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When i use the word ‘neuroscience’, i am referring to a collection of knowledge that comes from many different sources and fields, including neurobiology, psychology, learning and behavioral sciences, evolutionary sciences, systems thinking and many more.   

 

Some people are dedicated to studying the brain in a very specialized way - whether it’s at the individual cell level, or examining brain activity through different technologies.  My experience with studying the ‘brain’ has been a mix of working at an fMRI lab, and observing scans as they happen, to measuring what’s happening within a person’s experience through different measures, such as heart rate variability, electric conductance of the skin, and micro-movements of facial muscles, as well as using electrodes to measure the amplitude and frequency of brain activity in different areas.  My other way of ‘studying the brain’ is to observe patterns in people’s behaviors, language, tone, movement, and how they describe their experiences to me.  

 

In a way, none of that really matters.  What matters to me is: can I connect with what a person is experiencing in a way where I will be able to find words to convey to them that I understand. 

 

And then.. Can I, through an integration of my own self-understanding, utter words and express gestures that help that person see themselves in a new light?  

 

Can I find ways to exchange information with others that help them feel more connected to their own strength, resilience, power, intelligence and ability to make new choices, and achieve their desired experiences?

 

In my decade of doing that work - of helping people shift into a higher level of self-awareness and self-understanding…  I have not yet experienced that explaining a specific brain region is what creates the shift.  

 

What I have experienced in helping people see a situation differently or feel relief from their anxiety is when I take my understanding of how our mind-brain-body system develops over time and connect it to what I hear them express about their own experience.

 

This understanding is a deeply entangled mix of feelings, memories, aha moments, uttering of words, seeing a ‘light’ shine in someone’s eyes, and hearing them say to me something that expresses a new awareness, a feeling of relief, a deeper knowing of who they truly are underneath the fear and the doubt and the negative beliefs they have accumulated over time.  

 

There is no ‘brain region’ that does that.  We are too complex to reduce our experience to an area of the brain.  It’s great to know about these regions - they all contribute to an overall understanding.  And that is important work that I appreciate so many scientists are involved with.   But it’s not the work that I dedicate myself to.

 

We are each like specialized cells of a giant organ..  That ‘organ’ is the collective body of intelligence of the human species and its ability to not only adapt at extremely fast rates to its environment, but its ability to share knowledge and new levels of understanding with each other.  That ability to communicate new understandings is what has helped - and will help - all of us to get better and better at creating desirabl...

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Erscheinungs­datum: 21.7.2021, 13:06:57