Joe Dispenza says it better than I do, "What most people don't know is that when they think about a highly charged emotional experience, we make the brain fire in the EXACT same sequences and patterns as before; we are firing and wiring their brains to the past by reinforcing those circuits into ever more hardwired networks. We also duplicate the same chemicals in the brain and body (in varying degrees) as if we are experiencing the event again in THAT moment.
It is this unconscious (or subconscious - Freud used these words interchangeably) repetition that trains the body to remember that emotional state, equal or better than the conscious mind does. When the body IS the mind - that's called a habit.
Think about that: 5 percent of the mind is conscious (some put that number at less than 1-2%), struggling against the 95% that is running subconscious AUTOMATIC (emotional) programs. We've memorized a set of behaviors so well that we have become automatic, habitual body-mind.
So, a person may CONSCIOUSLY want to be happy, healthy or free, but the experience of hosting 20 (or 30-40) years of suffering and the repeated cycling of those (neuro)chemicals of pain and pity have subconsciously conditioned the body to be in a (negative) habitual state. We are no longer aware of what we are thinking, doing, or feeling.
And when the 5% that is conscious is going (upstream) against the 95% that is running the subconscious automatic programs, the 95% is so reflexive that it only take one STRAY thought or a single (sensory, mostly) stimulus from the environment to turn on the automatic programs AGAIN. Then we're back to the same old, same old - thinking the same (negative, toxic) thoughts, performing the same actions, but expecting something different to happen in our lives.
When we try to regain control, this is when the body signals the brain to begin talking us out of our conscious goals (self-sabotage). Our internal chatter (critical internal voice) comes up with a battery or reasons why we should not attempt to do anything out of the ordinary, not break out of the habituated state of being (go to the gym, eat less, nag less, complain less, exercise more) that we're used to. Subconscious mind will pick up all of our weaknesses, which it knows and FOSTERS, and hurl them at us one by one!
We create worst-case scenarios in our minds so that we don't have to rise above those familiar feelings. Because when we try to break the internal CHEMICAL order we have made so second nature, the body goes into chaos. Its internal badgering feels nearly irresistible - and plenty of times, we succumb."
So, what has God given us to fix this? EFT!
Remember EFT is not a substitute for your own personal physician's medical care, so take to phone/visit him as necessary before tapping.
Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of 3 EFT for Christians books (found on my website below or on Amazon)
