Neuralinks

Slow your brain down!
Have you ever been stressed and feeling like you've got so much to do? This is the PERFECT time to slow your brain down, really slow it down. Focus on what the immediate task is in front of you and pay particular attention to what you are doing - to each movement of the task. This allows you to change the brain chemistry and brain function. You see when the brain is 'stressed' it operates from the lower sections of the brain predominately. It has gone into that familiar 'flight or fight' pattern or you may sometimes just stop functioning for a while and appear 'like a deer caught in headlights'. This is the perfect time to slow the brain down as this gives it the opportunity to create a new solution. In actual fact - at the point of slowdown and becoming aware, the brain is calming down and tuning in - in a calmer fashion. Once you have done this other higher brain functions can begin to function again and you begin to work out what's important and what can be left until later. You begin to feel like you are moving forward rather than just keeping your head above water or worse still, drowning. Slowing down is also a way that I find helps me appreciate my body and all it is capable of, I begin to notice all that I do and how my body works with me!

I've just listened to Bruce Lipton who wrote the book 'The Biology of Belief'. Forty-seven years ago Bruce cloned a cell in a petrie dish, twelve hours later that cell became two and a further twelve hours later there were four cells. After a week about fifty thousand cells had grown, he then divided the cells into three petrie dishes. All the cells were identical, but he changed the environment of each petrie dish so that they differed. He found that even though they were identical cells, the differing environments caused them to grow differently. In one petrie dish the cells formed muscle, the second bone and the third fat. Therefore, he concluded that cells respond to the chemistry of the environment in which they are growing.
Bruce went on to relate it to our body - mind relationship. The human body is made up of cells and the skin is like a petrie dish. The cells within respond to the chemistry medium, in this case blood. The blood moves around our body and is controlled by our brain. Our brain interprets the world and sends the interpreted information back to the cells via the blood chemistry - if the interpretation is positive the chemical response may be to send positive chemicals like dopamine into our system, this has a positive effect on our cells and they thrive and effect our mood in a positive way. If on the other hand the interpretation is negative, the chemicals related to stress are released and and our cells fail to thrive and effect our emotional state negatively.
Maybe an open mind allows me the best interpretation of my world. I always feel clear and uncluttered when I have an open mind.