LESSONS FROM THE THERAPIST
TODAY’S LESSON: YOUR INTELLIGENCE IS DYNAMIC
Your intelligence is dynamic. It goes hand in hand with learning how to use your brain correctly. It is something that develops throughout your entire lifetime. The more you use your brain, the more you think properly, the more intelligent you become. You will improve the performance of your brain by 35-75% if you learn how to think correctly. Medical research has shown that the more intelligent you become, the healthier you become! Intellect and physical health are directly linked. The brain is made up of nerves. Each nerve looks like a tree. It has a trunk (called an axon) and branches (called dendrites). You always take information from the environment around you through your five senses.
Information from all five senses (what you see, hear, touch, smell, and taste) goes into your brain. The brain processes and stores this information by building branches on the nerves in your brain. A new branch is made for every new piece of information. Proteins are made and used to grow new branches to hold information from your thoughts. This process is called protein synthesis. Memory is information stored on the branches of these nerves. As you continue to meditate on a thought, more branches grow, the connections between those branches and the nerve get stronger and the memory becomes permanent.
Thus the more you meditate on a thought, the more you reinforce it. The more branches you have on a particular nerve means the stronger or more intelligent that memory is. Your brain performs 400 billion actions per second, of which you are conscious of 2000! This shows how incredibly intricate and complicated God created us! It is said in Psalms 139:14-15 that, “I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Your works; and that my soul knows right well. My substance was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth”.
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The Designer of mankind is indescribably awesome. Imagine building machines that perform 400 billion actions per second, with everything happening in precisely the right order at precisely the right time within a fraction of a nanosecond! Part of those 400 billion actions per second is growing branches on the nerves where memory is stored.
The average brain has 100 billion nerves. Each nerve grows between 15,000 and 200,000 branches. It is an enormous amount. A more tangible understanding of how much information 15,000 to 200,000 branches is: you can fit the knowledge of an entire A level subject on one nerve.
If you did 4 A level subjects, you just need to use 4 nerves to pass! It is phenomenal! Neuroscientists have calculated that the total amount of storage space for information that you have in your brain is Three Million Years!! God gave us a decent brain. You have an infinite capacity for learning. You will never run out of storage space for new information.
God made you in His image. You have the mind of Christ. Never again can you turn around and say that you are stupid or think that you don’t have a great mind. You have an amazing brain. Many people believe that they are not intelligent, but that is a lie that the devil would like us to believe. The truth is, everyone is gifted.
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God gave you an incredible brain. All you need to do is find out how to use it. Most of us are not getting the full potential out of our brains because we don’t know how to use it correctly. 95% of people worldwide do not know how to use their brains. They just don’t know how to think properly. Only 5% use their brain correctly.
Of that 5%, only 3.5% go on to some form of tertiary education. Of that 3.5%, 1% successfully complete their tertiary education, go on to be prosperous and a success financially, spiritually, emotionally, physically, etc. So, according to the statistics, 99% of people are not using their brains correctly.
According to the latest medical research, it should be the other way around: only 3-5% of people have genuine underlying issues or diseases in their brains that stops them from developing their brains to it’s fullest potential. Remember you have 3 million years worth of space in your brain.
I don’t know how much of your brain you think you are actually using, but if you haven’t been thinking properly you are only using about 0.001% of your brain for intellectual performances. Most don’t use more than 6 to 8% of their brains in their entire lifetime. What it all boils down to is not how much of your brain you’re using, but how you are building the information on that nerve cell.
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In other words what type of memories are you building? The quality of information or memories stored in your brain depends on the quality of your thought life. If you are meditating on thoughts of fear, bitterness, anxiety, self-hatred, low self-esteem, guilt, rejection, condemnation, unforgiveness, anger, rage, resentment, and so forth, your brain is full of toxic memories that make you sick.
The research was done on the brains of 5th-year medical students who died and another person who was a school drop out of exactly the same age. They found that the school drop out’s brain had poor memory development, but the university student had lots of strong memories.
ANDREW TETTEH,
TEACHER, THERAPIST, AND WHOLENESS CONSULTANT.
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