The trick is to love anyway

What*s to say?  It*s been quite a week.  I have learned some things about the way in which the brain works in my life, from neo-cortex to amygdala to neo-cortex to anterior cingulate (great names for great brain parts... see this link: http://knowledgeisnecessity.blogspot.com/2012/02/cortical-factor-what-is-going-on-in-our.html#.TzLnFUbiBnM.facebook  by way of longer explanation.  I have watched it illustrated in myself and others this week.  I have learned the trick is to love anyway, no matter what.  The trick is to stay engaged and love anyway.  Certainly not always easy, but sticking with it, no matter what it is until it reaches the empathy spot... that*s the ticket.

The trick

Is to stay engaged.

The trick is always

To stay engaged

For the long haul.

The trick

Is to watch the logical brain

Move to primitive response,

Maybe back to logical,

Then hopefully

Down to the source of empathy,

Allow mirror neurons to speak

To mirror neurons.

The trick

Is not to get stuck

In fight or flight

Or freeze

But to keep moving,

To stay engaged.

The trick

Is to love anyway

No matter where the other

Is stuck.

The trick is to notice the stuckness

And to stay

Engaged.

When all else fails

To notice

And notice

And notice

And love

Anyway.