Your Mind is Here to Change/Part 1

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Awareness Heals.

That’s a complete sentence: awareness heals.

How does that happen?

It happens when we understand that the human nervous system is an open system, an interface between what we know as “our self” and the world around us. Because we are engaging with an open system we also have the capacity to direct our awareness and make new choices for ourself. Awareness is our true nature. Knowing how to use that awareness with intention is a powerful tool.

I’m devoting this and the next 2-3 blog posts to the simple fact that our mind, brain, body and emotional heart are part of an open system and that our mind, our brain, our body and our emotional heart are here to change. And by the way, mind and brain are not the same thing. Our brain is a tool of the mind. As I’ve said in other places, the mind perceives, the brain receives, the body responds. So what does this have to do with you and your healing potential?

Everything.

Neurological & Biological Optimism

“The dance of perception shaped by our continuous interpretation of our life experiences is central to what’s known as “neuroplasticity”. We are not “fixed”. The beliefs about our bodymind are not “fixed” nor do we need to be “fixed”. Neuroplasticity is at the heart of discovering our inherent resilience. We are built for resilience, for bouncing back. Knowing how to access our inherent resilience is key to living a contented life.” (From ‘The Terrain of Somatics’/Revised 5/22)

Knowing how to access our inherent resilience is a process, a practice and it provides us with the support to meet the anxieties that are a natural part of life and change. When we wholeheartedly engage this process the result is we are more capable of meeting life as it is. Life becomes more expansive and workable.

I’ll get into more of the methodology and philosophy of my work that shapes this process in the next post.