Dear Ryan:

I can relate. Our brain is made of hundreds of thousands (or more, I don’t have the number) neuropathways. This very sentence I just typed is made possible by multiple such pathways. During our childhood most of the pathways that exist for the rest of our lives are formed.

Many of those formed pathways carry our core beliefs, combinations of thoughts and strong emotion. Those core beliefs get activated all day long.

Healing requires changing core beliefs that are not true to reality, false core beliefs, that is. Physically, this means re-wiring our brain by inserting new neuropathways into the existing map of our brain.

When you learn a new dry fact, for example, a name of a plant you didn’t know before, that is a very small neuropathway. But to believe something new about yourself and life, that requires a whole lot more than a short pathway. It requires many new pathways that slowly grow into different areas of the brain.

And while this re-wiring is done, a physically slow process, extremely slow, the old pathways keep getting triggered.

Healing is so slow and difficult, I am surprised it is possible at all. I am engaged in it and it is indeed very, very slow. It requires so much dedication and persistence.

anita