Some of the incredible science behind the ten stages.A fossil caught in the frozen lava of a volcanic childhood.1

A fossil caught in the frozen lava of a volcanic childhood.1 Over two decades ago, publications by Meltzoff & Moore ( 1977) alerted the scientific world to a startling fact about newborn babies: they can imitate the facial and manual actions of other people, actions such as mouth-opening, tongue protrusion and finger movements. It seems that infants have an inborn propensity to ‘match’ their actions and expressions to other people's bodily gestures. A recent neuroscientific gloss on this discovery is that in the premotor cortex of macaque monkeys there exists a type of cell — the mirror neuron — that fires during the execution and observation of mouth and hand actions ( Gallese & Goldman, 1998). Functional magnetic resonance imaging with human subjects has provided corroborating evidence for a mechanism directly mapping observed actions onto internal motor representations of those actions ( Iacoboni et al, 1999). In other words, we primates have ways of perceiving others' actions — and, by extension, expressions of subjective states — that recruit our own tendency to enact or experience those actions or states ourselves. Minds mirror one another.

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives. #childwithin#10stages