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What's Going On Inside My Head?: A Let’s Talk picture book to start conversations with your child about positive mental health

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There’s a lot of debate about instincts and whether they are something that humans have. Instincts are generally thought to be the property of animals. Humans do have some: for example, the desire to hold a newborn baby in their arms, even if the baby isn’t theirs, is a manifestation of an instinct. But the critical difference between humans and other animals is that we can overcome instinctive behavior and control it. Consciousness: being aware I have to actually boss my brain sometimes – tell myself that I am in control of what goes on inside my head. This might seem obvious, but Mark said that our attentional resources are not limitless; like a gas tank, if we use up too much without refilling, we’ll hit Empty.

The first voice is the world. The second voice is the flesh. The third voice is the devil. John 8:44, Jesus is speaking and he says, “The devil was a murderer from the beginning. Not holding to the truth for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language for he is a liar and the father of lies.” The devil wants to destroy what God wants to build.I wouldn’t share what was going on inside my mind with anyone because I genuinely thought that no one would want to hear it.

Why does it say that? Well, we know that the Hebrew word for heart literally means the inner man. Technically the intellect, the mind, the will and then the emotions, all of the things that make up the inner man. Today, we probably would talk more about the mind than the heart, but the idea is that it’s everything that’s within us and the Bible says, “Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.” But Fernyhough, who collaborated on the work, cautions that he and his colleagues are not trying to make generalisations about what everyone's mind is like on the basis of these five people: “We're trying to say that for these particular people, there's a really interesting correlation between what's going on in their brains and what they say is going on.” Interestingly, the technique was an extension of a serendipitous finding by clinicians during the First World War. They found that, when penetrating injuries to the brain allowed air entry to the ventricles, plain X-rays would clearly outline the ventricular contours in sharp relief. In a 2015 study, Malgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl, a psychologist at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, asked students to describe the different kinds of inner voices they conversed with and came up with a list of four common internal interlocutors: the faithful friend; the ambivalent parent; the proud rival; and the helpless child. Each voice might pop up in different situations – an ambivalent parent-type might offer caring criticism, but a proud rival-type is more likely to be focussed on success rather than offering support. We might adopt these different roles to help ourselves get through situations like a tough test or sports game. Then there is another column on this question for you to think through, maybe over the next few days, what voice is speaking that makes you feel that particular way? This is a very powerful exercise for you to get started to be thinking about how these four voices might be speaking into the narrative that’s inside your head.When considering the drivers of the tremendous advances in neuroscience in this fairly brief period of time, imaging is an absolute standout. The other two critical components have been the unravelling of cellular biology generally and the revolution that has occurred in the genetics of disease. In practice, this meant high-powered computing could generate maps of these protons. Even better, brain blood vessel flow and brain function could be studied.

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