I have studied and read extensively on Self-Regulation, but this video is well done and succinct. If I could be permitted, I would like to include this in a blog post. 100% credit will be given to Committee for Children. Thank you.
I would like to ask your permission to use this video in my blog I found this very helpful and would help me to discuss in our class the self-regulation better. many thanks..
Jomar, we are glad you enjoyed this. We are more than happy to grant you permission to use this video in your blog as long as you credit Committee for Children. Thank you for asking for permission. Much appreciated.
Hello Amber, so sorry we missed this question. In case you still need, yes we are more than happy to have you use this video in your presentation, as long as you credit Committee for Children. We appreciate you for asking. And thank you for everything you do for students with autism!
This is a wonderful video. It explains so well. I also would like to add this video to my PPT I will be showing to parents at my school. May I have permission and I will post credit to your organization. Thank you.
Here is a very different but complementary perspective on resting and motivation for your consideration How Self-Motivation or Self-Control can be derived from the simple act of resting, an explanation and procedure from basic affective neuroscience The neuroscience of rest is generally neglected in the psychology of motivation, but its neurology is arguably key to our capacity for self-motivation and a sense of purpose and positive feeling or happiness. This can easily be explained neurologically and demonstrated procedurally. Rest, or the generalized inactivity of the covert musculature, is simple to describe as a somatic or bodily state, but is much more complex as a neurologic state. For one thing, it is pleasurable. The reduction of perseverative cognition (worry, regret, distraction) through meditation, eyes closed rest, or just walking on a beach thinking of nothing gives the musculature the time to completely relax, and this state of persistent or profound relaxation elicits a state of pleasure or mild euphoria due to the concomitant and sustained elicitation of endogenous opioids (or endorphins) in the brain. The sustained increase of endogenous opioids also down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings. Profound relaxation also mitigates our sensitivity to pain and inhibits tension. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state. However, pleasure from a neurologic viewpoint is not a simple thing. Groups of opioid neurons or ‘nuclei’ populate a tiny region of the neural real estate in the midbrain, and as ‘hot spots’ are collectively no larger than the eraser on a pencil. Yet they are highly sensitive to inputs from different sources in the brain. One of the primary inputs come from dopaminergic neurons, whose nuclei are adjacent to opioid neurons. The axons for dopaminergic neurons project from the midbrain to the cortex, and dopamine systems are highly sensitive to cortically processed information, namely novel and positive act-outcome expectancies or surprises that populate our days. Dopamine is a neuromodulator, or a type of neurotransmitter that activates arrays of neurons in the cortex, and is responsible for learning and motivation. Dopamine induces attentive arousal, but not pleasure, but it can indirectly increase pleasure if it occurs concurrently with the co-activation of opioid systems. For example, eat a very tasty treat, and dopamine activity will increase as you snap to attention in response to the pleasure. Conversely, the florid description of a bottle of wine will make the wine taste better because of an increase in dopaminergic activity that in turn increases opioid levels in the brain (this is also the mechanism behind the placebo effect where positive expectations change affect). In sum, opioid and dopamine systems are synergistic, and if concurrently activated will co-activate each other. So what does this have to do with resting and motivation? Since resting protocols (e.g. mindfulness, eyes closed rest, meditation) induces opioid activity, that activity will be accentuated if an individual concurrently and persistently thinks of and pursues meaningful behavior (meaning will be defined as thinking of or doing actions that have branching novel positive implications, or a variant of positive thinking). Since meaningful behavior induces dopamine release, this establishes a ‘virtuous’ neurological circuit, when rest can be merged with meaning and lead to pleasurably aroused states or even ecstasy. We can infer these processes from variants of meditation such as ‘loving kindness’ meditation and savoring, as well as peak and ‘flow’ experiences where highly meaningful activity is coupled with non-stressed or resting states. Above all, meaningful behavior is productive behavior that has positive novel and unfolding implications, and when associated with positive affect from rest, can become in a sense ‘autotelic’ or rewarding in itself, allowing us to control our behavior through self-induced positive affect. By coming to terms with the neurologic reality of relaxation, we can realize it’s possibilities as essential to daily life and to self-control that make life worthwhile, pleasurable, productive, and ‘happy’, Authors Note You can pursue a much more expansive argument for a lay audience in my two open-source books and journal article below on the psychology of rest and the psychology of incentive motivation. Also, my arguments above are not new science, but a new interpretation of the research of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to vet my books for accuracy and to provide endorsements in their preface. Meditation and Rest- The American Psychologist/David Holmes www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist The Psychology of Rest and Meditation, from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation For an excellent take on opioid and dopamine systems and how they act and interact, see The Joyful Mind: Kringelbach and Berridge sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf A more formal explanation of this procedure from affective neuroscience is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. Flow is discussed on pp. 82-87 www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing ‘A Mouse’s Tale’ Learning theory for a lay audience from the perspective of modern affective neuroscience www.scribd.com/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature Berridge Lab sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
Wow 🤩. You took the time to write this beautiful explanation! I didn’t quite understand all the technical words but it helped me understand the importance of rest and meaningful activity. I’m just starting to work as a craniosacral therapist and so it requires doing meaningful work and being in a meditative or in the present moment state. Thank you for adding so much meaning and inspiration to this new career path. Powerful!
The more you understand your emotional world, the more you can digest your feelings in healthy ways. The first step is to connect with and understand your emotions. People with repressed emotions may have trouble identifying their feelings
Hi Reva, we are happy to grant you permission to link to this video on your website, as long as you clearly credit Committee for Children. Thank you for asking! We really appreciate it.
you're talking about the child struggling with self regulation, but you show the child being bullied. I think that's a little contradictory. I also think the stress should be on the idea that it's helpful to have these skills, rather than on adult success.
You should skip te successful people part. The only children that are going to be interested in this will either already be successful and would like to maintain this trend or children that are drilled in neurotic success behavior by tneir parents.
you're talking about the child struggling with self regulation, but you show the child being bullied. I think that's a little contradictory. I also think the stress should be on the idea that it's helpful to have these skills, rather than on adult success.
I have studied and read extensively on Self-Regulation, but this video is well done and succinct. If I could be permitted, I would like to include this in a blog post. 100% credit will be given to Committee for Children. Thank you.
Thank you Abi! Feel free to link to or embed this video in your blog post, and thanks for crediting us and for checking.
im 26 and i found this helpful lol
Thank you for your comment, Laura. We agree, social-emotional learning is important for adults too... and it's a lifelong process!
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Thank you for explaining!
Never thought of is this way,very helpful
I would like to ask your permission to use this video in my blog
I found this very helpful and would help me to discuss in our class the self-regulation better.
many thanks..
Jomar, we are glad you enjoyed this. We are more than happy to grant you permission to use this video in your blog as long as you credit Committee for Children. Thank you for asking for permission. Much appreciated.
Committee for Children many thanks and more power. I am now one of your subscribers
Thank you
Could you post a link to your blog please, Jomar?
May I use this video in a power point on explaining self regulation to parents of students with autism?
Hello Amber, so sorry we missed this question. In case you still need, yes we are more than happy to have you use this video in your presentation, as long as you credit Committee for Children. We appreciate you for asking. And thank you for everything you do for students with autism!
Great work
Can I use this for some Professional Development with my School Board?
This is a wonderful video. It explains so well. I also would like to add this video to my PPT I will be showing to parents at my school. May I have permission and I will post credit to your organization. Thank you.
Thank you! You can use it in your presentation with a credit mentioning Committee for Children. Thanks for checking with us.
Very good ! Very helpful
This video is really helpful, thank you.
Here is a very different but complementary perspective on resting and motivation for your consideration
How Self-Motivation or Self-Control can be derived from the simple act of resting, an explanation and procedure from basic affective neuroscience
The neuroscience of rest is generally neglected in the psychology of motivation, but its neurology is arguably key to our capacity for self-motivation and a sense of purpose and positive feeling or happiness. This can easily be explained neurologically and demonstrated procedurally.
Rest, or the generalized inactivity of the covert musculature, is simple to describe as a somatic or bodily state, but is much more complex as a neurologic state. For one thing, it is pleasurable. The reduction of perseverative cognition (worry, regret, distraction) through meditation, eyes closed rest, or just walking on a beach thinking of nothing gives the musculature the time to completely relax, and this state of persistent or profound relaxation elicits a state of pleasure or mild euphoria due to the concomitant and sustained elicitation of endogenous opioids (or endorphins) in the brain. The sustained increase of endogenous opioids also down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings. Profound relaxation also mitigates our sensitivity to pain and inhibits tension. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state.
However, pleasure from a neurologic viewpoint is not a simple thing. Groups of opioid neurons or ‘nuclei’ populate a tiny region of the neural real estate in the midbrain, and as ‘hot spots’ are collectively no larger than the eraser on a pencil. Yet they are highly sensitive to inputs from different sources in the brain. One of the primary inputs come from dopaminergic neurons, whose nuclei are adjacent to opioid neurons. The axons for dopaminergic neurons project from the midbrain to the cortex, and dopamine systems are highly sensitive to cortically processed information, namely novel and positive act-outcome expectancies or surprises that populate our days. Dopamine is a neuromodulator, or a type of neurotransmitter that activates arrays of neurons in the cortex, and is responsible for learning and motivation. Dopamine induces attentive arousal, but not pleasure, but it can indirectly increase pleasure if it occurs concurrently with the co-activation of opioid systems. For example, eat a very tasty treat, and dopamine activity will increase as you snap to attention in response to the pleasure. Conversely, the florid description of a bottle of wine will make the wine taste better because of an increase in dopaminergic activity that in turn increases opioid levels in the brain (this is also the mechanism behind the placebo effect where positive expectations change affect). In sum, opioid and dopamine systems are synergistic, and if concurrently activated will co-activate each other.
So what does this have to do with resting and motivation?
Since resting protocols (e.g. mindfulness, eyes closed rest, meditation) induces opioid activity, that activity will be accentuated if an individual concurrently and persistently thinks of and pursues meaningful behavior (meaning will be defined as thinking of or doing actions that have branching novel positive implications, or a variant of positive thinking). Since meaningful behavior induces dopamine release, this establishes a ‘virtuous’ neurological circuit, when rest can be merged with meaning and lead to pleasurably aroused states or even ecstasy. We can infer these processes from variants of meditation such as ‘loving kindness’ meditation and savoring, as well as peak and ‘flow’ experiences where highly meaningful activity is coupled with non-stressed or resting states. Above all, meaningful behavior is productive behavior that has positive novel and unfolding implications, and when associated with positive affect from rest, can become in a sense ‘autotelic’ or rewarding in itself, allowing us to control our behavior through self-induced positive affect. By coming to terms with the neurologic reality of relaxation, we can realize it’s possibilities as essential to daily life and to self-control that make life worthwhile, pleasurable, productive, and ‘happy’,
Authors Note
You can pursue a much more expansive argument for a lay audience in my two open-source books and journal article below on the psychology of rest and the psychology of incentive motivation.
Also, my arguments above are not new science, but a new interpretation of the research of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to vet my books for accuracy and to provide endorsements in their preface.
Meditation and Rest- The American Psychologist/David Holmes
www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist
The Psychology of Rest and Meditation, from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author
www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation
For an excellent take on opioid and dopamine systems and how they act and interact, see
The Joyful Mind: Kringelbach and Berridge
sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf
A more formal explanation of this procedure from affective neuroscience is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. Flow is discussed on pp. 82-87
www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing
‘A Mouse’s Tale’ Learning theory for a lay audience from the perspective of modern affective neuroscience
www.scribd.com/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature
Berridge Lab
sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/
Wow 🤩. You took the time to write this beautiful explanation! I didn’t quite understand all the technical words but it helped me understand the importance of rest and meaningful activity.
I’m just starting to work as a craniosacral therapist and so it requires doing meaningful work and being in a meditative or in the present moment state.
Thank you for adding so much meaning and inspiration to this new career path. Powerful!
The more you understand your emotional world, the more you can digest your feelings in healthy ways.
The first step is to connect with and understand your emotions. People with repressed emotions may have trouble identifying their feelings
This reminds me of the SMART videos from Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 if any of you gamers are familiar with that
agreed. good stuff.
0:29 that would be the opposite of what i'm going to do
May I use this video for a website for a college class?
Hi Reva, we are happy to grant you permission to link to this video on your website, as long as you clearly credit Committee for Children. Thank you for asking! We really appreciate it.
I would like to ask permission to use this video in my class?
Hello Jamaliah, sorry we missed this message! Yes, feel free to use this video in your class, as long as you credit Committee for Children. Enjoy!
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Self Regulation Is Like Regulating State Of Overall Market Conditions
you're talking about the child struggling with self regulation, but you show the child being bullied. I think that's a little contradictory. I also think the stress should be on the idea that it's helpful to have these skills, rather than on adult success.
thank you so much it was so useful
Thank you, we are glad that you find it useful!
This is so darn cute!!
Thank you Angely! :-)
I understand what, but how?
You should skip te successful people part. The only children that are going to be interested in this will either already be successful and would like to maintain this trend or children that are drilled in neurotic success behavior by tneir parents.
Thank you for your comment, we appreciate it!
Thank you for your comment, Moebius.
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I have adhd, mines awful!!
so bottle your feelings ok
''Self-Regulation Skills''
or ''how to become a punchbag''
Nah don’t get it twisted. It’s funny how people have the solution to a problem in front of their face and still choose ignorance
bruh
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cute
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you're talking about the child struggling with self regulation, but you show the child being bullied. I think that's a little contradictory. I also think the stress should be on the idea that it's helpful to have these skills, rather than on adult success.