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Why does contemplating the Imaginary Worlds of the Art Universe allow self-healing, if no memory, emotion, or fear blocks the process of self-regeneration?

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

To answer this question, I rely on 3 reference books:

• « The Biology of Belief » by Bruce Lipton, p101

As more complex animals evolved, specialized cells took over the job of monitoring and organizing the flow of the behavior regulating signal molecules. These cells provided a distributed nerve network and central information processor, a brain. The brain’s function is to coordinate the dialogue of signal molecules within the community. Consequently, in a community of cells, each cell must acquiesce control to the informed decisions of its awareness authority, the brain. The brain controls the behavior of the body’s cells. This is a very important point to consider as we blame the cells of our organs and tissues for the health issues we experience in our lives.

EMOTIONS : FEELING THE LANGUAGE OF CELLS

In higher, more aware life forms, the brain developed a specialization that enabled the whole community to tune into the status of its regulatory signals. The evolution of the limbic system provided a unique mechanism that converted the chemical communication signals into sensations that could be experienced by all of the cells in the community. Our conscious mind experiences these signals as emotions. The conscious mind not only “reads” the flow of the cellular coordinating signals that comprise the body’s “mind” it can also generate emotions, which are manifested through the controlled release of regulatory signals by the nervous system.

At the same time that I was studying the mechanics of the cell’s brain and gaining insight into the operation of the human brain, Candace Pert was studying the human brain and becoming aware of the mechanics of the cell’s brain. In Molecules of Emotion, Pert revealed how her study of information-processing receptors on nerve cell membranes led her to discover that the same “neural” receptors were present on most, if not all, of the body’s cells. Her elegant experiments established that the “mind” was not focused in the head but was distributed via signal molecules to the whole body. As importantly, her work emphasized that emotions were not only derived through a feedback of the body’s environmental information. Through self-consciousness, the mind can use the brain to generate “molecules of emotion” and override the system. While proper use of consciousness can bring health to an ailing body, inappropriate unconscious control of emotions can easily make a healthy body diseased, a topic I will expand upon in Chapters 6 and 7. Molecules of Emotion is a very insightful book describing the scientific discovery process. It also provides some revealing insights into the struggles encountered when trying to introduce new “ideas” into science’s Old Boys Club, a subject with which I am all too familiar! (Pert 1997)

• Molecules of emotion by Candace B. Pert, p141

If we accept the idea that peptides and other informational substances are the biochemicals of emotion, their distribution in the body’s nerves has all kinds of significance, which Sigmund Freund, were he alive today, would gleefully point out as the molecular confirmation of his theories. The body is the unconscious mind! Repressed traumas causes by overwhelming emotion can be stored in a body part, thereafter affecting our ability to feel that part or even move it. The new work suggests there are almost infinite pathways for the conscious mind to access -and modify- the unconscious mind and the body, and also provides an explanation for a number of phenomena that the emotional theorists have been considering.

THE MIND IN THE BODY: FILTERING, STORING, LEARNING, REMEMBERING, REPRESSING

Because of the research I’ve been describing, we can no longer consider the emotional brain to be confined to the classical locations of the amygdala, hippocampus, ans hypothalamus. For example, we have discovered other anatomical locations where high concentrations of almost every neuropeptide receptor exist, locations such as the dorsal horn, or back side of the spinal cord, which is the firt synapse within the nervous system where all somatosensory information is proceed. (The term somatosensory refers to any bodily sensations of feelings, whether it is the touch of another’s hand on our skin or sensations arising from the movement of our own organs as they carry on our bodily process.) Not just opiate receptors but almost every peptide receptor we looked for could be found in thi spinal-cord site that filters all incoming bodily sensations. In fact, we have found that in virtually all locations where information from any of the five senses -sight, sound, taste, smell and touch- enters the nervous system, we will find a high concentration of neuropeptide receptors. We have termed these regions “nodal points” (or, colloquially, “hot spots”) to emphasize that they are places where a great deal of information converges. The information is carried by axons and dendrites from many nerve bodies that are passing near or making synaptic contact with each other.

• The Tao Te Ching « The Book of the Immanence of the Way » de Lao-Tseu,
  A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell, HarperCollins e-books

Chapter 1: The tao that can be told

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

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Since emotions are molecules that regulate the body’s balance, they can sometimes block the body’s self-regenerating capacities.

As the mind can consciously use the brain to generate “emotion molecules” and override the system, meditation that acts on the mind will allow us to find inner peace which will neutralize the emotional molecules that blocked self-regenerating capacities.

Through meditation, the body’s self-regenerative abilities will be operational again, and they will be able to heal.

But since regulation occurs in both directions, it may be that the emotional blocks the realization of meditation.

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As Candace Pert points out, information from our five senses – sight, sound, taste, smell and touch – enters the nervous system, in areas with a high concentration of neuropeptide receptors.

This is why art therapy, olfactology, etc. are techniques that allow us to correct the mismatches that have occurred between the « conscious » function of the brain and the « emotional » function of the body, which until now have caused health problems.

This reinforces my idea that reading braille using the senses (touch, sight) and the brain for comprehension, can help free the receptors of emotional molecules linked to trauma, false beliefs that have been inscribed in the body’s unconscious.

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