In this issue of the Clues.Life newsletter, we'll explore why a "bottoms-up" approach, which focuses on body-based practices, could be a more effective way to manage your mental health compared to traditional "top-down" methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). We'll also delve into how emotional stress is closely linked to physical illness from experts like
Love the way you've threaded this together, really resonates. I came to a similar conclusion (even using the same "bottoms-up" terminology) when trying to recover from burnout: https://www.nobt.co.uk/p/burnout-recovery-from-the-bottom-up The body-based practices were the ones that really helped me; that reawakened to me to something I'd forgotten.
Andy -- great work. You might like this study which confirms Miller's work. Has some interesting information about the heart as a "little brain" which sends information to the head.
I love how you link "chronic illness" and "accumulated stress"... but I actually think the causal relationship is reversed.
ie. physical health (illness) is what drives stress. And if physical health is amazing.. its actually hard to feel stressed.
To go a step further... I actually think I know exactly how it works.. and how to reverse it.
ie. i've pretty much fully reversed it and at 46 yrs old I work from 8am - 11pm daily because i love it.. and find it hard to even feel or retain any stress.
Whereas in 2014 when a dentist drilled the cusps off my back teeth.. i went from a carefree, highly motivated, hard working dude.. to a near vegetable who couldn't retain information for 6+ months and the slightest things felt like massive stress.
The key thing with me was how rapidly it happened. Which is allowed me to put the link to the dentist drilling my teeth.
And over the next near decade i literally experimented on myself Tim Ferriss-style till i completely figured it out.
There is a physical collapse that happens to the spine and skull that is caused by the biomechanics that are involved with the teeth and jaw.
And so I can 100% guarantee that if you were to drill the cusps completely off a person they would get very f'd up in the ensuing few years.. and likely have a neurological disease within a decade.
How do i know that? B/c i literally mimicked this experiment on myself numerous times and then reversed it.
Love the way you've threaded this together, really resonates. I came to a similar conclusion (even using the same "bottoms-up" terminology) when trying to recover from burnout: https://www.nobt.co.uk/p/burnout-recovery-from-the-bottom-up The body-based practices were the ones that really helped me; that reawakened to me to something I'd forgotten.
Andy -- great work. You might like this study which confirms Miller's work. Has some interesting information about the heart as a "little brain" which sends information to the head.
Alshami A. M. (2019). Pain: Is It All in the Brain or the Heart?. Current pain and headache reports, 23(12), 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-019-0827-4
I love how you link "chronic illness" and "accumulated stress"... but I actually think the causal relationship is reversed.
ie. physical health (illness) is what drives stress. And if physical health is amazing.. its actually hard to feel stressed.
To go a step further... I actually think I know exactly how it works.. and how to reverse it.
ie. i've pretty much fully reversed it and at 46 yrs old I work from 8am - 11pm daily because i love it.. and find it hard to even feel or retain any stress.
Whereas in 2014 when a dentist drilled the cusps off my back teeth.. i went from a carefree, highly motivated, hard working dude.. to a near vegetable who couldn't retain information for 6+ months and the slightest things felt like massive stress.
The key thing with me was how rapidly it happened. Which is allowed me to put the link to the dentist drilling my teeth.
And over the next near decade i literally experimented on myself Tim Ferriss-style till i completely figured it out.
There is a physical collapse that happens to the spine and skull that is caused by the biomechanics that are involved with the teeth and jaw.
And so I can 100% guarantee that if you were to drill the cusps completely off a person they would get very f'd up in the ensuing few years.. and likely have a neurological disease within a decade.
How do i know that? B/c i literally mimicked this experiment on myself numerous times and then reversed it.