EBT Kit 3 Introduction
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rewiring sometimes happens, and we pop from 5 to 1. Without that 5, there could not be a Brain State 1 with such love, compassion, wonder, awe and hope. Two weeks ago, I totaled my car, maxed out my credit cards and found out that my son’s medication wasn’t covered by my healthcare. On top of that, I found a lump in my breast. I was at 5 for sure, but I curled up in bed and just held on. I held onto that 5 and peered into it, let it just be, and without trying to, my mind did a Cycle. My unreasonable expectation was that my safety came from my circumstances. I popped right to 1, and felt this spiritual bliss, better than I ever have before. I get my safety from the sanctuary inside me! I’ve been grinding that in all week. It’s not us. It’s our wires. Wires trigger brain states and…
Rule 3. Brain States Get Stuck We’ve been talking about set points for some time now, and in this kit your movement in your set point may be clear to you. It’s easier to dislodge yourself from a Brain State 5, partly because you know how to do it and partly because the thick ropes of wires in that state have frayed and loosened a bit. One of the reasons we addressed rewiring your primary behavioral external solution — that survival circuit — in the last kit, is that the impact that rewiring it can have on your set point is measurable. Our goal is freedom from external solutions. The key to this freedom is secure attachment to the sanctuary within. The problem is not that specific excess, but that the excess ramps up stress and separates us from attachment within. The solution to releasing the drive toward external solutions is developing attachment within. One-by-one, you will clip, melt, erase or erode the wiring that connects you to false attachments. Some people dabble in lots of different external solution, sometimes excesses that are wired at 4, not 5, not tightly held, but still having an effect. Others attach to one excess for life, and still others switch from one to another, crossing over from food to drink, from drink to exercise, from exercise to recreational drugs, then back to food. Some people shape much of the way they see themselves based on being a person with problems, an addict, in recovery and such, but in EBT we don’t think about it