EP46-HOW THE MIND TURNS THOUGHTS TO EMOTION TO FEELING

In this episode, I am going to bring in some science to the show for you. If you are listening to this show you are beyond the wondering part of how the mind works, and you want the deep-down reason, the science behind of how it works. But you could use it explained in a comprehendible way.

Until I started to understand the science behind it, I had a hard time understanding my emotions and making what I wanted to happen actually happen. I would wish and hope and "do" everything that I was told to gain control of my feelings, but still NOTHIN. Whatever I did to keep myself calm in a situation, just did not work. So WTF? The problem was I just didn't get it. I didn't feel it, and it just didn't make sense why my efforts weren't working.

Frustrated

Confused

Baffled

All of the above? Understanding is POWER You want to be able to make sense of the reactions that happen within your body to make your inner world is just how YOU WANT IT. If you don't gots this, you just don't got it. So, I will give you a more detailed rundown of the processes that happen within our bodies and the mind to help you make this all finally make some f-ing sense, but below, I have bullet-pointed it for you. So what steps do our bodies go through to make a thought, an emotion, and then a feeling?

First, understand that our minds act like radio stations; we receive signals inside the mind and are electrical beings. When we receive these electrical signals from the universe, our neural networks create chemicals and fire and wiring together; they receive the thought and are the radio. This thought happens after an experience occurs. ex. You are jolted or surprised when there is a knock at your front door. From there, the thoughts go to the hypothalamus (the part of the brain that helps maintain internal balance) and create a chain of neuropeptides (protein-like molecules) like the chemical version of the particular emotion your body would have experienced based on the thought the mind created.

Once the hypothalamus has created the neuropeptides, they shoot up to the pituitary and then down through the bloodstream, and this is when the thought becomes a feeling in the body, when it starts to affect the organ systems and its cells.

Once in the cells, the neuropeptides look to hook onto cell receptor sites and activate the proper feeling based on the emotion they hook onto. Imagine you understand this... What can you change now? Suppose you can now predict what will happen to the mind when a thought enters. You have more control than you ever did before because now you have the power to understand and to change how you react to a particular experience. It's all in your control... You just need to change how you react to create a new, better feeling within your body.

You got this... xoxo, laurenjean