Body budgeting
“Depression means that your body budgeting is in rough shape, it means that you become insensitive to the context of current moment, and you become trapped in your own thoughts.”
~ Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - Chief Science Officer for the Centre for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard Medical School
The sickness behavior. Sickness behavior is the direct result that your brain believes there is something that is metabolically wrong with you. It’s using your past experience as a model to run your body in the context of current world based on personal historic reference.
Reprogramming through consistency: The shift in body awareness with breath in the context of 26+2 yoga postures, as you evolve in gentle muscular contraction with stretching in relaxed breath state you reprogram your chemistry into the present experience on and off your yoga mat.
The same brain regions that function for you to understand language are the same parts that play a role in regulating the systems of your body.
“I can say a word in experiments, an individual word, or a sequence of words and see huge changes not only in the brain, but in the physiology of the body. I can see someone’s heart rate go up, go down, I can see someone sweat less just by the words I use. Words have a physical power over you. The more words that you have, the broader your vocabulary is, the more control you have over / the more options you have in creating meaning from the sense data that your body creates the experience.”
~ Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - Chief Science Officer for the Centre for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard Medical School
There is a difference between being aware of a sensation or having pain. It’s a rating of granularity. The bigger your vocabulary the more options you have for dealing with those feelings. Words are related to action plans that your brain has learned. It can improve your mental and physical health with body budgeting.
If the body is in body budget mode the brain cannot update with new information. That is a potent scientific explanation for chronic pain.
For deep dive in body budgeting and neuroscience to broaden your understanding and vocabulary around your own personal experience. Listen to Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett in her interview with Dr Perry Nickelston
