| Have you ever noticed how intimately sound and | | | | are create. My Research has shown me that |
| emotion are connected? Have you ever hurt | | | | when emotions are expressed ' which is to say |
| yourself without saying 'ouch!' or something like it? | | | | that the biochemicals that are the substrate of |
| Have you noticed how well one of the infamous | | | | emotion are flowing freely ' all systems are united |
| 'four letter words' accompanies anger, frustration | | | | and made whole. When emotions are repressed, |
| or rage? Celebrating just isn't the same without a | | | | denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, |
| yippee! Or hooray! And what about an 'oooooo' | | | | our network pathways get blocked, stopping the |
| when pleasantly surprised, or a scream when | | | | flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that |
| terrified? Laughter is accompanied by all kinds of | | | | run both our biology and our behavior. This, I |
| emotions, even attempts to cover up emotions. | | | | believe, is the state of unhealed feeling we want |
| Have you ever burst into spontaneous song (or | | | | so desperately to escape from. My research has |
| humming) when absolutely thrilled or excited? | | | | shown me that the body can and must be healed |
| Emotions move us. If you look at the word like | | | | through the mind, and the mind can and must be |
| this, e-motion, notice that most of word is motion. | | | | healed through the body. Your body is your |
| Emotion needs to move through us. But this isn't | | | | subconscious mind and you can't heal it by talk |
| always the case. Sometimes emotions are | | | | alone." |
| repressed and get stuck in our bodies. | | | | We are all familiar with the adrenaline (a peptide) |
| So let's take a look at the biology of emotions. | | | | charge we experience with certain situations, |
| Candace Pert's work gives us a clear picture of | | | | especially if we perceive them as threatening. As |
| how emotions work and move in the body. In her | | | | we repeat the story of this experience to |
| book, "Molecules of Emotion" she states: | | | | ourselves (over and over) and to anybody else |
| "The point I am making is that your brain is | | | | who will listen, we continue to experience the |
| extremely well integrated with the rest of your | | | | charge. The body does not know the difference |
| body at a molecular level, so much so that the | | | | between the real experience and the imagined |
| term mobile brain is an apt description of the | | | | one. Not only that, Ms. Pert's research also shows |
| psychosomatic network through which intelligent | | | | that maintaining a barrage of emotional (peptide) |
| information travels from one system to another. | | | | charge in the body can alter the peptide |
| Every one of the zones, or systems, of the | | | | receptors. That means not only that this |
| network ' the neural, the hormonal, the | | | | emotional charge becomes addictive, returning the |
| gastrointestinal, and the immune ' is set up to | | | | receptors to their normal state can be challenging. |
| communicate with one another, via peptides and | | | | The movie, "What the Bleep do we Know," has |
| messenger-specific peptide receptors. Every | | | | an enlightening animation of how this happens. |
| second, a massive information exchange is | | | | So we end up with our thoughts creating |
| occurring in your body. Imagine each of these | | | | emotional blocks, stuck patterns and possibly |
| messenger systems possessing a specific tone, | | | | disease. If you get to the stage where you |
| humming a signature tune, rising and falling, waxing | | | | decide to create a change, there is good news. |
| and waning, binding and unbinding, and if we could | | | | Although most of this information network works |
| hear this body music with our ears, then the sum | | | | at an unconscious level, we can enter it |
| of these sounds would be the music that we call | | | | consciously at will. And it will respond. Sound, |
| the emotions. As we have seen, the | | | | particularly your voice, and sound with visualization |
| neuropeptides and their receptors are the | | | | work at the level of mind, body and emotion |
| substrates of the emotions, and they are in | | | | simultaneously. The "story" never needs to enter |
| constant communication with the immune system, | | | | the picture. |
| the mechanism through which health and disease | | | | |