What to do after this observation?
- The goal is to become aware of the automatic processes that our brain uses. .
- Limit addictive behavioral, dietary, or sports foods.
- Refocus on the truth about what made us happy, when, and under what circumstances.
Is the purpose of life not to appropriate it in the noble sense and to reconnect with what makes us happy ? Often the simplest things are the ones that give us the greatest good. For this, we must cut some habits and / or practices to realize that we miss the point.
Use your emotions: emotional intelligence
The emotions we know from now on are present inside ourselves. Each emotion has a power of impact on the memories elaborated automatically by our brain. Too often these memories are stored without our knowledge. Images, sounds, scents, sensations of touch and taste are the most powerful memory information. The more intense the emotions, the more they mark our brain through tonsil.
Imagine if we had the ability to erase traumatic memories as a menu we would have available from which we could choose what we keep or not!
Thus, all this stock of reactions rooted and present in our muscles and tissues are part of us. This amalgam, a real knot composed of layers that accumulate over time, is the very basis of reactions ready to play their role of protection at any time. The new situations, encounters, environments that our brain interprets as identical to these memories will instantly reactivate the etched emotions.
The goal for our brain: to survive!
The only mission for our brain: not to relive the previous situation. His understanding has created a sense of danger or even danger of death (depending on the age at which the initial scene took place), this procedure is right but has its limits. The brain will systematically trigger its survival mode because it is just designed for that. By doing so, it only promotes these situations since it is blocked on the initial emotion. The worst thing is that all reactions born of these memoirs are totally unconscious. The survival process then takes hold. It does not need to go through the cortex (brain of thought and reason). The reaction is automatic. Imagine being attacked by a lion! At the same time, have you seen a lot lately?
What are the issues of emotional intelligence?
The issues are to raise awareness of this famous process of survival in order to use it only wisely. It is necessary for this to begin a process of awareness of the feelings of the body, of our intuition, and to set up a vigilant inner attitude. The goal is to appropriate our emotional states so that we do not suffer them anymore. Then make it a strength because this awareness and vigilance will then become real assets. The idea is to get out of the caricature that there would only exist 5 emotions: anger, joy, fear, sadness, anxiety.
In fact there is a whole vocabulary much more precise and adapted. This will help to understand that there is a real variable level of emotional intensity. Measuring our feelings allows us to better understand ourselves and to come to terms with the belief that we can not change anything. On the contrary, we now know that everything is possible. This consists in playing on the notion of plasticity of the brain by recreating neural networks and thus new automatisms.
Work the conscience
There are actually 5 emotions primary, and emotions secondary dependent on their root emotion. All divided into two poles, one negative and the other positive.
Example with anger: there are a lot of secondary emotions related to anger. Annoyance, hatred, rage, revenge, fury, revolt, exasperation, irritation, violence … The game consists of listening to your feelings to make the right diagnosis. Thus, we will create new neural patterns to get out of our emotional submission.
The role of the intestines in the creation and management of emotions
For several years, results of analyzes and scientific experiments demonstrate the presence of a neural network in our intestines. It is the doctor Michaël Gershon who is at the origin of these discoveries. The results of his work have highlighted the role played by this neural network intestinal was in direct contact with the base of the skull. This process drives messages to the brain through the pituitary and hypothalamus. This exchange of informational signals determines our state of mind and mood and has a preponderant effect on disease management in the body.
According to Emeran Mayer, another specialist in the subject, our enteric brain plays a major role in our emotional well-being. It impacts our mood and our instincts just as much. According to him, most of our emotions are conveyed by a nervous network present in the intestine.This demonstrates that our mood has a close connection with our physiology. Anxiety, stress, nervousness lead to information exchanges between our state of mind and our stomach. These exchanges constitute a link that can favor the appearance of certain diseases.
Promising knowledge to understand us and know what we need to do to live better and happier.
By Stéphane Dabas of the blog the festival of well-being
