brainless thinking
Concrete proof of human holism and why Sound Healing is so effective
Jill Mattson
Brain Demoted ~ Body Promoted
You have undoubtedly heard the tired cliché: "She's thinking outside the box." ... how about the one where we do our thinking outside the brain? It's true.
Recent work in Psychology and Cognitive Science shows abundant evidence that the body and the environment around us are intimately linked to our cognition. The body can think independently of the brain in an "Embodied Cognition" (EC) mechanism.
The traditional view of cognition holds that all thinking and awareness occur inside the brain. It has been assumed that processes responsible for abstract thinking, the interpretation of the senses, and subsequent decision-making are all centered inside our brains.
The long-accepted paradigm relies on the all-powerful brain creating and manipulating disembodied constructs of real-life things. Disembodied representations are moved around the mental chessboard as the brain solves our problems and makes all the decisions.
However, that is not always the case. Further, once you see the body's important role in the holistic person, some of the wonders of Alternative Health and Wellness become easier to understand and embrace.