You live your life through your brain. It has created every tissue cell in the body and is responsible for every aspect of your life: your thoughts, attitudes, immunity, bodily functions, ability to relate to others, and an endless list of other functions. When it stops, life in this dimension is done. Game Over.
Unfortunately, we live in a fallen, stress-filled world that places huge demands and tensions on our brain. Dr. Mark Hyman, says that many, if not most of us, have broken brains. It may go by more medical names, such as anxiety, depression, loss of memory, brain fog, ADD, autism, addiction, or dementia, but it’s basically just a broken brain that needs to be fixed.
Health is a state of complete physical, emotional, and social wellbeing; not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. If we could dedicate our lives to striving for complete physical, emotional, and social health, our brains would become unbroken, or at least less broken. By focusing on health, sickness disappears. Just like if you add light to a dark room, the darkness disappears. Dr. Hyman, in his book, The UltraMind Solution provides valuable information that we can use in our Radical Life Plan. All of the above conditions have the same root causes – losing our ability to adapt to the stressors of this world. And our hope lies in restoring our body’s innate adaptive power through extreme self care.
Who do you know with anxiety, depression, bipolar disease (not bi-winning,) personality disorders, addictionsu , obsessive compulsive disorder, ADD, autism, Asperger’s, learning disabilities, dyslexia, Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, chronic stress, lack of focus, poor concentration, brain fog, anger, mood swings, or sleep problems? As you read through the list you may feel like everyone suffers from one or some of these issues. It’s like asking if you know of anyone who isn’t thier ideal weight – just about everyone.
The sad truth, as Dr. Hyan references, is that 26% of the adult population suffers with a psychiatric disorder. Imagine your neighborhood; roughly one adult for every 2 houses is going to have a significant psychiatric disorder. One in every five (20%) of children have psychiatric disorders. One in ten Americans takes antidepressants, and their use has tripled in the last decade. Autism rates have increased from 3:10,000 to 1:166 in the past decade. Wow! And get this: the fastest growing segment of the population are people over 85. Alzheimer’s disease is affecting 30-50% of the 85+ population.
“If you knew you might live to be 100, how would you live your life today?” Take care of your brain and it will take care of you. That sounds pathetically cliché, but the more you take a proactive responsibility for your health, your life, your body, and your brain, the better your quality of life. That’s why we help people to create their very own Radical Life Plan. It’s an exercise that will help us to manage every aspect of our lives, to heal our broken brains.
This world is out to get our brains. Bad brain, bad life. Good brain, good life. Extraordinary brain, extraordinary life!