How to get your thoughts working for you, instead of working against you.

A new book by Caspar McCloud and Linda Lange

Your thoughts mold your lifestyle and shape your mental, physical, relational, and emotional health. What shape are you in?

What Was I Thinking? Reveals marvelous links between the functions of the human brain, the Commandments of God and your physical and emotional health. Presented in a reader-friendly discussion style, a strong case is made that people must choose whether to follow the path of stress (fear) or the path of faith. Understanding these links brings new insight to help you achieve healthier lifestyle results, including emotional and physical healing, freedom, and greater effectiveness for Christ.

Filled with relevant Scripture passages, exciting personal testimonies, well-defined anatomical terms, and “Points to Ponder,” this book provides much spiritually enriched food for thought.

Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established (Proverbs 16:3).

Major themes that will intrigue and entice you include: the direct link between thoughts and physical and spiritual health; brain functions; the importance of forgiveness; exhortations to obey the Word; and a variety of wrong concepts that keep many people and those who call themselves Christians from choosing health and joy over bondage.

“We believe this teaching with practical application is the key to winning back what the enemy has stolen—your mind—so that you can be restored to health and go and do all that God has called you to do!” –Caspar McCloud and Linda Lange

A number of Doctors are recommending this book to their patients.

• People are reporting being healed of a number of sickness and diseases by applying these simple life saving principles.
• Marriages and Business relationships are being restored.
• People are being blessed beyond what that thought possible.

Readers will learn easy techniques that will forever change the way they think and process information leading to a more successful happier life.

While there are a number of books in the exciting field of brain research, McCloud and Lange gives a much deeper understanding into an often overlooked aspect of spirituality in an easy to read fashion. Helping the reader to achieve a closer walk with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 4 (Book released by Destiny Image publications October 2010):

Thought Trees

How do thoughts become thoughts? Thoughts under a microscope apparently look very much like a tree with a trunk and many branches—like a tree in wintertime when all the leaves have fallen off. The more branches, the more intelligent and accessible the thought will be. Each thought is made up of cells called neurons; they are the electrically excitable cells that make up those trees of the mind.

There are perhaps 100 trillion thought trees in your brain, and each one may grow over 70,000 branches. According to researchers like Dr. Caroline Leaf, that means you can store approximately three millions years’ worth of information. So then after the three million years are filled up, you do something like disk clean up I suppose, and get rid of the files that are just collecting dust. Just joking.

We are designed to live forever, and science is starting to confirm what the Bible said all along. In other words, there is plenty of room in your brain to keep learning. John 8:32 says that we shall know the truth, and the truth shall make us free.

At the end of each neuron tree are branches called dendrites. Dendrites are specialized for receiving information and form synaptic contacts with the terminals of other nerve cells to allow nerve impulses to be transmitted. These highly complex structures are involved in processing information via the five physical senses—touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight. They are continually integrating this information as it is translated into electrical impulses and transported across synapses, which are small chemical gaps between neurons that form interconnected neural circuits.

Neuroscientists can devote entire conferences to the study of dendrites. Basically, the brain builds a double memory of the content of every thought. Both sides of your brain are working together but have different functions. For example, when you are doing math, the left side of the brain sees it as 2 x 2 = 4. The right side sees it as 4 = 2 groups of 2.

Both sides of your brain work together in synergy, providing perspective on every thought. The more you think, the more you understand. The more you are focused and aware of what you are thinking about, the more you grow out those branches on your tree-like neurons, and they get firmly attached.

Those who are experienced on horses may find that when horses approach a scary object, they may get a bit jumpy. However, once they conquer the obstacle, they settle down. But it’s always a good idea to go back the other way to that same obstacle. Is the obstacle scarier? No, but it will be seen through another part of the brain! That is why, when training horses, you need to have them jump from both sides of the obstacle, to get both sides of the brain in balance.

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