Cuando hablo del sistema nervioso, se me hace interesante cómo se puede comparar, como si fuera tu cuerpo un celular o una computadora. Estás escuchando Recuperando la Vida, Shales of recovery podcast en español. Y bienvenido a otro episodio de Podcast in the Car. In what I'm going to tell you, I'll tell you a little bit about how it has helped me to understand and explain how the body works and why.
Y todo esto es parte de una plática que di el sábado en el condado para la organización de educadores o maestros de niños pequeñitos. Porque hay veces que el cuerpo se interpone en lo que uno decide hacer en la mente.
The body overrides your decision. I decide, I'm not going to do this, I'm not going to drink, I'm going to do the exercise, and then the body doesn't get up, or grabs the cigarette that it doesn't want, or you say that you're not going to eat that, and you open the refrigerator before you eat it. Or, again, you answer the phone to the person you were going to tell him no. Or, anything where you make a decision and then you say, why can't I do it?
Or por qué yo quería tener esta disciplina, no me sale, o por qué quiero vivir una vida más sana y me sigo comiendo las donas. O sea, todas esas preguntas, en mi opinión, y todo lo que he estado leyendo, estudiando en los últimos 10 años, y viviéndolo, viviéndolo, porque también lo siento en mí, es que el cuerpo es como un, tiene su hardware y su software, ¿no? I don't know how to say that in Spanish. El software comes being like the programs, the apps that you download.
The WhatsApp app, the Instagram app, the calorie counter app, the exercise app, the app for designs. All of those apps are information that you are giving through your life. With whom you were born, what culture, what language you speak, what religion you were instilled as a child, the messages your grandpa or grandpa gave you, your experiences in school, all that. And the hardware, as one is already made, is the design of the human body.
As there is a design of an iPhone cell phone, there is a design of the cell phone of the other type, like Samsung or those that are not Apple, and that design, well, more or less, they are all the same. Of course, there are different sizes and different flavors, but the base is similar. I mean, the human being has his organs, the lung that breathes, the nervous system, his skeleton, all that, the eyes to see how you feel,
all that comes as if almost everything is the same. At least in the same space. But the software, I mean, it changes everything. If you have an old cell phone that you haven't fixed the software in a while, it starts to fail. And that, you know, suddenly the cell phone says to you at night, let's see, leave it on or the computer because the new update is going to go down. The new information, so that everything works faster, more efficiently, more recently, better.
If my sister is listening to this, she's going to scold me because I don't speak Spanish well, but hey, we're trying. And then when all that information is downloaded, the phone is already as new, right? And the nervous system, the body of one, needs to make these updates, these upgrades, because when we're little, chiquititos, de la manera que se está haciendo o formando esa información adentro de nuestro sistema nervioso.
Y para sistema nervioso me refiero, por ejemplo, imagínate en todo tu esqueleto, en todo tu cuerpo, desde arriba hasta abajo, está lleno de cablecitos. Los cables salen de la base del cerebro, por todo, hasta por todo el cerebro, por todo tu cuello, tus brazos, tus pies. O sea, si yo a alguien, si tú tocas el sartén con la punta de tu dedo del pie, Ay, te vas a quemar porque hay un cablecito desde la punta del dedo del pie que manda la señal hasta el cerebro que dice, alerta, caliente.
O sea, tú lo vas a sentir en la punta de tu dedo que está caliente y ese cable manda la información para que quites la mano de ahí. Entonces, así cuando pasa con las sensaciones de peligro, ¿no? De que te estás quemando, o si el agua está muy fría, ¡ay! Te alzas los hombros, ¿no? Te haces chiquita, te quieres salir del agua porque haces frío. Cuando hace frío, uno alza los hombros, para cobijarse con su propio cuerpo. Y esto también pasa...
O las emociones. Si tú estás chiquito y alguien te grita, niño, bájate de la mesa, todos tus cables se alteran, dicen peligro, peligro, ¿qué está pasando? Y queda esa agravación, por decirlo, adentro de tu cuerpo. Esa agravación, si te pasa una vez, pues bueno, ya te recuperaste después, ya se suaviza otra vez esa reacción porque ya te abrazó la persona que te cuida, ya te pidió perdón, ya te dijo que, Ay, no, es que venía alterada, pero no pasa nada. Nomás no quería que te cayeras de la mes.
Pero normalmente no nos dijeron eso. Normalmente lo que pasa es que te gritan y te gritan, o hay mucho estrés en tu casa, o estás en una ciudad donde hay muchísimo tráfico, y vas tarde a la escuela, y tu soft force, tu sistemita nerviosa, está todo el tiempo alterado. Todo el tiempo está, ay, wey, hay peligro, hay peligro, hay peligro. Y hay varios sistemas dentro del cuerpo que nos ayudan a sobrevivir. El sistema de fight or flight, ¿no? El de córrele o no sé cómo se dice en español otra vez.
Cuando hay peligro, ¿no? Te preparas para correr y pelear o te desasocias y te desmayas. O no te puedes mover porque hay peligro. La manera de sobrevivir es sin moverte. Siempre cuento, hay un video buenísimo en internet, les voy a poner el link aquí cuando ponga el spot, donde demuestra cómo resuelve un trauma o una situación muy intensa.
Una gacela, una gacela la agarra un leopardo, cuando la muerde el cuello, pues el mecanismo de ella se desmaya, and as well as that it is dead, but it is not dead, but there is a mechanism inside it that helps it to faint, to have an unconsciousness, because whoever created us, well, good, I don't want anyone to be eating them alive. There is a mechanism inside this system, of this software, of this hardware to let go and accept death.
So the gazelle takes it to the lion, he's going to eat it, he's in his, fainting, and I don't know what happened in this video, but the leopard left, I don't know if they scared him or if they were recording, he left, because of danger, because he was hurt by his babies, but the thing is that the gazelle realizes after a few minutes that they are not going to eat it anymore, that more or less, So, the moment he starts breathing, breathing deeply, deeply,
and suddenly he gets up and starts, he doesn't stop yet, but he lifts his head, and he starts shaking, shaking. And it takes about 5 or 6 minutes before it stops and starts running, because it is resetting the nervous system, it is resetting, it is releasing all the stress that its body received when it almost ate the leopard. It is a mechanism that mammals have, a mechanism that we have.
It stops after all the days, right? To drop your feet and dance around the fire like they did to reset the nervous system. All these emotions, all this stress stays inside us because of the way we live, because of the culture in which we are. And then the gazelle runs away and goes with her, she goes to her herd. And apart from the herd, her nervous system is regulated with the other gazelles. And that's it, she's calm, again eating her saccharine.
Claro, siempre están alertas si hay ruido de ti, pero ella ya en ese momento ya no está platicando 50,000 veces a su gente. Ay, casi me agarró el tigre, no sabes si me matan. Ay, no, hubieras visto. No, ya lo pasó, ya se lo sacó del cuerpo y su sistema nervioso, su cuerpo ya está otra vez en homestasis, tranquilo, lista para estar en el presente.
And seeing the present, breathing, at least until a danger comes back, well, you know, but during that moment there is no danger, it does not load it, it does not load it inside of us humans, we have been loading all those emotions, all those traumas. The trauma, as I always say, is not just what happened to you, but what did not happen to you. And with whom you were, if they accompanied you, if you hugged, if you were alone. Most of us, the truth is, we were alone.
A baby that they leave you there because he cries, because he has to cry in his crib so he can sleep, or suppose in an hour for the baby, which by the way is the worst thing that can happen to a baby. We have to give them to our mother with the caregiver stuck to be able to regulate and calm down these cables of this little body because we can't do it alone. I don't want to sleep after two hours because it's already been for 20 years. Well, nobody's going to come. I'm alone.
And I'm referring to when the pediatrician tells you every four hours to eat the baby and let him cry. If not, you never go to sleep. They are modern ideas that are not good for the body, for the software, for our humanity, for attachment. A baby should be with his mother, sleeping with her in bed, feeling the warmth of her mother. You need to be calm, you need to be protected, and from there, the connection of your body develops well, it develops well in the brain.
When a baby is left alone crying, there is no development 100% if not well. There is a disconnection, that is trauma. Trauma is a wound, it is also a disconnection. De modo que ya sin piezas de bebé que te dejaban llorar para dormir. Luego que habías tres en tu casa. Luego que te mandan al kinderich o a los humanos. Uno ni antes de ir a ver la pocha en el lasaño, no te patean o no te escogen para tu hijo. Depende de tu sensibilidad también.
Luego que si hubo un temblor, luego que si pasó. Cada momento de tu vida se está grabando adentro de tu cuerpo, adentro de tu sistema nervioso. Reactions, restrictions, reactions of fear, of, of, there are also, of course, there are also moments where you relax and laugh and with, you know, with your little brothers or with a moment for your family.
And let's hope that there is a balance, because we all have a resilience, we are all here still, as it is, listening to the podcast, walking, working, but the resilience is beautiful, but when we can understand that we have to give a chance to our system, to our body to stop, to breathe, to do nothing, to rest, descansar sin que traiga esa necesidad de estar buscando algo estresante o algo que lo mantenga. Así como está la grabación de todas las memorias de la niñez.
Rápido, rápido, rápido, cuidado, en alerta. Entonces, el sistema nervioso, el trauma, el cuerpo, trae todas esas memorias que nos entran desde niños. Y si no tenemos conciencia de ello, o una práctica súper, súper incorporada, es decir, adentro de mi cuerpo, donde yo participo, porque el cuerpo y la mente no se separan. Cuando digo adentro de mi cuerpo, obvio que estamos adentro del cuerpo. Todo el mundo está en el cuerpo, pero consciente, estoy consciente, estoy adentro de mi cuerpo.
Siento donde estoy sentada. I feel my breathing and I realize that I am a little accelerated, I have heat and it's cold outside and they just called me on the phone to tell me that the check did not pass and that the plane did not arrive. I start my heart, then I have to realize, ah ok, look how my body is accelerated. And take that conscience to accompany me, not necessarily always we are going to change it, because the body has to process the emotions.
And there I realized that it was because of a phone call or something that comes to the news or something that happened that my body gets upset. That's normal. That's a system that's working. But when I'm like this all day, when I'm like this all day with anxiety, with depression, that I can't sleep. Well, it's interesting to see. Maybe this isn't something new.
Maybe my body is just about to explode like the express pot because I've been so many years without downloading, without doing the upgrade, just ignoring it and giving it and putting it in change, putting it in change and not changing the oil and giving it to the car and giving it to the car. Y va a llegar un momento en el que el cuerpo va a decir ya, o sea ya, o te enfermas, o que me enfermo de los nervios, pues esa enfermedad de los nervios es algo que venimos acumulando por mucho tiempo.
Y se puede atender, nos podemos atender con meditación, con yoga, caminando en la naturaleza, Cuando uno está fuera de la naturaleza o en un espacio muy, muy abierto, el cerebro, tus ojos tienen una vista así, peripheral vision, no se dice en español, pero bueno, ahorita lo buscamos. Una visión que tiene, en vez de nada más estar viendo hacia enfrente con una pared al otro lado y otra al otro lado, tus ojos tienen la capacidad de ver así, casi, casi como alguien, todo el espacio.
So the brain registers that there is space and can relax. Just like when you are under a tree or you rest on the beach. Those little wires to which the sky looks at relax. They feel, they connect with a space where we belong, which is the earth. And something happens at the hormonal level, at the hormonal level.
Molecular where the body can rest a little and when the body rests when the body relaxes when the brain sees that you are not in danger and you can relax a little release a little that attention is easier than, information or that you realize that it is happening that you feel maybe more calm because you say son of a hand I have not stopped in 15 years and what is happening I ¿Por qué le estoy haciendo? O sea, ¿por qué me estoy haciendo eso?
O sea, me acuerdo hace miles de años, ¿no? Que me di cuenta de eso. Mis niños estaban chiquitos. Que dije, yo no puedo, yo no puedo con estas cosas. Yo ya estuvo que club soccer. Y que para acá, y que para allá, y que todos lados. No, no, no. ¿Sabes qué? Vamos a simplificar la vida. Y me voy a poner, nos vamos a cambiar a una casa donde esté el parque ahí. De todo. De los niños que caminan al parque. Desde ahí, ¿no?
Know to go to the best there in Del Norte, because I'm going to be the number one. No, man, all that is also part of the download, the software, the information that comes, because the one who wins is the coolest, but he wins, like, for what prize? So there is a CD that, apart from the fact that it is sold by La Cultura, you are already programmed with that, because that's how we grew, with that alteration, with that system of always being alert.
This is how everything that sells you fits very well and everything that the culture tells us about the hurry, hurry up, because we bring from children that is the truth, it's like a fear. It's a fear that is natural, it's a fear that is part of the programming. I must be afraid of being bitten by a viper. Obviously, oh, run, don't let the viper bite you.
But that's the fear, well, normal, natural. But if every day your mom would grab you and throw you with a chancla, or tell you, oh, boy, I don't know what to do, or you had to go and confront a teacher or a friend who gave you total fear and no one helped you, all that tension, there we bring it accumulated, it's tremendous, it's tremendous, and it's so sad, just to talk about it gives me a tenderness, because that's the tenderness with which we have to see.
This is the compassion that all the teachers of compassion speak of. The compassion of the one who speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks, speaks. A compassion, a tenderness that gives us children. I am a super-cabrón, I understand you. I validate all this acceleration. How strong it was, right? Because we, most people say, it's already passed, it's relieved, follow him, follow him, right?
Y ahí luego, no sé, te vas a un retiro y se te pasa, pero no, es un constante acompañamiento en el que tenemos que volvernos a acompañar, volvernos a, como quien dice, a resetear, a programar, ¿no? Sí. To give him a cup of chamomile tea, hot water baths, go to the beach, to talk to us well, to talk to us nicely, to talk to us nicely.
And when the body is accelerated, if you have a practice where you start to realize, if you do a full attention practice, where you are realizing your breathing, your thoughts, if you are struggling to accept yourself, because there are emotions that obviously accelerate, protect us. It protects you from not feeling sadness, pain, tears, anger, or anger. It's better if you get busy with something and you don't get bored.
You put on your shoes, you put on your shoes, you put on your clothes, so you don't have to feel that sadness. Because if they are insulting you as a child, or saying that you are ugly, or they leave you alone in bed, you don't have the ability as a child to say, I'm super sad, I don't want my mom or my uncles or whoever is taking care of me. Rather, your body enters into a... The nervous system is designed to protect you.
So, that protection after 10, 15, 20, 30 years, in its role of protection, the elderly, giving it, giving it, taking care of everything, working. You want to be the best, and you go here and there, and you don't stop, and more parties and more events and you go to your house and you don't give them anymore. Let's see, Netflix or Facebook for five years.
So when you have a practice or when you start attending the body, when you start looking for a balance, all we have to do, the truth is to look for a balance. How do I do to find a balance in my body? Because the truth is that so much speed causes a lot of stress And there's a lot of hacks, right? I love biohacks. If I sleep for 8 hours, if I don't do yoga every day, if I walk for an hour or I do the Kundalini Activation, or I go there, there are many hacks.
I take these vitamins, I take these things. All of that helps, of course. But the truth is that it doesn't help if there's no deep reflection. I think with some somatic therapy, trauma and obviously, of course, with psychedelics, it's a total reset. That's what I do in the arms. Yes, of course I'm going to talk about that. It's a reset that you also have to see where you are doing it, with who you are, here and all.
But if they are the mescaline of the cell, they make you the favor and they do it for you because from the earth, from the earth, they are great favor to help with this because in a period of 3, 4, 6 hours. Your brain, your body, the system, those cables, your brain, everything, everything, we are super reset.
You already have your meditation practice, and move your body, and dance, and talk to yourself, you put your hands in your shoulders, you do that, you give yourself that gift, and then you continue, right? It is a huge advance, it is a relief for the body. I have seen hundreds and hundreds of people who no longer take solitics, who no longer take antidepressants, who no longer put alcohol in their drink every day to relax.
Because they have already learned to relinquish the nervous system and they have another way of receiving their body, of respecting this tremor, of saying no, how am I going to put a tequila in my daily life to relax? They are making me nervous.
I'm going to see how it is when I have to go to a wedding or And well, I don't say I don't have rules of that, nothing more than he is talking to your body to be very strong, healthy, complete, happy, skillful and to be able to be with a completely open heart.
Because when you go for the run and run like that also with the nervous system altered because the heart is not open it is a protection mode and obviously there is the opposite not a part of the nervous system is firefly does not run it has danger to the purest purest has everything and the other part is also called. The program is funny, it's a total collapse, I can't do this, I can't. I don't have energy, I can't, I can't, I can't.
So, that's also a way we sometimes respond, right, in the body. For not being sad, for not responding with courage, for not responding with anger, it turns off, it turns off, it turns off, it depresses. And it's not that you need to do organ or it's something chemical in your brain, right? It's a way that you're recording. I'm going to explain this a little bit, but your body is... That's the recording that your cables have.
For what they are going to pay their taxes and that can also happen, this comes from the R, from the light. Music. Each person has different ways of receiving information and dealing with it. And it's not a matter of, I'm going to have to go to the bathroom, I have to go to the bathroom. It's about having a conscience and seeing with a lot of curiosity, with a lot of compassion, to see where it comes from and I'm going to start to understand.
Me, to me, to have compassion and to change my framework. Because I want you to know that everyone can change the world, everyone can be bad, everyone can enter the consciousness of the spirit and say they are here. Uff, ok, all that is the little things, everything is like my heart is in protection, everything has a repair, everything has a repair and that is the good news that everything can be repaired, Because there is something inside of you that connects the heart with life.
That your soul, or whatever you want to call it, that is calling you, that is calling your attention. Ah, I can't take it anymore. Whether it's the illness, the anxiety, the passion, whether it's a divorce, whatever it is, something terrible, whatever it is that happened to you, it's calling your attention.
Arida, you, yourself, hey, what's up, you have the right heart, you have the will, from you first, to be able to connect with your body, with your great love, and from there, you can listen to the shoulders, you can listen to the belly, listen to the belly, listen to everything, and say, you know what, I can connect with others without fear. When you have to be afraid, you don't mind, you say, okay, and the body, you listen to it.
But to be able to live with that connection with others, that's what it's all about. And not just to be there, with all these little birds and Lamborghinis and alone, it's that. It's not that. It's not from life. We are animals, we are humans, we are animals. We are designed to be in communities. But, ultimately, the community didn't see all of it. It was 100% healthy because it didn't go out.
But now we know, there's a lot of information. This is my way of explaining it, one of the ways of explaining it. And well, I hope it works for you. If you want to do Compassionate Inquiry, investigate, look for it, I invite you to be a discoverer, to see who fits in the society we live in, the society of Gabor Matei, Sartaram, and what it is exactly to be a discoverer. Memories that at the time of the hour what they do is that they form the beliefs of themselves.
I believe that if I don't give them 40,000 per hour, then I'm not worth it. I'm not going to reach the goal, I'm not going to want to, I'm not going to want to go to the store. I don't even think about getting out of bed because I don't want to get depressed. I believe that all the beliefs that we make come from circumstances that happened to us when we were kids. chiquitillos, casi la mayoría.
Porque aunque algo te pasó a los 20, 30, 40, y tu manera de responder y poder tener una resiliencia o no, o encontrar hemostasis, viene de cómo te fue de mí. Es cuando empieza todo lo más importante. De modo bueno, te invito a que cheques en la página web, si quieres, resalves.com, ahí me puedes mandar un mensaje, o por Instagram, o por correo electrónico, como sea.
Y los que compartas este podcast, que fue útil, que tengas un día muy lindo, que respires, que te atiendas, que nos acordemos que todos valemos la pena de cuidarnos y de entender que somos buenos, que somos puros amos. Sí, hay que cambiar ahí, arreglar los cables, cambiar el aceite y eso, pero... Pero adentro, adentro, no. Todo está bien. Todo está bien, no pasa nada. Y todos vamos a estar bien. Ajó.