The body’s wisdom is a good entry point into the hidden dimensions of life, because although completely invisible, the body’s wisdom is undeniably real – a fact that medical researchers began to accept in the mid – 1980s.
The former view was that the brain’s capacity for intelligence was unique.
But then signs of intelligence began to be discovered in the immune system, and then in the digestive system.
In both systems, special messenger molecules could be observed circulating through every organ, bringing information to and from the brain, but also functioning on their own!
A white cell that can distinguish between invading enemy bacteria and harmless pollen is making an intelligent decision, even though it floats in the bloodstream apart from the brain.
Ten years ago, it would have seemed absurd to speak of intestines being intelligent.
The lining of the digestive tract was known to possess thousands of nerve endings, but these were just remote outposts of the nervous system – a way for it to keep in touch with the lowly business of extracting nutrition from food.
Now it turns out that the intestines are not so lowly after all.
Their scattered nerve cells form a finely tuned system for reacting to outside events – an upsetting remark at work, the threat of danger, a death in the family.
The stomach’s reactions are just as reliable as the brain's thoughts, and just as intricate.
Your colon, your liver, and your stomach cells also THINK, only not in the brain’s verbal language.
What people had been calling a “gut reaction” turns out to be a mere hint of the complex intelligence at work in a hundred thousand billion cells . . . . .

from "The Book of Secrets" ~ Deepak Chopra ~