The Mind Body Connection

Welcome back Steve and Adrian

One of my Christmas gifts was a three CD set of “Your Body is your subconscious mind” by Candace Pert. Dr Pert was the discoverer of the Opiate receptor and seems to be currently focusing on how our mind is affected by this and other neuronpeptides and how we can consciously affect their levels. Her position is that we now know the chemical details of the mind body connection and should pay more attention to it.

Dr. Pert is an excellent scientist but is currently getting a little too “New Age”. I believe that the basic idea of a “chemical subconscious” has merit but cannot be taken too far.

The text below is from the promo for this audio book.

Your brain is not in charge." This revelation by Dr. Candace Pert challenges conventional science – and everyone interested in total wellness – to reconsider how our bodies think, feel, and heal. As the leading pioneer in a radical new science of life, this bestselling author and world class neuroscientist has given us an inside look at the molecular drama being staged within every cell of the human body – and a glimpse into the future of medicine. Now, in her own words, Dr. Pert describes her extraordinary search for the grail of the body’s inborn intelligence with Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind.Dr. Pert first came to prominence when she dazzled the scientific community with her discovery of the opiate receptor in 1972. But this breakthrough event was only the beginning of a uniquely productive – and often controversial – career. On Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Pert describes her efforts over the past two decades to actually decode the "information molecules," such as peptides and their receptors, that regulate every aspect of human physiology. Her model of how these biochemicals flow and resonate, distributing information to every cell in the body simultaneously, has unlocked the secret of how emotions literally transform our bodies – and create our health. Easily shifting from a bench scientist’s view to a spiritual one, she relates her research to past and present mind/body topics, ranging from AIDS and cancer to the chakra system. Dr. Pert’s personal and compelling voice makes this a listening experience that is part detective story, part spiritual odyssey – and entirely irresistable. From the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the laboratory, Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind takes listeners on a scientific adventure of the first order, escorted by this pathfinder, iconoclast, and "goddess" of neuroscience.