Your body remembers.(Part 1)

Your body is a record of all the experiences, emotions and feelings – good or bad – that you have had in your life. Your body is your unconscious mind. And it’s been programmed through repetition, to feel and do things in a particular way.

Many people have fallen under the illusion that their conscious, thinking mind is in control. They believe that their feelings and thoughts are accurate. This is because the mind does not want to let go of what it has practiced believing. Essentially, as you believe what you believe and you don’t question it, your trapped in your own mind. The problem is, most thoughts and feelings are simply mind and body patterns. Repetitive, automatic thoughts and feelings we are blind too, hold onto and totally identify with. 

However, in reality, your body as your unconscious mind is living on autopilot and your thinking mind is no longer in control.

Think for a moment about something your good at and enjoy doing. Maybe playing the guitar, rebuilding an engine, painting, gardening, martial arts, whatever. Do you have to ‘think’ about how to do that? No, your body has practiced these movements and remembered how to do these things, because you’ve repeated it so many times.

When you create or do something your good at, or naturalat, your actualy in a temporary state of ‘no-mind’

How long did it take to get good at this? How often did you practice this skill?

Would you agree that if you practice something again and again, that over time you get very good at it? When it comes to the painful emotions and negative thoughts, feelings, and addiction you may struggle with on a daily basis, your body responds in much the same way.

Every time you think about the experience at a conscious or unconscious level. You make a soup of chemicals in your brain that essentially flood your body. This makes your body feel the way you are thinking. In fact, Neuroscience shows us, that it only takes a single thought to begin activating your brain to produce physiological changes in your body. Which you then label and experience as depression, sadness, anxiety, grief and stress etc.

It’s like you are soaking or marinating your body in chemicals, which generate those feelings. Every chemical that is released in the brain is literally a message that feeds the body.

Now your body begins to feel the way you are thinking.

It makes sense then, that if you think about your negative experiences for long enough and practice feeling certain negative emotions in your body for long enough. Having the same automatic, negative thoughts about yourself and your life, week after week, month after month and year after year. That you condition your body to a specific emotional state.

This creates a stable feeling in your body, called a ‘state of being’.

Your ‘state of being’ eventually alters your personality and reality, to look like the emotion, feeling, thought or trauma that you most struggle with.

It’s like you end up looking at the world, yourself and your life, through the glasses of how your body ‘feels’. It becomes automatic.

How your body has come to ‘feel’, is often who you believe that you are.