Day 18 My Core Circuit: I am not bad. On this 18th day of Authenticity, we begin rewiring the second Core Circuit. The Survival Circuits are so rewarding to rewire, helping us gain control over our reactive responses. However, the Core Circuits are foundational, encoding our basic beliefs about life. As they are extracted from our experiences without our knowledge or approval, they can either be reasonable or unreasonable. If these core beliefs are unreasonable, typically because they were encoded during stress, when the filter of the thinking brain had no chance to revise them prior to their being stored in long-term memory, they become a source of self-inflicted psychological wounding. If we rewire them so they are reasonable, they become potent protectors of our emotional resilience and support enduring improvements in resilience and health.
The Second Core Circuit: I am not bad. The activity today is to rewire the Core Circuit “I am bad” into a new message, “I am not bad.” This wire supports the second of the seven stages of emotional evolution. The first stage is existence, and the sec-
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