Bonding - our Biological Survival System

What we call 'Bonding'is the primary biological survival system in the human being.  The bonding we speak of between the infant and the mother is critically necessary for the establishment of all sorts of physical processes in the infant.  Do we think of DNA being a program that just unfolds into all these marvelous growth periods in our life and so on.  But DNA is environmental sensitive.  It’s experience sensitive.  The DNA unfolds according to the nature of the environment in which we found ourselves.  That’s what gives us our great adaptability.  And the so called bonding of the infant and mother at birth, and subsequent bonding periods thereafter, are simply the ways by which the DNA is responding according to the environment around it.  If the infant and the mother are in close report, the heart has a completely different field of activity in which it functions and matures.  Visual system does.  The whole brain system does.  It all unfolds according to that environment of the mother which we would call the nurturing environment.  And if that’s not providing, then the DNA must build a system to deal with an environment which is not nurturing.  It’s just that simple.  If the environment and the only nurturer is the mother or a permanent care taker, then the DNA responds and adapts to that kind of  an environment which is a very sophisticated intellectual intelligent system that grows.  But if that nurturing environment is not there then the DNA must adapt to the environment and will do so with a completely, really a different set of neural structures in the brain.  A different heart function.