🧠The mind and body really aren't separate entities. 💪Something that ancient indigenous cultures and eastern traditions have always known. 🧠Your mind or brain is where all the computing happens. It's where things are processed and evaluated; it's where a lot of instructions are given; 💪but science and experience increasingly shows that what our mind thinks and feels shows up in the body. Likewise your body is constantly informing and shaping your mind, what you DO changes your mind state. 🧠Your experiences, lived and imagined, live in your body AND mind, they are imprinted. 💪Take PTSD or phantom limb pain as examples. 🧠In yoga this is termed 'samskaras'- 'impressions'. Impressions are created in body and mind, in fact they are in the neural networks that extend throughout. 💪Why is this important? 🧠Because it changes the way we approach health and illness. 💪Nothing is purely 'physical', nothing is purely 'mental'. Knowing this opens up profound possibilities for how we can influence our health and inner state. 🧠So much is in our hands, and that's empowering, isn't it? 💪Tell me what you think, what does this knowledge mean for you? #mindbodyconnection #mindbodyawareness #empoweredhealth #healthinyourhands #physicalhealth #mentalhealth #yoga #mindfulness #yogaheals #mindfulness #chronicpain #chronicillness #persistentpain #lifewithpain #lifewithchronicillness #selfhealing https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtHd2mADtB/?igshid=1v3axawhucdup