| Have you experienced pain in your life? As a result, | | | | damage can occur to the connectors already inside |
| have you fallen into destructive behaviors of anger, | | | | your brain. That distress can effectively cut the |
| depression, guilt or shame? Is there an easy way to | | | | free-flowing constructive pathways in your brain. |
| end pain and any associated emotional responses? | | | | Therefore, the pain may have diminished your |
| What is one such practical solution? | | | | previous happiness and joy. Furthermore, you may |
| The physical body operates on impulses received | | | | begin to dwell on destructive thoughts of sadness, |
| from the brain. According to scientific research, the | | | | anger, and guilt instead of feeling constructive, happy |
| brain is similar to the electric circuitry in your home. | | | | thoughts. |
| There are lines, or pathways, on which the current | | | | As shown, if you think you are in pain and are angry, |
| runs and connects to other lines, providing great | | | | sad, or guilty for 21 days or longer, then you retrace |
| sources of energy, and in turn, lighting up different | | | | a new connector, forming a habit. However, the new |
| areas of the home. In the human body, these | | | | link made up of these destructive emotions will not |
| pathways 'light up' different areas of the body, | | | | generate constructive emotions, but will only further |
| allowing them to operate. | | | | exacerbate your pain. |
| Scientists have also determined that the more one | | | | What is the answer to change the pattern and break |
| feels and focuses on a thought, the stronger and | | | | a bad habit? Could it be a choice to work at changing |
| more defined these pathways become in the brain. In | | | | the pattern, similar to dieting to lose weight? With |
| fact, it takes 21 days of repeated thought patterns, | | | | continued effort, it is possible to see effective results |
| without interruption to stabilize these conduits. In | | | | using the scientific method of the 21-day rule for |
| effect, if you focus on something for 21 straight | | | | forming a habit. Therefore, might it be beneficial for |
| days, it becomes a habit, as you etch new | | | | you to redirect your energy, thoughts and feelings to |
| connectors into the circuitry of your brain. | | | | happy thoughts to enjoy a joyful life again? |
| When you experience emotional or physical trauma, | | | | |