Did you know that actively practicing Neurosculpting will enhance your immune response to food and environmental allergies and sensitivities making you LESS reactive? This is amazing!
Do you have skin breakouts, reactivity to certain foods, hormones out of whack, feel tired, heart palpitations, trouble sleeping or staying asleep?
When your body is chronically in a heightened stress response, your endocrine system (hormones coursing through your brain and body) is on constant overdrive. So when you encounter something your body deems a threat, it has diminished capacity to respond to it causing you adverse and uncomfortable symptoms.
“We know how we want to feel. We want to wake up with a smile, feeling energized and excited for the day. We want to have a skip in our step, feel pain-free. We want to spend quality time with our loved ones, feeling positive and grateful. But it can be challenging to know how to get there.”
~ Jessie Inchauspé, Glucose Revolution.
In Jessie’s book she talks about how navigating our health feels like glancing into an airplane cockpit. We see complicated stuff: Screens, dials, lights, switches, levers, buttons—and we look away, feeling grateful that the pilots know what they are doing. We just want the plane to stay in the air.
When it comes to our bodies, we are the clueless passengers, AND we are also the pilots.
What does this have to do with going to bed content and waking up feeling energized? Because our brain, especially the Prefrontal Cortex (the part that decides to be curious, problem-solving, creative, funny) uses glucose as fuel. When our glucose levels are out of whack, our brain (central nervous system) is out of whack and that directly impacts our thoughts, perceptions, words, actions, patterns and beliefs.
This leads to a dysregulated nervous system and brain wiring, or patterns, that keep us “safe” because our brains find it familiar. But the patterns, habits, and behaviors are not getting us to where we want to be, experiencing a life of connection—to ourselves and others—and experiencing joy, love, vitality, and playfulness.
Through Neurosculpting training we teach some science-based tools and practices to quickly redirect your brain in spicy situations. This is the language your brain, mind, and body are speaking, through the highway of the vagus nerve.
So how does Neurosculpting help?
In an article titled “Meditation brings robust immune system activation, UF Health Researchers find” in December 2021 by Doug Bennett at the University of Florida College of Medicine, he shares the findings UF researchers and colleagues found by conducting a comprehensive genomic study of how meditation affects the biological processes directly involved in disease development. They studied blood samples of participants in an 8-day meditation retreat taken five to eight weeks in advance, then just before and after the retreat as well as three months later. Their analysis found several immune-related and other cellular pathways were altered after the meditation retreat including heightened activity in 68 genes associated with interferon signaling, a key part of the body’s anti-virus and anti-cancer responses. “Interferon proteins rally other parts of the immune system to defend against viruses and several recent studies have shown that interferon signaling is imbalanced in patients with severe COVID-19. Essentially, meditation uses a coordinated network of core genes and regulators to unleash a positive effect on the immune system, the researchers found.” They found that meditation produced beneficial gene activity comparable to conventional interferon treatments given to multiple sclerosis patients.
Learning to meditate is like a muscle that needs exercise to become stronger. Using Neurosculpting techniques for just a few minutes each day to focus your attention will allow you to more readily access the physical and emotional benefits. Regular Neurosculpting practice will strengthen the neural connections associated with relaxation and emotional regulation, and with daily practice and using a few quick tools you can access these connections in your day-to-day encounters with quick disruptions in the stress response and bringing your brain power to your Prefrontal Cortex to create space between a stressful encounter and a habitual response, allowing your physiology (the way living things or any of their parts function) to shift. This provides you more time for thoughtful action in a way that will help manage stress.
In my own personal experience, I had a horrible skin rash that plagued me for years—reactivity to stress and gluten. The unexpected valleys (I guess I can’t climb peak after peak without coming down into some valleys sometimes) taught me a few things: that leveling up doesn’t mean constant peak experiences, or that everything will be easy, but it does mean that I can get back to good faster each time.
I can get quiet with myself and try to see “the problem under the problem”, implement my tools (vagal toning, journaling, meditation, exercise, breathing, sleeping, eating well) and I can reach out to people in my tribe when I need a boost or outside perspective. We are never alone!
It also taught me more resilience and compassion because I never know what is going on in other’s lives.
By reducing your baseline of stress and increasing your heart-rate variability you are not only becoming more stress-resilient in response to life, you are boosting your own immune system and immune response to toxic threats to your body. How amazing is this?!
After learning Neurosculpting myself and practicing it over the past few years, I have not had a serious skin breakout! I attribute it to changing some lifestyle and eating habits, but even occasionally indulging in some of the foods that trigger a skin response in me, it’s so mild compared to a few years ago!
What our mind perceives and how our brain responds has many factors at play: our genes, history, hormones, brain, and how they interact with our environment. But our body can’t react in a way that our mind doesn’t agree to. Becoming aware of our mind patterns, why and how they are wired into our brain and body, and using the Neurosculpting techniques to unlock hope and heal beliefs affecting our body and our behaviors, brings our mind and body into coherence where true and lasting healing can take place.
“The truth that sets you free is that you can experience in imagination what you desire to experience in reality, and by maintaining this experience in imagination, your desire will become an actuality.”
~ Neville Goddard
If you’re ready to learn how to pilot your body and life, comment below which part of this blog resonates with you or reach out to me directly and we can begin to dialogue about what YOUR best next step is.
by Beth Rose