Dr. Nicole LePera

But I think a lot of us are beginning this journey from not having had the attunement that we needed to then maybe translate that same sort of attunement in our adult relationships.

Right.

And this is really speaking to the underlying unconscious, I think is a better word, process that our nervous system, our body, kind of that scanning, feeling, sensing of the energy of another person, right?

This is all happening non-verbally.

Of course, when we're talking about attunement in childhood, our whole life is non-verbal.

But I think the most common example, like you're

describing the research.

I think many of us meet this in our daily life, right?

When we walk into a room and perhaps two people were in the room and they were in an argument and nothing is said, right?

But you can feel the heaviness, the stress, the tension in their energy.

So not only is our nervous system doing that at any time, of course, this is a function that's aimed at survival, right?

With this idea being the quicker that that energetic scanning, right, is able to determine that there's a threat that

available or existing in the environment, then we're so quickly, that's the process of neuroception that I just described, our body then is quickly able to deal with, to mitigate, to fight or to flee the threat.

We have another kind of system that gets involved in the conversation about how emotions travel and emotional contagion and whether it's good or bad is we all have in our brain something that's called mirror neurons.

Right.

Which fire when we not only see someone doing an action, but when we see someone having an emotional experience.

So, right.

You're watching someone on television and there may be going through the loss or grief around something that a person that they lost and they become emotional.

And right.

We can become emotional and maybe find ourself crying because we're mirroring something.