EFT & Neural Pathways

Dawson Church wrote, "When you pass a signal through a neural bundle for 20 seconds or more, you stimulate it to begin creating new synaptic connections. You increase its signaling capacity. It’s like an electrical cable that gets bigger and bigger as more and more electricity flows through it.

When you have a good experience and don’t savor it for those 20 seconds or more, the size of your electrical cable — the bundle of neurons in your brain that signals pleasure — does not increase. But if you deliberately stretch out the good feelings for 20 seconds or more, you build increased capacity in your brain for carrying similar signals.

When you’re meditating, feeling good, tapping, filling your mind with loving thoughts, and having a wonderful experience, stretch it out for as long as possible. Slow yourself way down today. Waste as much time as possible gazing at the brilliant hues of a spectacular sunset. Notice the kiss of the wind on your skin. Savor the delicate flavors of a sip of your favorite tea. Listen to the patter of rain on the rooftop. Remember the last time you heard a baby laugh."

We know that every hour we think about something, whether the thought is something negative or positive, we double the neural branch in our brain around that idea.

This is why, for some of us, negative neural pathways are so hard to change. They are great big, fat trunks of neurons, synapses, dendrites and axioms. Happy thoughts or affirmations don’t seem to budge them. They are difficult to break without a tool like EFT. The thoughts are stuck, cemented into place.

EFT is the language the brain structure understands to mean, “Wake up, pay attention, I have a new job for you to do. I've changed my mind.” Tapping opens the conversation with that subconscious – the part of you that you cannot normally access and the part of you that normally runs 95-98% of your life.

Tapping has the ability, since we focus on the negative thoughts, to snap those negative neural paths, allowing new, albeit smaller, ones to grow in their stead.

Feelings like thanksgiving, happiness, joy, love all grow those new pathways, allowing the old ones to die off, literally.

This is why EFT works so well.

The “trick” is we must tap out the negative before instilling the positive; otherwise it is like pouring a tablespoon of high quality perfume in a 60 gallon barrel of sewage. The perfume, like positive affirmations (or sporadic happy thoughts), aren’t strong enough to compensate for the smell of the stinky, moldy barrel.

Give Christian EFT a try today. Tap while you pray, sing, read, and allow God to change those negative pathways in your heart and mind.  He’s love to have a conversation with you today.

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical care. Take complete responsibility for your own emotional and physical health.

Blessings in Christ Jesus!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

Author of EFT for Christians

EFTforChristians.com