The Torso-Wand

The magnificent illusion that we call life gets a little more complicated when we pause to contemplate that even our brains must be part of that illusion. The brain is a conundrum because somehow we create it from a configuration of fermions and bosons, and then we rely on it. That’s the rub. So many people simply rely on their brain working for them instead of actively working their brains. So many people sleepwalk though life and that is not a criticism or judgement. It is simply an observation that so many people don’t realize that they can direct and manage their minds.

The conundrum is that as an organ the brain itself does not have emotions. It cannot judge. It just is. Therefore, if it is not under direction it just does whatever it wants. What does it want? It wants what it thinks you want and that is the conundrum. It will basically keep giving you more of the same stuff that it assumes you want… rather like a biological google algorithm. It observes what you pay attention to and goes to work to get you more of that. This results in patterns of behavior.

The brain is just a mixture of fermions and bosons too. We interpret this particular configuration as a physical organ, and, of course, we have to label it. We further interpret energetic interactions emitted from this organ (electric and neurochemical reactions are all just energy… or systems going through change) as thoughts, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, emotions, time, intuition etc.

Identified as an organ, we can measure 100 billion neurons creating more electrical connections than all the cell phones on the planet. It is a magnificent illusion that helps us interpret life for a human physical experience. This is so much fun, but the harsh reality is that we choose how it functions. It can be used by us to deliver the experiences we want more of and the experiences we actually don’t want.

First, we’ll get into plasticity, then next into the dilemma of two groups of neurons that are at the center of the conundrum.

Many people believe the brain is where thoughts are generated and that the brain controls our bodies. To an extent that is true. However, others suggest the brain is not the only player needed for interpretation of energy into matter.

From Luminous Life – How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living:

“Scientists have long believed that the brain is the conductor of the body’s symphony, instructing the body on what to do, when to do it, and to what degree. But research conducted at the Institute of HeartMath has demonstrated not only that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart, but that these heart-generated signals significantly affect brain function. The heart generates the body’s most powerful and extensive electromagnetic field, sixty times greater in amplitude than that of the brain. In additional the heart’s magnetic field is five times stronger than the brain’s and can be detected several feet away from the body.”

So, does the heart rule the head or the head rule the heart?

You will have your opinion. I think it is a symbiotic relationship in the same way a car needs an engine, fuel, and wheels to have much of a purpose at all. One without the others doesn’t offer the thrill of a ride although they still have some purposes.

Your solar plexus too is a complex network of nerve cells. All of us have had the familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is a network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain.”

Filled with important neurotransmitters the solar plexus does much more than merely handle digestion or inflict the occasional nervous pang. It partly determines our mental state.

The 100 million neurons in the enteric nervous system enables us to “feel” the inner world of our gut and its contents. Equipped with its own reflexes and senses, the second brain can control gut behavior independently of the brain.

“The system is way too complicated to have evolved only to make sure things move out of your colon,” says Emeran Mayer, professor of physiology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). Ninety percent of the fibers in the primary visceral nerve, the vagus, carry information from the gut to the brain and not the other way around. A big part of our emotions is probably influenced by the nerves in our gut

I like to consider the connection between solar plexus, brain, and heart as a single mechanism.

I call it: The Torso-Wand

That helps me visualize the connection running through the center of my illusory body. I need to feel those gut instincts as much as I need to analyze complex data in my head or respond emotionally in my heart to sensory input.

Your brain, heart, and solar plexus can be thought of as a single torso-wand. Your wand is comprised of a tight network of nerve cells, all interacting with one another and generating an overall electrical field.

I like to think of thoughts being emitted by the torso-wand rather than simply the brain itself. So, your torso-wand is an electrical field and your thoughts are equal energy converted into another form.  The fact is no one  really knows where the mind is located so this visual is helpful. Regardless of where they are formed, thoughts are real ‘things,’ with a measurable charge of energy. This is critical to understand. Think of them as microscopic torpedoes of energy.

Each thought carries the frequency of the reaction that created it and that energy must now remain as simple thought-energy, or be changed into another form. Here we return to the simple law of thermodynamics which tells us that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in format… from energy to matter and vice versa. Your thoughts could either remain out in the energy field for ever (a scary thought for sure, excuse the pun) or they can become their material equivalent resonating back to you as the physical equivalent of themselves.

Think about your thoughts. How much of the complaining you experience in life comes from you?

Think about how quickly we all judge any sensory input. How much of your thoughts are about what you don’t like in your life?

When you think about what you don’t want, more of what you don’t want is certain to materialize.

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Being an electric field, all those overlying electric wave patterns that comprise your torso-wand are governed by the same equations of the electromagnetic spectrum, light, particles and everything else in the universe. The light seen coming from a star and the energy of your thoughts are one and the same. Your thoughts tap into the power of the stars.

The measurable disturbances in the brain, heart and solar plexus are your actual thoughts racing through your torso-wand that some may call your ‘mind.’ As you read this lesson, the thoughts you are thinking and the words your mind is processing are all electrical impulses that can be measured if you had a few wires hooked up between your head and a machine.

That means, wherever they emanate, they are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s wave equations as well. All those same weird things about quantum mechanics that describe how an electron or photon behave apply to you and your thoughts as well.

This implies that, like any other set of particles or source of energy, we are entangled with everything we’ve ever encountered, past lives, the environment around us, and the rest of the universe.

As such, we can choose which of the possibilities or probabilities before us to collapse our ‘wave function’ into. In other words we can decide our fate or let it happen to us. But more than that, since we are entangled with our environment we can thus affect that as well and influence the randomness just as it can influence us, if we take a passive stance. In effect, we use our torso-wand to create our universe experiences or ignore our torso-wand to let the universe create them for us.

Active or passive is the choice we make.

The difference? Perhaps in a passive mode trees tend to fall on our heads. In active mode we get a “feeling” that a tree is about to fall and take one step to the left.

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This brings us to important questions: Can we change? If so, how do we change our brains? We can all learn new facts and skills, but can we also learn to change how we are inclined to think?

Brain plasticity is what allows your brain to ‘update its “software.’ For a long time, scientists believed that after a certain critical period in childhood, most of our brain’s neurological connections were fixed and highly unlikely to change. Today we know that the brain is capable of being rewired any way we choose. Science shows that a wide variety of practices—from physical exercise to studying to meditation—can lead to physical and physiological changes in our brains that affect our abilities and how we think that we think.

Your brain continues to make new neurons throughout life in response to mental activity. The simple solution is to be more careful about what you expose it to. It needs stimulation, which means quality and challenging sensory input not shoot ‘em up movies and ‘Housewives-of-Wherever’. Your brain is designed and constructed to be stimulated and challenged, to carefully examine, to resolve and interpret your environment.

Today, however, we tend to remove ourselves from the details of life. For example, instead of keeping track of appointments and to-do lists in our head, we use electronic gadgets with reminder features. Our streets are paved and lit, requiring virtually no attention to navigate from one location to another. And if you don’t sufficiently challenge your brain with new, surprising information, it eventually begins to deteriorate.

Generally, by the third or fourth decade in life, you’re in decline. One of the things that happens across this period is that you go from a period of the acquisition of abilities to largely using abilities that have been acquired earlier in life. By that I mean to say, most of the fundamental skills that you apply in your profession or in your everyday life are things you have mastered at a young age, and you’re now doing them in ‘automatic pilot’ mode.

To a large extent, you’re operating most of your day without really being consciously engaged in the things you’re doing. You’re substantially disengaged: ‘sleepwalking through life.’

The brain changes physically, functionally, and chemically, as you acquire any new ability or skill. You know this instinctively. Something must be changing as your abilities improve, or as new abilities emerge. You are actually rebooting your brain software by ‘practicing’ the skill; those physical changes account for your learning.

Actually, what the brain is doing is updating its software by changing its wiring. It’s also changing itself in other physical, chemical, and functional ways. Collectively, those changes account for the improvement or acquisition of any human ability.

For example, the ability to read – you have actually created a system in the brain that does not exist, that’s not in place, in the non-reader. It [the ability; the brain system that controls the ability] actually evolves in you as it has been acquired through experience or learning.

The same applies to everything you are experiencing here in the Transformation Experience. Whether you feel it yet or not, your brain has been rewiring.

So, if to this point you have not enjoyed the success in life you wanted, simply make some changes. The key word used here is practice. When you get to the applications actually use the tools.

At this point it is useful to ‘take stock’ of what you expose your brain to. Monitor yourself through a typical 24-hour period.

Do you sneak a dose of world news before going to bed or do you read a chapter of an inspiring book? Do you search the Internet for the latest entertainment gossip or do you research the habits of the successful?

When you take breaks from work do you flop on the sofa or go for a walk? How often do you exercise? How often do you meditate? How do you eat? How much social media do you waste time on?

Please be honest with yourself. Nothing can be gained from fooling yourself. Your life is at stake.

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