Human Longevity Project….part 4

What does it take to live a long healthy life?  This part is about what researchers are finding out about the impact our fast paced life is having on children.  We need to pay attention!!

What we are finding out is, the saying “kids are resilient” is not true.  They are being impacted in their formative years that wires their brains in ways that we are now beginning to understand.

The Prefrontal cortex is not fully functional until age 25.  This is the part of the brain that helps us control impulses, empathy, problem solving, etc.  When we experience trauma at an early age it impacts this development. We get imprinted with beliefs and then they run us.

If we are not met, seen and valued we develop a sense of unworthiness or sense of not belonging.  We spend much of our lives looking for approval from others when we don’t get this need met early on.

The study of mirror neurons was a big topic in this episode.  Mirror neurons are what gives us the ability to “feel” what another feels.  It works both ways, positively and negatively.

Adverse Childhood Experiences impact our body weight, health, sexual promiscuity, addiction and our ability to self-regulate and self-care.

Trauma shifts the biology and our brains. Our bodies are in sympathetic dominance and we can’t find safety in ourselves and project this out.   The body is a living library of every event that happened to us.  If we could not be neutral or mirrored correctly, that event sticks in your physiology.

This is our work as we mature, to unpack the “emotions” that don’t allow our systems to find balance.  The beauty is, it is possible. I have been trained in many ways to clear these patterns.

So, this one was mainly about how we get wired and what to do.  We all have emotional baggage was the theme.  We can re-wire ourselves!  It takes work, curiosity and courage;-).