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The Evolution of Emotional Regulation
When you're born into the world, your left brain is not working very well. You don't have linear logic. The mom is developed evolutionarily to attune to what's going on in that child's system without language. And when the baby is having a feeling, the mom will reflect on her face like a pretend version,. She'll identify the feeling, feel it, but realize it's separate from her and then automatically reflect it with facial musculature.