How the Body Responds to Thought

From "Anatomy of the Spirit," by Caroline Myss, Ph.D.

"Your mind is in every cell of your body.” – Caroline Myss

According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories—every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.

Every thought you have had has traveled through your biological system and activated a physiological response. Some thoughts are like depth charges, causing a reaction throughout the body. A fear, for instance, activates every system of your body: your stomach tightens, your heart rate increases, and you may break into a sweat. A loving thought can relax your entire body. Some thoughts are more subtle, and still others are unconscious. Many are meaningless and pass through the body like wind through a screen, requiring no conscious attention, and their influence upon our health is minimal. Yet each conscious thought—and many unconscious ones—does generate a physiological response.

All our thoughts, regardless of their content, first enter our systems as energy. Those that carry emotional, mental, psychological or spiritual energy produce biological responses that are then stored in our cellular memory. In this way our biographies are woven into our biological systems, gradually, slowly, every day.

The more I studied the human energy system, the more I realized that very little is created “randomly” in our bodies or, for that matter, in our lives. The links between our emotional and spiritual stresses and specific illnesses are best understood in the context of the anatomy of the human energy system – the anatomy of our spirits – which is the nucleus of the material that I teach.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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