CHAPTER THREE
OVERCOMING
YOUR BODY
You do not think in a vacuum. Every time you have a thought, there is a
biochemical reaction in the brain—you make a chemical. And as you’ll
learn, the brain then releases specific chemical signals to the body, where
they act as messengers of the thought. When the body gets these chemical
messages from the brain, it complies instantly by initiating a matching set
of reactions directly in alignment with what the brain is thinking. Then the
body immediately sends a confirming message back up to the brain that it’s
now feeling exactly the way the brain is thinking.
To understand this process—how you typically think equal to your body,
and how to form a new mind—you first need to appreciate the role that
your brain and its chemistry plays in your life. In the last few decades,
we’ve discovered that the brain and the rest of the body interact via
powerful electrochemical signals. There is an extensive chemical factory
between our ears that orchestrates a myriad of bodily functions. But relax,
this is going to be “Brain Chemistry 101,” and a few terms are all that you
need to know.
All cells have receptor sites on their exterior surface that receive
information from outside their boundaries. When there is a match in
chemistry, frequency, and electrical charge between a receptor site and an
incoming signal from the outside, the cell gets “turned on” to perform
certain tasks.