Signals are moving between cells and systems,
your brain is making predictions from incoming information,
your body is allocating energy and continually adjusting to what is happening around you.
Almost none of this requires your instructions.
You don’t need to calculate the percentage of carbon, oxygen, or countless other elements and calculations that go into every single moment of your existence.*
I fall ‘in wonder’ of it all often.
It’s one of the reasons I have devoted my life to explore the frontier of what it really means to be human.. And what intelligence exists within each of us.
I often encompass all of this into the idea of regulation.. Human nervous system regulation and optimization.
A lot of ideas about regulation are related to things we do (like breathe, eat, sleep, meditate..).
But so much of the intelligence that emerges is inside the mind-boggling amount of coordination already happening… that has nothing to do with our instructions or our awareness.
Can you tell your fingernails to grow or stop growing?
Can you dilate your pupils or heal a cut with your instructions?
Do you honestly understand every micro-aspect of what’s involved?
Our systems are constantly sensing, responding, recalibrating and learning from experience.
So much of my work over the years has become an exploration of how we can become more attuned to that intelligence.
...and create conditions that allow more of it to become available to ALL of us.
This is part of what I mean when I use the word Super-Regulation.
It’s an ever-evolving ability (and willingness) to meet different moments with greater flexibility.
Sometimes this looks like getting quieter, more settled, looking inward.
Sometimes it means mobilizing energy, speaking, reaching toward someone, changing course or realizing that an old way of reacting is not serving a future you really want to have.
One of my favorite things about studying the brain:
Our history shapes us so powerfully… but never has to be the conclusion or boundary of what is possible for us next.
There are choices, possibilities and actions within us that we never had the chance to practice in our past. But we can have the chance to practice them now.
WIshing you moments of 'falling in wonder' of the intelligence that is flowing within you and around you…
Happy Sunday,
Stefanie
P.S. This is one of the ideas we'll be exploring inside the Super-Regulators™ Neuroscience Academy. If you'd like to join me for this year's experience, you can click here to see the curriculum →
*This is the inspiration for one of the neuro-meditations i just recorded for the Super Regulators Academy. Each module of the curriculum has an accompanying guided, neuroscience-infused meditation that you receive each week.
