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We understood the many ways a mother’s shame can haunt a daughter’s body.
Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak (via buttonpoetry)
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Finding the brain’s generosity centre
Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to others. The discovery could help understanding of conditions like psychopathy where people’s behaviour is extremely antisocial.
The researchers were led by Dr Patricia Lockwood, who explained: ‘Prosocial behaviours are social behaviours that benefit other people. They are a fundamental aspect of human interactions, essential for social bonding and cohesion, but very little is currently known about how and why people do things to help others.
Although people have a remarkable inclination to engage in prosocial behaviours there are substantial differences between individuals. Empathy, the capacity to vicariously experience and understand another person’s feelings has been put forward as a critical motivator of prosocial behaviours, but we wanted to test why and how they might be linked.’
The scientists used a well-understood model of how people learn to maximise good outcomes for themselves and applied this model to understand how people learn to help others. While being scanned in a MRI machine, volunteers had to work out which symbols were more likely to give them, or someone else, a reward.
They found that while people readily learn to make choices that benefit other people, they do not learn quite as fast as they learn to benefit themselves. However, they also identified a particular brain area involved in learning to get the best result for other people.
Dr Lockwood said: ‘A specific part of the brain called the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex was the only part of the brain that was activated when learning to help other people. Put another way, the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex seems to be especially tuned to benefiting other people.
'However, this region of the brain was not equally active in every person. People who rated themselves as having higher levels of empathy learnt to benefit others faster than those who reported having lower levels of empathy. They also showed increased signalling in their subgenual anterior cingulate cortex when benefitting others.’
'This the first time anyone has shown a particular brain process for learning prosocial behaviours - and a possible link from empathy to learning to help others. By understanding what the brain does when we do things for other people, and individual differences in this ability, we are better placed to understand what is going wrong in those whose psychological conditions are characterised by antisocial disregard for others.’
what am i doing?
why am i here?
I don’t know, how i got here.
I mean, i do. but i don’t know just how... it all happened. so fast.
without trying, we grew up. or apart shall i say.
one day it was crystal clear, for me, it still is today
but the solution to today is not clear for me
i haven't seen the light in over 2 years
metaphysically, of course
but 2 years and 3 months
i hold on to these numbers because time never scared me before this
i never knew, before, what its like to forget yourself.
well i do today,
i know exactly how it is to forget yourself
to not remember where you came from,
what you came from,’
what you've been through
what got you here
the reasons
the reasons
for you.
i forget, all.
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june 3, 2015
first, shivers
color change
colors changing
everything i think I seem to know
is a different shade of color now
dark, grey
color
dark, grey
color
scheme
seem to take you away
to a place of change
color change
color
change
color
change of things
change me
changeling.--
-N.S
close to you
I tried to move a little closer to you
last night.
tried to bring you to the centre of my comfort
but you angrily
fixed your body in the middle of the bed
at 5 AM
2 hours before I have to wake up for work
and see you for the last time
for the next two weeks.
I feel myself getting colder for the next 2 hours
as you, moved closer to stay warm but didn’t
actually touch me
the cold has now swallowed me empty
and im empty of any love i may have left in me.
-N.S
90 miles from home
I close my eyes
and try to picture myself
in front of you
vulnerable,
but standing so upright
than i can see the confused
look on your face
but i remain silent.
/too afraid my words will fall on deaf ears.
//too afraid you wont understand the language my body speaks
when my words dont.
i see your ghost then.
slowly drifting
into thin air
& me
stranded,
90 miles from home.
-N.S
When I was in the presence of Eileen Myles
When I think about poetry/ especially as it happens in the world that is poetry/ its like when you’re no longer a kid or a bright idea but actually an institution/ I wind up thinking that poetry itself is a funny place/ awkwardly growing up/ it seems like an organization/ radical for the first ten tears and then has to be some place else/. to be perfectly frank, i don’t dwell on me too much/ well a little/ but this is the moment that i am direct of the poetry project.//
When I think of you
I close my eyes
& see your warm smile
an inch away from my face/
I close my eyes
to remember your scent
your fingers in my hair
the sun’s rays causing
your skin to shimmer
like diamonds floating in the sea/
i recall your happy moments
the way you hug
the way you tell me about your talk
with your mother//
I soak it in
like a dry dirty forgotten sponge.
Like you’re water
and I, a fish
like you’re the poison
and me the next suicide.
like you’re heaven and me
the darkness of the night
like you’re the pot of gold
but I’m the rain
like you are alive
and me just playing dead
like you are love
and the last goodbye.
How it feels to love the wrong one
like gravel raining on you
as the morning shower.
like holding your own ashes and
watching it all slip out
of your grip, one
molecule at a time.
like eating fire and not the
marshmallow.
like the ground under a hoof.
like eating air for breakfast
lunch
and
dinner.
like finding your worth as nothing.
like being held captive in a hot air balloon floating away from the earth,
like taking your heart right out of your chest and
offering it to the wolves.
like dying with each heartbeat.
-N.S
The thing about loneliness that I’m learning daily is that it can consume you whole if you let it.
It can turn dreams into procrastinated projects that you may never touch again,
friends into acquaintances,
lovers to bystanders,
and family into names in your contacts folder.
Loneliness has taught me to be uncomfortable at all times.
it keeps me wanting things that may not necessarily good for my existence.
it takes away my motivation these days.
That push.
I feel far away,
From the world i once learned about.
-N.S