Changing Your Brain Through Emotion

by Emanuel Kuntzelman

Quote from Candice Pert

"I propose that the matter of consciousness—the measurable, material substance—is the vibrating, moving, breathing, pumping molecular complexes of receptors and their ligands, as they bind to every cell of your body. The activity of these molecules creates an electrical charge and continually generates a current throughout your bodymind to keep you awake, alert and conscious.

This is why I can say that the molecules of emotion are those of consciousness. Emotions span the material and the immateral realm; they’re the bridge linking the two. Just like the simultaneous particle and wave properties of light, the molecules of emotion go both ways. They’re physical substances that you can see and weigh on a gel in the laboratory, ones that vibrate with an eledtrical charge in the living animal; and at the same time they are a kind of wave between people that conveys information. They are both physical and psychological, linking brain to body in one vast network of communication, to coordinate the entire bodymind…

So what does all this mean? Well, it means that you can learn and change and grow, because you are literally making a new brain every day. Since you sat down in your seat here tonight, you have made thousands of new neurons! You are literally being given the opportunity to think new thoughts, to change your mind, to create the reality you experience from moment to moment. If you have uplifting thoughts, you are building a very different brain than if you have negative ones.

Your experience of so-called reality is filtered through your memories, giving your experience a spin, adding meaning, and even making part of each situation go or stay unconscious if the eent is too painful to remember, as in the case of a core emotional trauma.

We are constantly resonating with what we already know to be true. Everything that you feel is filtered along a gradient of past experience and memory that is stored in your receptors—there isn’t any absolute or external reality! What you experience as reality is your story of what happened…

This has huge implications for healing traumas from the past… When anguish is fully processed, constant bliss is a possibility."