At the beginning of each year, we have a young adult event called Revive in Connecticut. This year Leah Fronczek was one of the workshop leaders. Her topic was detoxing your brain and I asked her to come on Restitutio to share with you what she learned in studying this topic. This is so important for us as Christians, because God expects us to be able to control our thinking (Romans 12.2). How do you get rid of toxic thoughts? Leah is going to help us think through not only how negative thoughts affect us, but how to combat them.
Now, before we get into this, I want to make a distinction. The mind, as we are using it in this discussion, is your mental state, consciousness, memories, feelings etc. , i.e. where you do your thinking, whereas the brain is the physical organ in your head that makes the mind possible. Obviously, these two are connected, but they aren’t necessarily the same. We’ll get into this more, but I just wanted to point that out before we get started.
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- Check out these books by Carolyn Leaf that we mentioned in this podcast.
- Intro music: Jazzy Frenchy by bensound.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.
Really good podcast. It’s interesting to hear from the perspective of someone who’s studied the mind and brain literally. We know it in many ways already that what we focus on tends to occur, but to hear that she can actually see neuron branches occurring in a negative manner through bad thoughts is very new to my ears. I knew patterns of bad thoughts can lead to this, but to hear about the science of it is a first. Thanks!