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Some fascinating research is just out showing how brain-body connections impact how you feel about yourself.
We rarely consider this, but your brain is connected to your body through multiple connections and is constantly reading signals from your organs. Some of this is obvious, actually, and critical— it keeps you alive and keeps existential bodily processes in tact.
When I speak in public many people find this fascinating — how the heart can control the brain and the other way around, not to mention the gut, the liver, and just about any other organ. The vast majority of these processes lie below our level of consciousness.
This latest piece of research, however, gives this a new twist by investigating connections between the gut, heart, and brain and how we feel about our own bodies. What they found was surprising.
What is the link between the body, brain, and body shame?
