MENTAL WHOLENESSThe Process of Renewing Your Mind

Dr. SOS Issachar 2015

BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES

Develop a general understanding of the mind

Develop awareness of the impact of your thoughts on your mental, spiritual, and physical being

Gain insights into your ability to control your thoughts to improve the quality of your life and your health (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Increase your desire as a leader to want to engage your members in advancing their thinking

WHO IS DR. SOS?

Wife & Mother

Christian Psychologist

Most importantly…a child of the Most High God

-Thomas Edison

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will

interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in

diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

WHAT IS THE MIND?

Ability to think & choose

Given & fashioned by God

Understand truths known in our spirits & wires them into our brain

Change the physical reality of the brain to reflect our choices

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIND & THE

BRAIN?

The mind and the brain are not one in the same

Simplified perspective: brain = hardware; mind = software

Mind is manifestation of thought, perception, emotion, determination, imagination

Brain is a physical organ

Brain is the vessel in which the electronic impulses that create thought are contained

Your body (brain) is not in control of your mind, but the other way around

It is MIND over matter.

WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT OUR MINDS…

There are several scriptures that provide us with insight into what we are to do with our minds

2 Timothy 1:7

Isaiah 26:3

Colossians 3:2

Matthew 22:37

WHAT’S IN A THOUGHT?

When you think, you build thoughts

Proverbs 23:7

Thoughts change the structure of matter

Genesis 1:3

Neuroplasticity… neroplaswhat?

Romans 12:2

Your thought life, which leads to your choices, has the power to free you or keep you entrapped in bondage

Deuteronomy 30:19

WHAT’S IN A THOUGHT

Our thinking affects not only us, but those around us

Exodus 34:7

Neurogenesis

Lamentations 3:22-23

Victim of my circumstances & my biology

2 Corinthians 10:5

THOUGHTS & CIRCUMSTANCES

James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

We cannot control events and circumstances in life, but we can control our reaction to those events and circumstances

Matthew 7:13-14

Galatians 6:7-8

IN THE WORDS OF JAMES ALLEN

“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot, it rapidly crystalizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstances.”

Fear = Failure

Hate = Injury

THOUGHT EXERCISE

Take a thought/feeling card and follow the instructions as they are given

THOUGHTS AFFECT MIND,BODY, & SPIRIT

Good thinking = good choices = healthy thoughts

Negative/toxic thinking = toxic choices = toxic thoughts

75-98% of ALL illnesses are rooted in our thoughts

80% of all cancers are connected to our thoughts

THOUGHTS AFFECT MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT

THOUGHTS AFFECT MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT

James Allen

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed”

“Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.”

HOW TO RENEW YOUR MIND - DR. CAROLINE LEAF

Choose to have a controlled thought life and to be happy and healthy. Everyone can learn how to improve their thinking, learning, and intelligence

Wire in positive thought networks that can fill us with the power to get us back on track (2 Timothy 1:7)

To detox your thought life, you need to remember it’s “your thinking that will actually change your brain”

If you put your mind to it, you can achieve what God says you can achieve

You control your brain; your brain does not control you

SWITCH ON YOUR BRAIN DR. CAROLINE LEAF

21-Day Brain Detox Plan

5 step plan

Gather

Focused Reflection

Write

Revisit

Reach

AS LEADERS THIS IS WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO DO…

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. NIV

Questions, comments, thoughts?