Aligning our Head, Heart and Gut · Put your ear to the wall of your heart. Listen for the whisper of knowing there. Love will touch you if you are very still.” Tom Barrett “Your

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mBITandtheheartofLeadership:AligningourHead,HeartandGut

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln

“Pause with us here a while.

Put your ear to the wall of your heart.

Listen for the whisper of knowing there.

Love will touch you if you are very still.” Tom Barrett

“Your heart is your guide and compass.

It whispers softly, so listen closely.” Rumi

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion” Dalai Lama

“Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama

“You change your life by changing your heart.” Max Lucado

“Knowledge comes from but a single perspective. Wisdom comes from multiple perspectives.” Gregory Bateson

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and

has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein

“Everyone has intuition. The more you acknowledge it , the stronger it gets.” Marla Mitchell

“Our science and technology have posed us a profound question. Will we learn to use these tools with wisdom and foresight before

it’s too late?” Carl Sagan.


This may be a surprise – but did you know you have more than one brain?!

Intuitively we recognise that intelligence isn’t solely the domain of the head, and that there are different kinds of embodied knowing. We are all familiar (possibly at times, even over familiar) with the experience of thinking thoughts and listening to our inner dialogue. Our head based cognitive intelligence is well known to us and has been emphasised and prioritised in Western culture for centuries. However we also know when we bring to mind people, places or things that are important to us that we can experience the feeling of valuing, love and caring. (If you do so now – you’ll notice that these sensations are generally not experienced in your head, but in your chest). And likewise most people have had something that they would call a gut feeling, an intuition or a gut instinct. (Most of us will also have found out through experience that we ignore gut instincts at our peril.) These gut instincts and sensations also have a specific location, (distinct and different to either the head or the heart), in the abdomen.

These are not just interesting but irrelevant distinctions. They are part of how intelligent humans function at their best. Furthermore, neuroscience is now confirming what esoteric and spiritual traditions have known for millennia, that human beings have 3 centres of intelligence. The Head Centre, the Heart Centre and the Gut or Moving Centre.

Grant Soosalu and Marvin Oka – the creators of mBIT, have synthesised an incredible wealth of leading-edge research from the fields of Neuroscience, Neuro-cardiology, Neuro-gastroenterology, Medical Research on disease and pathology, the Science of Leadership, Psychology, Behavioural Modelling, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Cross cultural linguistic studies, along with ancient wisdom from Spiritual and Esoteric traditions


and Martial Arts Practice (and being pragmatists, their own thorough practical action-research.)

As they explored these diverse and related fields in their curiosity to understand how we function, they quickly saw the profound implications for personal and professional development, human performance, and how to live with greater wisdom and authenticity.

However, the implications of this are not just personal – but global in reach. We have had a great many years of our cultures, governments and organisations focussing on cognition and intelligence at the head level, however the evidence that this hasn’t been wholly sufficient is overwhelming and all around us. As the world becomes more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (or VUCA), as the volume of information we need to process everyday increases, and as the pace of change becomes greater and greater, interest is growing in discovering what defines our most effective leaders, what goes in to making wise, sustainable decisions, what makes people really creative in solving complex problems, what makes them truly compassionate and deeply intuitive and resilient.

The answer? These attributes are found in people who do not function solely from the neck up. They are consistently found in people who have access to all their innate intelligences and who furthermore, who have access to them in alignment.


TheSciencebit:Whatmakesabrainabrain?

Wecancallthehead,heartandgutintelligences,‘Centresofintelligence’,or‘complexadaptiveneuralnetworks’,butitisinfacttheneuroscientistsintherapidlyevolvingfieldsofneurocardiologyandneurogastroenterologythatareactuallychoosingtocallthem‘brains’asmoreandmoreisunderstoodabouttheirstructureand

functioning.

There are some structural characteristics that define a brain:

• Large numbers of neurons and ganglia, including sensory neurons and motor neurons

• Neural cells with inter-neurons; neurons interconnecting in complex ways with other neurons

• Support cells and components such as glial cells, astrocytes, proteins, etc. • Functional attributes: perceiving/assimilating information, processing

information, memory storage and access, neural plasticity and the ability to ‘learn’.

• Able to mediate complex reflexes via an intrinsic nervous system (i.e. it doesn’t need the head brain to direct it, it functions even in the complete absence of the head brain)

• A chemical warehouse of neurotransmitters (those found in the head brain are also found in the gut and heart brains)

There are also some functional attributes that define a brain. They include:

• Memory • Association • Pattern Recognition • Categorization • Generalization • Optimization • Noise immunity • Adaptation • ‘Gain’ Control • Context Dependent Value Coding • Neurons fire in a manner predicted by a weighted average/summation rule

of information from multiple sources of sensory information • Dynamic Reconfiguration and Non-uniqueness of Connectivity Patterns • Plasticity • Neural networks have three key functions: Learning, Regulation and

Selection

(Taken from mBIT Coach Certification Course materials designed by G Soosalu and M. Oka)


OurCentresofIntelligencesdo

differentthings:

OurHeartCentreis(amongotherthings)involvedwith:

! FeelingandEmoting! Valuing! RelatingandConnectingwithothers

OurHeadCentreis(amongotherthings)involvedwith:

! Thinking! Perceiving! MakingMeaning

OurGut/MovingCentreis(amongotherthings)involvedwith:

! Movingustotakeaction! Identifyingwhatispartofourcoreidentity(me/not

me)! Keepingussafeandalive


mBraining

1) The way you are using your multiple brains. 2) The process of aligning and integrating your

multiple brains for specific outcomes.

mBIT (multiple Brain Integration Techniques)

- a suite of practical techniques for communicating with, aligning and harnessing the intelligence of your multiple brains.


So–howarewemBrainingatthemoment?Mostofushavehadexperienceswherewefeeltotallyaligned,whenourhead,ourheartandourgutallconcuronadecision,goal,planoraction.Weexperiencethatsenseofflowandcongruence.Howeverwehaveprobablyallexperiencedtimeswhenourheadsaysonethingandourheartanother.Orwherewehaveagutfeelingaboutsomething,buttalkourselveslogicallyoutoflisteningtoit.

Someofusmayevenhavelifepositionswhereweworkhardbutignoreourwhatourhearttrulywants,orwherewedreambutsomehowareunabletotakeactiononourideasandgoals.Mostpeoplehaveasenseofexperiencingoneormoreofthefollowing

WAYS OUR BRAINS CAN BE OUT OF ALIGNMENT

" WHICH? HOW?

One or two of our intelligence/s dominates to the exclusion of the other

one or two

One swamps/overrides the others

One or more used inappropriately :- i.e. it is trying to do the job/Prime Functions of the other(s)

Our intelligences may be in Conflict with each other

Wrong syntax i.e. a sequence that is sub

optimal


(Taken from mBIT Coach Certification Course materials designed by G Soosalu and M. Oka)Exercise:

1.Sitcomfortablyandbreatheevenlyanddeeplyfromyourdiaphragmforaminuteorso.

2.Bringtomindadecisionyoumadethatwasabsolutelyright,whereyoufelttotallycongruentandaligned.

Asyouthinkaboutthat,sensedeeplyinandnoticetheexperiencein

• YourHeart:

• YourHead:

• AndyourGut:

3.Changestateforamomentandclearyourmind.

4.Now-bringtomindadifficultdecision,onethatwashardertomake,perhapswhereyoufeltconflictedandwheretheoutcomewaslessthanperfect.

Asyouthinkaboutthat,sensedeeplyinandnoticetheexperiencein

• YourHeart:

• YourHead:

• AndyourGut:

Whatdidyoudiscover?


Exercise:

Sitquietlyandfocusyourattentioninside,Senseyourbodyandbreatheevenlyanddeeplyfromyourdiaphragmforaminuteorso…..Stillbreathingevenlyanddeeply–Bringtomindsomegoal,project,issueorupcomingevent:

Asyoucontinuetobreatheevenlyanddeeply

Youcanaskyourselfthesequestions.(Listenopenlyanddeeplyfortheresponses.Reallysenseintoyourbody.You’llfindyourhead,heartandgutcommunicateverydifferently.Theymaytakedifferentlengthsoftimetorespond,andthesignalsmaybeintheformoflanguage,sensations,sounds,images,metaphorsetc.)

1,Whatismyrealissueorgoal?

2.Whatdoesmyheartsayaboutthis?

3.Whatdoesmyheadsayaboutthis?

4.Whatdoesmygutsayaboutthis?

Whatdidyoudiscover?


mBITCoachingisanelegantseriesoftools:• Tofacilitateoptimumcommunicationwithourhead,heartand

gut.• Todissolveblocksincommunicationbetweenhead,heartand

gut.• Toresolveconflictsbetweenheadheartandgut.• Toaligntheseintelligencesintheiroptimumsequenceand• Tofacilitatetheemergenceofourhighestexpressionsandthe

emergenceofgenerativewisdom.

mBITCoachingcanhelpusto:• Experienceflowstatesandasenseofbalancedcalmeasilyand

quickly.• Becomemoreresilienttostress.• Listenandtapintotheinnateintelligencesofourhead,heart

andgut.• Easeandresolveinnerconflicts.• Alignourintelligencestomoveforwardtakingwiseaction.• Makebetter,wiserdecisions.• ConnectpowerfullywithoursenseofPurpose.• Experiencegenerativewisdominhowweliveourlives.• Leadwithpowerfulinfluence(hearts,mindsandactions).• Developpowerfulintuition.• Livemoreauthentically,fullyandmeaningfully.• Feelmorefulfilled.• Developdeeperself-awareness.• Experiencegreatercompassion.• Bemorecreative.• Bemorecourageousinaction.• Handlechangewithgraceandwisdom.

To explore the field further, read about its developers, catch up with global testimonials, find local providers or simply to delve in to the cutting edge research that underpins this approach, visit www.mbraining.com and/or purchase the excellent mBraining books, available at Amazon. If you have any questions at all or would like to discuss the West Yorkshire training contact Henrie on 0345 8710012 or by email at [email protected]


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Aligning our Head, Heart and Gut · Put your ear to the wall of your heart. Listen for the whisper of knowing there. Love will touch you if you are very still.” Tom Barrett “Your