Understanding Your Nervous System's Safety Set Point

Your nervous system governs your entire body and mind, orchestrating every thought and action. Over your lifetime, it learns how to keep you safe. For instance, knowing that fire is hot prevents you from touching it. However, as life's experiences accumulate, your nervous system can create patterns that may not always serve you well in the long run. Understanding Emotions: The Language of Inner Wisdom provides deeper insights into how our emotions influence these patterns

How Your Nervous System Learns Safety

Your nervous system develops behaviors and thought patterns based on your experiences, aiming to keep you safe. These patterns, formed during various positive and negative experiences, can be beneficial, neutral, or even counterproductive. The key factor is how the emotions tied to these experiences are processed.

1. Useful Patterns: Some patterns, like avoiding fire, remain helpful throughout life.
2. Time-Limited Patterns: Other patterns may be useful at a specific time but not later in life.
3. Unhelpful Patterns: Sometimes, the best available coping mechanism in a situation can lead to patterns that are never useful.

The Role of Emotions

Emotions play a critical role in setting these patterns in your nervous system. If an emotion isn't fully processed at the time of an event, it can become stuck, leading to persistent patterns that affect various aspects of your life. These patterns are challenging to change through conscious effort alone. The Whole Body Approach to Health: Understanding Interconnectedness explores how our emotional and physical health are deeply intertwined

The Nervous System Safety Set Point

Your nervous system's safety set point is a collection of patterns caused by stuck emotions. This set point may not align with what you consciously perceive as safe or healthy. An example that resonates with many women is the struggle with weight loss.

Weight Loss and the Nervous System

Many women attempt to lose weight through diet, exercise, strict regimes, supplements, or prescription drugs. Sometimes these methods work, but often, any success is short-lived. A common issue is that the nervous system's safety set point overrides these efforts, causing the weight to return.

When women fail to maintain weight loss, they often blame themselves or the weight loss protocol. In reality, they are battling their nervous system's deeply ingrained patterns, which strive to maintain what it perceives as a safe state.

Common Triggers for Weight Retention

1. Body Shaming: Negative comments about one's body during childhood or teen years can set a pattern where being overweight feels safer.
2. Unwanted Attention or Abuse: Experiencing abuse or unwanted attention at a certain size can lead the nervous system to believe that holding onto extra weight offers protection.

The nervous system prioritises safety over health, causing it to resist efforts that feel unsafe, such as weight loss.

How Emotion Release Technique (ERT) Helps

ERT is crucial for resetting your nervous system's safety set point by clearing stuck emotions. This allows your conscious plans and lifestyle changes to work more effectively because your nervous system is no longer sabotaging your efforts.

Benefits of ERT:

1. Alignment with Conscious Goals: ERT makes it easier to implement changes without battling your nervous system.
2. Cellular-Level Improvements: Clears the path for plans and strategies to succeed at a fundamental level.
   
   

Personal Experiences with ERT

ERT can support healing in various ways. Personally, it has helped me eliminate tooth pain, accomplish work tasks more easily, have more patience with my kids, and remove business and financial blocks.

Stuck emotions can cause sabotaging behaviors, unhelpful thought patterns, and physical symptoms. Understanding and resetting your nervous system's safety set point through ERT can lead to profound improvements in your life. By addressing these underlying issues, you can achieve lasting change and better align your nervous system with your conscious goals. 

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