30/10/2026
Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese/American neuroscientist who has proved that emotion plays a role in rational decision-making, as opposed to being separate from, or antithetical to it.
Unconscious mind on its own takes us to the stories, the analysis, the interpretation, the defences, the past, and fear for the future. It tints our decision-making.
Being with sensations and feelings, which are bodily based, the only part of us which can be truly in the present, and bringing them into connection with mind, allows us to update our beliefs, patterns, prejudices... from moment to moment, and from one experience to another.
IF we care enough for ourselves to go to, and process all the feelings even when they are extremely uncomfortable, painful, scary ... rather than exiling them or projecting them onto someone else. Which has consequences.
You'll know what I mean if you know.
Bringing our whole Selves, body-mind-soul together, we can move through all the cycles which move us through life - on physical, mental and autonomic regulatory levels.
This brings 'whole' health ~ free flowing vitality, flexibility, choice. And Love.
Because when we are wholly connected with ourselves, we naturally remember we're connected with others, with our planet and with the world we are all part of.
Isn't that what we all want ultimately?
đź’š To feel loved as we are
đź’š To love with acceptance of others as they are
đź’š To feel part of a bigger symbiotic picture of interconnection?
