BRAIN:
In Conversation with Sensation
Sensation And Cognition
The ratio of cooperation between our mind and body equals the depth of our lived experience. Our mind lives moment to moment immersed in what we feel. Only when we are grounded in the wisdom of our body can we trust the intelligence of our mind to show up on demand. We do this by skillfully diverting attention from thoughts and redirecting it toward awareness of the emotional climate of our body.
Because of cognitive bias, we all deny emotional climate change. When we learn to shift our own emotional climate deliberately, our connection with ourselves and others comes to life. We start by understanding the function of our Vagus Nerve: a sensation superhighway sending four times more sensory information to the brain than it receives in cognition. This overwhelming imbalance of communication means the body tells our truest story and our thoughts merely create the sound bites.
When our mind focuses perceptions beneath the skin, we sharpen our intention to be a whole organism, honoring both mind and body.
Truth flows from within.
Bio-Lingual
Understanding How Our Biography Imprints on Our Biology
The evolution of the nervous system, from lizards to mammals, explains how our experiences color our physiological reactions. Our biography imprints itself on our biology and shapes who we are. Until we learn to recognize it and choose to change, what happens in The Vagus Nerve stays in Vagus.
The profound work of embodied self-inquiry reconnects explicit cognitive memories in our minds with implicit emotional memories in our bodies. When we interrogate our internal dialogue (the language of our biography) using awareness of our rhythms and sensations (biology), we become Bio-Lingual.
This language, a composite of the duality of our biography and biology, speaks to the heart of our indivi-duality. When life overwhelms us, becoming biolingual moves us toward emotional regulation and healing. Befriending our nervous system peels back cognitive bias and attunes us to embodiment, the unison of body and mind.
I am a dedicated student of this individual and non-googlable internal language. We only have to trust ourselves to explore how our biography lives in our bodies. The rapidly growing clinical application of embodiment and healing has become my life’s work.
Here are some of my heroes, showing you how I implement the science of healing work in my practice: