Why Your Nervous System Is Glitching On Outed Code—And How To Upgrade It

A Practical Guide to Shifting from Survival Mode to Flow by Aligning Your Nervous System with Trust and Abundance. (Quantum Arts Part 2)

Affirmations? Ugh, right?!?!? That was me until I realized that effective affirmations weren’t about changing external circumstances but shifting my internal state.

In Part 1, we looked at the game-changing affirmation I use daily: “Everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow” and how this turned my broken heat pump into a cosmic alignment win. Now, let’s dig into how affirmations rewire your nervous system so you can ditch fear and start living from possibility.

The truth is that your nervous system is probably operating on outdated software. Blame it on your learned self—that part of you shaped by childhood lessons, societal expectations, and every awkward moment you’d rather forget. It clings to old patterns like an internet browser from 1995. Sure, it’s familiar, but it’s slow, glitchy, and terrible at adapting to change.

This learned self is why affirmations often fall flat. If you tell yourself, “I’m wildly successful!” but your subconscious mind and nervous system are wired to believe, “Life is hard and success requires suffering,” you're going to get more hard knocks and suffering.

That’s where your quantum self comes in—the expansive, intuitive part of you that’s ready to ditch the dial-up connection and step into infinite possibility. And guess what? Affirmations—done right—are one of the best tools to help bridge the gap between your outdated learned self and the upgraded quantum version of you. They can rewire your brain and nervous system to allow your quantum self—the intuitive, expansive part of you that thrives in possibility—to run the show.

How Affirmations Rewire the Nervous System

Your nervous system is like a programmable operating system, constantly shaped by what you think, feel, and believe. When you repeat a thought or react a certain way, you strengthen neural pathways that make that response automatic. This is why fear-based reactions (like catastrophizing) feel so natural—they’ve been hardwired through repetition.

Affirmations work by disrupting these old pathways and creating new ones.

By repeating a single possibility-based affirmation, like: “Everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow”, you redirect your nervous system away from its automatic fear responses and introduce new patterns of trust, curiosity, and openness. This week’s post is about building this new pathway—stay tuned for later posts that help you shift your 1995 nervous system beliefs powerfully to this new track.

However, affirmations don’t just work at the level of thought. To rewire your nervous system effectively, you need to involve your body. This is where embodiment comes in—anchoring the affirmation into your physical and emotional state to reinforce the new neural pathways.

3 Ways to Build the Affirmation into Your Body

Ready to make affirmations actually do something? The secret is pairing them with quantum-connected states that shift your body out of survival mode and into trust, and rewire your nervous system at a deeper level.

1. Curiosity: Turn the Affirmation into a Question

Instead of repeating an affirmation like it’s a to-do list item, turn it into a question:

“How does everything always support my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow?”

Your brain loves questions. It’s like a detective looking for clues. When you say things like “Why does everything suck?!” your brain rolls out the red carpet of reasons life sucks, spiraling you down a slimy, swampy drain of despair with the plethora of proof that life sucks.

You can turn this natural brain function to your advantage by asking, “How does everything always support my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow?” When you ask this, your conscious mind starts searching for proof that the affirmation is true—even if you have a slate of evidence to the contrary. You get even more bang for your buck when you ask it in a relaxed, quantum-aligned state because it trains your subconscious mind to expect support and alignment rather than resistance. Asking this question regularly on both levels shifts it from a statement to an invitation for possibility.

Why It Works:

• Curiosity hijacks your brain’s fear-response loop by shifting focus away from “what’s wrong.”

• It activates the problem-solving parts of your brain, pulling focus away from catastrophizing.

• Each piece of “proof” it finds strengthens neural pathways for trust and alignment.

How to Practice:

• Pause, take a deep breath, and ask with a sense of curiosity:

• “How does everything support my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow?”

• Notice how your body responds and pay attention to what thoughts or memories bubble up.

2. Gratitude: Amplify with Thanks

Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotional states for rewiring your nervous system. Instead of just saying the affirmation, pair it with heartfelt thankfulness:

“Thank you that everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow.”

Gratitude adds a biochemical magic that floods your brain with feel-good chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, calming the fear circuits and moving you into a state of openness and trust. Gratitude signals your nervous system that you are safe, calms reactivity, and helps wire you for possibility.

How It Rewires the Nervous System:

• Gratitude releases dopamine and serotonin, the “feel-good” chemicals that enhance neural plasticity (your brain’s ability to form new connections).

• It soothes the amygdala, the part of your brain that triggers fight-or-flight responses, reducing stress and anxiety.

• By pairing gratitude with the affirmation, you create a strong emotional anchor that reinforces its truth.

How to Practice:

• Bring to mind something you’re genuinely grateful for, no matter how small. Once you’re in that emotional/energetic state, say the affirmation:

• “Thank you that everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow.”

• Feel the gratitude and feel-good chemicals expand in your body as you repeat it.

3. Love Vibe: Amplifying with Divine Love

If gratitude is biochemical magic, love is rocket fuel. When you say the affirmation with love in your heart, it supercharges the neural pathways you’re trying to build. We’re not talking about romantic love here, but about the deep, expansive energy of divine love or universal connection. It’s like plugging your nervous system into a higher voltage of trust and alignment.

If you resonate with this frequency of love, then tap in and connect with it in the way that works best for you and say the affirmation with love in your heart:

“I love that everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow.”

Love is one of the highest energetic states, capable of dissolving fear and opening you to infinite possibilities. When you connect with this energy, you align with your quantum self, amplifying the affirmation’s power.

How It Rewires the Nervous System:

• Love creates coherence in your heart’s electromagnetic field, coaxing the brain, body, and heart to operate in harmony.

• It increases oxytocin levels, promoting trust and connection, dissolving resistance, and making it easier to embrace new possibilities.

• By linking the affirmation with the energy of love, you train your body to associate it with safety, joy, and expansion and open the door to creative solutions and serendipities you didn’t even know were possible.

How to Practice:

• Bring to your awareness someone or something you love deeply and allow that feeling to expand in your heart. Once you’re in that state, say:

• “I love that everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow.”

• Let the energy of love flow in your body as you repeat the affirmation.

Amplify the Vibe With This Guided Meditation!

For best results, find a quiet place to sit or lie down where you can relax completely and not be disturbed.

How did this work for you? I’d love to hear your experiences or questions!

Anchoring the Affirmation Deeper—Grab Your Journal!

Use the three methods with the following prompts to expand the power of the affirmation into your body:

1. Curiosity Practice:

• Ask yourself: “How does everything always support my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow?”

• Write down every example you can think of where something worked out in your favor—even if it didn’t seem that way at first, no matter how small or strange.

2. Gratitude Practice:

• Reflect on one moment in your life where you felt truly supported by life’s flow in what started out as a challenging situation.

• Write about what happened, how it made you feel, and what you learned.

• Say with gratitude, “Thank you that everything supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow,” and notice how your body responds.

3. Love Vibe Practice:

Write about a challenging situation you’re facing now.

Ask: “What would it feel like to meet this challenge with love and trust?”

Imagine how the affirmation might shift your perspective, and write about what possibilities emerge.

With your heart full of love, say, “I love that everything always supports my highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and flow,” and notice how your body responds.

The Payoff: Why Living from Possibility Changes Everything

When you start living from possibility instead of fear, life stops feeling like a string of random or uncontrollable events. Instead, you notice patterns, connections, and opportunities that were always there—you just couldn’t see them before.

Here’s what shifts:

• Challenges become opportunities. Instead of bracing for impact, you meet life with curiosity and creativity.

• You feel more resilient. Your nervous system relaxes, giving you the bandwidth to respond instead of react.

• You notice more. Living in survival mode keeps your focus narrow. Living from possibility expands your perspective, making space for unexpected alignment.

Does this mean everything is sunshine and rainbows? Nope. Life will still throw curveballs. But when you’re grounded in trust and possibility, those curveballs don’t feel so scary. They feel like invitations to grow.

Ready for More? Keep Tuning In!

Next week, we’ll dive into the mechanics of shifting fear circuits into trust circuits instantly so that you can rewrite your reality on the fly!

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Here’s to stepping into the flow of your highest benefit, abundance, well-being, and possibility.

Peace,

Kristine

PS—Here are some other links you might find fun or helpful:

• Need a little escape from so-called “real” life? Check out my novel God in Drag and/or read the first chapter for free!

• Introduction to the Quantum Self

• Open Alpha: The Brain-Wave State that Can Rewrite Your Entire Reality