When I heard of the concept of us having three brains – head, heart and gut, as weird as it may seem, it so made sense! I’ve personally, as well as with my clients, experienced conflict between knowing intellectually the ‘right’ path to take, but your heart longing to do the opposite, while you struggle to take any action to change the situation. Your head is your creative centre, your heart is compassion and your gut is the source of your courage to take action. If one or more is out of alignment, or is trying to the do the job of the others, your decisions won’t be the most beneficial or wisest for you.
You probably know people who are ruled by their heads to the point of seeming heartless, others who are so heart based they become doormats for others, and still others who react instinctively without thinking of the consequences or of the impact on others. When all three, head, heart and gut, are in alignment you can fulfil your heart’s desires in clear, creative ways with the courage to follow through, even when others don’t understand why, or believe you can or should. What a powerful and peaceful place to be!
Marvin Oka and Grant Soosalu have pulled together the latest scientific research, ancient wisdom, NLP modelling and produced mBIT (multiple Brain Integration Techniques). Their book is “mBraining: Using your Multiple Brains to Do Cool Stuff”. (Did you know our gut brain has similar capacity as a cat’s brain. Fascinating!) I was blessed to hear Marvin Oka present twice in the past 6 months, most recently for a half day workshop at the ABNLP Conference in Sydney (Australian Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming). I’ve started putting their work to good use with some of my coaching clients, as well as with myself now, and look forward to achieving my full certification as an mBIT coach later this year. It’s such a great fit with the head trash clearing work I already do.
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