Speaker (Phil Powis) explains that most mind–body communication runs from the body to the mind (explicit claim: ~80%), where sensory-triggered bodily responses send information that changes brain chemistry and thereby shapes thought patterns. The speaker warns that if the body 'always wins' it prevents intentional change; differentiating true intuition from entrenched bodily patterns requires presence, self-awareness, and deliberately overriding habitual bodily reactions to update behaviour toward goals.
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Everyone, the information that I want to share with you is something that I consider very important. I often talk about the wisdom of the body and I'm 100% in favor of that. And I believe that the body has a great wisdom that we need to learn how to follow. Even if we don't have all the information in the mind. But there's also another side to it. So basically 80% of the communication mind body happens from the body to the mind. So we get triggered by the five senses. That information triggers the body that sends an information to the brain. And then based on whatever information the brain has stored for that specific stimulus, let's say if it was a smell, it will start releasing chemistry accordingly to the memory of that information. So why is this so important? Because then your thoughts will follow that chemistry. So sometimes you're feeling good, you don't know what happened and you start like going on a spiral down and it's because your body felt something that sent the information to the brain. And then your thought pattern is just following the chemistry. So if we keep functioning like this, if the body always win, we lose. Because if we want to create something new, we need to tap into the executive functions of our brain. So it's very important to make the difference between following my intuition or just being trapped in old body patterns. So if you have a goal and you want to follow that goal, really notice like it requires a lot of self awareness and presence. Is my body pulling me towards the opposite direction? I want to go here and there's a force pulling me against that. It's an old pattern, but if you want to go here and sometimes I don't feel like going, but you were able to do it. You are updating the information. You don't need to know about the smell, you don't need to know about the five senses. But you are taking an action that is overcoming what your non reaction from the body would do. And this is really powerful. So it's really important to understand how this communication works. It's really important to get you know yourself better and better so you can make the difference between is it my intuition or it's just me for following old patterns, old stuff that is not serving me anymore. So be present, be aware and start building from now on and not rebuilding or reliving or reconstructing your past over and over.
