Many actions are controlled by autonomic nerves, except some, like breathing, can be interfered by the conscious, while others, like the beating of the heart, cannot. In fact, for breathing, the conscious decision can override the autonomic nerves such as holding your breath until a certain point. It’s like an admin user vs a guest user. But how does such privilege system work in terms of neurons? How does the control alternate between the conscious and the autonomic system?
“You are now manually beating your heart”. Nope, that doesn’t work no matter how hard you try it (except for Buddha monks I suppose), so does this mean there are no physical neuron connections between the conscious and the heart?
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To put it simply humans have evolved to think about things. We have not evolved to NOT think about something.
As an example, don’t think about a pink elephant. Unless we actively try to avoid reading the sentence altogether we will generally be stuck thinking about what is desired for us to not think about.
In processing the sentence you have to think about it before you can reject it. We cannot reject it before we understand it. Understanding it has an impact on our mental state which impacts our physical before we can even attempt to reject.
Effectively this is why athletes are taught to visualize what they want to happen. Avoiding, at all costs, visualizing what they don’t want to happen. If you focus on what you want to occur it is far easier to manifest yourself to do it.
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