Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.
Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.
This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – Connecting with Others from a collection of articles titled ‘Our Capacity for Social Connection’ by Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally Mallam
These articles draw our attention to this important fact – Connecting with others, and the world around us, has been central to our survival. We evolved to go beyond the individual and transcend the “self”. This universal capacity makes us human and is responsible for our success on the planet.
Connecting with Others
Humans evolved with innate abilities that help us live together in diverse groups. We are able to live all over the planet and in all conditions because we can adapt and because we have the ability to understand that different people have different ideas and experiences than ourselves, and we can learn from them and adapt to and with them.
While humanity is certainly dominant on Earth now, we forget that our early human ancestors were scrawny and scarce. Living in isolated bands of a few dozen, they needed to bind into communities to help them survive predators and climate fluctuations. It is most probably the case that human beings have thrived as a species because of sophisticated social bonding and attachment to others, which fostered such virtues as forgiveness and gratitude.
While it often doesn’t seem like it — especially these days — almost all of human life is based upon cooperation and connection. Many animals do, of course, show both minor and elaborate cooperation: Wolves and lions do so in the hunt; dolphins work together to chase, corral and scoop up schools of small fry; and ants are legendary in their organization.
But humans are flexible in cooperating in countless pursuits, and with different partners: with a single collaborator, with a few or with many; with a large work-group and so on.
To achieve and expand on our ability to connect with others, our brains became exceptionally adaptive, able and open to responding in multiple ways; the unique success of our human journey is evidence of this. The downside is that we are vulnerable to forces that can be detrimental to our welfare.
Excerpt from ‘Our Capacity for Social Connection’ by Robert Ornstein, David Sobel & Sally Mallam
I am sure that you will enjoy reading these articles; you can click on the following link: https://humanjourney.us/our-mind-in-the-modern-world/connecting-with-others/our-capacity-for-social-connection/
Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Namaste!
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