The last twenty-four hours have really blown my mind.
The body will always try to heal. Simple. The cells in your body are programmed to heal; your immune system is programmed to heal. Whatever happens to you — injury or infection — your body tries to heal back to a state of balance and health.
This is easy to understand if you look at an injury, for example. You cut your hand while making dinner. Where there used to be smooth skin, now there’s a bleeding gash. You can look at it and know exactly what your body is going to do — it’s going to heal the gash and re-establish the smooth skin.
It is not so easy to understand when you think about mental health. If you’ve been afflicted with mental illness as long as I have, mental health is itself a construct of your imagination. You don’t know what it is like, so you try to imagine what it is like. You try to “fake it till you make it”.
But what if your brain is programmed at the cellular level with a mental version of smooth skin? What if your brain at the cellular level already knows what a healthy mind looks like?
What if your mind can heal the same way your skin does? What if it could just build healthy brain tissue the same way it builds healthy skin tissue, healing over depression the same way it heals over an accidental injury to your hand?
I believe that your mind does, in fact, have an innate blueprint for how to create healthy brain tissue — brain tissue that will enable you to have healthy thoughts and to build a healthy mental experience.
And I think that people like me just have some problem with our brain metabolism that prevents it from healing completely.
We can direct the healing of the brain — that’s what we do when we discipline our thoughts. When we discipline our thoughts, we direct the healing process and create as much positive mental tissue as we can.
But ultimately, we are working with defective tissue, and so we can not fully recover. Drugs can mask our condition. Good nutrition and exercise can maximize our natural ability to heal. Yet, we’re still stuck somewhere short of a healthy consciousness because of our disease.
Until now. Flooding the mind with redox signaling molecules changes all of that.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the mind has additional energy to use. It can metabolize more effectively. It can clear away damage, turn off negative signals, build positive ones, and make more progress towards creating the healthy mental landscape — the smooth skin — that it is programmed to create in the first place.
Twenty four hours ago, in the middle of the afternoon, I crawled into bed utterly exhausted. I wasn’t sick, I just needed to sleep. The brain does a great deal of cleaning while it is asleep, and depressed people often sleep a lot because the brain is trying to heal itself.
I woke up in the middle of the night for a couple hours, mostly because I was hungry and thirsty. Then I collapsed into a deep sleep again. I just woke up a little while ago.
I can feel that something major has changed.
I haven’t had a feeling like this since I caught chicken pox as an adult. It is the most miserably sick I have ever been. Adult chicken pox can render you impotent and make you blind, so my doctor pulled out the big guns and gave me some super-powerful antibiotic. The first pill eliminated my symptoms. I’d never been cured like that before, and it blew me away.
This is similar. Something that big happened during that twenty-four hours of sleep. My symptoms of depression are gone. So gone, so cleared away, that it is disorienting.
The first thing I did was pour more redox signaling molecules into my body. Whatever this is, I want more of it. I want all of it. This is beyond good.
This is miraculous.
I think my brain is healing back to a “smooth skin” state. I think that the redox signaling molecules are enabling my brain to heal itself back to the blueprint for mental health programmed into it at the cellular level.
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