Andrew Huberman· PhD
one has to powerfully associate with the idea of receiving help, okay? The subjects are associating or experiencing empathy or sympathy for somebody else who received help.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
one has to powerfully associate with the idea of receiving help, okay? The subjects are associating or experiencing empathy or sympathy for somebody else who received help.
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We can actually observe someone else getting help, someone else giving help. And that observation of our species doing that for one another, allows us to experience the feeling of a genuine chemical and neural circuit activation lift, if you will.
basically theory of mind is your ability to put yourself into the mindset of another. And in order to get activation of these gratitude circuits, one needs to put themselves into the mindset of another or to directly receive gratitude.
That to really activate these circuits for gratitude, and the serotonin, and probably the oxytocin system as well, and its prefrontal networks, one has to powerfully associate with the idea of receiving help.