{"id":532,"date":"2011-02-10T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/?p=532"},"modified":"2024-01-29T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:27:34","slug":"insights-into-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/2011\/02\/insights-into-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights into Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lonrlinessgraphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-535\" title=\"lonrlinessgraphic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lonrlinessgraphic-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lonrlinessgraphic-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lonrlinessgraphic-70x50.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lonrlinessgraphic.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Research suggests that chronic loneliness can cause cardiovascular restriction, compromised immune function and arouse the Fight or Flight response. It suggests that we have evolved a stress response to isolation to prevent us from diverging too far from group protection, and that we experience emotional pain when we do. It offers insights into a source of chronic stress and even why we may find watching TV relaxing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/PDF\/Lonliness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article in 14 January 2011 Science Magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;\">&#8220;The degree of social connection that can improve our health and happiness &#8230; is both as simple and as difficult as being open and available to others.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393335283?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=brescm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0393335283&quot;&gt;Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lonliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Cacioppo<br \/>\nUniversity of Chicago, Il<\/p>\n<p>I finally got a good look at this book and it is excellent. Great perceptual depth, good convergence of neuroanatomy, psychology and evolution. Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Research suggests that chronic loneliness can cause cardiovascular restriction, compromised immune function and arouse the Fight or Flight response. It suggests that we have evolved a stress response to isolation to prevent us from diverging too far from group protection, and that we experience emotional pain when we do. It offers insights into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-ergonomics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianesty.com\/bodywork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}