Negative self-talk, electrochemical signals and your health.
Dr. Candace Pert was a pretty badass scientist. She discovered that emotions are not just chemicals in the brain. Instead they are electrochemical signals that carry emotional messages throughout the body. What?! Not only do you feel emotions in various parts of your body but you also send vibrations to other people in the process. Here’s how Dr. Pert explains it.
“As our feelings change, this mixture of peptides travels throughout your body and your brain. And they’re literally changing the chemistry of every cell in your body – and sending out vibrations to other people.”
In the last post I wrote about how I saw a vision of how my negative self-talk and self-loathing was literally hammering energetic spikes into my body at every layer and level. I believe this vision was a visual representation of what Dr. Pert uncovered. And when you pause to think about it, nearly 40 years of negative emotions and attacking energy has had to of taken its toll on my body.
In fact, I think this is why I am where I am today. I’m slowly recovering from one of those freak injuries. Last February I woke up and could not get out of bed and was basically stuck in bed for 2 weeks. Apparently my glutes stopped working among other things. I want to say it came out of nowhere but let’s be honest, my body had been telling me to take a break and not be so hard on it for a while but I refused to listen. Because exercise had long been my primary stress relief outlet (and way to justify my existence…Yes, a post for another day) I always ignored my body when it told me to slow down. This addiction even led to a heart attack while summiting the tallest peak in the Wasatch front 4 years ago. So this is def a thing for me.
At the end of my ayahuasca journey I had the distinct impression that the injury I was experiencing would actually be a great teacher. I was reminded of this impression when I was rolling out my body with a deep tissue roller when all of a sudden a rush of emotions came over me. I literally started crying. I felt energy releasing and bubbles of toxins popping and rushing through my legs. I had never felt the mind-body connection so strongly.
I am learning that the more I am present and the more open I am to the now, the more the universe teaches me in ways I never anticipated. If negative energy can have such a detrimental effect on our bodies, imagine what positive energy of love, acceptance and appreciation can do.
No matter who you are and where you are in your physical journey, I have learned that if you do all the “right” things when it comes to exercise its still not a fool proof plan. If you are sending vehemently harsh and critical thoughts and messages to yourself, your fitness will only be superficial. To find true harmony with the body you need to accept your body wholly before you can truly transform it all the way down to the cellular level.
