Live the Life of Your Highest Imaginings!

with Rev. Cherie Larkin

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Intro Jan 5 - Welcome & Overview ~ Live the Life of Your Highest Imaginings

  • Purpose: Introduce the Switch on Your Brain Process for learning how to create and build new positive neural networks. You can learn how to deepen your intellect, get the chaos in your mind under control, wire out toxic habits like worry, guilt, anger, jealousy and more. Wire in positive habits of happiness and peace of mind. Balance over thinking and over-analyzing. Overcome depression and anxiety. Feel happy and filled with peace regardless of your circumstances.
  • Main Scripture: Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
  • of things not seen.
  • Linked Science Concept: Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your brain through your thinking. When we hope, it is an activity of the mind that changes the structure of our brain in a positive and normal direction.

 
Step 1 Jan 12 - Step 1 Gather ~ Put Off Your Old Self

  • Purpose: The gathering process increases your awareness of what you are allowing into your mind. Become aware of all the signals that are coming into your mind from the external environment through the five senses and understanding their internal impact.
  • Main Scripture: Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt, to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Eph4:22-24
  • Linked Science Concept: Science shows that we are wired for love with natural optimism bias.

   
Step 2 Jan 19 Step 2 Focused Reflection ~ Set Your Mind on Things that are Above Col 3:2-5

  • Purpose: Once you have gone through the gathering awareness step – then you need to go deep and focus your reflection on one thought with its interconnections.
  • Main Scripture: Let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts (deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state) to which as (members of Christ’s one body) you were also called (to live) And be thankful giving praise to God always. (Col 3:15 AMP)
  • Linked Science Concept: Choice is real, and free will exists. You are able to stand outside of yourself, observe your own thinking, consult with God and change the negative, toxic thought or grow the healthy, positive thought. When you do this, your brain responds with a positive neurochemical rush and structural changes that will improve your intellect, health, and peace. You will experience soul harmony.

Step 3 Jan 26 Step 3 Writing ~ Do the Creative Best You Can Gal 6:5

  • Purpose: Start shaking the neural network branches to loosen and remove the energy from the toxic thought so it can die. Writing consolidates thoughts and adds clarity to what you have been thinking about. It helps you better see the area that needs to be detoxed by allowing you to see your nonconscious and conscious thoughts in a visual way.
  • Main Scripture: Do not conform to the pattern of the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. Rom 12:2
  • Linked Science Concept: Through our thoughts we can be our own microsurgeons as we make choices that will change the circuits in our brains. We are designed to do our own brain surgery and rewire our brains by thinking and by choosing to renew our minds.

Step 4 Feb 2 Step 4 Revisit ~ Catch Your Rogue Thoughts and Stop Milkshake- Multitasking Phil 4:6-7

  • Purpose: This step is all about you wiring in what change you want. You get to design your new healthy thought to replace the toxic one you want to get rid of. It is all about redesigning, reorganizing, and re-creating the specific thought you are working on for the change you want to make.
  • Main Scripture: We destroy arguments, and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ. 2 Cor 10:5
  • Linked Science Concept: When you objectively observe your own thinking with the view to capturing rogue thoughts, you in effect direct your attention to stop the negative impact and rewire healthy new circuits into your brain. Multitasking is a persistent myth. Paying deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way.

Step 5 Feb 9 Step 5 Entering into Directed Rest- Actively reach to your highest imaginings Prov 4:20-23

  • Purpose: Active reaches are the actions you say/or do during the course of the day. Active reach is a stage in which you reach out beyond toxic thinking and practice using the new healthy thought until it becomes automated like a good habit. You decide what these active reaches will be and then you monitor and evaluate them each day. Active reach results in breaking down toxic neural networks. In step 1-4 you have loosened and weakened the connections, but step 5 begins to destroy them. The signals from your decision to change attack the networks of the toxic thoughts weakening them because the new signals are more powerful than the negative thoughts.
  • Main Scripture: Be still and know that I am God. Ps 46:10
  • Linked Science Concept: When we direct our rest by introspection self-reflection, and prayer; when we catch our thoughts; when we memorize and quote Scripture; and when we develop our mind intellectually, we enhance the default mode network (DMN) that improves brain function and mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Step 6 Feb 16 Your 21-Day Brain Detox Begins!

  • Achieving peak happiness, thinking, and health is not accomplished by putting on a brave face or pretending problems do not exist and everything is fine. The way to live from a state of happiness is by harnessing the neuroplasticity God has designed in your brain and choosing to rewire – or renew – your mind. Rom 12:2.
  • Dr. Leaf’s 21-day, 5-step brain detox plan wires in positive thought networks that can fill you with the power to get back on track. It is based on rigorous science and the Word of God. It is a simple tool to help bring peak happiness, thinking and health, and peace – into your life. It will bring you ever closer in alignment to your original design of perfection Matt. 5:48, by being made in God’s image. Gen 1:26.
  • The 5-step switch on your brain learning process is a brain sequence that becomes a lifestyle of renewing your mind. It is a lifestyle of neuroplasticity rewiring your nerve networks. It is driven by you but led by the Holy Spirit. The process has at its heart focused, organized, and disciplined, deep intellectual thinking to break down toxic thoughts and build up healthy thoughts, and in doing so, changes your brain in a positive direction. When applied daily, it creates real change and freedom and brings you closer to God.
  • The process invites you to take one toxic thought for each 21-day cycle. What you will be doing with the 5 steps is bringing toxic thought into consciousness and then proceeding over 21 days to destroy it. It takes 21 days for certain protein changes to happen in the brain for the new memory to become self-sustaining and for the old memory to be broken down. If you do not use the memory, the proteins it is made from will denature and the memory will disassemble. Whenever there is more thinking activity, there will be more wiring. Whatever you think about the most will grow, because thinking stimulates the genetic expression required to make proteins.
  • 21-Day Detox Week 1 Feb 16, Week 2 Feb 23, Week 3 Mar 2

Step 7 March 2 Live the Life of Your Highest Imaginings, Class Follow-up

The work does not end in 21 days. At the end of the 21-day cycle, the toxic thought is gone, and the new healthy thought is like a “tiny new plant” that will need nurturing to grow. Your thinking is your nurturing. Let’s gather for follow-up and support each other in continuing to practice the new thought.

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