Intellectual System

Through 2.5 million years of evolution, humans have developed the part of our brains that set us apart from every other living species.  Our Neocortex, and more specifically our Prefrontal Cortex is where we create meaning, rationality, future thinking, and language.  Our ability to learn and understand our own patterns and behaviours can be such an integral part of transformation.  However, just because we’re able to understand ourselves and our behaviours doesn’t mean that the disempowering behaviours fade away.  This is where the intellect has its limits and where incorporating the emotional and nervous systems can help create breakthroughs.

Emotional System

Our mammalian brain and limbic system is where emotions are generated and processed (or unprocessed).  All mammals share the limbic system and the ability to feel certain fundamental emotions.  The uniqueness to humans is in our minds, where we can either aid in the processing and feeling of emotions, or our mind and brain can lock us into disempowering states and stories.  Working in this system allows for emotional fluidity where we are no longer being controlled by our emotions, nor trying to control them.  Instead, we strive to feel and process our emotions as they come.  It can be remarkable just how quickly some disempowering behaviours fade away if we are not avoiding an emotion by distracting ourselves through this behaviour.

Nervous System

Our reptilian brain is home to our vital life functions like heart rate, temperature and hormone regulation, as well as respiration.  The way into the deepest and most primitive part of our brain is through respiration.  By using the intellect to manually control our breathing, we are able to create different physiological environments within our bodies and cells.  We can’t control our nervous system, but we can control our breath, and our breath controls our nervous system.

The breath is the unlocked front door that we all have access to whenever we desire.  Much of modern society is in a state of constant stress and stimulation, which ends up negatively contributing to our mental and physical health.  A disregulated nervous system shows up in every aspect of our mind and body.  It changes the way we breathe which then starts to wreck havoc on our physiology and psychology.  

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