Your Brain Was Never Meant to Keep Everything: The Neuroscience of Emotional Pruning and Mindful Relationships (opens in new tab)

The human brain may begin life with the neurological equivalent of emotional hoarding tendencies. This is not an insult to infants. Infants already have enough problems. They cannot hold their own heads upright and appear deeply committed to eating crayons. We should not burden them further. But according to new neuroscience research, the brain’s memory center appears to begin wildly overconnected — dense with tangled neural pathways that later get aggressively pruned into a more selective an...