body as subconscious mind

“Your Body is Your Subconcious Mind”, by Dr. Candace Pert, is one of the first audio books I ever heard. This was over a decade ago and I am still amazed at how much I learned, and keep learning when researching her body of work and activism. Here are a couple of excerpts from her bio:

“In addition to being a highly creative neuroscientist, Dr. Pert was also an activist. She lead the movement to advance the cultural and scientific context in which we understand, experience, and employ our imagination, beliefs, and expectations for the purpose of activating our highest realm of potentiality. The mechanism through which this was to be achieved was through our emotions and their stored memories in what she called the “bodymind”, intentionally written without a hyphen in order to emphasize unity of its component parts.

In this concept Candace realized the unified and integrated level at which physiology, mind, and consciousness access one another to enhance or diminish wellness.”

“She believed that emotions were one way to transduce the information of the bodymind between and among individuals and groups. Wellness practices such as somatic, behavioral, and contemplative modalities thereby had a physiological basis and could be used to promote or enhance health and recovery from illness by integrating the body’s native repair and regenerative systems, providing a biochemistry and modern interpretation of The Wisdom of the Body, one of the first books written on the subject in 1932 by Walter Bradford Cannon.”