Elizabeth’s

“Neuroscience Made Over Easy”

that demonstrates the Spirit’s Truth

Adapted from the work of Dr. Caroline Leaf

Women Healing from Betrayal Spring 2015

Attention to your thought life is not a luxury … it is a necessity!

Neurons that fire together, wire together.

Each morning …

baby neurons are born for your use.

The brain is organized by establishing relationships,

neural attachments!

Not every baby neuron survives.

Use it, or lose it!

It is easier for a neuron to survive if there is an existing neuron, or neural network, that it can

‘associate’ itself with.

Ever have something go ‘over your head’?

Matthew 13:18-23

Your mind is like a forest of trees.

You decide it’s design.

Catch those thoughts before they take residence!

Thorny or Lush?

Thorny or Lush?

New research shockingly reveals that unforgiving, resentful, pessimistic or negative thoughts cause the "memory trees" in a brain's dendrites to become sparse and thorny. They no longer look like healthy, abundant "branches" sometimes referred to as "magic trees" by neurologists and brain researchers.

Psalm 1 1 Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives

not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.

2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night.

3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (AMP)

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Fight like a Daughter of the King! Pull down those strongholds through

the renewal of your mind!

Guys too!

Brains can Heal as Memory Traces Fade

‘Abstinence’ is the only path to complete healing – here’s why!

Brains can Heal as Memory Traces Fade

‘Abstinence’ is the only path to complete healing – here’s why!

Remember: • Be careful what you think! • Thoughts can become a physical part of you. • What is growing in your forest? in your “Kingdom Within?”

Trauma memories can become ‘islands’ in the forest and beg to become ‘integrated’ through ‘repetition compulsion’ or through healing (spiritual

practices, renewing the mind, Christian counsel or therapy).

Meet Dopamine

the brain’s major pleasure and reward neurotransmitter!

Dopamine Flood

Flooding results in receptor death

The brain loves balance!

Substance or Dopamine Behavior

Flooding results in receptor death

Flooding results in receptor death

The brain resets – becomes the Addicted Brain !

Flooding results in receptor death

Flooding results in receptor death

Receptor death can leads to Cravings & Co-Addictions

Receptor death leads to Dopamine Deficiency

Symptoms of Dopamine Deficiency

•Depression •Low Energy •No motivation, High procrastination •Difficulty feeling Happy •Low Libido, Erectile Dysfunction •Restless Leg Syndrome •Oversleeping •Weight Gain •Difficulty focusing, ADHD like symptoms •Schizophrenia & Parkinson’s syndromes

God’s design of the Brain and it’s thermostatic system

will not allow an Addiction to ever succeed!

The end of all addiction is death … cell then toxicity.

Illicit Sex & Affairs can lead down this same Neurological Path

•Depression •Low Energy •No motivation, High procrastination •Difficulty feeling Happy •Low Libido, Erectile Dysfunction •Restless Leg Syndrome •Oversleeping •Weight Gain •Difficulty focusing, ADHD like symptoms •Schizophrenia & Parkinson’s syndromes

Receptor Death … Thorny Strongholds in the Mind!

90 Day Reset

Lifelong Healing!

• Walk the 12 Steps daily – center on Christ!

• Protect against Relapse – stay alert & aware of memory traces trying to resurrect – Armor On!

Sobering Images …

Sobering Images …

But let’s not forget …