energies · VI / XX · Sphäre B · Körper & Feld · All 20
You yawn when he yawns. That is research, not courtesy.
In your premotor cortex, neurons fire not only when you act — but also when you see someone else act. You live their inside inside your own.
Do you know the moment when you walk into a room and immediately know: there is tension here? No one has said anything. But your body has already read the field of the others. That is co-regulation in real time.
I — Structure · Measurable
Rizzolatti et al. 1996 discovered mirror neurons in macaques. In humans: fMRI activation in Broca's area and the inferior parietal cortex during mere observation of goal-directed movements.
II — Flow · Tradition
Buber: I become through Thou. Levinas: the face of the Other as ethical origin. Buddhism: the five aggregates (skandhas) form in resonance. We have never lived this alone.
III — Breadth · Synthesis
Polyvagal theory (Porges 2011) names co-regulation as the neural platform of attachment. Several parent-infant HRV-synchronisation studies (among them Feldman et al.) show correlations of r≈0.5 at eye contact — the hearts truly synchronise. Polyvagal theory itself is clinically effective, but theoretically contested (Grossman 2023).
Mirror neurons · co-regulation
Through what do two people synchronise most strongly in the body?
- 1 · Somewhere on this page you yawned. Reflex, not boredom — I hope.