How Are You Re-Wiring Your Brain?

As someone thinks within himself, so he is.

-Proverbs 23:7

I like to learn, as I may have mentioned once or 12 times before, and I like to learn in order to improve the person others meet.  One of the things I have been learning, with a LOT of prompting and more than a few pokes between the eyes, is that I need to rewire my brain.  Now, that might sound easy enough, but have you ever tried it?  

Part of rewiring the brain involves rewriting what's already in there.  There are thoughts, concepts, ideas, judgments, preconceptions, anger, prejudices, and all other kind of critters hiding in the recesses of my cranial goop.  Dr. Caroline Leaf, in her book 'Switch On Your Brain', states: "As we think, we change the physical nature of our brain. As we consciously direct our thinking, we can wire out toxic patterns of thinking and replace them with healthy thoughts."  Therefore, whatever I am putting into my mind is changing my thought patterns.  Thus, when I focus on anger or judgments or revenge or all the negative thoughts, I am, quite literally, rewiring my brain to think that way.

If I want to change the WAY I think I must change WHAT I think about. In order to change WHAT I think about, I need to follow Jesus' teaching in Matthew 4:17 - "Jesus picked up where John left off: 'Change your life. God’s kingdom is here.'”  Think about this more practically...if you find your favorite shirt has a stain on it, do you keep wearing it or do you wash it to remove the stain?

God has given us a GREAT gift...our brain.  With that great gift comes a GREAT responsibility...our attitudes, thoughts, responses, thoughts, kindnesses, thoughts, concepts, thoughts...get the picture?  Is it time to rewire?