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
