VIDEO: The Gut Brain - the Governor of our entire World!

Jan Normanton • June 6, 2023

While many people think they may have an issue of the mind, that they have worry, overwhelm, a monkey mind that never switches off, conversations going in the head which may feel infernal and impossible to control, this is governed by the state that our body is in.


We have a brain and the brain is a wonderful tool. We can fill it with information that supports us to get by in life, like a computer full of programmes that we’ve downloaded in life from our parents, primary caregivers, from school, over the many years that we’ve been growing and developing and showing up in the world. However we are not our brain. We have a brain and we can use that to our advantage.  However the thoughts that we have are not necessarily us, we have thoughts.


What we do have is this gut brain which is the governor of our entire world. This is where our intuition lies this, this is where we make gut decisions, this is where we sense what is safe and what isn’t safe in the world.

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