Your mind IS your body! The rate and depth of a single breath determine the chemicals your brain and glands release and disseminate to your entire body.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Buddha said, “What you believe, you become.” Now scientists agree that what you think literally determines how you feel, your biology, vitality, and genetics. Your emotion is, in fact, determined and communicated electro/chemically to every cell within you.

In the 1970s, Neuroscientist, Candace Pert, PhD, proved that your consciousness operates at the cellular level with a mating dance of cell receptors and the particular peptide that binds to them. She noted that white blood cells transmit the same chemicals as your brain throughout your body which gives you your immune response. In her words, “Emotions are the link between your physical and non-physical states of consciousness that take place on the receptors of every cell. Every organ, gland, and tissue of your body accesses emotional memory. The gut feeling you get in your stomach is the result of peptide receptors in your brain and spinal column communicating to all of you.”

Dr Pert named your feel-good brain receptor/messenger as “anandamides,” (from the Sanskrit word “ananda” meaning “bliss”). These endorphins are released when you breathe fully, make love, have a fabulous experience, laugh and are joyous.

Think of something scary and your brain sends stressful fight, flight, freeze stress hormones and inflammatory agents inside of you. When you think of a loved one, dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, and growth hormones are disseminated by your blood to your fifty trillion cells causing you to become more vital and healthy.

The spin your vagal nerve puts on sensory input and thoughts is translated electro/chemically. This is called the placebo or nocebo effect or neuro-hypnosis. Will you choose to fight, flee or freeze or dance, laugh and relax?

STEM CELLS

Happy or unhappy thoughts determine your posture, energy and health and turn your genes on or off. Biologist Bruce Lipton, PhD, says you lose hundreds of billions of cells a day by normal attrition that are replaced by stem cells. It makes no difference if a stem cell is in a petri dish environment or in your skin covered environment, it determines your blood composition and calls out reactions based on what you believe. In his words, “The brain is your personal chemist who perceives what you think and sends these messages via your blood... The genes on your DNA, respond according to the emotion you transmit... A positive chemical environment and your belief about that environment, literally determine your health and happiness.”

DO THIS!

1. Notice, on a scale of one to ten, how you feel right now (ten feeling terrific).

2. Take a nice full, easy breath and think or say YES!... YES! YES! YES! and smile all over yourself.

3. Imagine your blood sending the word YES through your entire body and mind as oxygen, hormones, and nourishing growth factors.

4. On a scale of one to ten how do you feel now… I bet your number went up!

THE NITTY GRITTY OF SCIENCE

Dr Pert concludes, “I believe that science, at its core, is a spiritual endeavor. My best insights come to me through a mystical process. It's like having God whisper in my ear… Scientists must come to trust this inner voice.” I, Shelley, would add “You at your core must not only trust your inner voice, you must pay close attention to what you whisper in your own ear because it literally is a matter of breath, life and death.”

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Local Personality, Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD is a hypnotherapist, mindfulness and NLP trainer, artist and the author of 25 books. She certifies practitioners through the International Hypnosis Federation. You can call her at 310 541-4844.

Dr. Shelley can be reached at shelleynicholas@cox.net or www.hypnosisfederation.com

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