Behavioral Objectives: - Develop a general understanding of the mind - Develop awareness of the impact of your thoughts on your mental, spiritual, and physical being - Gain insights into your ability to control your thoughts to improve the quality of your life and your health (2 Corinthians 10:5) - Increase your desire as a leader to want to engage your members in advancing their thinking

1. MENTAL WHOLENESS
The Process of Renewing Your Mind
Dr. SOS
Issachar 2015

2. BEHAVIORAL
OBJECTIVES
Develop a general understanding of the mind
Develop awareness of the impact of your thoughts on your
mental, spiritual, and physical being
Gain insights into your ability to control your thoughts to
improve the quality of your life and your health (2
Corinthians 10:5)
Increase your desire as a leader to want to engage your
members in advancing their thinking

3. WHO IS DR. SOS?
Wife & Mother
Christian Psychologist
Most importantly…a child
of the Most High God

4. -Thomas Edison
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will
interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in
diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

5. WHAT IS THE MIND?
Ability to think & choose
Given & fashioned by God
Understand truths known in our spirits & wires them
into our brain
Change the physical reality of the brain to reflect our
choices

6. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE MIND & THE
BRAIN?
The mind and the brain are not one in the same
Simplified perspective: brain = hardware; mind = software
Mind is manifestation of thought, perception, emotion, determination, imagination
Brain is a physical organ
Brain is the vessel in which the electronic impulses that create thought are
contained
Your body (brain) is not in control of your mind, but the other way around
It is MIND over matter.

7. WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT
OUR MINDS…
There are several scriptures that provide us with
insight into what we are to do with our minds
2 Timothy 1:7
Isaiah 26:3
Colossians 3:2
Matthew 22:37

8. WHAT’S IN A THOUGHT?
When you think, you build thoughts
Proverbs 23:7
Thoughts change the structure of matter
Genesis 1:3
Neuroplasticity… neroplaswhat?
Romans 12:2
Your thought life, which leads to your choices, has the power to free you or keep you
entrapped in bondage
Deuteronomy 30:19

9. WHAT’S IN A THOUGHT
Our thinking affects not only us, but those around us
Exodus 34:7
Neurogenesis
Lamentations 3:22-23
Victim of my circumstances & my biology
2 Corinthians 10:5

10. THOUGHTS &
CIRCUMSTANCES
James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“A man cannot directly choose his
circumstances, but he can choose his
thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely,
shape his circumstances.”
We cannot control events and circumstances
in life, but we can control our reaction to
those events and circumstances
Matthew 7:13-14
Galatians 6:7-8

11. IN THE WORDS OF
JAMES ALLEN
“Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be
astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in
the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that
thought can be kept secret, but it cannot, it rapidly
crystalizes into habit, and habit solidifies into
circumstances.”
Fear = Failure
Hate = Injury

12. THOUGHT EXERCISE
Take a thought/feeling
card and follow the
instructions as they are
given

13. THOUGHTS AFFECT
MIND,BODY, & SPIRIT
Good thinking = good choices = healthy thoughts
Negative/toxic thinking = toxic choices = toxic
thoughts
75-98% of ALL illnesses are rooted in our thoughts
80% of all cancers are connected to our thoughts

14. THOUGHTS AFFECT
MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT

15. THOUGHTS AFFECT
MIND, BODY, & SPIRIT
James Allen
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the
operations of the mind, whether they be
deliberately chosen or automatically expressed”
“Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean
body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life
and a corrupt body.”

16. HOW TO RENEW YOUR
MIND - DR. CAROLINE LEAF
Choose to have a controlled thought life and to be happy and healthy.
Everyone can learn how to improve their thinking, learning, and
intelligence
Wire in positive thought networks that can fill us with the power to get us
back on track (2 Timothy 1:7)
To detox your thought life, you need to remember it’s “your thinking that
will actually change your brain”
If you put your mind to it, you can achieve what God says you can achieve
You control your brain; your brain does not control you

17. SWITCH ON YOUR BRAIN
DR. CAROLINE LEAF
21-Day Brain Detox Plan
5 step plan
Gather
Focused Reflection
Write
Revisit
Reach

18. AS LEADERS THIS IS WHAT
WE ARE CALLED TO DO…
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true,
whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if
anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about
such things. NIV

19. Questions, comments, thoughts?