[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflections #26

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From: L. Michael Hall

2008 Meta Reflections #26

June 8, 2008





CELLS AND YOUR

NEURO-SEMANTIC ENVIRONMENT





Do you know that your cells live inside of your neuro-semantic environment? They do. I mentioned the terminology of a "neuro-semantic environment" in the last Meta Reflection. It's a term that comes from Alfred Korzbyski which describes the meaning-structures that we build within our mind and then externalize in the world.

This means is that we all live in neuro-semantic environments-environments that we create and that are formulated by the meanings that we create. What makes these neuro-semantic environments powerful and profound is that they serve as the contexts within which we live and so we mostly forget about them and live in them unconsciously. We live in them as fish live in water-unaware of that medium.

One of the things that this means for us is that our cells, the very cells of our body and brain and nervous system, the cells that give us life, also live in a neuro-semantic environment. Not only do the billions and trillions of cells in your body live in the physical environment around your body and inside your body, they also live within the psychological (or neuro-semantic) environment that we provide them. But what does this mean and imply for our health and well-being?

First and foremost it means that the life and vitality of your cells ultimately are influenced by your meanings-your beliefs, understandings, decisions, identities, intentions, etc. This is one of the central mind-body interfaces, if not the most central.

Here's a little bit of Cells #101 (if you're a little rusty on your biology and anatomy or neuro-sciences). Cells are the foundation of life itself. A cell is composed of a bit of living protoplasm, a membrane that holds it together, and DNA with a genetic code in the middle of it. And cells are responsive. Cells respond to their environments. Every cell move about in its environment searching for "food" to ingest. It then processes the nutriments and then expels various products. Cells move toward factors that nurture its life, warmth, food, etc. and they move away from toxic influences. The simplest forms of life are single cells, amebas.

What is the "brain" of the cell? For years, scientists assumed that the DNA was the "brain" of the cell and that it was the DNA that informed the cell regarding what to do. But with ennuculation (which refers to the process of taking out of the cell the cells' DNA), the cell does not die. Instead, it continues ingesting and digesting and moving in response to things. The only difference and limitation without the DNA in the cell, is that they do not reproduce. So the brain of the cell must lie elsewhere. Bruce Lipton identifies the membrane as the cell's "brain."

The membrane is the cell's "brain" in that it is the membrane that detects its environment and responds to that environment. As the interface between the life inside the cell and the outside world in which the cells seeks to live and thrive and grow and reproduce, the communication loop works at the level of the membrane.

What does all of this have to do with Neuro-Semantics, NLP, Psychology, Self-Actualization, Coaching, etc.? As a multi-cellular organism, your cells and mine not only live in an external environment so that at our skin level we have a communication loop within our outer environment, but our cells also live inside of the environment of our bodies. This means that our cells also have to deal with and relate to the neuro-semantic environment on our insides.

This brings up lots of questions:

C Is our inner neuro-semantic environment friendly or unfriendly?

C Is it full of acid bitterness or loving gentleness?

C Is it an environment of trust of yourself, trust of life, trust of others or distrust, suspicion, fear, worry, etc.?

It is this inside environment that each of us create. You create your neuro-semantic environment which is one of the most important environments that your cells have to deal with. It is this environment of your meanings that baths your cells and organs and nervous systems (autonomic, parasympathic, central, immune). If that's the case, what internal meaning environment are you bathing your cells in?

Could this, in part, explain why "stress" is a central factor in 90% of all illnesses and diseases? Could this, in part, explain why there are "personality factors" in so many diseases? That there are personality factors for heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, etc.? What if the meanings you create that make up the neuro-semantic environment inside your body is how your "mind" sends messages and commands to your body? Would this say something about psycho-somatic diseases and psycho-somatic healing? What does it say to you?

The good news in all of this is that the neuro-semantic environment within which all of our cells live is an environment that we create every day as we access, invent, and process meaning within our entire mind-body system. So how are you as a creator of your neuro-semantic environment? To the unleashing of your highest and best health!





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