Personal Reality Our “reality” is the filtered information that

comes through our senses. The brain actually

takes in 400 billion pieces of information per

second. However, we’re only aware of 2,000.

That means that a person’s reality is nothing

more than the sense that a person makes out of

the 2,000 bits of information per second.

The eyes are like a video camera taking in

information and storing it, but it doesn't mean

anything until the story about life is put together

on the editor’s table (the frontal lobe in the

brain).

The brain makes decisions based on possibilities

and probabilities. It takes incoming information

and contemplates the possibilities of merging it

with 400 billion bits already stored in the brain.

Our brain will filter out most information that is

coming from our senses, then organize and replay

old familiar patterns of thoughts and emotions.

Established patterns of thought are addictions,

like predictable grooves in a record.

However, the brain also contemplates new

possibilities and when new “visions” emerge it is

called realization. It is gaining a new view that

integrates information bits in new ways.

The brain is made up of tiny nerve cells called

neurons. The neurons have tiny branches that

reach out to other neurons to form a neuro-net.

Each place they connect is integrated into a

thought or memory. The brain builds up all it’s

concepts by the law of associative memory.

The brain doesn’t make a distinction between

experiences and memory, because both use the

same neuro-nets. What we think we experienced

becomes our memory, accurate or not. This is

why eye witness accounts are notoriously

inaccurate. We don't remember most of what we

experience but only the memory we make.

Nerve cells that fire together wire together. If you

get angry on a daily basis, or feel the victim on a

daily basis, those nerve cells wire together to

form an identity, or long term relationship.

Every time we interrupt a thought process, it

produces a chemical response in the nerve cells

that are connected to each other and starts

breaking their long term relationship. If we

practice our brain rehearsal of interrupting old

patterns of thinking, it will get easier to do.

The hypothalamus assembles peptides into neuro-

hormones that match the emotional states we

experience on a daily basis. There are chemicals

for emotions like anger, sadness, victimization,

lust. The moment we experience any emotion, the

hypothalamus immediately assembles the peptide

and sends it through the blood stream.

Every single cell in the body has receptors for

peptides on the outside of the cell. One cell can

have thousands of receptors. When a peptide

locks on a receptor, it sends a signal into the cell.

Peptides stay attached and set off a whole

cascade of events within the cell. Sometimes the

reaction even changes the nucleus of the cell (like

cancer).

Each cell is alive and is the smallest unit of

consciousness in the body. These cells start

sending signals to the brain which formulate

imagery that sounds like voices in our head.

Then we think of a reason we are hearing/seeing

these images/voices, and we start repeating past

solutions.

We keep repeating solutions that will satisfy our

chemical needs. So, if we can’t control our

emotional state, we must be addicted to it. People

we love conditionally are people who satisfy our

emotional needs (co-dependent). Likewise we

also become addicted to the stress in our lives.

When a cell is repeatedly exposed to certain

emotion peptides, it will have more receptors for

that peptide when it divides, and less receptors

for vitamins, minerals, and nutrition, and the

release of waste products. After years of flooding

cells with emotional peptides, the cells divide

repeatedly, creating more receptor sites for our

favorite emotions.

Thankfully, this process is reversible.

Deuteronomy 30:19 “Today I have given you the

choice between life and death, between blessings

and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to

witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would

choose life, so that you and your descendants

might live!”

Galatians 6:8 “The one who sows to please his

sinful nature, from that nature will reap

destruction; the one who sows to please the

Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

If we keep rehearsing our addictive emotions we

will die. If we submit ourselves to the Spirit,

putting on the mind of Christ we will experience

divine healing, divine health, and divine life.

When we observe our own thoughts and

emotions, we discover our own addictions.

Addictions are familiar patterns of thinking and

feeling that we can’t control. We draw situations

and people to ourselves that reinforce our

thought/emotional patterns. We are in love with

the emotions we are addicted to, without even

considering if it brings us pleasure or pain, life or

death.

Most of us operate on yesterdays emotions. We

are hypnotized by our past. Emotions make

memories. Without new emotions no new

memory is made. All our days become the same.

Change means that we have to abandon our old

repetitive conclusions, leaving our comfort zone

for a few moments, to experience new emotions.

We may never let this process rise to the surface,

but if we do, our old points of view begin to fall

apart. This process is deeply unsettling, so most

people won’t make this journey. When we get

into the chaos of unmet emotional needs most of

us give up hope and go back to the old patterns of

thinking and feeling.

Allowing ourselves to feel deeply unsettled is

entirely new territory in the brain. We will be

forced to disconnect from old beliefs and that will

free us to rewire to new beliefs. Ultimately it

changes us from the inside out. If I change my

mind, my choices will change. If I change my

choices, my life will change.

If I can’t change, what am I addicted to? What

will I lose if I change? We must experience

withdrawal from our emotional addictions to

people, places, things to allow us to rewire into a

new person.

There is enormous potential to change the

characteristic patterns we have fallen into. Our

mind is carefully engineered to experience

change. Our minds will create our new body, our

new life. Changing our thoughts and attitudes

will change our bodies, our reality, and our lives.

Psalm 13:2 “How long must I wrestle with my

thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart?

2 Cor 10:4 “for the weapons of our warfare are

not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the

casting down of strongholds, casting down

imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted

against the knowledge of God, and bringing

every thought into captivity to the obedience of

Christ.”

If we take the time to design a new life, and we

take time every day to feed it, we will produce

that life. Anything you can emotionally imagine

you can create. Your intention causes it to

materialize. Thoughts are creative, and create our

physical world.

James 1:7-“A double minded man is unstable in

all his ways.” Causing our mind to focus on only

one Truth changes us until we become our

thoughts.

1 Corinthians 2:14 “For who hath known the

mind of the Lord, But we have the mind of

Christ”.

A disciple of Christ sees the day as an

opportunity to create avenues of reality and

emotions by focusing on Jesus, the Way, and the

Truth. Thoughts becomes seed planting and

fertilization to bring forth the kingdom of God.

When we try to work out faith-based outcomes in

our mind, we immediately discover what a battle

rises up within us. Mark 9:24 “I do believe; help

me overcome my unbelief!” Psalm 13:2 “How

long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every

day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my

enemy triumph over me?”

In Conclusion, not too long into this battle we

discover it is not so easy to just choose faith

based outcomes. Our old patterns of belief, called

strongholds, are very resistant to eviction. Our

brain is wired together into a neuro-net and each

place they connect is integrated into a thought or

memory.

This is a biological description of the process:

Every time we interrupt a thought process, it

produces a chemical response in the nerve cells

that are connected to each other and starts

breaking their long term relationship. If we

practice interrupting old patterns of thinking, it

will get easier to do.

Our brain is designed to make our thoughts more

real than anything else. It allows us to hold a

thought for an extended period of time, and

lowers the volume of external stimuli. When this

happens, we lose track of time and space.

With considerable effort, we can train our

thoughts to the Word of God. Interrupting old

patterns of thinking frees the mind to synchronize

to the universal wave, the Creator.

God has programmed our brains to BELIEVE.

We get to decide what we will believe. A wise

person will believe what God reveals. A foolish

person will hold on to old patterns of thought,

thinking it is true just because they believe it.