Your Nervous System Mediates Higher Awareness

In his landmark book The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton recognizes the structure most analogous to the brain within the individual cell to be its outer membrane, NOT its nucleus. The cell membrane enables the cell to interact with its surroundings through the many receptors that interpret various stimuli the cell comes into contact with.

We also know that the human skin comes from the same embryological origin as the Nervous System (brain and spinal cord), the ectoderm. The skin, through its protective and sensory capacities mirrors the cell membranes that surround each of our trillions of cells. 

The function of the Nervous System is to receive sensory input about the environment, process this information in the brain (based upon prior life experiences and imprintings from caregivers received in childhood), then to coordinate a response appropriately in proportion to the stimulus.

The Bhagavad Gita correctly identifies that “we never really encounter the world, all we experience is our own Nervous System.” The neurological states we predominantly occupy determine the amount of reality we’re able to access through impacting our perceptions. It’s the filter which we can never fully step outside of, but which we can refine.

The more we process life events and clear the backup of life experiences that impact our perceptions, the more coherent our Nervous Systems become. A highly coherent Nervous System can interpret and integrate more stimulus with less “distortion” (a result of unsavory impressions, often from childhood when our Nervous Systems were most malleable).

By accessing and integrating more stimulus, we’re able to be more present to Life, to what’s right now. It’s this level of coherence and availability for Life that grants us access to higher levels of awareness. 

Many of these concepts were shared with me while I was in Chiropractic college learning about the impact of the Nervous System and of the myriad ways it can be accessed and healed including through physical touch (remembering that the Nervous System and skin share a common origin in early development).

It’s my deep honor to be a carrier of these wisdom teachings and to facilitate the individual as they gain greater access to the higher awareness that can be accessed through their own Nervous System. Wow!!