Nancy's Story: Surprise Clutter Benefit of Rewiring Survival Circuit

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Thank you, Lindsey for holding down the blog for these last months. I'm happy to sit by your side now, and start blogging again. I love telling stories from the EBT groups I facilitate. I worry about posting them, because the most important part of EBT is safety.  So want you to know that anything you read here about a group member has all identifying information removed, and my best effort to be true to the spirit of the moment. 
 
Here's one of my favorites from this week:
 
Nancy had rewired a "I get my safety from food" Survival Circuit in Kit 2: Authenticity. We start telegroups with News and Needs, so that any participant who wants to share news of the week (breakthroughs, Joy Points, anything!) and needs for coaching during the session (to nail a Cycle in the session, help with a Survival Circuit, and such). Sometimes participants speak up that their 2-year-old is sick and crying a bit so that they might come and go, and definitely will have the phone on mute, or that they are really tired, and just want to stay on the line, soak in the work of others, without overtly participating much.
 
Nancy had some news:  She was convinced that she had really erased that Food Survival Circuit because she weighed herself, and had lost 8 pounds. Her news had nothing to do with her weight, but to report that her "clutter circuit" appeared to have been swept away with the food circuit. The clutter was disappearing, too.
 
That makes perfect sense based on neuroscience, because the brain "generalizes" the fear response to a few very strong circuits. If we reconsolidate a very strong circuit, in essence, we go to the roots of many other circuits, too. It's just that we don't have to nab and break each one, one by one by one, because we've gone to the root circuit. 
 
Sure it makes sense, but that didn't stop her comment from making the hairs on my arms stand on end. Can you imagine the power of this, using science to inform our mind how to rewire our own brain? There is no way of knowing what rewiring a Survival Circuit will clear away, which is part of the fun of it.
 
Choose a circuit and rewire it, then see what cascade of changes -- maybe a lot, maybe a few -- follow . . Then move on to the next one, and moving through the kits. Thank you, "Nancy" for the inspiration!