#315: The One About the Brain
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
One advantage we have is that we have the ability to choose what we focus on - what we focus on determines our actions which directs our life. What a beautiful gift from our loving Creator!
Action Steps:
Do a daily thought download. Be honest.
Understand the overview of the brain well enough that you can explain it to others.
Write "Every coin has two sides" as a reminder that there is another, better perspective you can choose to believe.
Sign up for my mailing list at StruggleWellSchool.com and get the free download to help you determine what you’re thinking. Then follow the prompts to determine your thoughts, feelings, and actions on both the struggle and wellness cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Emily Thomas and each week I bring you some thoughts on, well, our thoughts. |
| 0:23.1 | Our thoughts can lead to dark places or lovely ones, but I've learned that the struggling |
| 0:26.9 | well is an inside job. You have the power to take those squirrely thoughts captive and |
| 0:31.3 | replace them with truth, but with about 70,000 thoughts a day, we have our work cut out |
| 0:36.9 | for us. The good thing is, we know the perfection is nonsense and peace is a perspective shift |
| 0:42.3 | away. School is in session. Let's get to shifting. |
| 0:46.1 | Hey guys, welcome back. I'm so glad you're here. I want to share with you some fascinating |
| 0:50.7 | things that I've been learning about the brain. I'm not going to get super deep into it |
| 0:54.0 | because the brain can be very confusing. I've done some studying for nursing where I'm like, |
| 0:59.8 | what is even happening? What are these parts? I can't remember the words. It's not fun. |
| 1:04.3 | This isn't going to be like that, but I want to kind of do a quick overview of the brain |
| 1:08.7 | and the things I've been learning about the brain because it is rocking my world. The design of it |
| 1:14.0 | by God is so amazing. For those of us who read the Bible, we know that there's a lot of talk in |
| 1:19.6 | there about taking our thoughts captive. That's what Paul tells us to do in second Corinthians. |
| 1:24.5 | Romans 122 says that we should be transformed by the renewing of our minds. First Peter says that |
| 1:30.6 | we're to prepare our minds for action. Okay, we have our work cut out for us because we're supposed |
| 1:36.2 | to take thoughts captive, renew our minds and get our minds ready for action. So in addition to |
| 1:41.1 | these commands, there's a lot of high-sakes things going on in our own lives. We're raising kids, |
| 1:45.4 | we're working. We're trying to live our lives and make good choices and the amount of choices |
| 1:49.6 | that come at us. Oh my goodness. It's a lot. So we know that our thoughts are important, but at least |
| 1:55.7 | for me, up until about a year ago, I didn't know how I was supposed to take my thoughts captive, |
| 2:01.6 | how I was supposed to renew my mind and get my mind ready for action. I would tell my husband, |
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