It’s a scientific fact (backed by decades of neuroscience research) that you can change your brain to positively influence how you think, feel, and behave.
Regardless of what’s happened to you (and to your brain) in the past, today is the day you can begin to update your neural circuitry, your outdated emotional programming, and your potential for a better life.
This is great news. We have the potential to transform our brain and our lives. It’s a thing.
The Nike slogan, ‘Just Do It’, and ‘Just Say No’ from the War on Drugs, suggest that we have the freedom to choose to change our lives for the better.
I’m suggesting that most of us are limited in our ability to choose because we’re living in parts of our brain where trauma related survival programming, not conscious choice, is running the show.
In this adaptive, survival-oriented state we trade our capacity for love, joy, creativity, and conscious choice, for protection from threatening or traumatic feelings.
When we begin inner work, like meditation, mindfulness, or other self-regulation practices, we begin to relax the protective adaptations and allow buried feelings to emerge with the potential for healing.
But since our survival-oriented programming is designed to protect us from those feelings we’re likely to become uncomfortable, either consciously or unconsciously, and find reasons to avoid inner practices.
The key to integrating these emerging feelings in support of healing is to embody them.
Embodiment is the act of forming a caring, respectful, and heartfelt relationship with the emotional energy that you feel in your body.
This process is based on interoception (the act of sensing directly into your body) and safely coming home to yourself, to your felt bodily experience.
Let’s shift mental and emotional gears. Let’s shift from a thinking style to a sensory based style of attention that encourages both safety and transformation.
You can experience the 3-minute guided video here.
Steve is a retired Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture Physician, and HeartMath Trauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner with over 35 years of clinical experience in Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, and Biofeedback.