Heaven Earth Natural Therapies Clinic

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Emotional level and how it effects your body

part 2

Let us have a quick look at our Brain.

Brain 1 is the Reptilian Brain, the first brain to develop - Reptiles still have this brain and this is where ‘we freeze when frightened’ occurs or we strike out to protect our selves, it includes the spine and all its nerves.

Brain 2 is the next to develop and it is called the Limbic Brain - this is where the hormonal glands such as pineal and pituitary reside. More importantly, this is the Emotional Brain. So the limbic area is where the flight/fight mechanism is mainly situated.

An important point to remember here is that the emotions are the brain’s thoughts felt in and on the physical body.

Brain 3 is the Neo-Cortex and was the last to develop. This is where most of our information is stored. The Neo-cortex is divided into left and right hemispheres. We understand from research that each brain hemisphere has it’s own areas of expertise and depending on how well they interact with each other will depend on how well we relate to the outside world.

The left side of the brain deals with logic, rational thinking, speech, hearing, writing.
The right side deals with vision, spatial awareness, the bigger picture, music, rhythm, creativity and concepts of love and friendship.

Stress seems to drive us into the specific areas of the brain and keep us there. We develop thinking patterns where the brain develops nerve connections to only certain areas of the brain. And then it prefers to stay in those patterns - welcome to your ego, your style of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching the world.

It’s our 5 senses that warn us of dangers and protect us. In fact our senses supply us with most of our knowledge and experience of the world around us. I haven’t yet mentioned the information that comes from our intuition, 6th sense, chakras, auric fields or frontal lobes. I’m mainly addressing outside stimuli, that keeps us in fight or flight.

Now to understand how the Body/Mind still holds tension and stress after the event we have to realise, and this is a very important point, the Limbic part of the brain doesn’t know if the information it is receiving is coming from outside the body though the sense or whether the information is coming from the neo-cortex as memory and imagery of a past experience.

The Limbic brain will act as if it is all real and act accordingly.

So if we have a stressful experience, an argument with the boss at work for example, and we keep playing over the same experience in memory, the limbic brain still thinks we are in danger and it keeps stimulating the body into the fight or flight response.

We also have our outside world experiences. Let us not forget, that our nervous system will still react to a dead body on television or the movies, as much as it would if it was really in front of our eyes.
And we have our thoughts of future possibilities (fears of future events).

The mind, if it is focused on the negative, has created neural pathways of negative patterns, then we have no hope of finding peace until we consciously stop the stressful thinking patterns.

Research has shown that abused children are unable to produce positive brain chemicals such as the endorphins. Their brains have not had enough positive experiences to be given the right type of stimuli.

We must take the time each day to practise feeding peaceful, relaxed, calming messages to our brain and nervous system. If the brain can’t be relaxed then it must be taught to relax. It must be given an alternate way of acting and reacting.

We need to tell our Brains/Nervous system that ‘all is well’ that it is safe here and now,’ that for the next 20 minutes or so, we can let go, relax and surrender to this moment.

Each day needs to contain a letting go time. A place and a time to say 'all is safe, I can relax now".

A time to process the day. A time to retrain the brain in healthy recharging, restoring, healing life patterns. You will live longer, you will be healthier, you will enjoy each day more. You will give your body time to heal and most importantly you will quieten and retrain the mind to hear a higher wisdom and love.

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