I wrote this in the staff meeting today when I should have been paying attention.
I am a terrible student. But I’m a pretty good [over]thinker.
See: below
Trust your gut.
Huh.
What does that mean?
Does my gut know more than my brain?
I know what I’ve put in my gut versus my brain.
Shit, maybe that’s the issue?
I thought the brain was evidence of our evolution
Bessel tells me that my brain protects my body.
Huh.
What does that mean?
Does my gut know more than my brain?
I know what I’ve put in my gut versus my brain.
Shit, maybe that’s the issue?
I thought the brain was evidence of our evolution
Bessel tells me that my brain protects my body.
So, that must mean that my brain is more evolved
than my gut
and it is more advanced in its ability to protect.
Right?
I once watched a documentary where people placed pictures of the brain next to the intestines.
The argument was that the gut could be an extension of the brain. Or the brain is an extension of what the gut used to do. My brain was halfway listening, but my gut remembers it this way.
Wait.
Right?
I once watched a documentary where people placed pictures of the brain next to the intestines.
The argument was that the gut could be an extension of the brain. Or the brain is an extension of what the gut used to do. My brain was halfway listening, but my gut remembers it this way.
Wait.
When people say “gut” do they mean the stomach?
What gives me that creeping feeling when I have to nervous poop?
Is it my brain? My intestines? My stomach?
Or is it outside influence that creates the urgency?
“It doesn’t matter how people treat you. It matters how you respond.”
What does it mean if my body reacts even if my brain tries to tell it otherwise?
Is this only in negative instances? What tells me to smile? To laugh?
What gives me that creeping feeling when I have to nervous poop?
Is it my brain? My intestines? My stomach?
Or is it outside influence that creates the urgency?
“It doesn’t matter how people treat you. It matters how you respond.”
What does it mean if my body reacts even if my brain tries to tell it otherwise?
Is this only in negative instances? What tells me to smile? To laugh?
I read and read and read about the brain.
The amygdala is like the security system for the brain.
The Broca’s area is the filter for what happens when my amygdala tells my brain to react with language.
Maybe if I get better at using parts of my brain, then I’ll be a better reactor?
The prefrontal cortex is the decision-maker.
Sooooo, does my brain ever, by chance, do a collab with my gut?
Is that the thing that trusts my gut?
Not really me? Wait, what makes up me?
Annie tells me that contrary to Carol the brain is not a muscle to be used and toned.
After an intellectually exhausting week, I know that using it is not making my brain stronger.
I can feel it…
in my gut.
After an intellectually exhausting week, I know that using it is not making my brain stronger.
I can feel it…
in my gut.
What about feelings?
Every yoga teacher I’ve ever had has reminded me that they are temporary. (like everything?)
If we believe in energy (like so many yoga teachers do)
and we say they are temporary,
where do all these energies go???
Especially the bad ones because Bessel tells me that those can LIVE in your body and re-appear
OUT OF NOWHERE.
OUT OF NOWHERE.
Sigmund told me that my brain can hide things from me!
But if I hid it, don’t I know it’s there?
I guess they’re just always waiting. Great. Another thing to worry about.
Eckhart tells me that I’m not my feelings.
Viktor and Friedrich tell me that I am my suffering. Is that a feeling or a condition to be under?
Aren’t feelings a way for my body to communicate with my brain? Or is it the other way around?
Eckhart tells me that I’m not my feelings.
Viktor and Friedrich tell me that I am my suffering. Is that a feeling or a condition to be under?
Aren’t feelings a way for my body to communicate with my brain? Or is it the other way around?
Who is doing the talking when something tells me to try a little harder?
be a little softer?
don’t give up because it can be fixed?
walk away because it is a lost cause?
learn more about it so you can teach it better?
change it better.
but, wait,
wait
wait
I can’t really change anything or anyone,
they have to change themselves, right?
Is it my heart doing the talking?
Wait, what about my heart?
I forgot about it.
Is that an extension of my gut?
When people talk about it in contexts like these,
it is usually placed in conflict with the brain
which makes me feel in conflict with myself,
and I read that that
which makes me feel in conflict with myself,
and I read that that
is the worst war of them all.
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