[Dichotomy Girl]

Originally Posted by ILG

Usually, when in intercessory prayer, I would speak what sounded some oriental dialect which was different from normal. Of course I used to speak in tongues all the time but now on more rare occasions and I stop myself if I feel I am moving into that self induced type of OP trance.

You might find this interesting...my anxiety has been really bad lately and I was thinking about things that I used to do to keep it in check, and I found this science article about speaking in tongues (I'll have to hunt it down for you), anyway, they did brain scans, etc. And the parts I remember the most is that they described it as a dissociative state, like meditation (Though meditation uses different parts of the brain), which I thought was interesting, and then they (or this might have been a 2nd article) found that speaking in tongues reduced the amount of cortisol in the brain (which causes stress and anxiety) and stabalizes another chemical that also helps with anxiety.

Now this can be looked at two ways. 1.) the peace that God gives is shown through the hormones in our bodies and chemicals in our brains when we are in communication/communion with him or 2.) this is a biological reaction of a self-induced dissociative state, that we attribute to God.

Either way, it seems to help.

Originally Posted by ILG

Did I write this? No wait, it was Mich, my soul and spirit Sister. LOL!