Switch on your brain

Think and choosing ---- thought change the structure of matter ---- mind control matter.

Neuroplasticity

양자역학과 말씀

Switch on your brain

Introduction

Brain is a fixed and hardwired machine only few decades ago → do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. → the brain, far from being fixed in toxicity, can change even in the most challenging neurological situations. → as we consciously direct our thinking, we can wire out toxic patterns of thinking and replace them with healthy thoughts. New thought networks grow. We increase our intelligence and bring healing to our brain, minds and physical bodies.

It all starts in the realm of the mind, with our ability to think and choose – the most powerful thing in the universe after God, and indeed, fashioned after God.

Thought changes the structure of matter. God said, Let there be light(Gen.1:3)

Neuroplasticity by definition means the brain is malleable and adaptable, changing moment by moment of every day.

Scientists are finally beginning to see the brain as having renewable characteristics (as in Rom, 12:2); it is no longer viewed as a machine that I hardwired early in life, unable to adapt, and wearing out with age. With example after fascinating example, exceptional scientists talk about and demonstrate – using brain-imaging techniques and the evidence of behavioral changes – how people can change their brains with their minds. We can see and measure the activity of the mind through the firing of neurons. We can even predict the seeming elusiveness of the main functions of the mind – that of thinking and choosing – through quantum mechanics.

Mind controls matter

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Timonthy 1:7) → science shows we are wired for love with a natural optimism bias. This means exactly what the Scripture says above.

Mind being what the brain does versus the brain doing the bidding of the mind.

The mind is what the brain does

Materialistic

It is the chemicals and neurons that create the mind and the relationships between your thoughts and what you do can just be ignored.

In this reductionist view, depression is a chemical imbalance problem of a machinelike brain; therefore, the treatment is to add in the missing chemicals.

Brain does the bidding of the mind

The brain is what the mind does. --- Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate

Eric R Kandel, a Nobel prize-. – winning neuropsychiatrist for his work on memory, shows how our thoughts, even our imaginations, get under the skin of our DNA and can turn certain genes on and certain genes off, changing the structure of the neurons in the brain.

Our brain is changing moment by moment as we are thinking. By our thinking and choosing, we are redesigning the landscape of our brain.

For now, rest in the assurance that what God has empowered you to do with your mind is more powerful and effective than any medication, any threat, any sickness or any neurological challenge.---- you do not have a spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7)

We are not bound by the physical; we control the physical.

Choices are real

75% to 98 % of mental physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life. Only 2 to 25% of mental and physical illnesses come from the environment and genes.

Thinking activates genes

Our consciousness – this phenomenal gift from God to be able to think—activates our genes and changes our brain. Science shows that our thoughts, with their embedded feelings, turn sets of genes on and off in complex relationships.

Our thoughts produce words and behaviors, which in turn stimulate more thinking and choices that build more thoughts in an endless cycle.

Our brains are shaped by our reactions

It is the quality of our thinking and choices(consciousness) and our reactions that determine our brain architecture – the shape or design of the brain and resultant quality of the health of our minds and bodies.

Thinking change our DNA

DNA actually changes shape according to our thoughts.

Thinking and feeling anger, fear, and frustration caused DNA to change shape according to thoughts and feelings. ---- DNA responded by tightening up and becoming shorter, switching off many DNA codes, which reduce quality expression. --- so we feel shut down by negative emotions and our body feels this too. ---- the negative shutdown or poor quality of the DNA codes was reversed by feelings of love, joy, appreciation, and gratitude.

When we choose to engage toxic thoughts (unforgiveness, bitterness, irritation, of feelings of not coping) we change the DNA and subsequent genetic expression which then changes the shape of our brain wiring in a negative direction. But the most exciting part of this study was the hope it demonstrated because the positive attitude, the good choice, rewired everything back to the original healthy positive state.

stress

stress stage one is normal ---- this is our alert state that keeps us focused and conscious and is the state we are in when we are thinking in alignment with God.

Stress stage 2, 3 are our mind and body’ response to toxic thinking --- normal tress gone wrong.

You can not control the event or circumstances of your life, but you can control your reactions. // 감정은 control 하기가 쉽지 않다.//

75- 98% of mental and physical illness comes from one’s thought of life.

Summary

Our brain does not control us; we control our brain through our thinking and choosing.

We can control our reactions to anything

Choices

Choice and your Multiple-perspective advantage.

You are not a victim. You can control your reactions. You do have a choice. //is it real or hope//

Free will is not illusion

Free decision are determined ahead of time by brain activity. VS. the brain is like a machine that has all these programs running over which we have no control. This machine produces the mind and we go through life helplessly at the will and mercy of these programs. Then neuroscientists use brain imaging and fancy terminology to argue that free will is just an illusion. //우리는 적어도 돌아가는 프로그램이 있다. 그것은 이미 견고하게 짜여져있다. 어떤 방식으로든, 그것이 잘이든 아니면 별로든지. 그것을 뜯어고치는 것은 몹시 어려운 것일 수도 있다. 기독교도 루터는 free will이 없다고 주장했다.//

We can choose to think the way God want us to think

God given ability to think and choose means that our free will influences our thinking, which produces our state of mind.

Proving free will

Brain activity can be identified in the prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex seven to ten seconds before an actual decision is verbalized or enacted. --- the decision was already encoded. VS. what we say and do is based on what we have already built into our minds.

Brain activity is the processing activity we do unconsciously, on the very real and active nonconscious level, which is flavored by the thoughts --- memories --- we have implanted into our nonconscious minds over time. In this phase, we choose to add our own unique perception, based on these implanted thoughts that form our point of view, on our way to verbalization or action we perform. --- what we say and do is based on what we have already built into our minds.---- we evaluate this information and make our choices based on this information, then we choose to build a new thought, and this is what drives what we say or do.

Brain activity seen in brain imaging, is not the result of machine like activity; it is simply the buildup to the moment of consciousness. It is the activity of a network of neural circuits that begin to prepare for an upcoming decision long before it enters our awareness. It is intellectualizing that is happening in nonconscious mind. --- as he thinks in his hear, so is he(Prov 23:7)

Definition of free will --- is a set of capacities for imaging future courses of action, deliberating about one’s reason for choosing them, planning one’s actions in light of this deliberation and controlling actions in the face of competing desires. This is how we choose to follow either God’s path or Satan’s path. Science is proving free will right down to the genetic level.

Choice has mental real estate

Specific circuits go to structures like the insula, corpus callosum, anterior and posterior central gyrus, basal ganglia, precuneus, and subgenuel region of the brain.--- This arrangement enables the frontal lobe to integrate and mange activities in the other parts of the brain.

We can observe our own thoughts

One of the most exciting features of frontal lobes is how they enable us in a sense to stand outside ourselves and observe our thinking. --- we can observe our thoughts and actions and make decision about them.

Our MPA

Multiple-perspective advantage --- our unique, multifaceted nature, made in God’s image, allows us to see things from many different angles--- like different perspectives. We have the unique opportunity to assess our thoughts and their impact and choose to connect to the vine that is Christ – to restore growth and prune off the branches of toxic thinking

You are a thinking being

You are a thinking being; you think all day long, and you are even thinking while you sleep. Daytime thinking is a building process, whereas nighttime thinking is a sorting process. As you think, you are making your way to a decision of some kind, whether it’s as simple as what to eat or as complex as choosing one of several different courses of action you face.

All thinking activity is real

Magnetic fields that can be measured

Electrical impulses that can be tracked

Chemical effects that can be seen and measured

Photons to be activated that can be captured on computer screens?

Energy activity that can be explained using quantum physics; An d

Vibrations in the membranes of the neurons that can be picked up by instrumentation.

You create signals

This signal you have just created passes through the membrane of the cell, travels to the cells nucleus, and enters the chromosome, activating a strand of DNA. The DNA is zipped up, almost as though it is in a cocoon., until activated or unzipped by the signal. ---- the zipped up DNA has to be opened so that the appropriate genetic code needed to build the protein can be read. --- as it opened and the code is read, RNA makes a photocopy of the code, which serves as a guide or architectural plan to build the proteins within the machinery inside the cell. --- genetic expression ---- and these proteins you have cause to be build hold the information you have just read as a thought or a memory. You have created substance. ---- molecules are assembled into protein by the genetic instructions in our DNA. These instructions dictate the anatomy and physiology of our bodies, and we control up to 90 % of this process through our thinking.// ?? autonomy 의 function //

The signal that unzips DNA

The initiating signals that get the ball rolling come from outside DNA and are therefore called epigenetic phenomena--- epi over and above --the genes.

The signals can come from the environment inside the body—emotional, biochemical, mental, energy, and spiritual, including rom the thought networks inside your brain. Or they can come from the environment outside the body –food, toxins, social network. And nurturing your receive.

The switch Gene

What does all this science mean to you?

What does the future of medicine potentially hold?

From the Gene myth to the truth

Your choices change your brain

Epigenetics is an ancient science and spiritual truth

Our thoughts can impact the next four generations

Scientific mysteries

The good , the Bad and the Ugly

Preposition vs. Destiny

Scientific evidence of God’s grace

Hippocamus --- facilitates the conversion of short- term memory to long term memory, deals with spatial memory, and also helps control our stress response.

In a loving and nurturing environment, acetyl epigenetic markers increase on the genes in the hippocamus that keep us calm and peaceful. The more acetyl markers, the more these peace genes in the hippocampus express and dampen the stress response.

Brain reorganizes throughout our lifetime

Changing its structure and function through mental experience alone --- if the brain can get worse by constantly focusing on the problem, then the brain can get better by understanding how to eliminate and replace the problem.

Neuroplasticity paradox

Neuroplasticity can operate for us as well as against us. PTSD(post traumatic stress disorder) has worked against the person. --- he has experienced a crushing mental event that fundamentally change the meaning of their life and altered the brain structurally because of the neuroplasticity of the brain. ---- person relives the event over and over, it wires itself deeper into the mind, --- flashbacks reliving the bad memory many times a day strengthen the circuit , making it worse and more debilitating.

We can use neuroplasticity to renew our mind

More encouragement from science

Universalists believe logic and language are learned at fixed ages, and if you pass that fixed age, you can’t learn. VS. plasticity --- people with learning disabilities can rewire their brains to perceive sound better.

Those who believe you are just your brain believe you have no free will. --- the active mind change brain; brain is the passive part of existence.

Epigenetics research demonstrates that our lifestyles and environment can transform the way our genes are expressed, and evidence from this field shows us we are not being controlled by the structure of our brains.

Our default mind mode --- our soul, which is our intellect, will, and emotions --- is powerful, strong, and driven by principles of love. ----- don’t let the media, doctors, or other people in your life convince you otherwise. You have the power in your mind to change the negative, toxic manifestations. Our minds shape the world. This is what neuroplasticity is all about: change. Neuroplasticity is God’s design for renewing the mind.

Our perception count

Our perception of the environment plus how we manage our environment controls our bodies and lives.

Basic elements required for success and change 1) it is not connected to the vine. 2) intent of the heart is not considered, leaving a disconnect between what is being said and what is really believed and felt deep down. --- cognitive dissonance. 3) there is often very little real action involved.

Low self esteem felt worse after repeating positive self statement.

The world may tell us that the mind is what the brain does ---- God tells us that the brain will do what the mind tells it to do.

You have the power to change

Catch those thoughts

Freeing yourself from burdens

Science shows the benefits of catching your thoughts

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Another example of a vicious cycle

It only take five to sixteen minutes a day

Our normal is perfection

entering into directed Rest

organized networks in the brain

flexibility

Switch off to Switch on

In his Great Mercy

The Sabbath in the Brain

The Task positive network

Our brain follows our mind

Consequences of Toxic thinking

Switch on your brain

Stop milkshake – Multitasking

Multitasking is a persistent myth

The 140 character tweet

It’s all bout balance

Social media enthusiast or addict?

We can become shallow

My research

Scientist see evidence of the difference

Determination is key

Additional benefits of not milkshake multitasking

Thinking, God, and the quantum physics brain

There different worlds

Quantum physics is another way of admiring God

Quantum physics aligning with scripture

Free will a basic ingredient of quantum physics

The Granddaddy of definitions

Quantum zeno effect

The law of entanglement

Particles behave in a Bizarre way, which is another reason why prayer works

Matter just keeps getting smaller

Thought moves faster than the speed of light

A glimpse into the spiritual world

Unpredictability is the norm

Quantum physics math predictions show unpredictability

It’s all about trusting that God is who he says he is

God’s plans

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The science of thought

The power of your thought life

21 day brain detox plan

You feel the pull

What lies are you believing?

Distorted love and truth get wired in

Automatization and riding a bicycle

Automatization is a life principle

Part 2 the 21 day brain detox plan

What is the 21-day brain detox plan

A simple tool that brings peace

A simple brain sequence that makes things happen

The 5-step switch on your brain learning process

God is revealing more each day

My documented results

We can all get control of our minds

Put your mind to it

It’s not heavy burden

10.

How and why the 21-day brain detox plan works

Your daily routine

You are doing your own brain surgery

You can repeat the cycle

Pay more attention to the new healthy memory

So many Good things are happening

The work doesn’t end at 21 days

Bumps, lollipops, and mushrooms

21 day brain detox plan is a deliberate practice

11.

Gather

The signals come from two sources

The signals enter the brain

Thoughts have an emotional component

Thoughts can’t be hidden; attitudes aren’t harmless

The hypothalamus responds

You can control how the signals affect your brain

Brain structures and Circuits that help you make good choices

12.

Focused reflection

It always boils down to one thing

Getting out of a toxic -thinking block

The rush to the front of the brain

Free will

When you think, you change

Imaging builds physical thoughts

Contribution of the heart

Expertise

13.

Write

The industrious basal ganglia

How to write your thoughts

The metacog

14.

Revisit

Thoughts become plastic enough to be redesigned

How to redesign thoughts

15.

Active reach

The doing gets the results

Your faith manifests

Moving through the sequence

Integrity in the brain

Active reaching helps you feel truth

Summary for the 21 day brain detox plan

Learning to break down the toxic thought

Learning to build up the healthy thought

Afterword

Introduction

Brain is a fixed and hardwired machine only few decades ago → do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. → the brain, far from being fixed in toxicity, can change even in the most challenging neurological situations. → as we consciously direct our thinking, we can wire out toxic patterns of thinking and replace them with healthy thoughts. New thought networks grow. We increase out intelligence and bring healing to our brain, minds and physical bodies.

It all starts in the realm of the mind, with our ability to think and choose – the most powerful thing in the universe after God, and indeed, fashioned after God.

Thought changes the structure of matter. God said, Let there be light(Gen.1:3)

Neuroplasticity by definition means the brain is malleable and adaptable, changing moment by moment of every day.

Mind controls matter

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind 2 Timonthy 1:7 → science shows we are wired for love with a natural optimism bias. This means exactly what the Scripture says above.

Mind being what the brain does versus the brain doing the bidding of the mind.

The mind is what the brain does

Materialistic

It is the chemicals and neurons that create the mind and the the relationships between your thoughts and what you do can just be ignored.

In this reductionist view depression is a chemical imbalance problem of a machinelike brain; thereore, the treatment is to add in the missing chemicals.

Brain does the bidding of the mind

The brain is what the mind does.

Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate

Eric R Kandel, a Nobel prize-. – winning neuropsychiatrist for his work on memory, shows how our thoughts, even our imaginations, get under the skin of our DNA and can turn certain genes on and certain genes off, changing the structure of the neurons in the brain.

Our brain is changing moment by moment as we are thinking. By our thinking and choosing, we redesigning the landscape of our brain.

For now, rest in the assurance that what God has empowered you to do with your mind is more powerful and effective than any medication, any threat, any sickness or any neurological challenge.

We are not bound by the physical; we control the physical.

Choices are real

75% to 98 % of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life. Only 2 to 25% of mental and physical illnesses come from the environment and genes.

Thinking activates genes

Our consciousness – this phenomenal gift from God to be able to think—activates our genes and changes our brain. Science shows that our thoughts, with their embedded feelings, turn sets of genes on and off in complex relationships.

Our brains are shaped by our reactions

Thinking changes our DNA

Stress

Friday, November 1, 2019