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Article written by Sombra Wilson.
I’m taking a class with Simonette Cherepanov from sevenlampwellness.com called Back To
Eden – Renewing Your Mind. It’s a 21 day journey using cycles of 7 to take captive our thoughts
and reset our body, mind and spirit to what it was designed to be from the Garden. I really love
this program. It is so similar to what Joe teaches us about cycles of seven on a macroscopic
level. Where he’s teaching us about Sabbatical Years and Jubilee Years and Millennial days,
what Simi is teaching us is about sets of 7 days to deal with the inner thoughts. It’s a
microscopic look at what Yehovah’s plan is for us.
You know how Joe so often talks about Matthew 24 and about how we have to have oil in our
lamps. We usually say the oil is Mitzvot. It’s the keeping of the commandments. You have to
have a history of keeping these commandments to have a quantity of oil in your lamp, you can’t
just go buy it at the last minute. Well this oil, like olive oil, it comes from the crushing of the fruit,
the pulp of the olive flesh. In the same way, when we are crushed, when we go through those
trials, those tests, we prove, or fail to prove, that we have learned the message of the
commandments and know how to live it all out. A teacher can teach us torah, but until we start
living it ourselves, we have not yet done these mitzvot. This oil is based on our own
relationship, this intimacy we have developed ourselves. It can’t be bought, nor inherited. We
sometimes say “God doesn’t have grandchildren – just because your parents were believers
doesn’t make you a child of God.
– You have to choose to be a child of God yourself. It’s YOUR
choice. So you have to develop your own intimacy.
So Simi is teaching us this class, and we sit and learn from her for about an hour or so a day,
but then we have to go do the work ourselves. Let me share with you a little of the class.
Every day we start the session with Thanksgiving, Praise and Worship. Let me give you an
example: Abba Father, I’m so thankful that you are using me to share with Ryan and the
podcast audience all the things you are teaching me. I’m thankful for the direction you are
leading me in to heal that defenseless little girl within me and teach me that I don’t need to
defend myself, for You are my Buckler and Shield. You hold me in the palm of Your Hand and
you defend me under the shelter of Your Wings. I’m so thankful that the fear and anger I have
felt is dissipating, that I don’t need to have the anxiety anymore, that the rage I once felt which
led me to sin in my anger has all but vanished and now I am comfortable patiently waiting for
You do defend me in what ever way You choose to resolve my conflicts.
I Praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I praise You for You keep your promises,
even when I fail to keep mine. I praise You because You covenant covers me, and your mercy
gives me time to learn to obey and your grace guides me back to the righteous path. I Worship
You with my whole body, mind and spirit. I come in supplication under Your authority, to rule and
reign in my life. I worship you with singing and dancing, with every movement of my body, with
every chore I perform, I do it for Your glory. I pray that I reflect Your image as I daily serve you
my King.The next step in the program is to do a 7 minute breathing exercise. The rhythm of the breathing
goes like this, we breath in through the nose, from the belly, breath in for 5 seconds. Then you
hold the breath for 5 seconds, then you release the breath slowly through the nose for 10
seconds, really emptying the lungs. Then the pattern begins again, breathe in, hold, release.
We do this rhythm for 7 minutes, there are 3 rounds per minute, so 7 minutes means 21 cycle
of this breathing pattern – you’ll see how 21 plays into this program in a few minutes, and at the
end of the 7 minutes, with empty lungs, you hold your breath as long as you can. While we’re
doing this breathing, we listen to a recording Simi made which reinforces what’s going on inside
us while we’re doing the breathing. Let me read through this 7 minutes and see if you can
follow along with the breathing while I read her script.
A seven minute cellular reset designed into the human body by God. Breath is a gift from God.
Rest is a command. Renewal is a promise. There is nothing spiritual about the breathing pattern
itself. It is simply a tool God placed within our physiology. What is spiritual is what we choose to
focus on during the stillness. Our focus is gratitude, worship, scripture, identity in Messiah, the
renewal of our mind. As Paul writes in Romans 12:2, be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. This practice simply creates the biological conditions that make the renewal easier for the
brain to receive. We will use the patterns in the back to Eden Renewing Your Mind book in order
to strengthen our inner self to our father’s original design by practicing what some call CBT and
DBT; cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectic behavioral therapy. therapies that Simmonette
Cherepanov is certified to teach and she prefer to call it what it is; biblical instructional behavior.
We can never go wrong following his word. He is our creator and father of all. So now that we
have set the premise for this practice, let’s get glean from the research that many have
developed in the past few decades thanks to the advance of technology. Recent research from
MIT, Harvard, and Stanford has revealed something remarkable. A specific pattern of slow
intentional breathing can activate the cellular renewal pathways that fasting activates. This is not
mystical. This is not tied to Eastern practices. This is simply part of the design God placed in the
human body. Scripture tells us that our father breathed life into us. Genesis 2:7. Breath is part of
his creation. Not just a survival mechanism but a tool for restoration. What is autophagy?
Autophagy is God designed process for our body’s cellular cleanup where the body removes
damaged proteins, repairs stressed cells, recycles old components and restores healthy
function. In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physiology went to Hoshinori Osumi for mapping how
autophagy works. This discovery confirmed what scripture has always shown us. Renewal is
built into creation. Until recently, people believe only long fasting could activate autophagy. But
new scientific breakthroughs showed that your breath also triggers these pathways because
God designed your nervous system, oxygen level, and CO2 balance to communicate directly
with your cells. What is the science behind the breath activated autophagy? Researchers from
MIT and Harvard found that slow control breathing can signal the body to shift from growth
mode to repair mode, activating the same cleanup system triggered by fasting. There is also
another very well-known study in the Netherlands by Wimhof. It’s called the Wimhof method.
This study on control breathing demonstrates that particular
breath activates the EMPK pathway, one of the main switches that triggers autophagy. EMPK is
like the body’s repair switch. Breathing affects it directly. The research that Stanford carried outwas on hypoxia in 2023 showed that slow breathing and long exhale mimic the metabolic
signature of fasting increases ketones suppressed and the growth signal and activates
autophagy genes all without changing diet. Why this matters? Modern life keeps many people in
constant fight or flight, preventing the body from entering renewal mode. The results: brain fog,
emotional exhaustion, sluggish thinking, stressdriven cravings. Scripture speaks over and over
about stillness in quietness and trust is your strength. Isaiah 30:15. Be still and know that he is
our Elohim, our God. Psalm 46:10.He restores my soul. Psalm 23:33.Science is now catching
up with the reaity that God hardwire renewal into rest and breath. The breath pattern you
will learn today is inhale 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds, exhale 10 seconds. I like to use my
hands for that. You inhale with one hand 5 seconds, the other hand you hold 5 seconds, and
then you exhale with both hands 10 seconds. This ratio increases CO2 tolerance which allows
oxygen to be delivered more
efficiently throughout the body that it’s called the bore effect. It also signals the brain to switch
into parasympathetic mode. The place where your body heals. The extended exhale is the
primary trigger.
This will have two phases. The first phase would be from minutes 1 to 7. You will sit tall with a
straight spine. This is not about appearance. It allows the vagus nervous to activate properly.
Take a moment to notice your natural breath. This pattern calms the nervous system, improves
oxygen efficiency, lowers stress hormones, increases CO2 tolerance, signals the body to enter
cellular repair. It will be 21 cycles of
5, 5, and 10. The second phase is the final exhale hold. After the last exhale, hold your breath
out for 30 to 60 seconds, keeping the body relaxed. Stanford research shows that this exhale
retention phase creates the most powerful shift towards cellular cleanup and mental clarity.
What you may feel is calmness, mental clarity, warmth in the body, reduce hunger, focus, a
deep shift towards stillness. This is our body responding to our father’s design. The invitation is
to practice this for 21 days. As you may notice, better focus, clearer thinking, calmer emotional
response, fewer cravings, improved sleep, more stable energy, and a deeper sense of God’s
peace.
So Ryan, how did that breathing go? Do you feel a sense of calm? Do you feel
energized? Oxygenated?
Ryan, Have you been to Japan? Or just speak Japanese? Have you ever heard of
Radio Taiso?
Following that we do something called a Radio Taiso. This is a quick 3 minute exercise
routine that has been practiced in Japanese culture for nearly 100 years. Every
morning people gather in the streets or parks or schools and do these three minute
simple movements that help with strength and flexibility and mobility. It’s a way people
connect in Japan. We’re such a disconnected society in North America, most of us
would feel foolish to just stop in the street and do some simple movements for 3
minutes, but in Japan it’s a way of life, and we all know the Japanese are famous for
longevity. And it’s free, no gym membership or sweating or special workout gear. Themovements are timed to music, a simple piano tune plays so that you know when to
change the exercise and help you with the rhythm of the movements. And everyone
can do these, whether sitting or standing.
All this is to just get your body and spirit set to get to work on your mind.
We often see in modern psychology this idea “You’re not broken” when people face
challenges. A person can be suffering from depression and the mantra is, you’re not
broken. They want us to normalize mental health issues and just accept them as part of
the experience of life. They want us to accept that others are the way they are and they
need not change. But is that what Yehovah wants from us? If I feel bitterness because
I’ve dealth with hardship in life, maybe I was raised in poverty and seeing my friends
with the latest and greatest shoes and gaming computer and earphones etc. The world
should just accept me that I’m a bitter person, it’s just the way I was made right? NO,
That’s not how we were designed. We were made in the image of Yehovah, and like
His Character is determined by the torah, so our character also is to be determined by
the Torah. There is a principle in scripture, everything Yehovah created, he divided it,
so that it can be restored. When Yehovah created Adam, He created Him, Male and
Female. But then Yehovah divided Adam in to Man and woman – Adam and Chavah,
Male and Female. When we choose a marriage partner, and come together in unity, we
are now restored, a unit with both the male and female characteristics working together
as one – we are made whole, complete when we are together.
So we have experienced a division. There is a separation between us and Yehovah.
We have a flesh, a physical body. We also have a spirit. These two parts have been
separated and need a bridge to restore the breech. THe Flesh can live without the
Spirit, but it is perpetually in survival mode. It has no idea it is missing the Spirit until the
eyes are opened and the soul begins to bridge that gap between the body and the spirit.
This book is about building this bridge in the soul – which is the mind – and over a 21
day cycle take captive a thought and bring it into submission to the Spirit. 2
Corinthians 10:3-6 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according
to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power
to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against
the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to
punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Believe it or not, our thoughts have mass. You can weigh and measure a thought. A
thought in your brain is held on something called a dendrite. This is all neuroscience. It
looks like a little tree inside your brain. A healthy thought looks like a healthy tree, a
negative thought though looks like a scraggly tree. When our brain is populated with allthese negative thoughts and we are suffering depression, we have to deal with these
negative thoughts by dissolving these dendrites and growing new healthy dendrites in
their place. This is called Neuroplasticity, the ability to grow new pathways in the brain
to change our thought patterns.
It was Dr Caroline Leaf who discovered it takes about 21 days to dissolve a negative
thought and replace it with a budding new healthy thought. Simonette Cherepanov has
taken this 21 days and broken it into 3 sets of 7 days of work. In the first week you are
working on Identifying the warning signs of a specific toxic thought,this is at a
physician level. The second week, we’re uncovering the root of this toxic thought,
dealing with it on a soul level and, the third week we are looking at replacing that toxic
thought with a righteous thought, dealing with it on a spiritual level. This cycle of 21
days begins the process of changing the neuropathways in your brain so that you can
heal your mind. Simi suggests 3 of these 21 day cycles to make a solid change in the
way your mind deals with triggers.
Every day of the 7 days of the week are represented by a colour from the rainbow, which
is also something Yehovah created with the pattern of 7, red, orange, yellow, green light
blue, indigo and purple. Peace is represented by the purple. We were created to be in
peace, but through sin, the whole and perfect light of Yehovah in us is broken up,
refracted, the way we see it in the rainbow. Day 1 is the colour red. Red is for the flesh,
a picture of the fire of survival, day 2 is represented by orange, the heat of anger, fear,
shame, and blame comes to the surface on this second day. By day 3, the heat hascooled off some, yellow is represented as we begin to surrender and cease striving and
begin to accept. The 4th day is a crux, a new beginning, represented by the colour
green, new growth, new life revival. Day 5 is represente by blue, the spirit of wisdom, the
spirit of living waters moving within us. Day 5 is indigo, a deepening of this spirit in us,
a seed of reasoned obedience after the first few days struggling in the flesh of our
thoughts. And then finally on the 7th day, the blue of the spirit and th red of the flesh
combine to restore the peace we were designed with. The physical and the spirit are
bridged together as the soul heals and is transformed through this renewing practice of
taking captive every though.
There are other patterns of 7 we follow. We look at the 7 days of creation, what
Yehovah was at work doing in those days, and how that is at work in our minds and
thoughts. Another layer of 7s is the feast of Yehovah, this pattern shows us the journey
the relationship between Yehovah and His bride are on, and how that is at play in the
mind. There’s the pattern of 7 spirits of wisdom from James 3:17 17 But the wisdom
from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good
fruits, impartial and sincere. Have you ever heard of Neil Andersen’s 7 steps to
freedom? Simi has this woven into this program too, learning to see ourselves through
what Yeshua has said about us. What about Musar? Are you familiar with the Jewish
discipline of Musar? It’s about moulding moral character within yourself. We must
discipline our flesh to come under the measuring rod of Yehovah.
So using these 7 different sets of patterns, we use these to direct our thoughts
regarding this toxic thought that we are trying to dissolve and replace with a righteous
thought. Then after taking the time to sit with your reflections, you then journal your
reflections. The act of writing things down helps us to sort through why we think
something and truly process it. It also gives you a record of the journey you’ve walked
as you heal from the trauma of life. This healing of the soul puts an end to this division
of body and soul and restores us to the complete wholeness we were designed with to
be not just a physical being, but a spirit being as well.
This morning we were talking about the cornerstone, how when a building goes up, the
builders carefully set the cornerstone so that two walls are build outward from that
stone. If that stone is set on a sandy shifting soil, a faulty foundation, it means that
cornerstone will move and the walls will crumble. In this same way, we need to build the
physical and the spiritual frameworks of our lives so that they are firmly affixed to the
cornerstone, Yeshua being that cornerstone. When we build up our spirit, soul and flesh
on this foundation, all three work together for soundness, completeness, wholeness and
peace. We build that intimacy as we grow in likeness to Yehovah’s image. This intimacies the oil we need for that day that our Bridegroom comes for His Pure Spotless Bride.
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