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They Love Me, They Love Me Not – And Why It Matters | Ronald Rohner | TEDxUConn


Translator: Mohamed Alzahaf Checker: Riyad Almubarak

Hello all,

I’m really happy to be here today to talk to you about the topic

You already know more than anyone else on this planet

Because I will talk about you.

I will talk about everyone in this room

I will talk about everyone who listens to this program.

Let me give you a brief overview of what I will present to you.

We were working, meaning we were doing research

For almost six decades

With 200,000 to 300,000 people

In every continent now, except Antarctica

In doing so,

We learned two basic lessons about what we are as human beings.

I want you to think about yourself

The most important people for you

And what I’m saying ..

Do not make up a difference from you

In terms of race, sex, language, and other patterns of differentiation

We are now talking about what we are as human beings.

We have learned two basic lessons

Within six decades of working with people everywhere on our planet.

OK.

The first lesson you learned is you and me

Understand ourselves that we care or do not care

By the people most important to us in the same four ways.

I will invite you to think about yourself in a moment

In terms of your continuity

In your relationship to the person or people most important to you

In your life or work, such as parents and others.

The second basic lesson we learned

Is that depending on where we fall on this continuum of care,

Desirable, appreciated, lovable, whatever the word used –

We call it acceptance –

People tend to respond exactly the same way,

Everywhere in the world.

So far we have not found any exceptions in any of the world’s population ..

There are some individuals who are exceptions but not residents.

Now, think of a really important person in your life

A parent, an intimate partner, someone makes a difference

In your sense of who you are and in your feelings about yourself.

Put yourself on this chain.

We do not accept or reject

But we all fall somewhere along the dimension

From being more or less in acceptance or rejection.

Acceptable:

Warm up and love it, let’s say, your partner

Your intimate partner?

How warm and affectionate you see in this person as a human being?

Or the warmth and affection of your parents

When I was growing up at home?

Instead, coolness and ingenuity?

This person’s hostility and violence toward you

And your feelings about it?

Ignorance or neglect of this person for you?

And your feelings about what we call indistinct rejection

You feel that this person is very important in your life

He really does not care for you, wants you, cares about you, loves you

Whatever this feeling, that is, from our point of view

We call that rejection.

Think about that person now.

What we discovered:

People everywhere on our planet respond exactly the same way

Like the population there are some individuals who are a bit different

They are more able to deal with others

Respond in exactly the same way to feelings of rejection:

We worry, we feel insecure.

Then we start to anger

This is the set of things I display on the screen from the rear

It starts to happen to us

It revolves around all other species

If we feel rejected by someone

Especially for children who grow up in a family where they do not feel the desire and appreciation

Love, and so on –

It revolves around all other species

Such as depression themes, suicidal thoughts

Drug addiction, school problems, this continues, and so on.

Since years

There was a distinguished colleague a few years ago

“Ron is just a feeling for people,” he said

Not real, not important

Did not hurt, what’s the matter? rid of it.”

What we have learned in recent years, with the development of neuroscience

Neuropsychology, neuroscience, biochemistry, and so forth

That this is not simply a casual phenomenon

This is not just a transient thing.

In fact, it affects the structure of the brain.

Not rejected, by this very influential person in our lives

Illuminates the same part of the brain that is illuminated by physical pain.

Imagine you inserted the thumb into the car door

Or anything else really hurt.

This hurts!

After three weeks, you will remember

“The boy who hurt you”

But you will not feel pain.

With rejection, when you remember

The brain will shine

The same way he did when I first encountered it

Or can do so.

More importantly, perhaps in some respects

For children born in families of rejection –

With abuse, neglect, and other forms of psychological rejection, and so forth

It actually changes the structure of the brain.

Brain structure and function are two different things,

Are significantly different for children who have suffered from rejection.

Areas of the brain that are necessary for learning

For memory, for emotional control, and a whole range of things

Affected by the rejection process.

Some of us –

There are about 100 people in the room now, I think

I know there are at least seven to ten of you

Who have suffered, with great pain, those things that I am talking about.

In the United States, usually, it is within the range of seven to ten percent

Of each sample, each population we worked with

They suffered in a very serious way.

The good side of it is that you know that 90 percent or more of us

They grew up with more or less love in our families.

But many of us know people who have suffered from these kinds of things

Things of anger, and emotional response

Emotional instability, and so forth that revolves in these other directions.

Now, with the brain structure,

With its biological neurological effects, neuropsychological effects

It also tends to continue throughout their lives.

So far in adulthood, those who refused us as children

There are things that I talked about

In terms of personal things, and general psychological adjustment

Some neurological effects are biological, neuropsychological

For the rejection process, it extends into adulthood

And makes us more vulnerable and vulnerable

To a full range of biomedical matters

More prone to cancers, diabetes, allergies of one type or another

A list of things will happen, and may also affect age.

Some of these things, of course, do not quite know about.

So, we are clearly talking about something, in fact, during my six decades

From reading the literature of psychological development

And study people around the world

I have not yet been able, personally, to find anything that affects this consistently

Over a long period of time in the lives of people everywhere

Regardless of differences in race, language, culture, sex, etc.

This experience is also of a sense of interest or not.

Now, some people deny, “I do not need to care about me”

I do not need anyone to love me, I do not need to hug. “

Well, that’s it –

For people who have refused, this is not unfamiliar

This is an issue we call “defensive independence”:

It hurts a lot, that you have been hurt too much.

By the way, we are not satisfactory people to talk to them about this:

These are predictable natural consequences

Of the rejection process

Which we all tend to experience.

We need to understand that these are natural responses

To possess us as human beings

To understand ourselves to care about the same way or not

And respond in the same way

When we feel that these are our basic needs

Care, support and love are not met.

right Now

I do not want to grieve you completely,

So let me talk a bit

Just about the benefits of a sense of interest

Acceptance, love, appreciation, and desire.

It serves as a major barrier against all these negative effects

And many more that I have not mentioned to you –

Effects of rejection ..

It is a barrier against it, so develop it.

But the feeling of interest

For children who grow up in captivity where they feel they are loved

It has an effect in itself.

This means, for example

Children born in loving families tend to be more sociable,

They tend to be helpful

They tend more towards being –

The whole range of things that we parents want in our children.

So it is not only a barrier against the effects of rejection

But it has all the advantages in itself.

Then recently, we found something interesting is really interesting for me,

I probably think you.

All of you have thought, I hope, now

Everyone is listening to this show

About your personal relationship

With that person or other people who are extremely important to you

And where to put yourself

On these dimensions of warmth and affection of the hand

Some of these things are psychological adjustment

And personal behavior on the other hand.

We have a basic need

To the positive response of people who are important to us;

We are social animals at the core of our biological evolution

What we are as humans ..

Seemingly.

Otherwise why do not we find exceptions in any population in the world?

What I want to do is, as a catalyst for change

In a very troubled world we all know about it

I want at this moment to ..

I forgot to say

So what we learned is to be able to give affection

It has more benefits than getting affection.

So most of my work has been in the past six decades:

“What happens to us when we receive love, or not?”

But we discover recently

Because the work of other people such as (Corrie Floyd) and his partners

Be able to give affection

It has more benefits than the benefits of receiving affection.

health benefits

Psychological benefits, and others.

With this thought I want to be a catalyst for change

By calling everyone: Please stand up and bring the person next to you.

(Laughter)

Please, stand up and hug the person next to you.

(chat)

Does anyone like my hug?

I want our embrace.

thank you.

(Laughter)

For those of you who want more information about this,

Please visit our website.

And continues as such;

It takes about a full semester or more to go through the details of this.

So, thank you very much for being a great audience.

(clap)

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