Linking Science and the Brain with the Mind

Linking Science and the Brain with the Mind



Dr. Caroline Leaf and Author of Battlefield of the Mind Joyce Meyer


Joyce Meyer Audio Podcast: Your Brian and You - Part 1 (minutes 1 through 8)






Dr. Leaf: I’ve spent time teaching people what actually happens when information is going into the brain and as you listen and process a thought. I teach people you can not only control the learning side, improve learning skills and knowledge management, but it’s also the mind issues, because if your minds not right you can’t learn anyway. You can’t do anything.






Joyce Meyer: One of the greatest revelations to me, in the very beginning of trying to get some things straightened out in my life, was to discover I could actually control my thoughts. There are so many people who don’t even think that is an option. I was in my 30’s when I first starting learning this. All those years, I just thought whatever came into my head. I didn’t have any idea I could do anything about it. I was abused in my childhood so naturally, I started out with a lot of really negative fearful thought patterns. And those were the ideas controlling me and I just thought that was my life.






It was so eye opening to me when I began to find out that my thoughts were affecting my emotions and my relationships and how I felt about myself and they even affected my body. Tell me from your standpoint scientifically: How do your thoughts affect your life and your body?






Dr. Leaf: What you say is so perfect, people think they are controlled. One of the big areas of research that I’m very involved with at the moment is the whole concept of free will. And what I teach people to understand is that a thought is a real thing. So many people think that a thought is something out there, they can’t feel it, they can’t touch it. But it’s actually a real thing. As you’re thinking you’re actually building memories in your brain.






The thoughts in your brain look like trees. The interesting thing is if it’s a good thought, a good emotional thought, if it’s based on something positive, the pattern is actually going to look different than a negative thought – or Toxic Thoughts. I call them Toxic Thoughts, they will actually effect your entire body, they look different and are formed by a different process, formed with different chemicals and combinations of chemicals.






The Toxic Thought looks different to a Good Thought. That Toxic Thought has little thorns on it. If you imagine your thought to look like a tree; the nerve cells in your brain, your memories, literally look like branches on trees if they are healthy. But the Toxic one grows little thorns. That is due to the whole chemical process that occurs, you pick up the wrong amount of chemicals and it grows little thorns on the memory.






They are pockets of chemicals you can actually see in research.






It changes the whole electrically magnetic state of the whole memory so it looks different. And what it does – you had said it affects your whole body, which is so true – every time you revisit that Toxic Thought, it will then cause those little thorns to squirt out their poison of excess chemicals, which will then flow through your body and make you sick.






There is a very definite route that those chemicals actually flow. First they go to your heart, and life is in your blood, so it starts choking the heart, going through the immune system and breaking down the defense.






So you talk about the battle. What I’ve been studying is the little strategies that the soldiers follow and what they actually go through chemically and scientifically through your body. There is an ABSOLUTE Battle Plan, that happens in your body.






Every thought you think has incredible immense effect on your body, it changes your whole wiring. I mean within 4 days you can change you’re whole Nero-circuitry. As you listen to this.






Joyce Meyer: So when you have all these little thorns and these negative thought patterns, you see this, and say “things have to change.” For me, I started to read the word of God and saw that one of the first things I need to do was to renew my mind. That is the plan I started to do. I read how you have to RENEW your MIND *DAILY*. So it’s an on-going process and it’s so KEY to have the good life that Jesus planned for us to have.






[Reading anything about love will help you realize the same things]






So here I had this negative life and I had thorns all over the place, inside. How long does it start to take to begin to reverse that process?






Dr. Leaf: It takes 4 days to start taking the thorns off of the trees, it actually takes 21 days to establish a memory without the thorns and then you grow a new memory over the old one. So I use the example, one of the main things you’ve got to do to begin to get the thorns off is forgiveness. Accept and acknowledge the fact you’re actually hanging on to that Toxic Thought. Realize you are not supposed to have fear, pain, you aren’t supposed to feel anxiety, frustration. Begin to let go of them. When you start releasing the pain the chemical structure starts to change and dissolve.

Attract the Love of your life

How to attract the love you want: Finding the person of your dreams, manifesting them into your reality...... NOW

For those of you "cut-to-the-chase" types, it's very simple. I've outlined what you need to do below, but please read on so you can read just how it worked for me.

1. Believe in real, pure, true, undying Love
2. Know there is someone out there that fits you and your life just like a puzzle piece
3. Write down all the qualities you want:
a. Looks, personality, social status, career field, family background, etc
b. Be as detailed as possible, the more details the better
i. Remember this quote when outlining your details: "shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars"
ii. There is no guarantee you'll find every detail, but just imagine the perfect qualities and hopefully you'll manifest someone close
c. Seriously consider and WRITE down every quality you can think of:
i. Vacation style, parenting style, ambition, how they resolve conflicts, how they handle money, who prepares dinner, who brings in the bread and butter, do you also want roasted lamb with your bread ;). laundry, cars, suburb living or rural? taste in music, hobbies, interests, pets, religion.... I think you get the point.
4. Read over your list, edit when necessary, add to it as often as possible
5. Talk with friends, family, anyone who will listen about how you will find this person and believe the words you speak

10 Steps to Happiness that YOU can try today :)

A TV program follows an attempt to apply a ten step formula for happiness to the residents of a town in England called Slough.

Experts believe they have found the essential ingredients to make a person’s life happier. In an unusual three-month experiment, six specialists from a variety of disciplines worked to improve the happiness levels of a typical UK town.

The experts tried and tested 10 simple steps in attaining happiness. They found successful strategies included nurturing a plant, smiling at strangers and cutting television viewing by a half.

A four-part documentary series, “Making Slough Happy,” has been produced on BBC. To read the BBC NEWS Story : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4436482.stm

During the series, they take 50 volunteers from Slough, with the aim of planting the “seeds of happiness” amongst this core group who will then spread their cheer to others in a ripple effect.

Dr Stevens explained: “The volunteers will take their newfound skills and attitudes out into the community, and in this way we will begin to change the psychological climate of Slough.”

Based on best knowledge and research, the team came up with a 10-point plan for happiness.

The experts measured the happiness levels of the Slough volunteers before, during and after the end of the project to assess if their methods were effective.


Here are the 10 Steps that they are trying in Slough.
Pick two or three of them to test on yourself this week and see how much happiness you can generate.

The 10 steps to happiness:

1. Plant something and nurture it


2. Count your blessings – at least five – at the end of each day
3. Take time to talk – have an hour-long conversation with a loved one each week.
4. Phone a friend whom you have not spoken to for a while and arrange to meet up.
5. Give yourself a treat every day and take the time to really enjoy it.
6. Have a good laugh at least once a day.
7. Get physical – exercise for half an hour three times a week.
8. Smile at and/or say hello to a stranger at least once each day.
9. Cut your TV viewing by half.
10. Spread some kindness – do a good turn for someone every day.


God Bless You,

Akon - Pot Of Gold

The Story of Bottled Water (2010)

This is a must watch video. Some key points:

- Shipments of our "recycling" to India
- We're paying 2000% because of Advertising
- Tap water is better regulated and better for us

Louise Hay: "Points of my Philosophy" in You Can Heal Your Life

• We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
• Every thought we think is creating our future.
• The point of power is always in the present moment.
• Everyone suffers from self-hatred and guilt.
• The bottom line for everyone is, "I'm not good enough."
• It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
• Resentment, criticism and guilt are the most damaging patterns.
• Releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer.
• When we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
• We must release the past and forgive everyone.
• We must be willing to begin to learn to love ourselves.
• Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the key to positive changes.
• We create every so-called "illness" in out body.

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. Santa Monica, Ca: Hay House, 1984, pg. 5

Let Miracles Occur! Are you ready?

The question is no longer, “Can a miracle occur?” We walk in the energy of miracles everyday.

The question is, “Do you have the courage to ask for a miracle and then the faith to let it happen.... to let it occur, easily, gracefully, free of drama and struggle?"

Let wellness, peace of mind, hope, zest for life, and joyous emotion become your natural and familiar state.

Love Dare Day Two

Day 2

Love is kind

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32

Kindness is love in action. If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kindness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kindness creates a blessing. One is preventive, the other proactive. These two sides of love are the cornerstones on which many of the other attributes we will discuss are built.

Love makes you kind. And kindness makes you likeable. When you’re kind, people want to be around you. They see you as being good to them and good for them.

The Bible keys in on the importance of kindness: “Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man” (Proverbs 3:3–4). Kind people simply find favor wherever they go. Even at home. But “kindness” can feel a little generic when you try defining it, much less living it. So let’s break kindness down into four basic core ingredients:

Gentleness. When you’re operating from kindness, you’re careful how you treat your spouse, never being unnecessarily harsh. You’re sensitive. Tender. Even if you need to say hard things, you’ll bend over backwards to make your rebuke or challenge as easy to hear as possible. You speak the truth in love.

Helpfulness. Being kind means you meet the needs of the moment. If it’s housework, you get busy. A listening ear? You give it. Kindness graces a wife with the ability to serve her husband without worrying about her rights. Kindness makes a husband curious to discover what his wife needs, then motivates him to be the one who steps up and ensures those needs are met—even if his are put on hold.

Willingness. Kindness inspires you to be agreeable. Instead of being obstinate, reluctant, or stubborn, you cooperate, you stay flexible. Rather than complaining and making excuses, you look for reasons to compromise and accommodate. A kind husband ends thousands of potential arguments by his willingness to listen first rather than demand his way.

Initiative. Kindness thinks ahead, then takes the first step. It doesn’t sit around waiting to be prompted or coerced before getting off the couch. The kind husband or wife will be the one who greets first, smiles first, serves first, and forgives first. They don’t require the other to get his or her act together before showing love. When acting from kindness, you see the need, then make your move. First.

Jesus creatively described the kindness of love in His parable of the Good Samaritan, found in the Bible—Luke, chapter 10. A Jewish man attacked by robbers is left for dead on a remote road. Two religious leaders, respected among their people, walk by without choosing to stop. Too busy. Too important. Too fond of clean hands. But a common man of another race—the hated Samaritans, whose dislike for the Jews was both bitter and mutual—sees this stranger in need and is moved with compassion. Crossing all cultural boundaries and risking ridicule, he stops to help the man. Bandaging his wounds and putting him on his own donkey, he carries him to safety and pays all his medical expenses out of his own pocket.

Where years of racism had caused strife and division, one act of kindness brought two enemies together. Gently. Helpfully. Willingly. Taking the initiative, this man demonstrated true kindness in every way.

Wasn’t kindness one of the key things that drew you and your spouse together in the first place? When you married, weren’t you expecting to enjoy his or her kindness for the rest of your life? Didn’t your mate feel the same way about you? Even though the years can take the edge off that desire, your enjoyment in marriage is still linked to the daily level of kindness expressed.

The Bible describes a woman whose husband and children bless and praise her. Among her noble attributes are these: “She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue” (Proverbs 31:26). How about you? How would your husband or wife describe you on the kindness meter? How harsh are you? How gentle and helpful? Do you wait to be asked, or do you take the initiative to help? Don’t wait for your spouse to be kind first.

It is difficult to demonstrate love when you feel little to no motivation. But love in its truest sense is not based on feelings. Rather, love determines to show thoughtful actions even when there seems to be no reward. You will never learn to love until you learn to demonstrate kindness.

Today’s Dare

In addition to saying nothing
negative to your spouse again today,
do at least one unexpected gesture
as an act of kindness.

What is desirable in a man is his kindness. (Proverbs 19:22)

The Love Dare - Day 1

The Love Dare - Day 1

This is an absolutely fantastic step to take to strengthen any relationship. It gets very personal about two weeks in and is just a joy from there on. If you have a failing relationship, or even a new one blossoming - this is a great step to take to go to the next level in life with them :) Try it!!! Love, Peace and Hope!

Attracting the love you want: Finding the person of your dreams

How to attract the love you want: Finding the person of your dreams, manifesting them into your reality...... NOW

For those of you "cut-to-the-chase" types, it's very simple. I've outlined what you need to do below, but please read on so you can read just how it worked for me.

1. Believe in real, pure, true, undying Love

2. Know there is someone out there that fits you and your life just like a puzzle piece.

3.Write down all the qualities you want:
a. Looks, personality, social status, career field, family background, etc
b. Be as detailed as possible, the more details the better
i. Remember this quote when outlining your details: "shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars"
ii. There is no guarantee you'll find every detail, but just imagine the perfect qualities and hopefully you'll manifest someone close
c. Seriously consider and WRITE down every quality you can think of:
i. Vacation style, parenting style, ambition, how they resolve conflicts, how they handle money, who prepares dinner, who brings in the bread and butter, do you also want roasted lamb with your bread ;). laundry, cars, suburb living or rural? taste in music, hobbies, interests, pets, religion.... I think you get the point.

4. Read over your list, edit when necessary, add to it as often as possible5. Talk with friends, family, anyone who will listen about how you will find this person and believe the words you speak

My story:

August 2007 I had my heart crushed into pieces and my world turned upside down. I was living with my boyfriend of nearly 2 years when he broke up with me out of the blue (to me of course). We were living in a town 25 minutes outside of the metro area and he decided to go hit the city with the boys to drink and dance away any thoughts of the pain he had just caused for me. So I decided to have a bottle of wine, create a myspace for myself and blog about my agony. I was mad, I was so mad at him that night. I put my feelings out there and then started to reflect on my time spent with him. And after considering all that we'd been through together, I realized all the things I didn't like about him. So I started to list the things I wanted out of my next boyfriend. Within days I met a guy in the most unexpected circumstances. I decided to pursue that relationship and I was given exactly what I had asked for in my blog that drunken night. However, he wasn't everything I ever wanted. I am still amazed how he was everything I had specified, I just wasn't clear enough. In my unhappiness with this new man, I decided to keep a journal. It felt good to get all my thoughts out about life and rant about all the intricate details I couldn't necessarily share with the people in my life.

Again, one night, not appreciating this wonderful man i had asked specifically for, I began to outline in great detail my new perspective on what I expect out of a man. I detailed out how we should feel with each other, how we would treat each other, how everything should be. I had dreams, high hopes, of finding this man that was my other puzzle piece to complete me. I'd tell my friends there is a guy out there made just for me. I told anyone I could about my dreams of finding this man tailor made for me. And I found him, I really found him. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? Well let me know if you ever try it and what you find that happens. If you want to go a little further.... I recently read an article about "afformations" which you might want to try. These are affirmations turned into questions formed only in a positive or neutral way. They sort of turn your brain into a search engine, seeking to find the answer, but don't allow yourself to answer them.

For example:
Why am I attracting my true love?
Why is it so easy to be happy with my right and perfect partner?
Why am I so lucky/blessed to find this amazing person that was made for me?
Why do I find it so easy to attract the person of my dreams?

Remember, don't allow your brain to give you an answer, especially ignore every negative thought that may enter. Repeat these daily, any time you remember.

Peace, Love and Positivity <3

Hi Everyone!

I created this blog for people who need some positive energy :) e-mail me at themostpositivegirlintheworld@gmail.com (or @live.com, or @yahoo.com, or find me on myspace, twitter and facebook : ). Any time you need some encouragement, let me know and I’m guaranteed to make you laugh, smile or at least smirk!

Thanks I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Peace, Love and Positivity!