Emotional Pain Sticks to US

It’s indeed a bit like treating the symptoms vs. treating the cause. The “symptoms” are our emotional angst and possibly physical issues. The underlying “cause” (disease) is our trauma, big stuff or lots of little stuff, hurtful memories, and disturbing events in our life. Those emotional “causes” stick around in our cells where our unconscious mind puts them, completely unknown to us. Our cells can be equated to a house attic, storage unit, old barn loft, etc. We stuff items in any or all of those places, forgetting about them, until sometime possible catastrophic happens and NOW we have to deal with the stored up junk. Emotionally it’s the same thing. Bad stuff happens, we “get over it” (time doesn’t heal all wounds, sorry, folks!), move on and THEN our body starts yelling and our emotions begin to flare, forcing us NOW to deal with the past - all those things we stuffed in our emotional attic, barn, and storage unit. Tapping BEFORE we accumulate all that junk keeps the “storage” unit of our unconscious mind clear, clean, and uncluttered! Tap, tap, tap! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

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

Early Childhood Trauma Tapped

DR. AIMIE APIGIAN “For the first 6-7 months of life, a baby still believes it is physically connected to their mother. This is why by themselves, they become dysregulated. Separation from a biological mother for any length of time in the first 2-3 years of life is traumatic. The earlier the separation, the earlier the trauma impacts and imprints feeling unsafe and insecure into the developing nervous system. The social standard of moms to receive 6 weeks of maternity leave is a very common reason for unknown attachment trauma. This will result in the features of the earliest shock to an infant’s system, the Connection- Attachment NARM style, which happens with an infant experiencing inadequate regulation during its first 0-6 months and having to adapt with the dorsal vagal freeze response. (1) 1. Schore, A. N. (2008). Right brain affect regulation: An essential mechanism of development, trauma, dissociation and psychotherapy. PsycEXTRA Dataset. https://doi.org/10.1037/e608922012-004” Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

EFT Tapping - God's Invention

“Our mind forgets what our heart refuses to remember.” And there is where our emotional pain tends to begin. Forgotten consciously; remembered unconsciously, driving our thoughts, actions, & physical sensations, controlling our very life. ……..until God’s EFT tapping enters our confined, limited space. And our Lord busts us out of that prison by His own healing invention! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Childhood Limiting Beliefs Hang On!

I heard Simon & Garfunkel’s song “My Little Town” other day and the lyrics got me thinking, again. Verse 3 goes as this, “And after it rains there's a rainbow and all of the colors are black. It's not that the colors aren't there, it's just imagination they lack. Everything's the same back in my little town, my little town, my little town.” For many of us our childhood trauma has locked us in just like the rainbow that lacks imagination. We were so busy protecting ourselves and our hearts from further pain, all the color of life was lacking, and we stayed small within our “little town” of our mind. We created limiting beliefs, lies, about everything around us - who we were, what we were, where we belonged, who did/didn’t love us, including God, what our abilities were, were we even safe at all, etc. For me, when I dream or just have my eyes closed I see no color, just black, white, and maybe gray. Through the decade plus of tapping, as I just about fall asleep and am in that alpha-theta brain wave state, I get glimpses of vivid pictures complete with its full compliment of appropriate colors! It’s beautiful! Once I realize consciously what I’m seeing, it all disappears! I know that as healing continues more will come. I guess my subconscious mind still, even today, doesn’t feel safe enough to go full techni-color, like the old movies called it. So how much of our trauma gets tied up into those sensory pieces? Neurologically it’s an interesting question! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Annoyances, annoyances, oh, how I hate being "annoyed" which probably translates more into feeling "inconvenienced". Robo calls! How many of those do each of us receive every day?

A week ago, I was feeling "beside" myself with the constant home phone interruptions, none of which were anyone we knew.

I tapped on how I felt about all the excess noise and phone racket which lead me to a brilliant conclusion to have Brad dig out the phone operator's manual & figure out HOW to turn OFF the RINGER!

The answering machine still works, so we would get any important messages.

Conclusion? Calming myself, instead of whining and complaining about the rude phone calls, helped me ID a solution. And that is what tapping does! Calms us enough to help think through a problem, reaching a solution!

What has EFT helped you with recently to quiet down enough to fix a problem in your life?

EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please phone your own personal physician when 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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Sexual Abuse and Tapping

Why don't women, in particular, seek help after sexual abuse. Here's why!

The term "rape" is the overarching global title given to any uninvited sexual event. And the exposing of it all, thanks to the Pennsylvania Grand Jury 2018 Report , is messy, soon to become messier, as the extent of the cover-up and complicity comes to light.

Underneath that broad topic is the sub-category of incest. We know in EFT that a trauma to one person is not a trauma to another & how each of us responds is indeed extremely individualistic.

But incest carries another couple of layers of pain/deeper issues.

Because most perps are known to any rape victim having a close family member take sexual advantage of a child/adolescent creates a double or triple "bust of trust", as I call it.

Rape may be a one time event, violent, unwarranted, but incest within an offending household can literally go on for 1-2 decades, event following event following event. Memories building chemically, binding the victim in a web of hardened core beliefs, as stated in this article. Often PTSD follows because of the complex developmental trauma.

There is so much bio-chemically bound up into the mechanism as to the whys and hows a victim gets tied to his/her perp. It hardwires itself into another disconnected (dissociated) story of its own whereby the truth becomes so blurred that extracting the facts decades later in nigh unto impossible.

As we become a better trauma informed society, this will change. But we are nowhere even close yet. I still have EFT acquaintances who cannot discuss this subject, let alone tap with a client on the topic.

For all of you reading this, please just remember - be compassionate, listen if called upon to do so, no judgments please, and tap for yourself as you hear any sexual trauma (or any trauma) stories told to you. The tapping will calm you so you can stay with the story, listening quietly. It may be the first time a "victim" has told anyone what has happened to him/her!

EFT is not a substitute for sound medical advice, so contact your own personal doctor when help is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Trauma Healing

“No one can ‘treat’ a war, or abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event, for that matter; what has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing; the nightmares and flashbacks; the fog that keeps you from staying on task and from engaging fully in what you are doing; being unable to fully open your heart to another human being.

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.” Bessel Van Der Kolk,The Body Keeps the Score

And this is where Christian EFT comes in!

Mix the tapping together with our faith base, allowing Jesus to take the pain and all our feelings and thoughts back to the cross with Him!

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

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Complex PTSD & EFT Tapping

While this article doesn't advocate EFT tapping, this is exactly what we use tapping to resolve emotionally.

EFT, when done well and proficiently, pulls the emotional content out of our hurtful memories. Once the emotional pain has settled, we can begin to process what the trauma means to us. Often we come to realize the emotional events have nothing personally to do with us, but are the painful emotional reactions of others toward us.

Does the resolution happen overnight?

No, it takes time like all healing! But persistence will pay off. Beginning to tap tomorrow doesn't help today, but starting today will most probably help you feel more emotionally stable this time next year!

Are you ready to begin using EFT? Go to my EFTforChristians.com webpage & request the free resources I have available for you there.

Remember, EFT tapping is NOT a substitute for good personal medical or psychological care, so contact your own personal physicians before using EFT.

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

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Childhood Trauma & EFT

Dr. Gabor Mate in his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts on page 370 writes, "it's not what happened in the past that creates our present misery but the way we have allowed past events to define how we are and experience ourselves in the present.

The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it. All too often these ill-conditioned implicit ((those held unconsciously) beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives. We create meanings from our unconscious interpretations of early events, and then we forge our present experiences from the meanings we've created."

Christian EFT is a tool we can use to learn to live in the present moment, allowing those events and memories of the past to integrate into our soul to harmoniously abide with other happier memories. 

Your past does no longer HAVE to drive your future. Call a Christian EFT Practitoner today.

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological help. Take care of yourself and phone your own personal physician.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

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Notes and Thoughts on Victim Blaming and EFT

Dr. Stephen Porges has a socialization theory that ties in so well with why EFT works!

Here is one of his articles.

And here are my thoughts and notes based on this article. Please read the above article and then check out these notes.

Immobilization =freeze reaction = trauma. Dr. Peter Levine writes about this, too, because it is in the freeze response that the trauma gets "stuck" in our nervous system. When we "fight" or flee, we blow off that "energy", often ridding our system of much of it.

When we think we are going to die when attacked, we are flooded with endorphins (think natural morphine), so we are numbed for the possible attack. Endorphins have a relaxing effect in addition to their painkilling effect. The body's biochemical reaction here is really interesting.

In court, women who don't fight off their attackers can be made out to be complicit or "they were looking for it". It's not they didn't want to fight, they cannot fight due to the body's chemical reaction to the attack. Try punching hard when in a semi-sleep relaxed state!

We tap about our perceptions and reactions to the event(s). It's the perceptions, not necessarily the event, that is important and driving our biology. How do we feel about it today? The emotional answer to that question is what fuels our behavior today. Tapping works so very, very well for these memories! When we can pull the emotional content out of a past event, we can heal because the memory then just becomes a neutral, non-biological memory! And that is what tapping does!

We say this often - "trauma to one person is not trauma to another." What bothers one of us doesn't bother all of us. This often is fueled by our own personal history. Chemical biology builds up our experience implanting our perceptions about people, places and things around us. Our reactions to future events is all based on our past epigenetic chemical reactions. These are learned patterns. Not learned in the sense of our thinking brain, but learned by our subconscious mind - learned to keep us safe, a safety as the subconscious mind understands it. The subconscious mind keeps us safe based on past experiences - the subconscious mind isn't interested in whether these "safety" patterns are helpful to you personally in life. Many of our personal habits are safe from a neurochemical perspective, but they still run our life in a disorganized and erratic manner, leaving us feeling stuck and unfulfilled.

A practitioner's job while tapping is to hold that sacred space for the client as they work through the past trauma events. Certified Christian practitioners have been taught skills to keep the client SAFE while doing this work. Unless trained, don't tap big T traumas alone!

ACE score is indeed incomplete. I've said this from the very beginning! Death, medical procedures, natural disasters, accidents, fires, witnessing trauma being inflicted on others, bullying, etc. aren't part of the scoring system. These all can be big T traumas, too.

As practitioners (and even just a friend) we need to listen in an impartial manner without judgment. It's not our life or our trauma when others are telling you their story. Just because we might think that the story is no big deal, it obviously is to the one who experienced it. It's still trauma!

But YOU as the listener can be a huge help in the healing process. The positive social engagement is a big part of this. Connecting with another human being who doesn't judge and tell us "to get over" whatever has happened to us can make all the difference.

Smiling and positive non-judgmental understanding can also deliver oxytocin, a healing/connecting/love hormone, to the one who has experienced trauma.

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for medical advice or help, so please contact your own personal physician if medical assistance is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

How Has Your Movie and TV Viewing Changed with Tapping?

Have you found that your TV and movie tastes have changed? How about your desire to watch/read news items?

Our movie tastes have changed in our house over the past decade, and I know it is all due to the tapping both Brad & I have done!

Brad was a real "hack & slash" movie junkie. He would say routinely, "If nothing blows up & no one gets killed, it's not worth watching. That's why Hallmark movies aren't any good."

I'd end up watching those movies simply by default. Now, he rarely brings these home anymore from Redbox. And I understand why. And, if he does bring one home now, I tap through the movie.

Our tolerance for violence is much lower. I don't watch the evening news, or read the newspapers. I pick up quick glimpses of what is going on internationally, but I have no tolerance at all for these long drawn out international intrigues where the news organizations report every single detail. I feel my anxiety rise, and I turn into the world's crabbiest crab. And then I have to stop and tap.

There is a fine line here between paying attention to our civic duties and acting upon them, as God instructs us to do, and getting all tangled up in the details of it where we find our peace, quiet, and emotions all disturbed.

I refuse to get pulled into Facebook political arguments. Why? Because no one wins! Rarely will we change the other person's mind and we lose our sense of internal peace over a hopeless argument. It's not worth the damage to my body by raising my cortisol and adrenalin levels to overload!

These arguments are STRESS to our body. Stop being pulled down that rabbit hole! Your psyche will thank you, as will your body!

Does everyone here understand that watching a murder on TV is NO different to the subconscious mind (SC) than seeing it in real life????

How would your SC know the difference? It doesn't! There is something called "Vicarious trauma".

"Vicarious trauma" is described as this by the American Counseling Association: "The term vicarious trauma (Perlman & Saakvitne, 1995), sometimes also called compassion fatigue, is the latest term that describes the phenomenon generally associated with the “cost of caring” for others."

Public Safety organization describes vicarious trauma as this: "Vicarious trauma is a form of trauma that occurs when someone reads, hears, or sees something about an event that causes them to have a post-traumatic stress response. For example, if they see distressing pictures or videos of a terrorist attack in the media.

If there is a compelling reason to limit your children's violence viewing this is it!

If violence and murder in real life can create trauma for the body and mind, why can't it do the same when viewing movies and TV shows? The SC mind has absolutely NO way to understand one is real and the other is on a viewing BOX, especially now with these 110 inch screens. So watching whatever is happening on the TV surely does look like real life to our SC!

Proverbs 4:23 tells us, "So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life."

The Hebrew word levav is the most common word for “heart.” It includes our thoughts, our will, our discernment, and our affections. This is probably the most compelling reason to tap - tapping GUARDS our heart! Heart is our connective place to God!

Phipippians 4:6-8 says, " Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

You & I know harsh violence on every TV screen in the world is NOT pure, lovely, right, admirable, noble or true, no matter who is reporting it.

Consider asking God while tapping how He would have you change these habits, and then tap out whatever stands in the way of doing what He requires you to do.

He is faithful to help you! Amen.

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal medical physician if these needs arise.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced  (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

Author of EFT for Christians Devotions (Christmas, 2020)

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Fight, Flight and Freeze Response

I found this article on Dr. Mercola's site that explains what is going on in the background when abuse happens. I thought to share it. 

"The basic idea is that when trauma occurs, whether the injury is to your body, mind or spirit, two basic processes are activated. The first is the fight-or-flight response, which when activated increases your heart rate and blood pressure. Blood is shunted from digestion into tensing muscles, heart and lungs. Stress hormones are produced to help you fight or run.

While crucial in acute situations of danger, the fight-or-flight response is meant to be turned on and back off quickly. As soon as you’re out of immediate danger, you’re supposed to return back to balance, feeling safe and at ease. Problems arise when we go into fight-or-flight and stay there long after a traumatic event is over.

“Sometimes it’s because the trauma is ongoing. That’s what happens to kids who are in abusive or neglectful situations. But sometimes, we’ve experienced a traumatic event and we’re stuck in that fight-or-flight. It’s like our foot is on the accelerator and we can’t take it off.

So, we become anxious and agitated. We have trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating. We’re impatient with other people, impatient with ourselves. Also, we’re stuck in that past. We replay the images, the images of someone abusing us, someone assaulting us or a boss treating us badly or what happened to us when we were deployed …”

The Freeze Response

The second process activated by trauma is the freeze response. Fight-or-flight is part of the sympathetic nervous system, which is one-half of the autonomic nervous system. The other half of the autonomic nervous system is the parasympathetic nervous system.

“In general, we’re trying to mobilize the parasympathetic nervous system to balance out fight-or-flight,” Gordon explains. “But sometimes, if the situation is so overwhelming and so inescapable, we go into what is called the freeze response, which is mediated and governed by the oldest part of the parasympathetic nervous system, deep in the mid-brain.

We just shut down; we collapse. We put out large amounts of endorphins to protect us against the pain that’s there. We distance ourselves because the trauma is so overwhelming and inescapable. We can’t do anything else except shut down our bodies and close off our minds.

This happens, for example, to children who were abused by their parents, because the abuse is terrible and they can’t get away from it. It happens to people who were assaulted by others who are much more powerful than they are. It happens when we’re raped. It happens in a warzone when we can’t get away and we can’t fight. We’re just overpowered by the situation.”

When these two responses — fight-or-flight and freeze — continue, they are the essence of post-traumatic stress. “One way to look at it is that post-traumatic stress keeps us chained to the past, to the traumatic events, which we keep on replaying in our body and mind,” Gordon explains. “We’re worried it will happen again.”

The essence of healing psychological trauma is to return back into the present moment because, when traumatized, you’re chained to what happened in the past. You worry it will happen again. If you can relax and come into the present, then the trauma starts to dissipate."

Tapping is one of the tools to help us return to emotional homeostasis or neutrality. 

EFT is not a substitute for good medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physicians when this type of help is needed.

Personal Peace Procedure Tapping

This article explains a bit of how trauma forms and gets lodged in our body, and Craig makes a good point in this quote below:

"It is also why when EFT is being done and we start thinking about a childhood memory that at first seems rather innocuous and we start tapping and tuning into the memory, we commonly discover far more emotional intensity than we originally expected to find there."

It is this particular point that pinpoints why we say when using the "Personal Peace Procedure" always add EVERY memory, good or bad, to the list because often as you tap the memory you will find lots of emotional stuff underneath you honestly didn't know was hidden there. The little unexpected, hidden sensory pieces that when repeated often enough (and once is often enough) create our perception (that may be false impressions) about what life is all about. It is these perceptual core beliefs that we use as guidelines and guide posts for the rest of our lives, boxing us into a very small area of existence.

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical help so please contact your own personal physician whenever emotional or medical assistance is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

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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EFT for Christians Video #34 Generational Healing

Hi all!

Another instructional Christian EFT video here:  EFT for Christians Video #34 Generational Healing

Hope you enjoy this video!

Be blessed!

Sherrie Rice SmithCertified EFT PractitionerEFTforChristians.comAuthor of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)Author of EFTforChristians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)Use Promo Code SAVE20 to get 20% Off 

Trauma Study

I've previously read (and taught) that we have 3 days after a trauma before the hippocampus decides whether to encode a trauma permanently, or whether to let it go.

I've seen this study below a couple of times, but it is time to share it. This study was done on mice, so does it also effect humans? Good possibility. We share a similar genome.

This study suggests we have 10 (TEN) days after a traumatic event to ameliorate the issue. Simply stated perhaps getting or receiving some kind of adequate emotional support is sufficient to let the event pass from our psyche without possibly permanently encoding and turning into PTSD. This would have all kinds of profound implications for disasters, accidents, deaths, etc. Could EFT do the trick here? Wouldn't it be wonderful to find out?

Anyway, here is the quote:

According to Anusha Krishnan at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India:

“A new study by Indian scientists has gained insights into how a single instance of severe stress can lead to delayed and long-term psychological trauma. The work pinpoints key molecular and physiological processes that could be driving changes in brain architecture. The team, led by Sumantra Chattarji from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore, have shown that a single stressful incident can lead to increased electrical activity in a brain region known as the amygdala. This activity sets in late, occurring ten days after a single stressful episode, and is dependent on a molecule known as the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor (NMDA-R), an ion channel protein on nerve cells known to be crucial for memory functions. Previously, Chattarji’s group had shown that a single instance of acute stress had no immediate effects on the amygdala of rats. But ten days later, these animals began to show increased anxiety, and delayed changes in the architecture of their brains, especially the amygdala.”

Study: Yasmin, F., Saxena, K., McEwen, B.S., & Chattarji, S. (2016). The delayed strengthening of synaptic connectivity in the amygdala depends on NMDA receptor activation during acute stress. Physiological Reports, 4(20), e13002

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological care. Please consult your own personal physician when you need that type of help.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

Author of the EFT for Christians series (on Amazon)

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