How Thought, Glands and Hormones Affect the Physical Body: It’s Not What We Eat But How We Think

Did you know that the brain contains all the information, molecules, peptides, amino acids and emotions the body contains? Here is what happens when we think a thought and then how it affects our entire body, physically:

Do you see why the quality of our thoughts and attitudes are so important to the health of the body? And do you see why the pituitary gland is called the Master gland of the body?

The body itself is a chemical laboratory. Our thoughts actually become transferred into biological material. The body crafts chemical combinations according to the thought commands we give it. Any thought we can think, though we may not think it is a command, is indeed a command.

If you have been thinking thoughts of wellness, for example, those thoughts get transferred into amino acid chains and peptides that get flowed through the bloodstream to nourish the body’s cells.

Disease or wellness doesn’t just happen. We promote it.

We like to talk about nutrition and all the other physical actions we can take to promote wellness, balance, health and vitality in the body and those are all good and we shouldn’t throw those out. But a person who consumes an impeccable diet and exercises perfectly will still not enjoy optimum health if his thoughts aren’t right. Diet is probably only ten percent of the equation for great health.

We promote excellent physical health by way of our thoughts and attitudes. And this speaks to why you can’t have good health if you have poor mental health.

A person suffering with depression, for example, will begin to suffer physically, too, because that person’s thoughts are not consistently strong and vibrant. A depressed person who is constantly thinking disempowering thoughts will manufacture enough chemicals in the body to debilitate his immune system and cause physical illness.

A closed minded or bitter person, will actually close off and starve the body, feeding it only the “bitter herbs” of victimhood, jealousy, anger, and resentment while an open minded person who is receptive of new constructive thoughts and ideas will foster an environment in the body capable of receiving nutrients from food.

Here’s how that works.

Every cell has receptor sites there for the purpose of accepting nutrients carried to them by the bloodstream.

Over time, as we continue to dredge up old memories many of which were traumatic to us or reinforce negative thoughts and emotions (creating an acid-based environment in the body not conducive to health), the body manufactures chemicals that align with unhealthy attitudes (vengeance, anger, to name only two) and the ports to these receptor sites close themselves to nutrients. The very nutrients you need to give the cells life and vitality don’t get absorbed by the cells. Instead, these nutrients get stored as fat and without proper nutrition, the body begins to break down into disease and death.

These cell receptor sites basically turn the body on with life or off with disease. You can take tons of nutritional supplements and they won’t work because your cells can’t receive them.

It is not what we eat. It’s what we think.

Memories are basically chemical and they’re stored in peptides and amino acid-derived hormones. When you keep revisiting the past in your mind, the negative emotions you felt when the incident historically occurred, get passed throughout the body. You may not think so, but they do. The hypothalamus and its neurons and peptides send the information of that memory to the pituitary and the pituitary goes to work.

If the pituitary Master gland of the body could speak, it would always say: “Thy will be done.” So when the memory is once again given to the pituitary it “rubber stamps” that memory, so to speak, which is chemical substance/amino acid hormones and then sends that information out into the bloodstream by way of the adrenal glands. This is because stress is perceived and so the body must be soothed by the steroids the adrenals can offer.

Whenever we reactivate the past or hang onto an unhealthy attitude, we active emotions in the body needlessly and destructively and this creates an emotional and life force drain on the body. After a while, left unchecked, the body is chemical-laden from within and its days are numbered.

This sequence of events kills the body as opposed to the preservation we desire.

Negative attitudes are “worn” in the body, expressed outwardly as bitter, sad people whose immune systems become so depressed they advance toward death more quickly.

When you actively heal your body in the brain, you do so neurologically and neurochemically.

If you heal something or create it in the brain, you will eventually have the same in the body.

If you visualize that you are well and hold that thought and image there in the frontal lobe of the brain for as long as you can and consistently, you actually will begin to change the structure of the body’s cells and create that health.

You must be patient and consistent though because there’s negative programming in the brain that’s been going on for an awfully long time. There’s a lot to undo.

If you were alive during the time of tape recorders using magnetic tapes, here is an analogy:

If you made a recording on a reel-to-reel old-fashioned tape recorder and then rewound the tape and hit the record button again and started speaking, you’d re-record over the original recording, essentially wiping away the original programming.

That’s what you have to do with new thoughts and attitudes of anything you desire in life.

The great and oft-quoted American New Thought writer and author of several self-help books, Wallace Wattles, said in his book, The Science of Being Well:

“That there is a Thinking Substance from which all things are made, and that man receives the Principle of Health, which is his life, from this Substance.

That man himself is Thinking Substance; a mind-body, permeating a physical body, and that as man's thoughts are, so will the functioning of his physical body be.

That if man will think only thoughts of perfect health, he must and will cause the internal and involuntary functioning of his body to be the functioning of health, provided that his external and voluntary functioning and attitude are in accordance with his thoughts.”

And further Wattles says in his classic book dating back more than 100 years ago:

The primary and first prosperity anyone can have is not money or possessions. It’s the ability to utilize the incredible gift of the brain and mind rightly and effectively.

Think it first, consistently and persistently, but at the same time, don’t try too hard. Let the process flow. Be easy breezy with it. Just flow with it in the way that breezes flow.

Persistent thought will slowly become life force in your entire cellular structure. The cells’ programming will change and uplift. Your glands will change and uplift. Your pituitary Master gland will begin to expand giving you hormones for greater youth, life and vitality.

Create a strong and balanced body. Declare it often:

There are masters documented on this earth that are hundreds of years old, perhaps more. Once they got it, they turned everything around in their bodies and stopped aging. And they are still alive today.(5)

We all have the power of life or death, sickness or health, poverty or abundance—in an attitude.

The body, the recipient of chemical substances of information known as hormones, is totally dependent on the mind. Your body cannot survive well if your attitudes don’t align with it.

Attitudes of fear of not being able to survive, lack, failure and anger will only create a body ravaged with sickness and deterioration. We are meant to live for hundreds of years, at the very least, but our thinking, our constant revisiting of the past, and our emotional attitudes are what have us stuck living short lives, in comparison, ending up in hospitals with great suffering at the end.

It is all a matter of belief and how we focus that belief in our consciousness.

We must hold the constructive uplifting thought long enough to convince the mind (and it might take awhile) to send the right corresponding hormones throughout the body. We can regenerate and exhilarate the body by our sharply focused right thought action.