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Finding Serenity (Preview 1: Mental Imagery & Nervous System - Heart-to-Heart Talk) - Dr. Miller

Name: Finding Serenity (Preview 1: Mental Imagery & Nervous System - Heart-to-Heart Talk) - Dr. Miller
Uploaded: 2015-02-07T16:33:29+00:00
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Channel: Emmett Miller MD
Description: In this preview of Dr. Emmett Miller’s guided‑imagery program “Finding Serenity,” the speaker explains how the continuous stream of mental images we…

7 Feb 2015 · 2 min

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In this preview of Dr. Emmett Miller’s guided‑imagery program “Finding Serenity,” the speaker explains how the continuous stream of mental images we experience creates a mental picture of the world, which in turn triggers the brain—an endocrine organ—to release specific chemicals (neurotransmitters). These chemicals shape nervous‑system activity, which then influences glands, muscles, and the immune system. The speaker notes that white‑blood cells possess receptors that can detect brain‑derived chemicals, effectively making them “circulating neurons.” By illustrating a negative thought loop (e.g., feeling betrayed, angry, hopeless), the monologue demonstrates how adverse mental imagery can drive physiological stress responses. The segment ends with a brief announcement directing listeners to the full program at shopdrmiller.com.

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There's a constant series of thoughts, like the images of a movie that are going through, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, flip, like a film. What we think is going on, the picture that we have in our mind of the world, is based upon what links all these images together. And if I think, oh, that Earl has really stood me up again, he's such a pig, and I hate the place I work, and this whole world is going to the dogs, and God, I wish I had more money, and my ear is acting up again, and boy, life's a bitch. And then you die. You know, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Even if it can't, it still might. That creates a picture in your mind. Once there's a picture in your mind, we call it an image in your mind. The picture that's in your mind causes chemicals to be secreted by your brain. What we know is that the brain is an endocrine organ. It secretes hormones. They're called neurotransmitters, just to confuse you a little bit, but they're chemicals. And the picture that you hold in your mind causes the brain to secrete specific chemicals depending upon what the picture is. Those specific chemicals influence the nervous system to behave in a way that's consistent with the picture that you hold in your mind. The nervous system affects the glands, the immune system, and the muscles of your body. The immune system— immune system? Well, each white blood cell now has been demonstrated to have a receptor on it, like a little antenna, designed to pick up chemicals that are secreted only by the cortex of your brain. We now see the white cells of the immune system as being circulating neurons. That's how we affect it with our images. So if life's a bitch and then you die—
This has been a sample of Dr. Emmett Miller's guided imagery program, Finding Serenity: Overcoming Dependence and Codependence. Find it at shopdrmiller.com.