The Prism of Reality - The Nervous System

Let me start by saying that what I am about to describe is primordial. If I had to go back to 2018 when my first existential questions emerged and I started searching on YouTube, this is where I would have started: with my body, with my nervous system. Everything else would have come later. No wonder my first tiny glimpses of aliveness came through while moving my body with Tai Chi. Looking back now, it makes total sense. I was circled back to the essential, to the starting point.

When those first existential questions sprouted out of me, I can only imagine how my nervous system was wired at the time. God, I can only imagine…. But my will to change was greater than my inner imbalances, so I pushed through. Today I am speaking from what I know now, looking back. If anyone finds this and finds value in it, then I am glad.

What I want to offer is this: you do not change something with the same consciousness, the same wiring that created it. Matter does not change matter. States like nirvana or bliss are not abstract spiritual achievements; they are perceived through the state your nervous system is wired from. You may also realize that reality is perception, emotions rise from perception. And perception is filtered through the body.

So let’s take a journey inward. Let’s create a gap between sensation and message, between trigger and the freedom it is calling in, between projection and what is actually being mirrored.

The body you are in right now is the prism through which you perceive reality. If you think you can bypass it to be realized, you are repeating concepts. Real self-realization happens by inhabiting your body awake and aware of its mechanisms.

The body is the backbone of the reality you are living in. Not your understanding, not the prayers you repeat, not your affirmations, not the retreats you attend. The body is the landscape from which all your foundations are built.

Everything you perceive passes through your tissues, your senses, your brain, your entire inner ecosystem. You perceive according to your inner wiring. Which means this: all perception is subjectively true.

The environment you are exposed to shapes the structure and function of your inner ecosystem. The environment informs the mind through conscious and unconscious faculties. That’s how we perceive, judge, create language, morality, and habits. And all of that happens within the body, which adapts precisely to what it constantly receives.

Back to my own experience. I spent years focused on the outside first. Consuming personal growth and spirituality content. I consumed information tirelessly, overriding my body. I thought knowing more, exercising more, forcing meditation would make me lighter and happier. But beneath all that effort, I was dragging my body through the search. I was bloated most of the time. In pain, tight and clenched. And I had no idea that my body was my first place of study. As with most of my breakthroughs, I learned through experience, trial and error. That’s how i found out.

“The place where the pain appears is not arbitrary; it reveals the nature of the internal conflict”.

We often bombard our brains with new information, new ways of seeing the world while our physiology has not yet reorganized. We rush to change before the body has had time to clear, release, and recalibrate. And the effort to “unlearn” becomes counterproductive.

From what I know now, the natural order is body first. Sometimes information comes first so that an opening can happen, but you will always be brought back inside your system.

“The body’s ability to hold a new reality depends on its capacity to let experience pass through without sticking, and without identification. Just weather moving through”.

Before we go further into mechanics and perception, let’s pause and remember what this body actually is.

The body is not something that contains the soul. It is a localized concentration of life within a vast field of consciousness. A temporary condensation of something immeasurable, shaped for a specific lifetime. When this lifetime ends, the form dissolves, the field remains. But while this body is alive, it is the most sophisticated companion you will ever have, the very thing that makes this brief journey worth living.

With the body comes the nervous system as a translator through which that vastness becomes an experience, a focused and specific expression, it is the interface that turns something infinite into “a point of view”.

Keep that in mind while reading: it means that a regulated nervous system translates clearly. A dysregulated one translates in distortion. The quality of this translation is shaped by genetics, early imprinting, environment, nutrition, relational safety, and repeated patterns of perception, all of that sculpts the lens. And yet, even while shaped by form, you are not limited to form. The moment awareness enters the body fully, the system begins to reorganize. You do not transcend biology by escaping it; you transcend by inhabiting it so completely that the identification with it softens.

Now we can move down to the mechanics.

From a physiological standpoint, we are not clean slates. The embryo carries genetic information from both parents. From a psychological standpoint, the environment continuously informs gene expression. From a spiritual standpoint, consciousness inhabits this structure with intention.

If you are on a quest for truth, enter your body as often as possible. And from that awareness, move down consistently, the body speaks in the present moment, and the head translates memories of the past.

“What is not expressed through awareness will be expressed through the body”.

But here is something real: if you have never learned the language of the body, you will not trust it. “Trust your body” can be misleading if you have not dismantled the walls between mental filtering and physiological signaling.

To build trust, you must decode its language. And in order to hear it clearly, you must clean what you take in: information, food, what you drink, sleep, your relationships, self-abandonment patterns. This is primordial.

The body adapts perfectly to what it is trained into.

“The body does not lie, but it speaks in sensation rather than words”.

Learn how the body functions. Here is an example: a chronically stressed system that receives sugar as relief will register sugar as safety. That modifies the internal order. Which is why quitting sugar, alcohol, or smoking is not straightforward. They act like temporary bandages that help us stay functional, but for how long? To a system that uses these to access parasympathetic states, removing them can create further dysregulation if done without understanding. Which is why getting help is not optional; it is essential.

“A symptom is a solution that the body has found to restore balance.”

The work is to understand the root of the behavior and the interpretation the system has made. Then gently inform it differently so it can recalibrate through its own intelligence. This requires devotion, consistency and grace.

Once trust is established, create an environment that signals safety. Not necessarily by changing countries, but by changing daily perception.

Another example: The brain interprets signals and releases chemistry throughout the body. If you rush through your morning clenched and breathless, the brain registers threat. The stress hormone resembles that of being chased by a predator. It does not scale down simply because “traffic is crazy”, it responds to the state. It is your attitude within the experience that shapes perception, and the perception informs the chemical production throughout your system.

But if you soften your jaw, slow your breath, move deliberately. Your brain registers safety, your hormones shift, physiology shifts, neural pathways shift, and perception shifts.

You may even change your personality. People will say, “You changed.” And they will be right, you truly changed your wiring.

Some call it awakening, others healing, but it is also a biological and psychological process. Everything passes through your body to be perceived.

There is no other life happening for you except the one happening inside your system. Your nervous system is your true companion if you want to experience life fully.

“Go in. Then down”.

There is something that also happens alongside this great undoing. When you do this, dismantling happens, a disruption that shakes you. All of the unprocessed pain surfaces, sensitivity increases, old environments dissolve. Foundations shake, and some relationships fall away. Your world as you knew it may start falling apart. It may look like chaos, but chaos in this case is reorganization. You may need isolation, you may see how fragile your previous foundations were. You may discover nutrient deficiencies, emotional deficits, shallow bonds, please honor the dismantling.

What is not aligned will fall away so something truer can be born.

If it feels unbearable, blurry, or even painful at times, anchor yourself in even the smallest joys. And when you encounter someone who carries a quality you admire, reach toward that mirror. The nervous system learns by resonance. It is not an easy journey, but it is simple once you understand the mechanism. And it begins with not bypassing the body.

I will leave you with this: When the translation is refined, you feel without drowning, you perceive without distortion, you live in a system that is clear enough to let life pass through. And when it is time to drop this body back to the Creator, you will have tasted life in its colors and its flavors.

I hope this find you with an open heart to receive it.