If you really want to be successful in the long term, a deep understanding of all the processes that are initiated or influenced by your thinking is essential. An important consequence of thinking, for example, is its influence on your body – on your cells.
In order to gain a better understanding of the processes that take place un(sub)consciously, your knowledge of the function and composition of your body, i.e. cells, is important.
The first question in this context is therefore: what are cells?
Your entire body is made up of billions of cells. These cells are your skin, your organs, your heart and also your brain. The respective cells are specialists in their field: there are brain cells, heart cells, liver cells, etc.
How do cells work?
This is where it gets interesting, because cells only have two basic functions or states:
1. regenerative mode: this is the normal and natural state of the cell. In this state, it is concerned with repairing the organ in question or carrying out the processes that take place in this organ = repair and maintenance. It regulates the supply and processing of nutrients and communication with other cells of the organ and the cells of other organs or parts of the body.
2. defensive mode: this state means that the cell is under attack, or the body or parts of the body are under attack and there is a direct threat. In this state, the cell reduces all repair and maintenance to a minimum and concentrates on averting the imminent danger. It goes into flight and fight mode and directs all available reserves to this end.
The following is important: if a cell is in defensive mode, it cannot be in regenerative mode at the same time!
Let’s look at a practical example: when you are sitting around a campfire eating a steak, your body is engaged in this process. The food has to be digested and the ingredients processed accordingly. Normally, you would be in regenerative mode, in which your organism distributes or utilizes the nutrients you have ingested in your body.
However, if you were attacked by a bear, your system would immediately switch to defensive mode. As a result, your cells would immediately stop their regenerative activity.
The reason for this is obvious: in the course of evolution, our body, our system, has adapted and introduced automatisms to make us more efficient and thus increase our chances of survival. If you are attacked by a bear while eating your steak, your system reacts in defensive mode because it came to a logical conclusion thousands of years ago:
It makes no sense to stay in regenerative mode when you are attacked, because it makes no sense to continue processing your food if you are dead in 20 seconds. That’s why we have specialized to dedicate all our energy and processes to our survival. This is in the nature of our survival drive.
Cells have an urge to survive, and we are a group of billions of cells. Since we have a mind, we have intellectualized this urge to survive in the course of evolution.
So far, none of this would be a problem, since most of us today no longer eat our prey around a campfire and run the risk of being attacked by a bear, but eat our food comfortably at the dining room table.
However, there is a problem: your system does not distinguish between actual external attacks, such as a bear, and imaginary attacks, i.e. attacks on a psychological basis = stress.
Such imaginary attacks are thoughts and situations that are based on fear or trigger fear – even if this goes unnoticed.
Put simply, this means that when you receive a bill and wonder how to pay it, you unconsciously enter a state of fear. If you are stuck in a traffic jam and are afraid of being late, this is equivalent to a bear attack on a cellular level.
For your cells, it means that anything that causes the slightest amount of anxiety or mental stress forces them to immediately go into defensive mode.
In practice, this means that due to the complexity of our current lifestyle, we are almost constantly in a defensive mode and not in the regenerative mode that is so important for us.
“No money, no job, no partner, what does the future hold, what will become of me, I can’t do it, I’m no good, others are better, can I do it, do I live up to the ideal, will I keep my job, am I too late, will I be alone in old age etc. etc.”
These and similar thoughts immediately put us into defensive mode. They are based on fear and cause us unconscious mental stress.
As our system, our cellular network, cannot recover or repair itself, this leads to a build-up of problems. The actual work of the cells is left undone and piles up.
It should be obvious that this then leads to undersupply, disturbances and malfunctions. These malfunctions affect our entire body, which includes our mind, our thinking. A cycle closes – unfortunately often more of a vicious circle.
With these facts as a background, it should be clear to you how important your thoughts are. If you think thoughts that are based on fear, you are not only hindering your body in its work but also damaging it.
Since more than 90% of your thinking is subconscious, automatic and therefore without your knowledge, you may find yourself in a harmful automatic mode based on automated reactions:
You think without thinking, quasi as a pre-programmed reaction to your perceptions. You may not be aware of how much of your unconscious thinking can be classified as negative.
It’s hard to believe that our thoughts have such a massive impact on our bodies, even though so many people struggle with the symptoms.
It doesn’t help us to eat naturally and lead a healthy lifestyle if we unconsciously sabotage all of this with our thinking.
It doesn’t help us if we exercise excessively, meditate regularly and have a great job if we unconsciously sabotage all of this with our thinking.
For your well-being, for sustainable health, for success and thus for happiness, it is undoubtedly of fundamental importance that you gain control over your thinking and its consequences, so that you can control these unconscious processes and ensure that the majority of your cells are in regenerative mode.
You should consider the following: if you are in defensive mode most of the time, this means that you are in an emergency program most of the time. However, your body is not designed to be in a long-term emergency program.
The Fearless Code shows you how to reactivate your natural thinking, which enables you to reactivate your natural state or keep it active. The results will be immediately noticeable in your well-being.
