Your nervous system is like an orchestra conductor, cueing different hormonal responses. Flutes are subtle neural signals, brass and percussion are stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, and woodwinds provide the baseline hormonal tone that keeps your body running.
The conductor, I've thought a lot about this because my son has sang in choir and I've watched band performances now for like 5 or 6 years. And I'm always so interested in the conductor because they look like they're just wild and out of control, but they're doing a really important job of keeping the tempo where it's supposed to be and then bringing in the percussion and then slowing things down and bringing in the quiet violins. And so it's really interesting to watch that dynamic happen. And God was like, that conductor, that's your nervous system. Your nervous system is telling the flutes when to come in and be beautiful and soft and quiet. And then when the, you know, the brass is supposed to come in and bang the cymbals, that's like, to me, that's cortisol, like bang, let's get some done, or adrenaline. And then you have this background of, um, the wood section. They're just like humming along, giving that foundation. And to me, that is so much like, you know, our hormones. They're humming around in the background. They're responsible for a lot of the foundational things we're hearing and feeling, but They don't have the nuances necessarily of the quiet flutes, of the big percussions, those different things.
