Your Brain And You Pt. 5Show Video Details ↓ Joyce Meyer: One of things that I think has been really helpful for people so they don't just feel like they're constantly fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, is you can either try to deal with the negative thought all the time and concentrate on that or you can just replace that negative thing with something positive and concentrate more on the positive. I love what Galatians 5 says, it says "Walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the loss of flesh." It doesn't say fight with the flesh. Dr. Catherine Leaf: No it doesn't. Joyce Meyer: So you can walk in the spirit. Dr. Catherine Leaf: So there is the victory, there is your key to victory, if you listen to the holy spirit, if you listen, and he'll speak to your heart, your heart will speak to your brain and tell you what to choose. I always tell people when I'm preaching at church, to be born again means you have to submit the throne of your life, where is the throne? You free-will area. If you submit that to Christ, if you give him your choices and say OK [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible]. I'm going to choose the wrong thing [inaudible] [inaudible] understanding. So if you acknowledge him in all those ways, if you give that back to him, he will guide you into the right choices which is what you said and then you can focus living in the spirit, not living in the flesh. Joyce Meyer: And it's so much easier for me to get up every day and say today I'm going to be positive rather than to say boy, I'm going to try not to be negative. Dr. Catherine Leaf: Very good. Joyce Meyer: So I just really want to encourage people to keep them from feeling like they're just fighting, fighting, fighting all the time. Just concentrate on the positives, say I'm going to be a positive person. I'm going to think on good things. I'm going to find the good things in people and then if the good is there, the bad won't have any place to get in. There is no room for that. And so we can renew our minds, we can begin to change our whole life by changing the way we think and we're going to talk about it more in the second half of the program. We'll be right back after these messages. [music] [music] … Narrator: Coming up Wednesday. Joyce Meyer: A lot of people dread a lot of things. And you know what, dread is a very close relative of fear. And I purposely in my life, I refuse to dread things. [music] … Narrator: There is a common misconception. Man 1: Where's he off too? Narrator: That a Joyce Meyer conference is just for ladies. Man 1: Ain't that just for ladies? Man 2: Is the Bible just for ladies? Man 1: Why aren't we going? Narrator: So why aren't you going? A Joyce Meyer conference is for men, women, teenagers, even kids. It's a weekend of fun, hilarious teaching from Joyce and a message that will challenge you to reach your destiny. The gospel is for everyone so everyone should be there. Better yet, admission is free. Come as you are and arrive early for best seating and we'll see you at a Joyce Meyer conference. Man 1: Does this tie look good with this jumpsuit? Man 2: Get in. Narrator: [music] Today get Joyce's book, Battlefield of the Mind along with a 4 part audio teaching packaged together with a donation of only $40 or more. And for a limited time, we'll also include Dr. Caroline Leaf's book, Who Switched Off My Brain, as a free bonus gift. Call 1-800-727-9673 or click JoyceMeyer.org [silence] [music] … … Joyce Meyer: Welcome back to the program and if you're just now joining us, Dr. Caroline Leaf is here and we're discussing how the thought life can hinder or help us in the area of really enjoying our lives and being what Christ wants us to be. Well Dr. Leaf, it's just been so amazing to have you. And you said, we're wired by God for the positive. Tell me what you were saying about that. Dr. Catherine Leaf: Well the whole neurological wiring of your body, the whole chemical balance, the whole way that nerve cells are formed, the whole way that the little branches grow are all for the positive. It is all for the faith-based emotions. It's not for anything negative so it's actually easier... You've actually got to work harder to be negative. So what's happened is we're in a negative environment. We're in an environment where negativity, it's become a habit. Something that's a habit is easy to do. So an environment that's been created is very driven by the evil side of life. So you're so acclimatized to the negative side that it's become a habit so, we are in the habit of thinking negatively. But actually, that's much harder to do. You've got to walk a much harder path to be negative rather than positive because we're wired by God who is more powerful, obviously he's omnipotent, to actually work towards the positive. So if we can shift our mindset and recognize that actually it's easier to be, that's my wiring, my wiring is for good and not for bad. There is obviously original sin in us which distorts the whole thing, but we are wired for that and that's a good thing. And also within 4 days, or as you're listening, you really start changing your wiring because as you're listening and processing information, as you listen to something as you think about something as it goes through all the routes that I was describing the last couple of days. What will happen there is that the information will go into the brain. If you really think hard about that and you do morph with it, with the information, think about it, write it down, talk about it. I call it in my four step process, if you're reading it, it's rethink, recheck and reteach. So you take it in, you read it or receive it, you think about it and analyze it. You then talk about it, write it down, talk about it some more. So you're not just doing... That takes about 48 hours to process that. So if you don't do that within 48 hours, this is part of my 25 years of my PhD research, teaching people that those 4 steps will actually solidify the memory. So if you're sitting in a situation and you are getting fed with good word and you've watched a really great thing on TV or you've been to an incredible conference. If you don't do anything more than just listen, it will go into the non-conscious, inaccessible part of the brain, it's going to be there. Joyce Meyer: That's so interesting. Dr. Catherine Leaf: If you work on it, if you think about it, if you write it down, if you check, if you teach someone else, if you give it up to something else you will solidify those branches and they'll go from being flapping branches which contain the memories to being solidified branches that will impact the way you think. Joyce Meyer: This is why so many people don't understand, even though they go to church on a regular basis, why nothing changes in their life because all they are doing is sitting there, letting somebody else give them information but then if they're not doing anything with it... Like if you would take notes or get a recorded copy of that sermon, listen to it again, don't think you've got it just because you heard it, but keep that maybe around somewhere for even a year where you can re-look at that again and go over that again and again and let that thing take root in you. Dr. Catherine Leaf: Absolutely. Joyce Meyer: Because when things get rooted in us then the devil can't steal from us. Then it's something new. I didn't have a revelation on God's love for me so for one solid year the holy spirit had me study the love of god for myself. And when I got to the end of that year, which included me saying it probably 20 times a day, God loves me, God loves me, God loves me. Reading on it, reading every book I could find, I have such a revelation on that now that I don't think, no matter what happens in my life, that the enemy could ever take that away from me. Dr. Catherine Leaf: Well you know what happened there, is that you built a double memory of everything. Everything, just make sure you build a memory that gives us left and right side of our brains. Every memory is double and as you're building the memory and processing it's, it's in a fluid state. You have to keep on going through like you did for the whole year and you solidify that memory. As soon as it is solidified, as soon as it's actually connecting the left side with the right side and it joins together, that memory will then continue to impact your life. And people are building this kind of memory and the whole society is all designed towards negative, teaching children not to think and creating this kind of memory. So as our children are going through education and into adulthood thinking like this instead of thinking like this. That's why we are naturally slipping into the negative instead of what we're designed for, which is the good. Joyce Meyer: That's so true. Well that's good. Today we have what I would term is information overload. Choice overload. Dr. Catherine Leaf: Yes. Joyce Meyer: There is just like almost too much of everything. There is the information age just coming at you all the time. And then multitasking is like, you know, that's our culture. It's almost like if you want to do one thing at a time, people think you're this lazy person who is not very smart or something. And so how do you feel that the culture or the environment that we've created now... Because we do create this stuff and then we're stuck with the results of it and we end up not liking it. How do you feel that the busyness of our culture is affecting people's minds? Dr. Catherine Leaf: Well, it's called the acceleration syndrome, entire courses teach us how to do more things which makes us even more crazy and the multiplicity of choices. It creates almost an ADD environment. You know, we're being taught not to focus, we're being taught to sort of get a surface glance of everything but that's not how our brain was designed. Our brain is designed for depth, our brain is designed for, take something and like a dog, choose a bone, chew that information to the end. And these multiplicity of choices, we have to learn to actually focus within those choices. Now our society we've acclimatized ourselves to all this huge amount of stuff coming at us so we just kind of block and no one goes deep and it's very very unhealthy for the brain. The brain moves into a toxic state immediately. And also in addition to that, we're are then in a passive, negative state which is really dangerous and we get filled with all the negative stuff. And that is why we are naturally inclined, to answer your earlier question, we're naturally inclined ourselves. So there is a huge negative plan in society. It's good to have all the choices, but you've got to learn how to manage the knowledge. So we have to discipline ourselves to think and one of the biggest things that I've been teaching for 25 years is, how do you think? What is happening as you listen? How should you process? What should you be focusing on? And that's life changing stuff. And obviously with the word you're putting in the correct thing. But just teaching people, as you say, even in the word, there's so many marbles what do you choose? What book should I read? Joyce Meyer: I like what you said, that we've created an ADD society which is attention deficit disorder, and we're not saying that every person who has ADD, that this is the reason for it, but I know, that people just talk constantly about how stressed out they are and how busy they are and how everything seems to overwhelm them. And I just don't think we're intended to be dealing with 6 or 7 things every second of our life. And so you feel... Dr. Catherine Leaf: Neurologically, that's not the design... Joyce Meyer: So what do you think we can do as people living in this society. What can we do to turn that around? |