Trauma and Memory Holes

Trauma sends our hippocampus (mind's historian that keeps track of events and time) off-line. The trauma is so hurtful the mind simply shuts it down! Trauma also shrinks the hippocampus up to 25-30%, particularly when one has post-traumatic symptoms, so it makes sense that many of us have big memory holes! The hippocampus comes on-line about age 2-3, if I remember correctly, but our amygdala (alarm center) is present in utero; therefore, we have alarms ringing in our mind before we have processes to figure out what is going on. It amazes me how much tapping we practitioners do on VERY early memories, some of them we swear happened before we were born, and as a practitioner, we just go with whatever the client brings to the tapping table. Sadly, science clearly shows us that we carry around so much epigenetic trauma from our ancestors! It's no wonder some of us are so burdened down with emotional stuff! Anyone have a tapping story to share around any really, really early memories? We'd love to hear them! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Personal and Family Epigenetics Running Our Present Lives

Here is an interesting article that explains the new field of epigenetics.

What often is running both our emotional and physical health is our own personal past. There truly is still more affecting us than we ever envisioned decades ago!

As mind and brain research continues to unfold, scientists are only just beginning to understand that experiences and memories of our forefathers and foremothers are also running our personal biology.

I'm not talking about "past lives" or "reincarnation", so please don't confuse epigenetics with that topic!

God wrapped up so very much in the human body when He created us. Part of that experiential learning is bound up in the new science field of epigenetics. In order to survive life, all species, including humans, have to learn and REMEMBER what they experienced so as not to repeat that possibly dangerous behavior.

Often these behaviors were repeated so often and are so hardwired into our subconscious memory! God created this as a good thing! However, with sin entering the world, it can often go awry.

When we remember not only the incident but all the accompanying emotional pain and fallout from something horrific, this piece of the learning also gets stuffed into our body's cells.The cells remember the pain which can then get triggered when we sense a danger that is closely akin to what happened in the past.

So, we not only remember the incident as a safety valve to protect us, we remember the emotional pain to reinforce that learning.

Often this is subconscious! We don't know we have inherited great, great grandma's issues, but we have and we can.

We have lots to tap about! Tapping can make a huge dent in this ancestor stuff. And when we clear it using EFT and/or Matrix Reimprinting (or other somatic techniques), often our physical issues also heal once the body's cells release the pain they have been holding.

God is amazing! He thought of it all! We truly are blessed!

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Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Epigenetics and EFT

As I often do, I pulled out a copy of paragraphs of an article to comment on, but please read it in its entirety. It's not that long.

"We often do not take into account that epigenetically it has been shown that a father’s sperm literally carries the genetic residue of his traumatic experiences in addition to the life experiences of a mother who is carrying the eggs of her yet preconceived child. He references the traumatic lineage of affecting three generations with a singular traumatic event that is fascinating to really take into account."

My comment: This always amazes me as it confirms Scripture of the Exodus and Numbers references to the "sins of the fathers". Sins of the fathers isn't necessarily sins but epigenetic residues tagged ONTO DNA. DNA (gene) doesn't change, but they get tagged with a protein that marks them as important genetic information and is then passed down the generations. Some day I will take time and do a study of the OT word "sin" to see what God really meant here!

"Here are some questions from Mark’s book that you might ask yourself:

• Could you be feeling like, behaving like, suffering like, atoning for, or carrying the grief for someone who came before you?

• Do you have symptoms, feeling, or behaviors that are difficult to explain in the context of your life experience?

• Was there a trauma in the family (an early death of a parent, child, sibling or an abandonment, murder, crime, or suicide etc.), an event that was too terrible, painful or shameful to talk about?

• Could you be connected with that event, living a life similar to the person no one talks about?

• Could you be reliving this family member’s trauma as though it were your own? These kind of questions have us looking beyond our own life experiences and begin the expanded view of looking to how, for a variety of reasons, we have taken on a mission that in a sense has nothing to do with us."

My comment: When one understands emotionally that some of these questions are true in his or her life, most likely a Christian EFT Practitioner's help will be needed to dig to the bottom of the pain.

"Words act as carrier pigeons from the unconscious, fluttering forth with messages that need to be revealed, be it in metaphor or language that feels somehow estranged or belonging to another’s life experience."

My comment: I love this paragraph because METAPHORS and our OFT REPEATED comments or statements (or those of our family members) frequently give clues to what lies beneath the emotional surface. Pay attention to WHAT you say. If you have a saying you repeat over and over, tap and dig below it. Find why it is an important thing stuck in your vocabulary! And take some time this holiday season to ask older family members what life experiences they have had and what family stories they have been told. You might receive a greater gift that will expand your emotional healing than you ever imagined possible! God bless your healing!!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please contact your own personal physician when you feel medical or psychological care is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Tapping and More Epigenetics!

To me, this Epigenetic article illustrates the VERY BEST REASON we, especially us women, should be tapping! Women do the bulk of the care-giving.

If epigenetics is true, and I suspect it is, we MUST clear our emotional junk rather than send it further down our generational lines to our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

In Christianity, we tout our charitable endeavors! What better charity could we do for mankind overall, and our families in particular, than use tapping to let our emotional trauma go, allowing forgiveness to enter, and clear our DNA of those genetic tags where the trauma has attached itself.

Even if you are past the childbearing age, tapping will still help clear your on-going genetic lines!

What a gift you have to give to your family! A wonderful life-giving on-going gift. Give children 2 things in life and nothing can stop them! What are those 2 things? JESUS & EFT!!!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for medical care, so please contact your own personal physician if you have emotional or physical issues before starting EFT.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

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EFT Tapping, Epigenetics and Changing It All

Dr. Bruce Lipton is a cellular biologist who has studied mind-body information for decades.

We talk about genes being "turned on" or "turned off" because the language to explain this mechanism in clear laymen terms would take too long!

If others don't want to use EFT, then they must find a technique that clears the negative perceptions out of their mind.

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for good medical help, so contact your own personal physician when physical or emotional problems arise in your life.

 

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Epigenetics and Tapping

Epigenetics - have you ever heard the term? I wrote a a chapter on "Generational Curses" in the EFT for Christians book, Tapping into God's Peace & Joy, but it appears there is so much more going on here around "generational trauma". Exodus 34:6-7 is one set of the "sins of the father's" verses, among others. These incidents may not be "sins" per say, but trauma experienced decades or centuries ago by a family member.

Don't confuse these ideas with "past lives" as that is not what this is or what I am talking about here. There are studies, few done on humans because we live way longer than mice and nematodes (!) that show the memories live in the body anywhere from 3 to 14 generations after an ancestor experiences an untoward event IF the trauma hasn't been processed. Most of these studies looked at how traumas are transferred via male sperm because sperm are easier to study than female ovum. These types of traumas can be processed with EFT tapping and Matrix Reimprinting, the other EFT technique many of us use.

Bottom line here is some of our personal emotional issues simply may not even be our own, but DNA/RNA markers carried on our genes, as an unpleasant gift from one of forefathers or foremothers. The DNA doesn't change, but it does get a "marker" attached to it.

And using EFT tapping to thoroughly process the negative events/memories/feeling you experience could well save countless future generations the PAIN YOU ARE FEELING TODAY.

Give your kids a gift - tap and let the old stuff go!!

EFT is not a substitute for medical care, so please consult your physician first before using tapping on any medical or psychological condition.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

EFTC 52 Tapping Devotions, Volume 2 Coming Christmas, 2019

Cancer/Diseases and Epigenetics

As a R.N. I've often thought about this! We know fear generates a ton of internal stress, so fear of death or whatever other stresses (financial, relational, etc.) someone encounters during cancer treatment could potentially mess with any treatment.

We also now understand if one fears GETTING cancer or any other disease (based on family history) is probably enough for gene expression to occur. Simply the stress from fearing a possible disease could be enough to give one the disease!

How many times have we heard a friend say something like this, "My grandmother died of ovarian cancer, my mother now has ovarian cancer, so I guess I will get ovarian cancer?'

That statement repeated often enough could possibly come true! You may not even have an ovarian cancer gene in your body that was going to give you cancer, but repeating the above statement (about anything) could be enough to epigenetically express a cancer gene.

This same idea goes for anything in our lives, not just diseases! "My parents were divorced, so will I", "my grandparents died young, so will I", my sister flunked out of college and she is smarter than I, I can't possibly graduate", etc., etc. are all epigenetic statements of sorts.

Watch what you say in daily life! Tap the negative beliefs away!

Internal stress reduction is imperative, especially the thoughts you simply think about - the ones you keep repetitively telling yourself in your own head!

https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-09-20-bombshell-study-shows-that-stress-hormones-caused-by-the-fear-of-a-cancer-diagnosis-interfere-with-cancer-treatments-oncologists-are-killing-people.html

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so consult your own personal physician before using EFT.  Thank you!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
Certified EFT Practitioner         
Author EFT for Christians (2015)
Author of EFT for Christians, Tapping into God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (2017)

www.EFTforChristians.com  

Brain Signals & EFT

"The signals from our brains are communicated constantly via the matrix of energy conduction within our bodies. Every thought you think is echoing through your connective tissue communication system, turning genes on and off, producing either stress responses or healing responses."

Genie in Your Genes, Dawson Church, page 159

Our thoughts give us the ability to turn our disease genes on and off. Negative hurtful memories and thoughts turn the genes on; positive, peaceful thoughts turn genes off.

Isn't it wonderful God implanted in us this healing ability?

Tapping is a wonderful tool to assist you to neutralize and change abusive, hurtful, and damaging memories.

Email me if you want a Christian EFT Practitioner referral!

Blessings in Christ!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical care. Contact your own personal physician when medical help is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Epigenetics and Today's Societal Unrest

I enjoy going back to reread some of these older epigenetic articles. How much of today's unrest is rooted in past generations?

I quoted a small snippet for those who may not be familiar with epigenetics. Long, but good read, if you like the science of why we tap!

"Bygren and Pembrey proposed that epigenetic mechanisms were at work. Epigenetics, which means, literally, “above genes,” describes how genes are turned on and off by certain molecules that attach to them—called epigenetic marks. The marks essentially act like on/off switches for genes. The cells that make up your brain and your muscles all have the same DNA at their center, and yet the reason the cells lead entirely different lives involves how epigenetic marks turn on or off particular genes, giving the cells their own unique identities. That was known well prior to Bygren and Pembrey’s work. The stunning implication of the ALSPAC smoking data and the Överkalix data was that some important epigenetic marks that impact human health might not get wiped clear between generations, but might actually be passed down for multiple generations along with genes. Bygren finally published his initial Överkalix data in 2001, and he and Pembrey published their joint work in 2006, in the European Journal of Human Genetics. Meanwhile, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance was being definitively demonstrated in animals."

Please send me your thoughts about this article and how tapping can help Christians today release our emotional societal pain and allow God to be God. I'd love to hear from you!

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Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physician when you need that type of help.

Sherrie Rice Smith

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EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Epigenetics and Tapping

Epigenetics is simply defined as the study of biological processes that will switch disease genes on and off. To say this simply – we only have less than 15% of our genetic material as completely predetermined. This might include height, hair color, shape of our nose, but our disease future is not only in God’s hands, but it is also up to our free will!

Because we know that emotionally negative life events do turn on disease genes, it is our choice to do the emotional work to keep these genes turned off, or perhaps to reverse any genes that have already turned on (allow God to heal us). This statement is powerful! God has granted us dominion over the earth (Genesis), but it also appears He has granted us more dominion over our own body than ever before thought!

Let me state this one more time. Highly emotionally charged life memories can allow disease genes, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, neurological problems, such as MS and ALS, etc. to “manifest” in our body. Conversely, it appears that negating and neutralizing those same highly charged events and the perceptions they left us with will do the opposite – keep disease, both chronic and acute, genes turned off, keeping us in good or better health. Research routinely continues to show us how powerfully important our environmental impact is to us.

Essentially anything we come into contact with including what we eat, where we live, who we grew up with, how we sleep and exercise, how we were treated by others, our educational and economic levels, sights, sounds, and smells in our everyday life shifts and changes our internal cellular chemistry.

Epigenetics, a relatively new science, has proven that cells are respond constantly to their environment. Each cell has internal and external antennae that continuously scan our body/mind and our habitat for clues it needs to maintain homeostasis. Our SC wants total stability; it hates change, so it acts like a chemist adding in a dollop of this neurotransmitter, or subtracting a dollop of that hormone based on what our conscious mind would consider insignificant environmental clues just to keep our body stable. Our genes respond situation by situation to all outside and inside thoughts, reactions, and situations, all of which are determined by our emotional perception to what is going on.

So, what does this mean to you and me? We have a greater control over our genetic “destiny” than ever imagined. The field of epigenetics has made it quite clear that our life beliefs and our perceptions about life events deeply affect our physical health. Those perceptions and beliefs literally turn disease genes on or keep them off.

Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist, has written an astounding book, albeit from a new age perspective, about this topic. Dr. Lipton’s research seems to prove we can move past our internal and external environmental stressors and move toward better health and well-being by down-regulating the impact of negative emotional beliefs and memories which then down-regulate our disease genes.

If you want to read further on this topic, pick up a copy of his book Biology of Belief. Another excellent book on this topic, another book that will amaze you, is Dawson Church’s Genie in Your Genes. I recommend both as good educational reading."

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

EFTC 52 Tapping Devotions, Volume 2 Coming Christmas, 2019

Trauma Sensations Passed from Parents to Children

Trauma Passed from Parents to their Children

I believe the most interesting piece in this above article is the epigenetic part and it is we probably something we should consider.

Often because of the DNA coding we receive from our parents, our emotional symptoms begin to show up at the same age as a trauma was EXPERIENCED by our parents.

Because of this we ought to consider sitting down with our parents and asking pertinent questions about whats and when around their negative life events.

Get a family emotional history compiled. If not for you, for your children, so should the kids experience unexpected emotional stuff, you will have an idea where it all began.

Several epigenetic studies show these emotionally compelling events travel down the genetic DNA line for multiple generations.

So, what this means today is this - all personal emotional trauma we clear, we are probably clearing it out of the DNA for our children and our grandchildren.

Sometimes that is the BEST reason to tap! You might feel you are able to handle the emotional pain, but what about the future generations??? Can they?

EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please consult your own personal physician when necessary.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Epigenetics, Peter Levine, & EFT

Dr Peter Levine's book "When the Body Says No", reads "Hans Selye, the founder of stress research, developed the concept of adaption energy. 'It is as though we had hidden reserves of adaptability, or adaption energy, throughout the body....Only when all of our adaptability is used up will irreversible, general exhaustion and death follow.' Central to any understanding of stress, health and disease is the concept of adaptiveness. Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external stressors without rigidity, with flexibility and creativity, without excessive anxiety and without being overwhelmed by emotion. People who are NOT adaptive may seem to function well as long as nothing is disturbing them, but they will react with various levels of frustration and helplessness when confronted by loss or by difficulty. They will blame themselves or blame others. A person's adaptiveness depends very much on the degree of differentiation and adaptiveness of previous generations in his family and also on what external stressors may have acted on the family." page 221 "'Highly adaptive people and families, on average, have fewer physical illness, and those illnesses that do occur tend to be mild and moderate in severity,' writes Dr Michael Kerr. 'Since one important variable in the development of physical illness is the degree of adaptiveness of an individual, and since the degree of adaptiveness is determined by the multigenerational emotional process, physical illness, like emotional illness, is a symptom of a relationship process that extends beyond the boundaries of the individual patient.' Physical illness, in other words, is a disorder of the family emotional system (which includes) present and past generations" page 222. Now, there is a mouthful! This is a good explanation of epigenetics. We are a product of our family line, BUT we have a tool few others have had. We each can clear for ourselves, our present families, and our future grandchildren generations to come, by doing our own emotional work. I often tell clients, especially mothers, that the buck has to stop sreomewhere, why not you? As I continue to challenge you to clean up your emotional stuff by tapping, I hope you will take the above words to heart! There appears now to be enough scientific evidence that this generational garbage is indeed passed down to subsequent generations. Stopping some, if not all, of the cycles lies in your fingers. Go for it! Become the family hero! Give your great-grandchildren one of the greatest gifts ever - a cleared family line! But isn't this interesting when looked at through Biblical lens? Exodus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy all have similar verses regarding sins of the fathers. My best guess is there no doubt are cumulative. Does that answer why it seems to many so much is going on, or has the world always been this big of a disaster and mass media makes it look worse? My guess is the latter. History tells us of huge past disasters where millions were killed, but no one heard about it until a year later! In the final analysis, it doesn't matter because our action needs to be the same. We need to tap & clear our stuff. It is part of the process of sanctification. Redemption is FREE, but we are "to take dominion" and clean things up for us and others. Remember, EFT is NOT a replacement for professional medical or psychological help. Call your own personal physician for that assistance. Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired) Certified EFT Practitioner Author of EFT for Christians – on Amazon EFTforChristians.com

Epigenetics and EFT

Do you know that the statistic has changed on genetic expression? Prior to today the statistic I had heard was only 35% of who we are is genetically hardwired. Eye color, hair color, height, etc.

As of today I read that statistic has been lowered to only 10% of who we are is hardwired.

What that means to us humans is that 90% of who we are is due to environmental signals.

Environment means outside forces and inside bodily thoughts, memories, or attitudes.

Those environmental thoughts tend to end up in the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind controls 97-99% of our thinking, so in reality it leaves little to our conscious control, doesn’t it?

This is why it is imperative that we use a method like tapping to get to the root of what is going on inside us.

All our early learned lessons and thinking now runs our life whether you know that thinking is there or not.

EFT is God's tool to get to the bottom of why we do the things we hate doing, or thinking the things we know we shouldn't.

Something else is going on here! Here is the scientific explanation:

"The environment that activates genes includes both the inner environment - the emotional, biochemical, mental, energetic, and spiritual landscape of the individual - and the other outer environment. The outer environment includes the social network and the ecological systems in the individual lives. Food, toxins, social rituals, predators, and sexual cues are examples of outer environmental influences that affect gene expression. Researchers estimate that approximately 90% of all genes are engaged...in cooperation with signals from the environment.

The understanding that much of our genetic activity is affected by factors outside the cell is a radical reversal of the dogma of genetic determinism, which held for half a century that who we are and what we do is governed by our genes. Research is illuminating a new biology in which consciousness plays a PRIMARY role.

Pharmacologist Constance Graunds says, 'An undisciplined mind leaks vital energy in a continuous stream of thoughts, worries, and skewed perceptions, many of which trigger disturbing emotions and degenerative chemical processes in the body.'"

How Genetic Expression Happens

"Signals passes through the membrane of each cell and travel to the cell's nucleus. There, they enter the chromosome and activate a particular strand of DNA.

Around each strand of DNA is a protein 'sleeve.' This sleeve serves as a barrier between the information contained in the DNA strand and the rest of the intracellular environment. In order for the blueprint in the DNA to be 'read,' the sleeve must be unwrapped. Unless it is unwrapped, the DNA strand cannot be 'read,' nor can the information it contains be acted upon. Until the information is unwrapped, the blueprint of the DNA lies dormant. That blueprint is required by the cell to construct other proteins that regulate virtually every aspect of life.

When a signal arrives, the protein sleeve around the DNA unwraps and, with the assistance of RNA, the DNA molecule then replicates an intermediate template molecule. The blueprint that has up to this point been concealed within the sleeve can now be acted upon. This is what scientists mean when they say that a gene expresses. The genetic information contained in the chromosome has gone from being a dormant blueprint into active expression, where it creates other actions within the cell by constructing, assembling, or altering products.

Proteins control responses of our immune systems, form the scaffolding that supports the structure of each cell, provide the enzymes that catalyze chemical reactions, and convey information between cells, among other functions."

This whole chain of events starts with a signal. This signal then unwraps to let the information in the gene move from potential to expression.

Field of Epigenetics as explained by Science magazine is "the study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the DNA sequence". It's the study of signals that turn genes on and off.

Physicist Richard Carlson says, "all the genome [DNA] provides is the parts list. How things interact is what's more important in biology than just the things that are there. The genome tells us very little, if anything at all, about how things interact."

So, what does all this mean? Your every thought has more influence over your genetics than any DNA that your parents gave you. Your beliefs about where you fit into the world, how loved you feel, your thoughts about yourself and those around you, what experiences you have had, traumas, etc., etc. are more important that whether you have every disease gene ever created.

Whether those disease genes are turned on depend on your OWN personal thoughts than much of anything else.

This is why scientists now say 90% of all diseases are under our thought control. Sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? As the future moves on, we are about to find out!

Enter Christian EFT!

pgs. 37-55 Genie in Your Genes by Dawson Church

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for medical attention. Please consult your own personal physician for all medical and psychological needs.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

EFTforChristians.com

Author EFT for Christians

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFT & Cellular Receptors

What if?

We have 50 to 100 trillion cells in our bodies and each cell has 50,000 to 100,000 cellular receptors on it (I can't even imagine how tiny those are!).

Many cellular receptors are monogamous, taking in only one nutrient. There are thousands of peptides, hormones, and neurotransmitters alone, let alone vitamins, minerals, and all the various micro nutrients the scientist have yet to find.

So, what happens when these cellular receptors get clogged up with emotional gunk? Nothing! They become useless, no longer functioning or taking in essential nutrients for the cell to function properly and stay healthy.

I'm a great supporter of complementary medicine, obviously, and supplements often are a part of that, but if we take a ton of a supplement, but the receptor is blocked, it won't help us at all.

I think cellular receptors are a part of why EFT works so well.

Tap, lose your emotional baggage, and then supplement your body, feeding it what it needs to get healthy again.

And then......what about the idea of transmutation? If the receptor is clogged, it has to interfere with the chemical stuff going on inside the cell.

Is this why our disease DNA get turned on? Epigenetics comes into play here and now.

I suspect this could be one of the very simplest ideas of why EFT works physiologically.

EFT is not a substitute for medical care. Please take responsibility for your own personal health!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author EFT for Christians (2015) 

What is the truth of generational curses?

http://www.ukapologetics.net/08/generationalcurses.htm

Scripture does teach that the sins of the fathers are heaped to the 3rd or 4th generations. They are "curses" of sorts if those generations cannot disband or dismantle the "curse". Why does illegitimacy abound in some families? Divorce? Homosexuality? Drug abuse?

I would like to purpose another thought here: What happens if these generational curses actually exist, as I have thought they do, within the biology, like the article posted above? Epigenetics teaches it isn't a true "heredity", but a familial or enviromental heredity, meaning the behavior or traits learned from the family elders + the "traits" or habits of the family elders of how to handle their emotional issues again handed down through the generations. 

Why do we eventually become our mothers and fathers? We don't want to do that, but that is the way we have learned to handle our emotional and psychological issues. Can we change? Absolutely! Part of that change comes through a new life in Jesus Christ. He calls us to have a renewed mind. 

Why then do born again Christians still carry around all this crap and junk? My personal opinion is it is repercussions of the family sin. When we confess our sin to God, does He automatically remove the consequences of our sin? Nope! We screw up, we must face the consequences. Isn't that what we teach our kids? And that is why we try to protect our kids from behaviors that can have life long consequences. 

Many times God intervenes supernaturally, removing the consequences for His divine purposes. Most times He uses natural means to heal us, or give us coping mechanisms to deal with whatever we now reap from our sinful nature. This is a complicated subject, but one we Christians within the Energy Psychology arena need to explore and deal with because God has handed us, and again I know EFT and Matrix Reimprinting, a tool or mechanism with which to deal with these generational sin issues. And most of our emotions and bad habits are just that, if we are honest and look sincerely at them. 

Few churches discuss "sin" anymore. We make mistakes. No, we sin! My Christian EFT technique is based on confession and repentance of sinful emotions. Someone within a family needs to step up, taking responsibility for the family "sin" and stop handing it down through subsequent generations.

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