Some Real Food For Thought
(and other cool stuff)
The dynamic systems within our bodies each have their roles in our story – Digestive, Nervous System, Immune, Cardiovascular, Metabolic (to name a few). All are invested, including the energy that is integrally part of it, of us and this world.
The Digestive and Metabolic Systems are all about unleashing the fuel and nutrients in our food and plugging them into their rightful circuits for balanced physical sustenance.
But there’s so much more happening, all integrating and syncing together with the other players in this body wisdom.
Our Nervous Systems are basically massive webs of electrical/energy currents of communication & connection with and between every cell, like the conductor leading the orchestra – aligned with every musician and instrument. Its link to all of our parts is incredible, with much to say for its role in healing, and even the role that consciousness plays in our processes.
Quantum Physics and emerging fields in Neuroscience affirm this dynamic network, paving broader templates of care for the whole being. It’s fascinating stuff, and even more so when we experience its rewards ourselves & help others with it.
First, there's this ...
… in the juices of this magic web, is the courtship between the Nervous System and Digestive System. Tight allies, these guys are. The role of the Digestive System is its own bit of amazingness, and the landing pad as our physical fueling station. So much that happens in this station impacts our conveyor belt of sustenance downstream. Food choice. Food source. Food quality. Food quantity. Digestion. Absorption. Nutrients. All primal heroes for wellness. Ah, but there’s more. Its link with our Nervous System and brain tissue/neuron health is huge. (We now know that microbiome and gut health is linked to developing Dementia and Alzheimers, as well as mood balance.) Big reliance it has on gut environment.. gut health.. and specifically, the microbiome/natural bacterial health that is stage mother for it all. So, then, in my book, the gut is the physical Mothership.
(Read a short clip on the awesomeness of gut microbiome at The Secret World Inside You (Exhibit with American Museum of Natural History).
And, then this ...
… further discoveries reveal the heart having its own intrinsic Nervous System with a network of more than 40,000 neurons, akin to that found in the brain. This is big news – the heart does have a hand in the Knower communication loop! The two, it turns out, are incredibly engaged. In fact, when these neural networks of heart and brain are in coherence with each other – i.e., their electrical/neural networks synced up and aligned – beneficial changes occur in mood, physical health, rest, and general well being. (There are exercises and practices that help enhance this coherence, and which I’m a big fan of using!) It underscores the relevance of coherence physically and energetically as part of the original body balance, communication, & wellness machinery.
( Read more about Brain-Heart coherence and Neuro research at HeartMath Institute and Dr. Joe Dispenza. )
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