The Nervous System and the Soul

 The nervous system is the part of the body that sends signals back and forth and transports communication though out the body. It is the system of communication and control through the activity of the brain. Did you know that the brain doesn't actually do the decision making? Awareness comes from the brain but the brain does not do the deciding for ones thoughts. It only responds to what we believe in our heart (mind, will and emotions- aka the soul). Adapting, is a response in our brain to what we believe. 

As soon as we make a choice of belief, that belief gets encoded into our brain. The brain does not cause us to believe it. Our brain only interprets, based on what we truly believe. In our soul, we have only one choice to make. The choice is to believe or not to believe. Believe, means to accept truth. To not believe is to deny truth. It is popular in todays age to have your truth and my truth and her truth and his truth, but if that doesn't actually line up with what is true, then your nervous system will respond as if you have chosen not to believe.

Our beliefs encode within seconds. Whether we persist in belief or unbelief, it rewires our brain to create a pattern by  structural change. Let's look at fear for a moment. Fear is a spirit. The origin of fear came from awe and wonder. When we turn away from the belief of awe and wonder, we turn to unbelief which changes the meaning of fear into shame and terror. This kind of fear always makes us hide or makes us hostile to anything that opposes our unbelief. Fear creates a loop that brings worry, anxiety, addiction, etc. This is an attempt to control the fear. Worry is an attempt to control fear. Addiction is an attempt to ignore fear. Trying to comfort ourselves, trying to make our own truth only encodes our brains to respond to unbelief. Truth will always bring conviction and our fear will again go up continuing the loop. This threat of fear actually causes our body to go into fight, flight or freeze mode. We were designed this way. This design is called the autonomic nervous system. This system bypasses our conscious thought and brings us into survival mode. Its intent is to survive the fear, and reveal to us what is true, that we may again believe truth and be free from the loop or the slavery to fear if you will. If we still refuse to believe truth, we will continue on this loop until we learn to believe what is true. 

If we continue to not agree with truth, we will live in a chronic state of fight or flight. This eventually shows up in our physical bodies. When unbelief is our world view or our mind set it will show up at some point in our health. The signal of unbelief brings fear, this sets off our fight, flight or freeze (parasympathetic nervous system) and then signals our sympathetic nervous system to kick on and cause the body to respond with more inflammatory stress and exhaustion making the body unable to rest or sleep well, have aches and pains, digestion issues etc which are triggers to tell you something is off. It always goes back to, "What do you believe?" That is the core that guides the course of our life. You have the choice to be connected to God who is Love, or be separated by fear. There is no fear in Love. But perfect Love drives out ALL fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love. We either have a connected world view or a separated world view. We either see the world based on truth or based on deception. We either live according to what was done to us or what Christ did for us. What do you believe?

Let's talk about trauma for a moment. No ones trauma experience is the same, but all trauma causes us to self protect, self defend and self project. Self is defined as the awareness of identity. We are not sovereign beings and cannot defend, protect or project ourselves enough, to heal or be free from the experience of trauma. The only thing self can do is hide and build walls. This does not bring freedom, it creates a prison. In this prison the belief is always fear. Fear of getting hurt again, fear of being taken advantage of again, fear of being violated again. It is a real fear and it is a valid fear. Every decision made in this prison is based off of survival. You are more than that which was done to you. There is no freedom in this prison. Controlling your atmosphere is not freedom. Hiding is not freedom. Changing your atmosphere is not freedom. A good feeling isn't freedom. Surgery isn't even freedom. Only the truth can bring real freedom. Freedom, healing, salvation, whatever you want to call it, it comes from the inside out! Real change comes from the inside out. If we seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, everything else we need will be added. The Kingdom of God is here on this earth in our midst. Go read Luke 17:21. What we believe becomes our identity and our identity is who we are. And who we are determines what we do and what we do reveals what we truly believe!!

Lord, I thank you for the reader of this post, that you would reveal all truth to them as they seek you and that you would bring real freedom in every area of their life. You sent your Son here to set us free and to destroy the works of the enemy, Lord I thank you for loving us, and laying your life down for us that we can know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you sent. 

Be well my friends,

Talli Lopez

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9