Instead of tracking what could possibly be causing our pain, we want to pay attention to all the ways we are making incremental change towards creating safety for the brain. It is good to track the ways we are growing mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This wires growth into our brain instead of pain.

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Changing your inner dialogue and how you talk to and treat yourself. There were three areas that were really important for me to change my language towards myself.

1. How I treated and talked to my pain. Talk to your pain and listen to it. (frustrated with it, angry with it, try to get rid of it)

2. How I talk to and about myself as a person. The things I believed about myself needed to change. Value, intelligence, capability. Start treating yourself with the truth about what God says about us, and to see ourselves in that light. Own and claim the identity that God has given you.

3. How I treated my journey of healing. It is not helpful to put yourself on a timeline for healing. Instead choosing to be kind and patient with yourself in the healing process.

If your pain is caused by nervous system dysregulation (neural circuit pain/ tms/ mind body syndrome/ or neural circuit pain) the western medical system won’t be able to resolve your pain because it is set up for those with structural issues.

When your pain is not resolved by traditional doctors and specialists, it is best to work with someone who understands the mind body connection and how that results in pain or other symptoms.

Listen to this podcast for more details.

Indecision can throw a wrench in our nervous system. When we second-guess, fear, or doubt our ability to make good decisions it is often based in a fear that needs truth. The answer is not to push through and just start making decisions. In my discovery, it can be a tool. Pay attention to what decisions you struggle to make and use it as a guide/a map/ a compass to discover what areas of your life need freedom. You never know how God will heal you if you stop to analyze your indecisions.

The Fawn Response is when we try to please the very people you fear.

Instead of fighting or fleeing or freezing we adapt who we are to keep everyone happy or "comfortable". This is very costly to our nervous system because we have to ignore our emotions, needs and boundaries in order to keep others happy. As children, sometimes we don't have a choice. The only way to find safety is to placate our parents or caregivers. As adults we first need to ask if we are still in danger or if our body is reacting as if we are in danger. Then we need to stop and give much needed attention to our emotions, boundaries and needs. Emotions draw us near to God which allow us to create boundaries based on His character that cause us to flourish - both MIND AND BODY.

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Tim is a physical therapist who believes, as Howard Schubiner does, that 85% of pain is caused by neural-circuit pain. Tim works in Pennsylvania as physical therapists helping others to understand how to heal from pain that is caused by the brain even though it feels like it's originating in the body. I wanted my listeners to start hearing the perspective of others in the medical field who have discovered the power of the brain and the types of symptoms it can control.

In this video I talk about how the brain is 95% hardwired by the time we are in our adult years, including our pain! But don't give up hope! Through neuroplasticity we can change how it's wired. If we don't choose to interrupt our own thoughts, emotions, behaviors and perceptions, we end up living a pre-programmed life that is based on our past experiences. In order to rewire our brain, we have to teach ourselves a new way of thinking by thinking beyond how we feel. We do not have to be controlled by our past emotions. Joe Dispenza talks about how our personality traits are built off of an event that led to a thought, that lead to an emotion, that led to a mood, to a temperament, and finally to a personality trait. When those personality traits were learned from a fearful moment, our brains become programmed to fear and nervous system dysregulation. Taking the truth that Christ gives us we can challenge our thoughts, think deeper than we feel and diligently and with perseverance we can teach our brain to wire differently. The bible is full of examples of him asking us to think in ways that are contrary to our flesh and what comes naturally to us. Neuroplasticity is all over in the bible. By allowing God to heal our hurt from the past, and then embracing and noticing the blessings in the "today," we can rewire our brains with truth, freedom and love from God.

Today I focus on your relationship with your body. It can feel like your body is against you, and you can end up hating it. Before you know it, you are divided. Your mind and your thoughts seemingly in opposition with your body.

It is important to realize that you and your body are physically one, and come alongside your body to support it, encourage it, and love it.

When we choose how we think and how we react to things, we slowly re-wire our brains.

We get to choose patience, kindness self-control. This is incredibly empowering. When you realize you can control how your brain responds, this is ultimate freedom. One of the gifts God gives us is a sound-mind, but we have to choose it.

We also get to choose our boundaries, and how much we allow others to effect our nervous systems.

Since our nervous systems are responding as if we are in chronic danger, we also get to step back and look at our lives and decide how much of our lives are actually dangerous vs how much our brains are perceiving life as dangerous.

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Listening to your pain is a very important part of healing. God uses many ways to speak to us. Our pain is no different.

Why is it there? What is the underlying emotion? What is reacting to? Shame, disappointment, anger, fear, another distressing emotion?