📚 Have been reading and researching a lot about 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 and 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 in general recently. Wanna share some portions here too. 🧠
Have you heard about "𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬" ?
It's a field within cognitive neuroscience investigating the neural underpinnings of esthetic experience, particularly in visual arts. Neuroscience has investigated this area using brain imaging and neurophysiological techniques.
I will try to explain simply and also look at it from my personal prism too: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 ?
I think we should go back to evaluation. Imho it has to do with 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲, so if you are able to spare your mental resources to appreciate beauty, that must mean that you're safe enough, that must mean that you're 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞, cause we can only do that if we have 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 to and it signals to your brain "𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥, 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦". 💌
So start appreciating small things, at least for the sake of your brain health :))
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