What is Neural plasticity and Neural Reprogramming?

Neural plasticity is the ability for body/brain/emotions/nervous system to transform; through rewiring and reprogramming of thoughts, beliefs, stories, identities and archetypes. Our unconscious mind holds the grooves of stories that we have told ourselves and these grooves are the neural pathways. Through reprogramming; we can form new neural connections and releases old ones; offering us the opportunity to heal from the inside out.

Neural Connections are patterns formed in our nervous system. They are the way we respond, feel, behave, react and express on an unconscious and/or subconscious level.

Our neural connections impact every part of our life; our health, mind, thoughts, feelings, experiences, emotions, relationships, work, communities, and how we experience life in general.

Neural Connections are the energetic imprint of our inner thoughts/stories, which become emotions, and these emotions formulate a program of patterned responses of the energy in our body.

For example: You have a fear of being hurt. You are in situation here you feel defensive/hurt; you think defensive thoughts;  this triggers a tense feeling in the body as the energy squeezes in and adrenaline & cortisol increase as a response mechanism to protect yourself and enter into fight/flight. This entire experience forms a neural pathway in the body so that the next time you have fear, you body can respond quicker. However, what happens now is that before you know you are thinking a thought; the body is responding based on a perceived experience.  

Our Nervous System operates out of pattern or habit.  Our mind, body, spirit, and emotions are all formulated on these same patterns. It’s very important to understand that the neural pathways aren’t just related to the brain- they are pathways in the physical body. While you can use the mind to reprogram neural pathways, you aren’t going to reprogram the body unless you release the energy that is already residing in the body. This is why I call my offering Somatic Release and Neural Reprogramming- and it is vital.

Your body is still holding the energy of the pattern you created, in the form of a story. Even if you “know” you are safe now, intellectually. Your body doesn’t feel safe. Because the body is holding the story (which is energy, typically tense, tight or hard) that you’ve been telling it on repeat for X number of years. And that energy is not going to just dissolve on its own. It needs to be expressed through grief, sound and a key compoment is, understanding what the emotions are. This is a unique part of my work. If you don’t understand what you are releasing, your body isn’t releasing it and you are staying stuck in the samsara or loop.

In a way, it sounds easy to “fix” – just change your mind and change your life! But it is not that simple because of the way the story is held in our unconscious. It is held in our shadow.  The shadow is, as I like to say, a slippery little fish; also known as, your unconscious. Its purpose is to protect you and keep you alive. It is inherently hidden from your sight and a part of you that you do not want to be seen for fear of being vulnerable.

Our shadow tries to keep us safe from feelings that are overwhelming or scary. This is part of our survival mechanism and it’s not wrong or bad. However, if we are ready to liberate ourselves from the fear of the unconscious, to free ourselves from our samara’s or karmic patterns; then we will have to learn how to look into this dark, unseen space, we have trained ourselves to avoid.  

Our unconscious and shadow must be tenderly worked with in order for us to allow authentic transformation- from the inside out. The only way to access our unconscious/shadow is for us to come from humility. And if you know anything about humility, it doesn’t come to us naturally.

Humility is not: thinking lowly of yourself, being small and unworthy.

Humility is: Being able to understand that you do not know parts of yourself. Being able to be vulnerable enough to acknowledge and expose the feelings, thoughts and experiences you are afraid will cause you to be unloved, unworthy or seen as weak.

Why doesn’t it come naturally to anyone? Because to be humble is to be vulnerable. It is to acknowledge that we do “not know” something; and we have a collective story that if we “don’t know” something, that there is something wrong with us. We think “knowing” will keep us safe. Alas, the shadow trying to keep us safe.

What I’ve come to understand is that all of our unconscious and shadow are part of the collective archetypes which are clearly articulated within (real) Astrology. Therefore, your Astrology Chart holds a blueprint of your unconscious neural pathways.  Now, about 99% of Astrologers are not going to speak to this, because they are still operating out of their own shadow; so you won’t glean this from most astrological information. Nevertheless, Astrology holds a key to seeing. This is why I utilize Astrology as tool when working with clients; we can see clearly see the patterns we are here to specifically work out in our lives.  

Through Somatic Releasing, I guide clients to learn how to create Safety within their body. Remember the Unconscious is always trying to keep you SAFE- so this means, that at a deep level, you do not feel safe. And when you do feel safe- you won’t need the unconscious to protect you anymore. Neural Plasticity is much deeper than we think- and my offering is to utilize this understanding from the body, mind and spirit, as these are all one.

There is so much more to be said about this work. But I will leave it here for now.  

If you have questions, reach out to me!