Mind/Body Weight Loss – Day 16
Mind/Body Weight Loss Day 16
Week 3 Shifting Your Thinking
Your Belief Creates Your Biology
You are a dynamic being. So dynamic in fact, that you will not be the same person at the end of today’s challenge that you were at the beginning of it. Everything in your body is shifting, changing, dying off (in the case of cells) and replenishing all the time. So you may ask, “If I am really this dynamic, why are my choices and outcomes always the same?”
The problem arises when we over identify with our physical bodies. We feel them to be so solid and static that we limit our potential in what is possible. We don’t appreciate that we are spiritual beings. Even many of you who would consider yourself spiritual, it remains an intellectual knowing rather than allowing the spirit to lead your life. So what ends up happening is that we have the same thoughts and emotions, which lead to the same activation of neural networks, the same biochemical communication and this leads to the same outcomes. So this gives us the illusion of permanence, but it is an illusion. One of my favorite quotes is by Carlos Castaneda, “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.”
How Our Belief Creates Our Biology
Think of your mind as tool that can direct your body towards something. If your mind is able to direct your body, what are you directing your body to do? Every thought or emotion that you have has a biochemical component. Our thoughts, our emotions and even, immune function are inextricably linked. We have receptors sites throughout our bodies that receive these biochemical components and shifts our physiology accordingly.
