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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1503684400110{padding-top: 42px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1531244865226{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Did you know that you actually have three brains, and not just one? We have even more brain cells (neurons) in our heart complex and in our gut than we do in our head brain. The research is finally coming out to confirm what our innate intelligence knew all along:\u00a0 we actually have three brains that, working together, share resources and handle different aspects of our bodymind. But, you say, how do you think I knew that?\u00a0 I\u2019m about to tell you.<\/p>\n

Head Brain<\/h3>\n

\"\"We know a lot about our head brain. However, the head brain has been elevated in Western culture to be the be all and end all. Our head brain is in charge of our autonomic nervous system, or all the things that seem to run automatically in our bodies. Our head brain is also in charge of making sense of things, and of strategizing.<\/p>\n

Our head brains are amazing, and can achieve spectacular things, but they are actually more limited than we\u2019ve been led to believe. Here is what the head brain is not<\/i> good at:\u00a0 it cannot feel for us \u2013 although it often tries. How many of you have tried to think your feelings?<\/p>\n

The head brain is also not good at taking in the unknown. It cannot learn something completely new \u2013 it needs the heart brain for that. You see, the head brain will take any new information coming in and compare it to all the other information it has to make sense of it. It\u2019s kind of like a hard drive on a computer in this way. And if the file for this information isn\u2019t there, without the heart brain\u2019s involvement, the head brain would have you rejecting the information or knowledge or \u201caha\u201d that we sometimes get from an entirely new experience, or from an insight that the way things have been just aren\u2019t working any more.<\/p>\n

Heart Brain<\/h3>\n

\"\"Here is where the heart comes in. Remember I said you knew you have a heart brain? We actually have some idioms around this; \u201clearning by heart\u201d is one of them. New learning actually takes place in the heart. When the head and heart brain are working together, the heart brain is the one who takes in new information, ruminates with it, and gains the insight from it. Then the heart brain sends that back to the head brain as a new file, and now the head brain has a place to place that new information or knowledge or insight, make sense of it, and then strategize from it.<\/p>\n

The heart brain is really the center, as it\u2019s the seat of consciousness. It should be the one in charge of our three brains, just as it\u2019s the center point of our bodies. It actually anchors the other two brains and anchors all our interactions in life.<\/p>\n

The heart brain not only takes in and processes entirely new information, but it is where we feel and process our emotions. Many of us who have been very head-brain centered, were taught to think our emotions. But did you ever notice that never worked too well? That\u2019s because we were trying to do it from the wrong part of the body!<\/p>\n

The heart brain is also in charge of our values and relationships. And it\u2019s where we do our personal and spiritual growth. The head brain can\u2019t do that for us either, although it often tries. When we need to move out of an old pattern of thinking or old habit, no amount of head brain thinking will do it. The heart brain does this work, and it\u2019s holistic work, as it involves our emotions and attachments around it. Here the gut brain also gets involved.<\/p>\n

Gut Brain<\/h3>\n

\"\"The fact that we have a gut brain is often the most surprising for people, but innately you have known you have a gut brain. How many of you have ever said, \u201cmy gut told me,\u201d or \u201cI have a gut feeling?\u201d That was the gut brain working, even though you didn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

So what does the gut brain do? The gut brain is responsible for our sense of identity, and self protection. It oversees the immune system as part of that self-protection function. The gut brain is also responsible for digestion at all levels:\u00a0 physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Finally, it\u2019s the decision maker. How many of you have finally in the end \u201cfollowed\u201d your gut? Or made a decision because \u201cmy gut told me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Together the three brains are mighty indeed, but we\u2019ve tended to think that the head brain does it all. That makes it a tyrant, and so learning to work with and involve the heart brain and gut brain is crucial, as is the heart brain taking the lead and anchoring the other brains. I\u2019ve been doing work realigning and anchoring all three brains for a few years now. If you haven\u2019t been in for a session, you may want to come in, because I\u2019m finding that this work is often one of the body\u2019s first priorities. You see, once they\u2019re working together, with all of them in charge of their proper sphere, they work far more effectively to deal with dis-ease of any kind:\u00a0 physical, mental, emotional, and\/or spiritual.<\/p>\n

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If this sparked you and inspired you on your spiritual journey, and you want to learn more, please\u00a0click here to book a free consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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