Abstract
In this paper, we aim to use an innovative model to integrate applied work on a fast-acting mind-body intervention, Mind-Body Bridging (MBB), with theoretical work based on psychology and neuroscience. In an affect-object generative inference and regulation (AGIR) model, we propose that functional dynamics between two systems, the affect-object thought generation system and the cognitive control system, can guide an individual to achieve homeostasis within self and harmonious relationships with others. We used Neurosynth (www.neurosynth.org), an automated meta-analysis database, to identify potential brain substrates underlying the key components in the AGIR model. Based on the findings, some brain regions are implicated as the key cortical substrates in this model, corroborating our central hypothesis that a hallmark of mind-body wellbeing can be characterized as a low-frequency anti-correlantion between 1) the cognitive control system including the dorsal anterior/middle cingulate cortex, and 2) the affect-object thought generation system including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex. MBB provides an efficient strategy for responding to and dissolving a fundamental problem that impairs mind-body wellbeing, i.e., unrealistic identity-grasping consisting of self-centered embodied expectations of self and others. We demonstrated how theoretical and applied work could be integrated by drawing evidence from the neuroscience literature to support the AGIR model, and then we applied the AGIR model to elucidate how MBB might work.
Highlights
Emerging biological science suggests that life on Earth as a whole is maintained in a collective ecological homeostasis to which all organisms and environments contribute, and no organism can self-perpetuate and survive as a closed system, depending on nothing but its own genome [1]
The AGIR model suggests that a person can generate embodied beliefs to infer what should happen in relation to self and others
The negative and positive embodied expectations generated in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), respectively, serve as affective potentials ready to emotionally charge any objects that may be projected onto object sketchpads
Summary
Emerging biological science suggests that life on Earth as a whole is maintained in a collective ecological homeostasis to which all organisms and environments contribute, and no organism can self-perpetuate and survive as a closed system, depending on nothing but its own genome [1]. Mental phenomena in consciousness occur in a stream of frames of perception and expectation based on prior probability, yoked moment-by-moment This kind of framework has been referred to as predictive coding or active inference models in many different domains: sensorimotor [7] [8], interoception [9], action selection [10], perceiving intention of others [11], and perception and action related to self and other [12]. Because cortical-cortical interactions in the brain subserve mental phenomena, which encompass unrealistic expectations and conscious mind-body skills that can be intervened, we believe it is possible to use a cortical-cortical interaction model to account for the problem of identity-grasping and its interventions In this current paper, we aim to provide a cortical-cortical interaction model to integrate with the applied work of healing dysfunctional identity-grasping. We will discuss how our work is potentially applicable to a broader scope of mind-body wellbeing
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