Every Cell In Your Body “Hears”
“NeuroPositivity is what results when you increase the growth and stimulation of neuropathways in the brain that control positivity. We can liken it to a positive state of mind, but it really goes even further. It is a positive state of being”. – The Applied Neuroscience Blog
Your consciousness is your Mind telling your brain what you want it to do.
However, oftentimes the Mind is not as good an employer as it might be and the brain has a lot of time to wander. If you were to add up the amount of time your brain has to wander from thought to thought and emotion to emotion, what do you think you might find?
Some time would be taken with events that we might consider negative and others might be taken with events we consider positive, but a large amount of the time would be spent on the brain just going from thing to thing to thing.
The brain has a lot of time to think up thoughts (which is its job) and a lot of time to go from feeling to feeling to feeling, unsupervised a lot of the time. If you decide to tell your brain to go to positive feelings and to feel them, just a little, gently, over time, you will feel the emotions you choose more regularly and consistently and you will grow in an UpSpiral.
It’s as simple as that. Positive emotions, positive moods, and a positive consciousness take time, and it takes intent that builds upon itself overtime. You are constructing new neuropathways composed of new neurons and cells that can reconstruct the nature of your brain, your perception and your consciousness.
Every cell in your body “hears”.
Not only do your cells “hear” music at the same level of your audible hearing, but your cells also hear what you are feeling and thinking. Every thought, every feeling is heard by your cells through sound waves and sensory transmissions that are audible to the sensory mechanisms of each of your cells. Stop and consider this for a minute. Every minute of everyday, you are telling your cells how to feel.
How do you think that affects their health?
So what your cells assimilate and what they expel, and how they function in healthy or unhealthy ways is fundamentally and radically affected by their environment of sensory information. That information comes from your choices about how you feel and how you think.
Positive emotion is the most powerful anti-toxin.
Make the choices for love, peace, gratitude and joy throughout the day. Maybe everything isn’t going like you planned or expected, maybe there is a downer or two, but you can still feel these emotions on some level of 1-10 from just a little to more and more.
Can’t feel them at all, you say? Then think them. You don’t have to deny negative feelings, but you also don’t have to stay in them, live in them, or obsess over them. Let negative feelings be a signal to find something to be grateful for and start to pulse a little bit of a thought and feeling of joy.
You move in the direction that you intend to go –into an UpSpiral or into a DownSpiral. And your cells are listening to the choice you make. What effect do you suppose this choice to feel toward the “good” has on the health of your always “listening” and sensory receptive cells, to each and every one of them?
Positive Emotion: A Powerful Anti-Toxin
Your consciousness is your Mind telling your brain what you want it to do. However, oftentimes the Mind is not as good an employer as it might be and the brain has a lot of time to wander. If you were to add up the amount of time your brain has to wander from thought to thought and emotion to emotion, what do you think you might find?
Some time would be taken with events that we might consider negative and others might be taken with events we consider positive, but a large amount of the time would be spent on the brain just going from thing to thing to thing.
The brain has a lot of time to think up thoughts (which is its job) and a lot of time to go from feeling to feeling to feeling, unsupervised a lot of the time. If you decide to tell your brain to go to positive feelings and to feel them, just a little, gently, over time, you will feel the emotions you choose more regularly and consistently and you will grow in an UpSpiral. It’s as simple as that.Positive emotions, positive moods, and a positive consciousness take time and it takes intent that builds upon itself overtime. You are constructing new neuropathways composed of new neurons and cells that can reconstruct the nature of your brain, your perception and your consciousness.
Make the choices for love, peace, gratitude and joy throughout the day. Maybe everything isn’t going like you planned or expected, maybe there is a downer or two, but you can still feel these emotions on some level of 1-10 from just a little to more and more.
Can’t feel them at all, you say? Then think them.
You don’t have to deny negative feelings, but you also don’t have to stay in them, live in them, or obsess over them. Let negative feelings be a signal to find something to be grateful for and start to pulse a little bit of a thought and feeling of joy.
How much conscious control do we have over emotions and feelings and consequent mood? The figures vary, but there is one interesting observation in all the research. The more consideration we give to states of mind and happiness, the more control over emotions than we would ever have thought. Research suggests that we have approximately 40% control over our emotional state, with about 50% genetic.
Every minute of everyday, through your predominant state of mind, your mood, you are telling your cells how to feel. How do you think that affects their health? What your cells assimilate and what they expel, and how they function in healthy or unhealthy ways, is fundamentally and radically affected by their environment of sensory information.
That information comes from your choices about how you feel and how you think. Positive emotion is the most powerful anti-toxin.
So With The Cell, So With Life! Eliminating What Needs To Go
The brain of each cell in your body is not the nucleus. It is the cell wall. This wall makes the vital decision that affects a thriving cell–what gets in and what gets expelled. Both functions have to work or the cell does not do its work and mitosis, healthy cell duplication, does not happen. We have had all kinds of concern about proper nutrition and the difficulty with an environment filled with toxins, especially the foods we eat, which are very often loaded with unwanted carcinogenic chemicals. Cancer itself is not decreasing today. Some of the cures are better, but cancer itself is increasing in direct proportion to the amount of toxins in our environment and in our food. To the list of “toxic” ingredients in our food, I would add “toxins” in our negative thoughts and feelings. People with positivity being thrive at a cellular level.
There has also been increasing focus on the function of the cell that eliminates what it needs to get rid of, what it needs to expel. The cell h as got to get rid of what is no longer working. Anti-oxidants are a significant part of the nutritional world today because of this concern over cellular elimination. The best anti-oxidant for your cells is happiness. How your cells thrive is directly influenced by what you believe, either positively or negatively, and especially by the emotions you feel. Cells are intricately influenced by the vibrations of our emotions.
But consider that the cell has to unload and eliminate toxins in order to stay healthy. So with the cell, so with the person. We have to eliminate what doesn’t work for us. For some this is called their “stop doing” list. Consider the feelings that you need to feel less in order to feel better. What feelings do you need to eliminate to feel better? Feelings are a measure of feedback about how we are doing, but they are much more than that. We can get into patterns of feelings that are our most dangerous toxins.
What needs to go, who needs to go, where does elimination and “stop-doing” need to happen? Most of what we need to stop doing is a part of the social living habits of our day. We are just used to doing things that no longer serve us, that no longer engage us and provide a source of happiness. They do not engender love, peace, joy, gratitude and hope easily. They are just too much work for the return they give us. Cleaning out your closets is one thing, but cleaning out your emotional life of events, places, people, and obligations that no longer serve is important, from your cells to your smile.
The “Pivot” To Positive Emotion
Learning to grow a more positive mind is a process. You are beginning to tell your brain to spend more time feeling positive emotion than negative emotion. Your brain will resist you until neuropositivity has built new neuropathways that are more in charge than the old, negative ones.
This is the activity of brain neuroplasticity.
This can sound like a simple denial of negative emotion. We have been taught that we must “air” negative feelings, that they are dangerous if they are internalized and repressed. While it isn’t true that we have to air every negative feeling or thought, what is important is acknowledging them for whatever feedback or information they give.
There is a difference between ignoring negative feelings and not staying in them longer than necessary and becoming stuck in them. If negative feelings are, in part, mechanisms of feedback, let them tell you what they have to tell you, and then use them as a cue to pivot to a positive emotion.
You can’t solve a problem from a negative place, the level at which the problem was created, so get to a positive place and then deal with the negative situation. However, it is important to realize that emotions are more than just a feedback mechanism to tell us that something is good or bad. Emotions are what we live in throughout the day. For many, negative emotion is where they live, along with their mental disorders that surely take up residence in that DownSpiral life style.
Negative emotions are, for sure, an alerting system to get us to move.
However, we don’t have to stay in the negative emotion for it to do its job. Some negative emotion is simply a learned cycle of negativity with an addictive payoff at the end. Most addictions are couched in negative cycles of emotion. Once again, you can have a negative feeling, acknowledge it, but you don’t have to live there. Make a choice to live in positive emotions where you can find the solutions to the negative issues.
Your creativity, your State Of Mind of greater harmony and peace, fueled by your strengths, exist in the positive emotions of the UpSpiral.
Negative emotion, then, becomes our cue to go to the Emotional Gym and to begin pulsing love, peace, gratitude, joy, or hope. In the face of a problem or negativity, you are exercising a whole other part of your brain as you begin to make this pivot.
You are moving from the automatic, negative, fear reactive territory of the brain to another place in the brain, that allows you to feel differently, and then to behave differently.
Your response can become less automatic and more effectively positive because you will be coming from a place in your brain where you can exercise more control over your emotions.
Where do you live in your emotions? Where you live emotionally defines who you are.
The Powerful Possibilities Of Positive Emotion
Possibilities are the lifeblood of our moods. Check it out and see if your moods are not grounded in the very possibilities you are holding for your life. The upper range of emotions is the birthplace and the growing ground of possibilities. We don’t see or know our possibilities from negative emotions or in a DownSpiral. We have the idea that inspiration can come from despair. Enlightenment from despair is far over-rated and takes way too much energy.
But despair is not the issue. It’s not even usually the case. Everyday living is more the case– the ho-hum of everyday routine is what robs us most of creativity. It is just getting in the groove of our lives and living its requirements that most dull the upper range of positive emotion and the emergence of possibility. I call it the “learned non-use” of positive emotion.
We get flashes of insight and possibility when we are feeling good and feeling free. That is when they happen most. It occurs when we are hopeful, not when we are down and limited.
Life expands and grows on this upper range of positive emotion: love, peace, gratitude, joy and hope. There are never enough external stimuli to create the internal state of this positive range. If you wait for the externals, you limit your possibilities.
Consider this. Feelings create. Mood creates. We move and form our consciousness from feelings. The neuroplastic brain is shaped by feelings. And for sure, it is feelings that are running our biochemical systems and bathing every cell in our moods and feelings.
Negative states of feeling do not create deeply intuitive insights. They may foretell danger or sensitize us to flee, but they don’t function like our positive emotions do in leading us toward growth-evoking, action-taking behavior. They are more the feeling of avoidance, withdrawal, and self-protection.
If feelings are the prior source of consciousness, consider the idea that our thinking, which we hold as sacrosanct, is far more under the direction of our feeling states than we have previously considered to be the case. We have spent our whole lives learning what to “think” and so little of it learning both how and what to “feel.”
It is any wonder that we lose sight of what we really want?
You are not your brain. How clearly we have learned that in the study of neuroplasticity. The brain is an organ that is formed by our focus, our attention, our gaze, and it is shaped by our feeling states.
Here is the bottom line. Emotion is an information system that is driving the biochemical reactions of every organ, including the brain.
Negative emotion is trying to tell us to go elsewhere, to move to another feeling/being place, so that the positive range of emotions can work on health, intuition, direction, vision, well-being, and fulfillment.
The Emotional Gym is more important than any form of exercise. Our lives are lived from emotions and moods, and they are the prophets of the future. We create from them. We exercise to “feel” good. Why not just start there?
The idea of building positive emotional muscle seems difficult because we are so conditioned to wait for the externals to do it for us, or to think that our own mood will come upon us when it will. You can wait for a very long time. Possibilities open doors, keep us moving, and keep us creating and inventing. Entertaining what is possible is the beginning of the greatest advances in the world, and the smallest, most significant steps you can take toward making your life what you want it to be.
Health At The Cellular Level
There is not a shred of evidence that correlates health with negativity. On the contrary, the overwhelming amount of evidence is on the side of the connections of positivity to health and well-being.
The most compelling research concerns an UpSpiral of positivity and thriving at a cellular level. This thriving means that the cell eliminates what it needs to expel and assimilates what it needs to absorb. This is the crux of cellular health and healthy cell mitosis (cell division and growth). It is the best anti-toxin. What cellular elimination really means is getting rid of what the body doesn’t need or shouldn’t have taken in to begin with.
The cell wall is actually the brain of the cell. The nucleus of the cell, previously thought to be the “brain” of the cell, is actually the reproductive center of the cell. This cell wall reads and hears (psychophysicists now tell us that our cells hear at the same audible level as we do) the mood and state of mind that is governing our world. We live where we are feeling and experiencing. We live and attract from our consciousness.
Our feelings are really where we live.
We know that our “community of a billion cells and more” has incredible systems of communications. Everyday we decide what that communication will be by the state of mind in which we choose to live (or don’t choose and just allow to happen to us).
Living in an UpSpiral is a decision for health at its most basic level. There is little, if anything, that is more important than our decision to live in an UpSpiral. Ultimately, as our UpSpiral builds over time, everything is affected by that decision, including our most basic cellular thriving and flourishing.
Article Source: Dr. William K. Larkin The Applied Neuroscience Institute
