A new wave of mind/body scientists and healers are opening up new possibilities for human development in every area of life. We are learning that our physiology affects our emotions. Emotions affect our thinking. Thoughts affect our emotions, which affect our physiology, which then affects feeling and thinking, and so it goes.
A growing body of new research shows that:
1) feelings contain as much, if not more, information than thoughts, 2) information is stored in our physical bodies at a cellular level, 3) every thought and feeling creates a physiological affect that is etched into our cells, and 4) this information exerts a profound yet largely subliminal influence on our perceptions, behaviours and experience.
As cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. explains in his book, The Biology of Belief.
"A human organism is a community of upwards of fifty trillion cells operating in unison and harmony, trying to conform to the requests and demands of that central voice. And it is the central voice that acquires and learns the perceptions that we must deal with throughout our lives."
Deepak Chopra in his foreword to Candace Pert's book, Molecules of Emotion,
refers to the intelligence that resides throughout our entire body as a mobile brain.
He writes: "Biochemical messengers act with intelligence by communicating information, orchestrating a vast complex of conscious and unconscious activities at any one moment. This information transfer takes place over a network, linking all of our systems and organs, engaging all of our molecules of emotion, as a means of communication. What we see is an image of a mobile brain-one that moves throughout our entire body located in all places at once and not just in the head."
A New York Times article titled "Themes of the Times: General Psychology," reported the following: "Research has found that the gut has a mind of its own called
the enteric nervous system.
Just like the larger brain in the head, researchers say this system sends and receives impulses, records experiences and responds to emotions." The article quoted Dr. Michael Gershon, professor of anatomy and cell biology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York as saying: "Research shows that the enteric nervous system mirrors the central nervous system." Dr. Gershon is one of the founders of a new field of medicine called neurogastroenterology,
which focuses on interactions of the central nervous system with the so-called brain-gut axis (wikipedia). Another relatively new field in medicine is neurocardiology,
which views the heart an intelligent organ as well. Mind and body have always been one whole and complete system.
Unfortunately, many of us learned to repress our inner knowing or we ignored the exquisite direction of the body's navigation system. Life is not an out of body experience.
Reclaim your connection to your innate Intelligence.
Listen to what your body is telling you!
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