It’s Not So Much What We Eat But How We Think: How Thought, Emotion and Hormones Affect Nutrition, Health and Longevity
We become what we think about all day long. Our thoughts dictates our emotional attitudes. Our glands, in turn, respond to our emotions and produce hormones in the body that mirror our initial thoughts. These hormones either uplift or destroy us depending on which ones we put into motion. Our thought, emotions, glands and hormones directly affect our ability to receive nutrition, our health and longevity.
Brain and body have a symbiotic relationship that so well demonstrates the old proverb, “As above, so below.” The body works like a receiver of the brain’s activity. We may think ill health just happens to us and in some cases, there are circumstances beyond our control.
But for the most part, we literally create sickness by misusing the mind, emotion, glands and hormones. It all starts with a lack of good mental nutrition.
“The pituitary gland and the hypothalamus — are located in or near the brain. The hypothalamus and the pituitary gland are like orchestra conductors. Their job is to tell other endocrine glands throughout the body to make the hormones that affect and protect every aspect of your health.
Found deep inside the brain, the hypothalamus produces releasing and inhibiting hormones and controls the ‘master gland’ — the pituitary. Together, the hypothalamus and pituitary tell the other endocrine glands in your body to make the hormones that affect and protect every aspect of your health.”
— endocrinesociety.org
To a great extent, the brain mirrors the composition of the body. It contains all the information, molecules, peptides, amino acids and emotions we find in the body.
Here’s what happens when we think a thought and how the thought affects the entire body.
- We generate a new thought or we recall a past memory. (Memories are not thought, by the way).
- Neurons begin firing. The brain immediately creates a picture or holographic image in the frontal lobe/neocortex.
- As momentum is achieved, these neurons bundle together like trunk lines or networks.
- The holographic image created in the frontal lobe now moves to the midbrain. This is where we find the pineal and pituitary glands, hippocampus and hypothalamus. (See endnotes for definitions.)
- The pituitary is the master gland of the body. In concert with the pineal gland, the pituitary is activated to flow hormones into the body based on those images the brain has created.
- These hormones flow into other glands and into the amygdala, hippocampus and hypothalamus in the brain. (See endnotes for definitions.)
- The master pituitary gland transforms the holographic thought-form into a hormone consistent with the thought. For example, think of fear of not being able to survive. The pituitary will then send a cascade of these fear encoded hormone chemicals down through the body and into the cells.
- The cells receiving these hormone messages will then create amino acid chains that actually carry variants of the initial thought or attitude.
- The cells now possess these amino acid chains of attitude variants. Now they begin to conform or re-conform according to the old or new attitude, respectively. Every attitude we can possibly have can be chemically reproduced as amino acid derived hormones. (See endnote definition.)
- These reinforced or newly re-conforming cells will either further destroy or begin to uplift the body.
Do you see why the quality of thought and attitude is critical to the health of the body?
The body itself is a chemical laboratory affecting nutrition, health and longevity.
It transfers our thoughts into biological material in various chemical combinations and according to the thought commands we give it.
We may not think all our thoughts are actual commands to the body. But in fact, any thought we can think is essentially a command for the rest of the body.
If you’ve been consistently thinking thoughts of wellness, for example, your body’s cells will be nourished. The wellness will be transferred into amino acid chains and peptides that get flowed through the bloodstream.
Whether disease or wellness, neither just happens. We actively promote one or the other.
Getting good nutrition and all the other practices we employ to promote wellness, balance, health and vitality in the body are wonderful. We shouldn’t throw those out. But a person who consumes an impeccable diet and has a robust exercise routine will still have poor health if his thoughts don’t match.
Diet is probably only ten percent of the equation for great health.
We create excellent physical health with our thoughts and attitudes. This is why you can’t have good health if your mental health is poor.
Someone suffering with depression, for example, will eventually suffer physically, too. This is because that person’s thoughts aren’t consistent with strength and vitality. By constantly thinking disempowering thoughts enough chemicals will be manufactured in the body to wreck an immune system.
A closed-minded or bitter person will actually close off and starve the body of nutrition. By their thoughts they feed the body “bitter herbs” of negative emotions like victimhood, jealousy, anger, and resentment.
Open minded happy people who are open to new constructive thoughts and ideas do just the opposite. They’ll create an environment in the body capable of receiving nutrients from food.
Here’s how that works.
Every cell has receptor sites that exist to transport nutrients carried to them by the bloodstream.
A negative thinking person tends to dredge up old memories and traumas over and over again. They keep reinforcing acidic negative thoughts and emotions.
This habit creates an acid-based environment in the body which will not support health. Now the body manufactures chemicals that align with these unhealthy attitudes and the ports to many of the cell’s receptor sites close down to nutrients.
The very nutrients a person needs to give cells life and vitality don’t get absorbed by the cells. Instead, these nutrients get stored as fat. Without proper nutrition the body begins to break down into disease and death.
Our cell receptor sites basically turn the body on with life or off with disease.
You can take tons of nutritional supplements but they won’t work because your cells can’t even receive them.
It’s not so much what we eat. It’s what we think.
When you revisit a memory, you set a cascade of emotion and harmful information into motion.
At their core, memories are chemical. The chemicals produced by our memories get stored in peptides and amino acid-derived hormones.
The emotions you felt when the event occurred radiate throughout the body. Then the hypothalamus and its neurons and peptides send that emotional information to the pituitary. And the pituitary goes to work immediately.
If the pituitary master gland could speak, it would always say:
“Thy will be done.”
So when a memory and emotion are once again sent to the pituitary, the pituitary rubber stamps them. How? By creating chemical substance (code, information) in the form of amino acid hormones.
Next, it sends that information out into the bloodstream by way of the adrenal glands. This is because stress is perceived and so the adrenal glands must soothe the stressed body.
Whenever we reactivate the past or hang onto unhealthy attitudes, we activate destructive emotions and chemicals in the body. This creates an emotional and life force drain on the body. After a while, left unchecked, the body is very weighed down by devitalizing chemicals.
The body’s days are numbered.
We want to live, thrive and be well and full of vitality to live great lives. Instead, many of us continually allow this sequence of events to gradually kill the body.
We wear our negative attitudes in the body. We express them outwardly as bitter, sad, angry or resentful people. Inwardly, we’ve depressed our immune systems so much that we approach death more quickly.
Whatever we create in the brain, in the mind, the body will eventually mirror.
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Hold that thought and image in the frontal lobe of the brain for as long as you can. Do it often and consistently and you’ll begin to change the health of your body’s cells. You can begin to create the health and vitality you desire.
You must be patient and consistent though because there’s a lot to undo. You’ve been allowing negative thoughts to circulate in the brain for a very long time.
Here’s an analogy from the days of reel-to-reel magnetic tape recorders:
If you made a recording, then rewound the tape and hit the record button again, you’d re-record over the original audio. You’d wipe away the original programming.
That’s essentially what you have to do to replace old destructive thoughts and emotions with new uplifting ones.
“Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.” — James Allen in As a Man Thinketh, 1902
Thought is substance and it creates our health, vitality, longevity and our entire lives.
The much quoted American New Thought self-help writer, Wallace Wattles, said in The Science of Being Well:
“That there is a Thinking Substance from which all things are made, and that man receives the Principle of Health, which is his life, from this Substance.
That man himself is Thinking Substance; a mind-body, permeating a physical body, and that as man’s thoughts are, so will the functioning of his physical body be.
That if man will think only thoughts of perfect health, he must and will cause the internal and involuntary functioning of his body to be the functioning of health, provided that his external and voluntary functioning and attitude are in accordance with his thoughts.”
And Wattles further says in the classic book dating back more than 100 years:
“Mentally take the attitude of being well, and do not say anything or do anything which contradicts this attitude. Never speak a word or assume a physical attitude which does not harmonize with the claim: ‘I am perfectly well.’
When you walk, go with a brisk step, and with your chest thrown out and your head held up; watch that at all times your physical actions and attitudes are those of a healthy person. When you find that you have relapsed into the attitude of weakness or disease, change instantly; straighten up; think of health and power. Refuse to consider yourself as other than a perfectly healthy person.”
Create the ultimate prosperity of true nutrition, health, vitality and longevity. Use your brain and mind to create them.
The ultimate prosperity isn’t money or possessions. It’s the ability to utilize the incredible gift of the brain and mind rightly and effectively.
Think pure thoughts consistently and persistently. You’ll have to be vigilant and diligent with this. At the same time, don’t try too hard. Let the process flow.
Persistent elevated thoughts will slowly become life force in your entire cellular structure. The cells’ programming will change and uplift.
Your glands will change and uplift. Your pituitary master gland will expand giving you hormones for greater youth, life and vitality.
Create a strong and balanced body. Declare often:
“My body is beautiful. It is young. It is resilient. It loves and rejoices in equilibrium. It knows just what to do to create complete balance and harmony within it. My body is 30 years younger. My body is strong because I will need to be strong to ……………”(Maybe you’d like to fill in that blank.)
There are masters documented on this earth hundreds of years old and some even more. Once they understood the power of their minds, they turned everything around and stopped aging. They live magnificent joyous lives manifesting their desires instantly. And they are still alive on the planet today.*
We all have the power of life or death, sickness or health, poverty or abundance — in an attitude.
The body completely depends on the mind. Your body can’t survive and thrive if your attitudes destroy it.
Attitudes of fear of not being able to survive, lack, failure and anger can’t help but create a body ravaged with sickness and destruction.
We’re meant to live for hundreds of years at the very least. But our negative thoughts, attachment to memories, and destructive attitudes will never be our friends.
When we allow them space in our minds we live shorter lives. We end up in hospitals with great suffering at the end.
The degree of health and vitality we enjoy is a matter of belief and how we focus that belief in our consciousness.
- Pineal gland: A pine-cone shaped gland the size of a pea located in the epithalamus in the center of the brain but slightly towards the rear. The pineal is associated with the sixth seal and hyper-consciousness. (Seals are often called chakras by many people when, in fact, they are vortices of energy; chakras are the points where two lines of energy intersect creating a chakra point.) Spiritual and metaphysical traditions relate the pineal gland with the ‘third eye,’ the gateway into inner realms of higher states of consciousness.
- Pituitary gland: The master gland of the body and a major endocrine gland. The pituitary is associated with the seventh seal and ultra-consciousness. The pituitary is a pea-sized body in the midbrain and important in controlling growth and development and the functioning of the other endocrine glands. When we place focus on the brain rather than thought, a tone is sounded throughout our blue corona (the part of the auric field closest to the physical body; usually lavender in color in starseeds) which ignites the brain, stimulating a reconnect of electrical current from brain to pituitary gland. Now the pituitary gland tunes in to frequency similar to how a radio station picks up frequency and broadcasts signals; now the pituitary gland begins producing stargate hormones rather than maintenance hormones. These hormones flood the body through the central nervous system and blood making it possible to travel through time, space and dimension with merely a focused thought or command.
- Amygdala: a roughly almond-shaped mass of gray matter inside each cerebral hemisphere involved with the experiencing of emotions.
- Hippocampus: the elongated ridges on the floor of each lateral ventricle of the brain, thought to be the center of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system.
- Hypothalamus: a region of the forebrain below the thalamus which coordinates both the autonomic nervous system and the activity of the pituitary, controlling body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity.
- Amino acid derived hormones are those chemicals whose names end in “-ine” or “-in;” e. g. melatonin, serotonin, epinephrine.
- *Spalding, Baird Thomas. Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East). United States, DeVorss, 1935.
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- “How does the pituitary gland work?” National Library of Medicine, 22 March 2011, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279389/
- “What is the Pituitary Gland?” The Pituitary Foundation, https://www.pituitary.org.uk/information/what-is-the-pituitary-gland/
- “How Do Thoughts and Emotions Affect Health?” University of Minnesota, https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/how-do-thoughts-and-emotions-affect-health
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- Spalding, Baird Thomas. Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East), Vol. 1. United States, DeVorss, 1935.
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