What You Are Saying In Your Head Can Change Your Life!

This does work, though it takes practice. Same concept as people recovering from addictions or whatever – you have to actually change the way your brain works, it has to do with neurotransmitters & reuptakes & probably serotonin levels and all that good stuff, too.
Thanks Angela

It’s part of believing in yourself and believing that we can move passed each point in our lives once we realize our part in it. These are timeless lessons and refreshing to watch you tell them in your very special way.

Awesome inspiration and healing tips, as always , Angela! For me, I ‘chose’ to start thinking more highly of myself years ago, before I actually began my true healing journey. Yes, it did help, but it was only a band-aid. I had to go deeper. When I was asleep, my mind was still working on OVERTIME, and BIGTIME!

I know you are wise to the psychological damage trauma does cause. It is just important for those who have endured trauma, such as child sexual abuse, to understand that thinking positively about one’s self is only going to get them through that moment. Self-preservation comes in many forms. It is a daily battle. We can train our minds through discipline. When our mind starts to wander (which can happen at any given moment for me), we have to snap it back into place. This is a continual practice! I just found I could not do this on my own anymore. I was not healing!

I am not talking about needing my therapist. It took God to come in and really do some work IN me. Honestly, He has become my Counselor. I still go to others for lay counseling or therapy when I am in that place where their expertise is needed, but they are not there when I am in my bed at night and I am suddenly struck with a flashback while reading someone’s memoir.

There is also our Emotional Nervous System; the Limbic System. Michael Dye has co-founded a program called The Genesis Process http://www.genesisprocess.org/NewSite/New%20Gen/genesisprocesses.htm

The Genesis Process explains: “We have two parts to our brains. The first part is the neocortex. It is located in the front of the head and receives and stores information for decision making and remembering. The other part is called the limbic system, which controls all the automatic systems of the body and the emotions. Most importantly, the limbic system controls the survival responses, i.e., fight or flight and freeze. When you feel threatened, these protective responses tell you either to defend yourself or to run away or go numb. The limbic system doesn’t have a memory like the neocortex. It doesn’t know the difference between yesterday and 30 years ago, which explains why some of our childhood traumas still trigger us so powerfully today. It is the limbic system that is most affected by our beliefs, behaviors and addictions. The limbic system can be negatively programmed through traumatic experiences such as growing up in a stressful or” dysfunctional family”. Basically the limbic systems encourages us to repeat things that give us pleasure and take away pain and avoid things that hurt or have to do with fear. Drugs, alcohol and other compulsive behaviors have programmed the limbic system to avoid the awareness of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings instead of making healthy responses to resolve fear.

I completed this program and learned how to reprogram the wiring in my emotional nervous system. Of course, it is painful. All reconstruction requires demolition of some sort. What I loved about this program was the combination of science with spirituality. The lies embedded into my brain and my heart were replaced with truth; God’s truth in who I was created to be. It was man, and the evil in this world that took hold of me, but through God’s healing love, the shackles of shame and fear are broken.

Joyce Meyer calls it the Battlefield of the Mind. There was a spiritual battle going on; a fight for my mind, bodyt, and soul. The war still rages on. I used to see (and feel) little demons jumping on my feet at the foot of my bed. Nightmares were full of death. My mother used to have seances in our home, not to mention the spiritual darkness the Hell’s Angels carried into our house.

http://www.joycemeyer.org/NR/rdonlyres/D0B0EFF5-A9CF-41C1-9D95-6F74F2006264/0/WhereMindGoes.pdf

Again, I just love you and embrace everything your personal journey has brought to the rest of us. I am a huge supporter and have gained a deeper understanding of so many things through this movement. You rock, Angela ♥

The suggestions will be useful in helping my children overcome the effects of their abuse.
Lindsey Petersen
http://5kidswdisabilities.wordpress.co

Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

A science geek’s random thought after seeing this video on negative thought patterns:

The growth of a joyful neuronal pathway
Each dendrite gently touched by an axon
Every synapse filled with loving thoughts
A new message spread
Squish!