THE BRAIN FARMACY – Part I

It is a small organ called hypothalamus that produces emotional responses. The largest pharmacy that exists is located in our brain, where we create some particles called "peptides", small sequences of amino acids which when combined create neuro-hormones or neuro-peptides.

They are responsible for the emotions that we feel every day. According to John Hagelin, Professor of Physics and director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy of the Maharishi University, dedicated to the development of a unified quantum field theories: "there is chemistry for rage, for happiness, for suffering, for envy..."

At the moment in which we feel a certain emotion, the hypothalamus downloads those peptides, releasing them through the pituitary gland to the blood, which will connect with cells that have the peptides receptors on the periphery. The brain acts as a storm that downloads thoughts across the synaptic fissure. No one has ever seen a thought, even in the most advanced laboratories, but what do you see is the lightning storm that causes each mentalism, connecting neurons through “synaptic fissures”.

Each cell has thousands of receptors around its surface, as opening up to these emotional experiences. Candance Pert, holder of patents on modified peptides and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, explains it this way: "every cell is a small home of conscience. The entering of neuropeptides into a cell is equivalent to a discharge of biochemical’s that can modify the nucleus of the cell".

Our brain creates these neuropeptides and our cells receive them as result of emotions: anger, anguish, joy, envy, pessimism, generosity and optimism... Getting used to them, thought habits are created. Through the millions of synaptic endings, our brain is continuously recreating; a thought or an emotion creates a new connection, which is reinforced when we think or feel 'something' on several occasions. This is how a person associates a particular situation with an emotion: a bad experience of fear to be locked up. If that Neurological Association is not interrupted our brains could relate that thought-object with that emotion and reinforce that connection, well known in the field of psychology as a "phobia" or "fear".

All the habits and addictions operate with the same mechanics (Neurological Association). A fear (to not sleep, speak in public, to fall in love) can do that we resort to a pill, a drug or a type of harmful thinking. The unconscious goal is to "trick" our cells with other different emotion, usually something that excites us "distracting" from fear. In this way, whenever we return to that situation, fear connects us inevitably with the "solution", i.e. with the addiction. Behind every addiction (drugs, people, drink, gambling, sex, TV) there is a fear inserted into the cellular memory.

The good news is that, as we break this vicious circle, as soon as we fracture that connection, the brain creates another bridge between neurons that is the 'passage to the release". Because, as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has demonstrated in their research with Buddhist lamas in meditation, our brain is constantly rebuilt, even in old age. For this reason, you can unlearn and relearn new ways of living the emotions.