How to optimize your mindset
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Mindset is not limited to what’s in your head.
It’s much further reaching than that. There has been an ongoing debate for centuries as to what the mind is and where it resides. We have been programmed to point to our brain when we think of the mind.
It’s a combination of every aspect of your human experience: intellect, emotions, thoughts, imagination, memories, beliefs, will, intuition, diet, spirituality (not religion) and beyond. Which means, the mind is not just in your head.
According to science reporter, Olivia Goldhill, “The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows that the mind goes far beyond the physical workings of your brain.”
Many contemporaries agree the mind lives in the brain or in our head and is responsible for consciousness. But is that true? Even great philosophers like Descartes and Locke weren’t quite sure. Dr. John Hagelin (leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement in the United States) embraces the idea that mind or consciousness does not necessarily exist in the brain.
Humans actually have 3 brains:
1. THE BRAIN: synapses fire in the brain, generating thought and ideas. Sigmund Freud claims the mind is divided into three levels of awareness (see image below) - Oh come on! Really?
2. THE GUT: is connected to inutuition, hence the term, a gut feeling. What you eat impacts your mind or your consciousness… we are what we eat or consume.
3. THE HEART: is connect to emotions… a broken heart. According to the HEARTMATH institute, the heart sends more signals to the brain than the other way around. The heart also emits a frequency field much larger than the brain. So does that mean the heart is the dominant brain? Who knows, but the heart is the antenna to our consciousness.
Digested food and liquids in the gut fuel the heart. The heart pumps oxygen rich blood to the brain and back to the gut. The brain processes that information. It tells us to eat when the gut is empty. One beautiful synchronized dance.
Optimize your mindset (and life), we must nourish all aspects of the mind:
Meditate
Be mindful
Eat healthy
Exercise
Hydrate
Rest / recharge
Express yourself (release/let go)
Bring it all together through mindful living.
As a life-coach, author and speaker, I go deep into all those aspects of the human condition to help people optimize their mindset in order to overcome, heal and reach higher. In a nutshell, work on yourself at all levels. That’s when you’ll grow wings to reach higher and optimize your human experience.
To learn more about coaching or training options, contact me today for a FREE discovery session. Let’s get you where you want to be.
Sincerely,
Vital Germaine
