Dr. Pert discussed her laboratory's work on neuropeptides and outlined her reasons why she felt that neuropeptides were the basis of the emotions. Moreover, they are particularly rich areas, because they contain receptors for essentially every neuropeptide we so far have identified. Normally, one thinks of the conscious part on the top and the unconscious part toward the back.
Psychologists talk about deep subconscious processes.
Clearly, the network of chemicals that I have attempted to describe suggests that the subconscious extends to one's T-cells, to one's monocytes, and in a kind of flowing wave, back to one's brain cells. This may also explain why a chiropractic spinal adjustment can be so powerfull. I think we will eventually find out that consciousness is in every cell of our bodymind. The recent discoveries that the endorphins of the brain are produced in every organ system yet studied is but the first step.