaging technology to study brain function report that
the human brain is wired to reward caring, cooperation, and service.
According to this research, merely thinking about another person
experiencing harm triggers the same reaction in our brain as when a
mother sees distress in her baby’s face. Conversely, the act of helping
another triggers the brain’s pleasure center and benefits our health by
boosting our immune system, reducing our heart rate, and preparing us
to approach and soothe. Positive emotions like compassion produce
similar benefits. By contrast, negative emotions suppress our immune
system, increase heart rate, and prepare us to fight or flee.[
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By David Korten |
Great Turning website
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The World We Want series.
Change
begins with a new story that celebrates the best, rather than the
worst, of what we are and can be. It’s pretty straightforward. If we
convince ourselves that we are innately brutal, greedy beings and that
this is all for the good, then we set ourselves a goal of perfecting
our capacity for greed and violence, thus perpetuating the world of our
nightmares. It is time to start filling our heads instead with
the story that it is our nature to be caring and giving and that this
is all for the good, and therefore we properly set our sights on
perfecting our capacity for love and caring and create the world of our
dreams.[
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By David Korten |
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So
what’s our problem? Why are we in such a mess? Why didn’t we long ago
just get together to create the world we really want? What are the real
barriers to creating the world in which we measure our progress against
a national happiness index rather than by an index of how fast we are
turning stuff into garbage?[
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