{"id":351,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:50:22","slug":"gut-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Gut Attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Focus Attention with our Gut ?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Shifting the focus from wide to narrow changes the feedback of what we observe. This then changes the electrical patterns and chemical actions in our brains, causing system-wide effects, like increased muscle tension, respiratory rate, and a higher flow of neurotransmitters and hormones. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">All of these influence our perception, thinking, memory, performance, physiology, and emotional well being.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Researchers concluded that our gut possesses a separate brain, called the <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">enteric nervous system<\/span>. It is a network of 100-300 million neurotransmitters, neurons, and proteins found in the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It has cells like brain-cells and a complex circuitry that allows it to act independently, to learn, remember, and produce &#8216;<span style=\"color: #006699;\">gut feelings<\/span>&#8216;. Not until an intellectual understanding sinks into this gut brain, are we totally convinced about some-thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 266px; height: 269px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/The%20GUT.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=352\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus Attention with our Gut ? Shifting the focus from wide to narrow changes the feedback of what we observe. This then changes the electrical patterns and chemical actions in our brains, causing system-wide effects, like increased muscle tension, respiratory rate, and a higher flow of neurotransmitters and hormones. All of these influence our perception,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}