When Faith Meets the Nervous System
- Michele Kunasek
- Dec 8, 2025
- 5 min read
Faith was never meant to live only in the mind.
It was meant to live in the body. In the rhythm of your breath, in the beating of your heart, in the peace that settles over you when you finally stop running and remember:
God is here.
Long before Jesus ever preached a sermon, the Torah was already teaching the nervous system how to rest in God.
Every Sabbath command, “Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), wasn’t just about religious rulekeeping.
It was an ancient regulation practice.
A divine pattern of rest and restoration written right into human biology.
Rest was never laziness. It was liberation.
The Torah: An Ancient Nervous System Manual
In the Torah, everything revolves around rhythm; work, rest, release, redemption.
Every seven days, seven years, seven cycles, God built restoration into creation itself.
Modern neuroscience now shows that the body needs rhythm to regulate: cycles of activation and calm, movement and stillness.
It turns out, God, (Source, the Universe, whatever you choose to call it) wrote nervous-system balance into the laws of sacred living thousands of years before we had the language for “polyvagal theory.”
When I teach nervous system healing, I’m not teaching something new, I’m remembering, integrating, and therefore teaching something ancient.
Something God already gave us: a built-in design for peace.
Jesus: The Living Embodiment of Regulation and Love
Jesus came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17).He took the wisdom of the Torah, (rest, compassion, justice, mercy) and embodied it in flesh and breath.
He healed through presence.
He calmed storms, not just the ones on the sea, but the ones inside people’s bodies.
When He said, “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39), He wasn’t only talking to the waves.
He was speaking to the disciples’ nervous systems to their racing hearts, their shaking hands, their fear.
When He said, “The Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), He wasn’t being poetic.
He was pointing to the divine circuitry inside every human being the way the Spirit moves through the body like breath, light, and love.
The Nervous System as Sacred Ground
Your nervous system isn’t an obstacle to faith, it’s the vessel where faith becomes felt.
When it’s dysregulated, trust feels impossible.
When it’s soothed, divine love becomes embodied truth.
That’s why trauma recovery and faith reconstruction go hand in hand.
Your body has to relearn what your spirit already knows: you are safe, loved, and not alone.
As Paul wrote, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2)That renewal isn’t abstract, it’s neural. It’s your brain rewiring for peace.
It’s your vagus nerve learning to rest again.
It’s your cells remembering what divine safety feels like.
Healing as Holy Work
When I work with women through energy healing, hypnosis, and trauma-informed coaching, I’m not trying to replace faith, I’m helping them return to it.
Not the rigid, fear-based faith they grew up with, but the kind Jesus modeled, compassionate, embodied, rooted in love and truth.
In every session, I see women rediscover the sacred connection between spirituality and physiology.
They learn that prayer and breath are the same language.
That emotion is energy, not sin.
That God doesn’t ask us to perform holiness, He invites us to experience it, in real time, through the healing of the body.
The Divine Blueprint
Science calls it neuroplasticity. The brain’s ability to rewire through love, mindfulness, and safety (Ogunbona & Abdul-Azeez, 2025).The mystics call it transformation.
The Torah calls it teshuvah (the return).
Jesus called it being born again.
Different language. Same truth.
Healing is returning to who you were before the world told you to shut down.
A Prayer for Holy Regulation
Close your eyes.
Breathe in deeply.
Place a hand on your heart (where the Spirit dwells) and another on your belly (where your life force moves.)
Inhale: “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)
Exhale: “Your peace is my peace.”
Feel your body soften.
Feel your breath slow.
That’s not “just breathing.” That’s communion. That’s God in motion within you.
The Integration: Faith, Science, and the Body
This is what Your Inner Light: Healing & Wellness is all about. Helping people remember that healing isn’t a rejection of faith; it’s a reunion with it.
It’s the Torah’s rest, Jesus’ peace, and neuroscience’s compassion, all telling the same story:
Love heals.
Presence restores.
And the body, when held with grace, becomes holy again.
Taking the time to sit and listen to my thoughts surrounding Jesus, faith, God, spirituality, really forced me to question where my own beliefs were coming from. Like why did I always think that God was an older man with white hair and a long beard? Seriously though, who taught me that. I searched every where to find where in history or the Bible does it ever say this... and turns out, that image doesn’t come from the Bible at all, it comes from art, culture, and conditioning. During the Renaissance, artists like Michelangelo painted God as an older man because, in their world, power, wisdom, and authority all looked like old white men. Over time, those paintings became the mental picture Western culture associated with “God.” But Scripture never describes Him that way. In fact, the Torah says we’re all made in God’s image...male and female... and Jesus taught that “God is Spirit” (John 4:24), not a human form. So that old man in the sky? That’s art history. The real God is infinite love beyond gender, beyond image, and closer than your own breath. So as you can imagine... this opened my curious mind to what else is "made up" or distorted in my head and here I am today continuously allowing my mind to be BLOWN instead of just accepting things as they are or as I once "understood" them.
Stay curious my friends... there's a whole, huge world of unknown cool shit out there. Don't make yourself small just to appease others. And always remember... Love God and Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love, Michele
Scriptures + Sources
Exodus 20:8 — “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
Matthew 5:17 — “I did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it.”
Mark 4:39 — “Peace, be still.”
John 14:27 — “My peace I give you.”
Luke 17:21 — “The Kingdom of God is within you.”
Romans 12:2 — “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Mousa (2025)
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