So, How’s Your Memory?
by Michelle Pearson
In our last article, “Choosing What to Remember This Memorial Day” we began discussing the fabric of our memories and how it affects us, our faith, families, fitness, finances, and our future.
We learned that you and I can choose how we remember and therefore how those memories affect our lives. We also learned that although many see memories as facts, neuroscience has proven that in truth, memories are not factual, but instead they are perceptions of events that have been stored and recalled hundreds or thousands of times over our lifetimes and expressed repeatedly in our spirit, soul (mind, will, emotions,) and our body.
Each time a memory is triggered and “expressed” it is subject to modification of its perception, updating itself based on the new information or circumstances at the time, effectively altering the “memory” or perceived account of events from the original memory to one developing, becoming altered, layer upon layer by life’s subsequent events.
Memory pathways occur in our spirit, our soul (mind, will, emotions) and our body, which can be visualized much like computer data storage.The exception to this analogy is that computers simply store information. Our body’s storage system is more like a computer whose data is continually changed from the original to an altered version because of one virus or malware attacker after another.
Research has proven that these “memory” pathways work the same in the spirit, soul, and body. Therefore, we can learn much about the spirit and soul memories from observing the “cellular memory” in the physical body.
For example, in regard to the body’s cellular functions, certain cells of the immune system make antibodies to invading pathogens like viruses. When various immune cells encounter antigens, they become activated and begin to proliferate (divide) into many clones or child cells. (Selah – kind of like your perceived memories do!)
Some of these child cell will differentiate into cells that will 1) perform the function of that cell and some of the cells will 2) form memory cells that will survive in an inactive state in the host for a long period of time until they re-encounter a certain stimulus and will then reengage or reactivate (Selah again! Stop and think on that.)
Every cell in your body holds hundreds of pieces of information which characterize the whole of who you have become. This is why we teach you that you are what you have become, but that is not who you have to be. If you change the choices, the input, you can change the outcome.
Your cells remember and hold information from the time of conception right up until this moment and are constantly updating this information. This cellular memory retains information on all levels of your being, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and the body expresses those memories in the natural body electrically, chemically, and structurally.
Your cells contain DNA which is the blueprint for the complete design of your body. This is, however, altered by the layers of stored perceptions of your lifetime. Again, remember that these perceptions are not necessarily truths, therefore are not always expressed in the natural body as a beneficial expression of health.
Memory or information that is not consistent with your original DNA (divine nature agreement) is expressed in the manner deemed best for the body’s immediate survival, even if that is a longer term disease process. The body seeks to survive our choices, not necessarily to live in health. Health is the result of working with the body’s divine design instead of against it.
The pathways of these memories can be changed in one of two ways: by trauma, dramatic impact of an event, stamping or imprinting a more powerful memory over the previous one, or by repetition, the continual purposeful application of new information that gradually alters or replaces the previous input (as in Ephesians 5:25-27).
To achieve that health we have to both make choices to work with that design and, as we are learning today, renew the information stored in memory, both in the brain and the cells, with Truth rather than previously acquired corrupted input!
Just like a computer, if you change the input, removing viruses, malware, and faulty stimuli, the data changes and… miraculously, the output is more desirable, reliable, and accurate!
We will get further into the powerful application of these fascinating truths on our next blog, so stay tuned! Please join us for the continued training as we remember… there is hope, there is help, and there is a greater, better, way to complete health!
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Michelle Pearson is a dynamic wellness coach, speaker, author, and the Founder & President of Picture of Health Inc. (http://thepictureofhealth.com). On a personal health journey for the past 17 years, Michelle’s mission is to educate, activate, challenge and equip others to live a full, satisfying life through the use of state-of-the-art educational resources to produce significant and lasting health breakthroughs.
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So my body reacts to input (physical, mental, and spiritual) to survive its current situation. Makes sense. Lots of bad physical stuff in (junk food)=> bad physical condition. Lack of physical stimuli=> atropy, also bad physical condition. Lots of bad mental input=> traumatic response or inappropriate tolerance for future bad input. Lack of mental input=> atropy, also bad mental condition. Lots of bad spiritual input (watch out for the subtle stuff)=> bad spiritual condition. Lack of spiritual input- I don't think so… if I'm not worshipping Him, I'm worshipping something or someone else; so rephrasing this part… lack of the right spiritual input=> bad spiritual condition.
well said!
What a great teaching! I like what Debra Cole said about siblings growing up in the same house can all remember an event differently. Perception is a powerful part of how we see and remember the events in our lives. I am so glad that we have a new DNA when we received Jesus as our Lord, the past is redeemed and we can come to him and take upon His yoke. As we look at the past events we can look at them from the standpoint of our redemption.
Reminds me of some teachings I have studied by Dr. Caroline Leaf, "As we think, the brain has the ability to change itself for better or for sores. The recognition of this is a gigantic and significant leap in the history of mankind." I love how scence in the long run finds out that God's Word is so true…"As a man thinketh, so is he." Let's continue to renew our minds to God's Word, taking every imagination that exalteth itself agains God captive and see ourselves as the overcomers that God has made us through Jesus Christ. We really can do all things through Christ…spirit, soul and body!
Romans 12:1-2 Renew your mind. An old and very important concept.
My favorite part was also, "If you change the choices, the input, you can change the outcome." When I was at the Acquire the Fire Conference with my youth group this past March, Mike Guzzardo encouraged the youth to allow God to rewrite their past. I didn't completely understand that statement and I don't have to, but this blog has given me some insight into it. All I have to know is my past (sins and memories of soulish pain and hurt) is covered under the blood of Jesus. I know that God has taken all my past experiences and allowed me to become a better person because of them. He has taught me to change my perspective of them and to view them as opportunities to be an overcomer and victor, not a victim. As I have focused on the good memories and not dwell on the bad ones or even to choose to remember the bad ones in a different perspective, I have allowed love and forgiveness to soften my heart and to actually forget a lot of the bad. This reminds of the story of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. A friend of hers once reminded her of an especially cruel thing that had been done to her years before. But she seemed not to recall it. "Don''t you remember it?" her friend asked. She said, "No, I distinctly remember forgetting it." You can't be free and happy if you harbor grudges, so put them away. Get rid of them. And, be quick to release those who have offended you by forgiving them. Unforgiveness doesn't hurt them anyway….it only hurts you.
Love that analogy with the computer! Keeps this computer teacher's interest! And like Sherri, I also love the part "If you change the choices, the input, you can change the outcome."
This article is interesting in that it talks about memories being perceived events. Many of us can relate to us living in the same house with all the same people with siblings and how a sibling remembers a family event so differently than the way I remembered it to be. And, I would also much later in life hear people say that a person's perception is that person's reality. Lots to think about. I also like the idea of stamping or imprinting over a memory which leads me to the scripture….
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
My favorite part: "If you change the choices, the input, you can change the outcome."