Impressing others.
Measuring up.
Raising the bar.
There is nothing more tantalizing to the mind’s eye than reaching illusionary standards.
No matter how grounded we feel, there is an intrinsic, human program embedded in our awareness that wants to sway, impact, move, and somehow find belonging through impression.
It is through the mental cocoon that we nestle into conceptualization, analysis, and configuration.
The anterior and posterior pituitary glands find their abode in this mental space, in the Anja Centre of our genetic composition.
The pituitary gland is a master. A wise evolution that gives us the coding, the instruction manual for the entire ecosystem that is the body.
It is the vital endocrine manifestation of a mind-dominated species. This gland provides the signal of hormonal material that becomes synthesized, and metabolized by the thyroid glands. Amongst its myriad of functions, it is the gland of maintaining body structure.
Invite a pause.
The structure.
The structure of how you represent yourself. The structure of your personality. The structure of your outfits. The structure of the stories you post on IG.
It is this internal structure that gives shape to who you are.
How you show up.
How others think of you.
It is a framework of your internal world that makes up the external.
The releaser of growth hormones, yet it can keep us so small. This inside assembly of how we quantify significance.
The frequency of how much we compare and contrast (the byproduct of impression) leads to something we call anxiety.
It is an overactive conception of conceptualizing. We are creations; therefore, we also create.
We bring in life forms through these aspects of the mental sphere that come from the egg and the sperm- the internal yin & yang forces that all live within us.
We birth impression through force.
This is not natural to our inherent nature.
The mind never has true authority.
Growth hormone levels increase around the time of puberty- the portal of impression.
This is the container of childhood that embellishes sensitivity and vulnerability. A timestamp that remains encoded within these unconscious minds of ours.
It is simply a messenger system. The message you receive from comparison and the message you radiate from mental processing.
The role of the impressor tries too hard to be something it is not. Sound familiar?
This is the path of the human excursion.
This is the recognition of co-existing with incongruence in our mechanics.
A need to go bigger than who you perceive to be.
A need to magnify and amplify from a place of lack and uncertainty.
A need to go higher! To succeed! To be who I’m not in order to survive!
I like to reflect on Tony Robbins as an exhibit of this gland.
Go-getter Tony Robbins is the epitome, dare I say, the mecca of self-improvement.
The catalyst to growth.
Tony had all the signs of Acromegaly- a condition where you have too much growth hormone in the vessel. This directly impacts the size of bones and tissues resulting in irregular heads, hands, feet, etc.
Everything is bigger.
There is an over-activation of needing to expand. To go beyond the body’s capacity. To go beyond the limitation of the mind’s programmed instruction.
The activation of being the loudest in the room. Showing up in an immense manner.
Some of his book titles include…
“Awakening the Giant Within”
“Giant Steps”
“The Power to Shape Your Destiny!”
Tony Robbins, ironically, had to grow up fast in childhood.
He was nicknamed Stepdad by his younger siblings as he was called to step in for his mother’s chaotic relationships with men- relationships that questioned his own relationship to being a child. To relate himself as the caretaker, the pivotal father figure.
A role that requires major development.
A stepping stone to growing up.
His biology was that stepping stone. This is how disease, illness, and conditions serve us, in the name of an unconscious solution. In the act of adaptation.
His pituitary gland created an answer to his problem. One he could not compute at the time because there was no conscious solution to be had at that stage. At any stage where we are not equipped with internal resources.
His internal workings brought him to several stages around the world (literally & figuratively).
The discovery of those resources became his empire.
The exaggerated growth within him stirred a journey of expansion with those who follow him.
Later in life, he revealed that he had a tumor on the pituitary.
Our bodies are mirrors.
Simple, plain, and concrete.
We are logical beings; therefore, our brains compute logical solutions.
Where there is a function in our organs and tissues, there is a meaning to our physical symptoms.
It is organic hardwiring.
You and I are mapped out.
We are invited by this body to go on trips far beyond our mental loops.
Trips that consist of traveling to the depths of ourselves, the trenches of our stories.
All healing is a change of perception.
Stories that don’t have to be written in stone.
Our stories, our biology, and our path can all be rewritten.
We are truly, the authors of our existence.
We can edit, write, and rewire these stories (ingrained cellular memories). The brain can not tell the difference between the past, present, and future.
Your story is a symbol.
The body is a translator of that symbology.
The need to impress is a need of forcing growth.
Not all growth is healthy.
There is a rhythm to growth, a natural cycle to it.
Awakening your flex to impress is arousing your true need of being yourself.
There is no timeline for your growth.
Only the deception of your mind could create such a fallacy.
Let this be a return to your truth.
An anchor in your pituitary gland.
A retrograde to your original structure.
The world needs it, I need it.
xo
Sierra
Between the conscious and the Unconscious The mind has put up a swing: All earth's creatures, even the supernovas, Sway between these two trees, And it never winds down. Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, Also the wheeling sun and moon; Ages go by, and it goes on. Everything is swinging; heaven and earth, water and fire And the secret one slowly growing a body. Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, And it made him a servant for life. - KABIR