The anxious brain

Neuroscience shows us that it only takes a single thought to begin activating your body to produce physiological changes. Which you experience as depression, sadness, anxiety, grief and stress.

You may hate it and your thoughts may be in turmoil. Yet underneath, your mind-body is craving its physiological reward and those familiar chemicals which you refer to as emotions.

It’s addicted to them. 

In reality what’s happened is, you have disconnected from the safe present moment and your body which is your unconscious mind, which has memorised a particular state of being. Keeps returning to its familiar past, in order to maintain a ‘familiar’ feeling, as in….” this is who I am”

The brilliant US Neuroscientist, Dr Joe Dispenza said in a recent interview –

…”If we think thousands and thousands of thoughts each day, which we do. And 70% of our daily thoughts are negative and redundant.  And 90% of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before. It makes sense then that we live a huge part of our day and lives on a kind of autopilot.

Thinking the same thoughts, leads to making the same choices…making the same choices leads us to demonstrate the same behaviours…demonstrating the same behaviours leads us to create the same experiences...creating the same experiences leads us to produce the same emotions…and those same emotions drive the same thoughts.

This means that your life becomes defined by a memory of your past, not a vision of the future or what is possible. Essentially, your past becomes your future.”….

So what that means is, that your biology stays the same…neither your body or your brain changes at all…you continually recreate the same brain activity…which activates the same brain circuits and reproduces the same brain chemistry…which affects your body chemistry in the same way and you stay exactly the same. So then for the most part, we are programmed to be on auto pilot.

Many times, people suffer with the symptoms of anxiety because they are living in auto-pilot – NOT- as a result of what’s happening to them in the moment.

If you learned how to gently settle and anchor your body and emotions into the safe present moment, again and again throughout your day. Then over time you would begin to rewire your brain. Plus, your body would begin to release the emotion it had memorized and you would recondition your body to a new, more peaceful state of being.

Your body would begin to get used to a new, familiar, ‘normal’ way of feeling and you would break-free from the conditioned response which has permanently altered your State of Being.