Three Brains?

I am so excited about what I am learning these days about changing your life by changing your thinking! And the first thing - before you can change it - is to recognize what and where you are thinking. Did Lorne just say "where?"

Yes I did. Neuroscientists now know a lot about at least three thinking centres (or brains) in our bodies. Each has neurons, neurotransmitters, neural plasticity and can think, remember and communicate.

Head (cephalic brain)
      100 - 150 billion neurons
Prime Functions

• cognitive perception
• thinking
• making meaning

Heart (cardiac brain)
      30 - 120 thousand neurons 
Prime Functions

• emoting
• values
• relational affect

Gut (enteric brain)
       200 - 500 million neurons 
Prime Functions

• identity
• self-preservation
• mobilization

These relatively recently verified scientific findings confirm the Ancient Wisdom of all major religions and traditions - that we are multi-faceted beings.

And they confirm what we all "know" and reflect with such expressions  as:

• We had a heart-to-heart talk,
• She is so warm-hearted.
• I believe it with all my heart.
• "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
• I have a gut feeling.
• He didn't have the guts to do it.

And when the three "brains" don't line up, we have internal conflict, get stalled, feel stressed. We say things like, "Logic tells me to do it, but my gut says "no."  "I know I should fire him, but I just don't have the heart to do it."

When we are in that condition, we need to change our thinking. But if we only change the cerebral thinking and ignore the visceral, it really won't work.

We need internal alignment in order to be authentic and live from the core of our being. When I say "core" you instinctively know it exists, don't you?  

It is science, but it is not rocket science There are techniques and strategies for recognizing what is going on in your three brains and getting them in alignment with your values and goals...so you can rock your world!

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Lorne