Online Life Coaching: The Evolving Human
Everything in nature evolves. Life was once a single-celled organism. In fact, for most of the past four billion years, life on Earth consisted of the microorganism and nothing more. After bacteria, algae, and fungi formed, evolution leaped forward, manifesting as the dinosaur which prospered for about 165 million years. The reptiles, turtles, and birds of today are all that’s left from the Dinosaur Age.
This primitive reptilian brain or basal ganglia still remains an intricate part of our current human brain today. Like that of a crocodile, it has only two polarized responses; on and off. It is this reactive survival mechanism that is designed to protect the animal from potential danger. This marked the formation of the brain’s simple polarity that is still a major part of the ego today.
The next major mutation on the planet occurred when life created mammals. This limbic brain formed itself over the reptilian brain. Instead of just two responses, now the animal can react with a slight degree of variance. In addition to being just on or off, it can be slightly on, halfway on, three-fourths on, or all the way on.
Millions of years later, life mutated yet again into a third brain called the neocortex around 250,000 years ago when modern homo sapiens suddenly appeared out of nowhere from a common “Eve” grandmother. It wasn’t until the formation of the neocortex that human’s were able to make a choice whether to react or not.
The current evolutionary stage of the human brain bestows us with the ability to think, reason, and calculate mental operations in a split second that would rival the processing speed of a million desktop computers all working at once. But, just because we’ve evolved into this “super intelligent species” that has figured out how to split the tiny atom, clone a wooly sheep, propel ourselves to the Moon and back, and watch music videos on our hand-held iPods, it doesn’t necessarily follow that we’re a success. Contrarily, I would say that as a species, we’ve allowed our intellectual, material, and physical accomplishments to go straight to our collective head.
Transcending the ego is not difficult. All it requires is that you become completely present, live every moment in the eternal Now, and refrain from identifying with your egoic mind. As a result, your entire life becomes a meditation. You begin living in a continuous state of non-resistance, non-reaction, and non-violence on all levels. This is the next stage of human evolution.
Jason Lincoln Jeffers is an online Wellness Coach who founded Sunlighten and co-founded Sunlight Day Spa; holistic health companies promoting infrared radiant heat therapy, sound therapy, and massage therapy. His Wellness Coaching practice incorporates meditation, infrared sauna purification, upper cervical care, and eating an alkaline-forming, nutrient-dense, genetically compatible diet.