You are reading this because you just clicked or tapped with your finger on this email. Now that’s a miracle!
What just happened? Within a split second, your brain ordered your hand and fingers to execute a rather fine motor task. Within that very split second, an orchestration of neuronal firings and synaptic relays took place, yet you were likely unaware of any of it all. It was automatic and quite magical. Every moment of our lives is filled with magic like that.
But that’s just the surface of it. You probably don’t open every email. Something attracts you to open certain ones and ignore others: maybe an expectation of information, or hoping to save money at a sale. So there is a rather complicated psychological process involved: more neuronal firings and synaptic connections, all within that second, automatic, unconscious!
When all goes well, we go about life unconscious of all these miracles. We only notice when they fail to happen, as in brain or neurological damage. My practice specialty is neuroacupuncture: using acupuncture to treat neurological problems but my qigong and Daoist practices, as well as my Ericksonian hypnotherapy training are also part and parcel of that. I am interested in exploring and understanding:
The benefits but also the problems of our magically efficient nervous system, especially as it relates to anxiety, depression, and addiction
How we can learn to become conscious of its working, and
How to use that knowledge for our health, happiness, and transformation.
In fact, my most recent blog post titled ‘Unconsciously Conscious’ is a good follow-up to this discussion. Please read it and if these rather esoteric inquiries interest you please subscribe to my blog.