Dr. Dan Seigel defines the mind as “an embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information”. In other words, we can’t experience mind without a body and without mind, there would be no thing to experience.
Most people think the mind is in the brain but there is zero evidence in any literature proving that and most experts are coming to agree that if anything, the brain is in the mind. The brain is the engine of thinking and the nervous system is the vehicle for the mind.
Mental Health
Today, when the subject of mental health is bought up, there are many labels and dogmas attached. Few experts go beyond chemical imbalances within the brain and if someone doesn’t fit within a certain scope or spectrum that’s already preset, a diagnosis follows.
Mental health isn’t just about balance it’s about the ability to focus on what you want with enough energy to make it happen into physical reality. There are a lot of belief systems that are disempowering that hold people back and one of the most dangerous things to do is remain stagnant with your thoughts because you can get stuck in a box and fail to see the potential of being human.
We must take the time to investigate what is real and true for us by asking the big, deep questions and allow what resonates.
"It is through the medium of the psyche that we give shape to both ourselves, and the world around us."
Mind Is The Builder
Thoughts move at the speed of now and you have to tune your mind into something to get anything to happen. The moment you tune your mind into something, it’s no different to calling someone’s phone number because that’s the frequency that their phone resonates with. When you tune your mind into something, you become a cosmic antenna and attract anything on that vibrational level to yourself. Hopefully it’s something you want.
The conscious mind wants to make something tangible. If you’re not conscious — everything can seem like a personal attack. What you say must line up with your inner voice otherwise you end up sending double messages and creating further chaos in the psyche. Going through a crisis is rarely seen that as a “good“ thing at the time.
However, when we widen our gaze, we see it’s really life just inviting you into experiences and grow. Problems can make for great solutions, although where you’re blocked, you’re also blind. To perceive at the mental level, the physical body and its biochemistry/physiology need to be functional.
“Until you make the unconscious conscience, it will run your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
Experience of Mind
It is through the medium of the psyche that we give shape to both ourselves, and the world around us. Recognising the reality of the psyche is when we begin to enter the dimension of experience where our imagination and experience of ourselves influence each other in the conscious and consciousness — generating the way. As Carl Jung says “Until you make the unconscious conscience, it will run your life and you will call it fate.”
Messengers in the Brain
According to psychoneuroimmunology (the study of the effect of the mind on health and resistance to disease), what you eat dictates how you think. The first foods we put into our body sets up our neurotransmitter (chemical messengers in the brain) profile for that day. We all have dominant and deficient neurotransmitters to some degree. People with anxiety or jittery energy tend to have lower GABA levels, while people migrating towards lethargy and depression likely have low serotonin levels and crave more carbohydrates.
These neurotransmitters also affect our behavioural traits. Late Strength Coach Charles Poliquin noticed in his athletes that dominances in certain neurotransmitters would determine what kind of training that athlete would do that day.
Example: Acetylcholine dominance would require the athlete to “feel” their way through a session whereas dopamine dominant would happily work themselves half to death and serotonin levels would determine a “play v. workout” ratio. It's a mind game, literally.
Eating foods that suit your bodies’ ancestral needs helps balance the neurotransmitters ad improve the function of our mind.
As Above So Below
As you can see, the body and mind can’t really be separated. They mirror each other and we wear the choices we’ve made. The body is a cybernetic system, a system of systems.
Whatever we put into our system and even down to the thoughts we think always has consequences somewhere else.
We perceive life through our diet. Is your perception clean or processed? By choosing clean, organically farmed foods, we can have a profound influence on our thoughts and perceptions of life and take control of what was once perceived as lost.
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Words by Matt Sorenson.
