What if, just beneath the visible surface of the body, a set of deep, neurological levers governed our moment-to-moment experience of well-being—entirely obvious once you knew how to look for them, yet invisible to the general public? What if these deep neurological levers were autonomic? What if, rather than being something intractable or imperceptible, they could become evident to you? A felt pattern language; a grammar of the living body; a syntax of the energetic blueprint of the body-mind. What if on learning this language the apparent surfaces and separations of the world began to fall away, the body became like a cavefish, transparent after aeons in darkness, its inner workings legible. This is the promise of Autonomics: a novel paradigm for understanding the architecture and dynamics of the living nervous system.
We are deluded by the apparent solidity of matter into thinking that our bodies are objects. But we are spiritual beings having a human experience, energy bodies woven through matter. Neurology is the prime mover. Bone, the slow record of what it holds. You’ve been taught that your bones and your muscles and your joints scaffold your body. It’s a lie. Your neurology is the source. If we centered the living autonomic nervous system as the primary axis of diagnosis and intervention, says Natureza Gabriel, it would completely reorganize the taxonomy of both health and disease from the bottom up and the inside out. We would understand what was really wrong with us. And how to make it right.
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