Frontal Lobe Fiasco

Imagine watching a cheetah chasing its prey across the Serengeti. Its perfect frame built to move in stealth and speed, purpose built to survive jaunting across the terrain as it closes on its target. It is symphony in motion as this beautifully created creature uses all of its capacity in service of life. Its claws, and teeth honed and sharpened to deliver the final death blow swiftly as it kills with honor and continues the cycle of life and death.

There is an innate intelligence in the creatures of the wild. They don't think about what they are or how to be what they are. They are. As humans we have been given a thinking structure that can reflect and ask why and make choices based not purely on instinct but on reason. That structure is what we say makes us human. Our frontal lobe. Our ability to think and reason. But have we lost the innate intelligence that lives within our structure, within our animal. We are logic, we are reason and yet we are also beast, animal. To deny or even not honor that part of us is to deny an intelligence that moves faster, more efficient more powerful potentially than reason. Yes we have a frontal lobe that allows us to think and ponder and it is a blessing but for most of us it is also a burden. We carry the weight of worry and doubt not as a tool that can inform but as a bag of rocks that makes our life heavy.

What if your ability to act and survive and even thrive is not your ability to reason? What if your power lies within your instinct, your intuition? How can you powerfully unleash your capacity by balancing both the blessing of the frontal lobe and the fuel of your frame?

For most people the frontal lobe is a reasoning of emotions center. The impulses that come into our mind pass first through our emotional centers and then reach the reasoning of the frontal lobe. That means that, for most of us humans, we aren’t logically processing reality, we are logically processing our emotional reaction to reality. The implications of this beg the question, “are we overweighting the potential power of our reasoning capacity?" Have we gotten lost in the maze of thought and fallen asleep to the freedom of experience?

Research indicates that as the ethereal brain (spiritual brain) comes online, the impulses traveling through our mind slow down and allow us to watch our thoughts and feelings and balances instincts with reason by engaging the logic function almost simultaneously with our emotion center. This seems to me to be peak human processing of information in time and space. As we balance the burdens and blessings of the frontal lobe with the animal instinct of our body, our frame, we are able to both survive and thrive, experiencing the cycle of life and death while also processing the joy and love of existence. Life becomes poetry, dancing of the soul connecting with the world around us and each other. Fully engaged in the moment working to shape the future by intentionally directing our actions toward not just being alive but on building purposefully toward something desired.