My answer: Yes, you have it!!
What happens from the
"learning" of something is we build strong, thick neural pathways,
like interstate highways, where our thoughts just tend to gravitate to.
Once we believe something and these neural highways are built that is exactly
where we head - right down the same thought line we believe to be our truth,
and we return to that pathway over and over again. We are then STUCK! It
kinda is a "dog returning to its vomit".
Canadian researcher
Donald Hebbs said, and we repeat, "Neurons that fire together, wire
together". In EFT, our motto is, "Neurons that don't fire together,
never wire together" which means we can break down those pathways with
tapping so we don't with a knee jerk reactionimmediately run down
that same thought road.
2000 Nobel prize winner
Eric Kandel taught us that ONE hour of thinking the same
thought, be it positive or negative, DOUBLES the size of the neural pathway of
that thought. So, worry and rumination strengthens and almost guarantees
us more worry and rumination because again we are stuck, literally, in that
thought pattern.
Since we have kazillions
of neural connections, so many of our thoughts intersect with other thoughts,
binding them altogether in one big mass of lies. Cathy & I call these our
lying emotions because of that idea.
Good part of this is
with tapping comes the "generalization effect" where disconnecting
some neural pathways often takes out big chunks of other rather unrelated life
habits and patterns that were peripherally connected. This is why other
thoughts or even physical afflictions or things just seem to go away without
any tapping at all. Subtle personality changes happen and we often don't even
notice.
I'm not sure, but you
could be correct, that this a spiritual piece of EFT as much as it is a
physiological piece.
God put these learning
patterns in us to create safety for us. We learned what was good for us and
what could harm us.
With Adam & Eve's
sin, the whole system went awry. What was meant for good, like everything else,
turned not so good when trauma or abuse is introduced into our lives. Instead
of knowing that a yellow snake could bite and kill us (and we stay away from
it), we now ruminate and worry about the "snake", trying to keep
ourselves safe, but the worry finally digs us a big fat stress hole whereby our
health can be ruined with chronic illnesses. Dumb example, but you get my gist!
Tapping is all about
safety. We will attempt to heal WHEN we feel it is safe to do so. Those who
"resist" or have secondary gain around getting better, either
spiritually, emotionally, mentally, or physically, don't feel safe at that
moment to step into that healing.
Sadly, some people never
do feel safe and maybe never receive their healing on this side of heaven.
So,
perceptions usually eventually turn into beliefs about who we are in Christ,
which is pretty much the sum total of why we should be tapping! Everything else
slides in under this one.
Remember, tapping is not a substitute for medical care from your own personal physician, so please contact a medical doctor when care is needed.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series
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