It is just physiology!

It took me a while to understand that what was happening within me was just physiology based on what my emotions were!

Many if not most of my emotions were habit, meaning they came from the past. A neural network had been established from some past event that would get activated in the present downloading the same chemicals into my body, causing me to respond to a situation again and again in the same way.

So, when I was having an uplifting emotion, I would have 1,400 biochemical reactions in my body. This would cause me to react or respond very differently than when I was experiencing a draining/negative emotion. That would cause 1,400 different biochemical reactions in my body. Interesting uh?

So, this is where I came to understand and appreciate it was just physiology. It was not the “I” in me. It was the physical body responding to an outer condition or an inner condition that was habitual in me.

An example of this would be the other day I got a call from someone who was depressed and upset. After the call my mind began to ruminate, rehashing the story. As I slowed down to truly listen, I noticed fear, and the tension pattern my body that was habituated when my biochemistry changes to that fear state.

Nothing outside of me changed. I was off the phone sitting quietly on the porch. The habit of rumination began and that is what followed. This was an inside job!

When I realized this, I could then consciously choose another emotion. One that would stop that detrimental physiology , if I left unchecked would have an effect on my body. Perhaps it would play out as sleeplessness, inability to concentrate, or in the long term high, blood pressure, heart disease and many of the other dis-eases we can have.

So, when you are activated in someway, or out of sorts, remember it is just physiology and you have the power to change that when you choose to do so!!!