The document summarizes 10 threads or key ideas from the book "The Enchanted Loom: Chapters about Neuroscience, Development, and the Human Heart" by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon. The threads discuss how our chance for happiness depends on understanding love, how emotions influence but cannot be commanded, and how early relationships shape our ability to form stable relationships later in life. Overall it explores the interconnection between the brain, emotions, relationships and how our experiences with love impact who we become.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads
from Thomas Lewis,
Fari Amini &
Richard Lannon’s …

3. Thread 1:
As individuals and as a culture, our chance
for happiness depends upon our ability to
decipher a
hidden world
that revolves –
invisibly,
inexorably,
improbably –
around love.
(pg. viii)

4. Thread 2:
People who do not intuit or respect the
laws of acceleration and momentum,
break bones;
those who do not
grasp the princi-
ples of love waste
their lives and
break their hearts.
(pg. 13)

5. Thread 3:
We think the heart is dangerous and must
be included. The heart and the brain – like
charged particles of opposing polarity –
exert their pulls
in different
directions.
Where they are
brought together
the result is
incandescence.
(pg. 15)

6. Thread 4:
The questions we ask
change the world we see.
(pg. 18)

7. Thread 5:
Much of one’s mind does not take orders.
Emotional life can be influenced, but it
cannot be
commanded.
Emotion is the
messenger of
love; it carries
every signal from
one brimming
heart to another.
(pg. 33 & 37)

8. Thread 6:
Adults remain social animals: they continue
to require a source of emotional stabiliza-
tion outside themselves. People cannot be
stable on their
own. Stability
means finding
people who
regulate you
well and stay-
ing near them.
(pg. 86)

9. Thread 7:
Being well-regulated in relatedness is the
deeply gratifying state that people seek
ceaselessly in romance, religions and cults;
in part-
ners, pets,
softball
teams and
1000 other
aspects of
human life.
(pg. 157)

10. Thread 8:
If early experience exemplifies healthy
emotional interaction, it will later serve
as a reliable
guide to the
world of
workable
relationships.
(pg. 140)

11. Thread 9:
The more often you do, think or imagine
a thing, the more probable it is that you
will revisit its prior stopping point. Long-
standing togetherness writes permanent
changes
into a
brain’s
open
book.
(pg. 144)

12. Thread 10:
Who we are and who we become depends,
in part, on whom we love.
(pg. 144)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Love-38924504
Slide 12 - http://attackofthecute.com/on/?i=4583
Slide 2 - httphttp://toyfileuy.cf/ageneral-theory-of-love-pdf-1120
Slide 6 - http://amorebeautifulquestion.com/einstein-questioning/
Slide 5 - http://bit.ly/1MKrdCx
Slide 11 - http://theodysseyonline.com/centre/in-defense-of-all-things-cute/181600
Slide 10 - http://nydn.us/1d5cC2r
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Lovers-51202937
Slide 8 - http://upliftconnect.com/why-women-need-a-tribe/
Slide 7 - https://www.gettingpersonal.co.uk/gifts/personalised-mug-gift-set-joined-hearts.htm
Slide 4 - https://www.pinterest.com/jennjellybean/hearts-and-bones/

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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