8) Top and bottom in your gut brain

~ New view FIVE ~

Our gut brain is organized top and bottom

1) Our capacity for feeling and desire is located in our body above the belly button. Our capacity for willingness is located in our body below our belly button:

feeling and desire

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Willingness

The belly button is the “o” in the diagram above.

When we are born, what happy infants have is not willpower, not willfulness, not “will”—but willingness. This is what we are trying to get back to, willingness. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: “We have to get ourselves back to the Garden,” that’s “willingness” to both live with our own nature, to live and cooperate with external Nature.

When willingness dysfunctions, it transforms into: my will, willpower, willfulness, wontfulness, resistance and againstness; in NVC terms, “fight, flight, freeze.”

The topic of willingness is taken up in depth in the forthcoming, “Willingness is the pre-requisite to all healing” hopefully late in 2010.

2) “Feeling-desire” has the frequency of the subconscious.

“Willingness” and its dysfunctions have the frequency of UN-conscious:

subconscious

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unconscious

3) This close-up of our gut brain, below the diaphragm muscle, is also a close-up of our capacity of self-esteem.

Self-esteem in feeling

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Self-esteem in willingness

4) The frequency of laughter above the belly button is hey, hey, hey! The frequency of laughter below the belly button is Ho, ho, ho!

Healthy feeling & desire ~ Hey, hey, hey!

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Healthy willingness ~ Ho, ho, ho!

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