I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14
The following are excerts from an article in Time Magazine - "...growing number of discoveries at the time showing that greater use of a
particular muscle causes the brain to devote more cortical real estate to it." So our brains are designed to adapt & expand based on use. "Mental practice resulted in a similar reorganization".
"....the adult brain retains impressive powers of "neuroplasticity"--the ability to change its structure and function in response to experience......If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy can coax next-door regions to take over the function of the damaged area. The brain can be rewired." So the brain contains a self repair kit....
"The brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think,... This has important implications for health: something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness ..." Or possibly cause it as well?
In Summary - "Like sand on a beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken."
"By beholding we become changed. Though formed in the image of his Maker, man can so educate his mind that sin which he once loathed will become pleasant to him. As he ceases to watch and pray, he ceases to guard the citadel, the heart, and engages in sin and crime. The mind is debased, and it is impossible to elevate it from corruption while it is being educated to enslave the moral and intellectual powers and bring them in subjection to grosser passions." Mind, Character & Personality vol. 1, p.74 E.G.W."It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature, that by beholding, we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard of purity or goodness or truth. If self is his loftiest ideal, he will never attain to anything more exalted." Great Controversy p.555 E.G.W.
"It is by beholding that we become changed. And as those sacred precepts in which God has opened to men the perfection and holiness of his character are neglected, and the minds of the people are attracted to human teachings and theories, what marvel that there has followed a decline of living piety in the church." Great Controversy p. 478 E.G.W.
"....the adult brain retains impressive powers of "neuroplasticity"--the ability to change its structure and function in response to experience......If a stroke knocks out, say, the neighborhood of motor cortex that moves the right arm, a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy can coax next-door regions to take over the function of the damaged area. The brain can be rewired." So the brain contains a self repair kit....
"The brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think,... This has important implications for health: something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness ..." Or possibly cause it as well?
In Summary - "Like sand on a beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken."
"By beholding we become changed. Though formed in the image of his Maker, man can so educate his mind that sin which he once loathed will become pleasant to him. As he ceases to watch and pray, he ceases to guard the citadel, the heart, and engages in sin and crime. The mind is debased, and it is impossible to elevate it from corruption while it is being educated to enslave the moral and intellectual powers and bring them in subjection to grosser passions." Mind, Character & Personality vol. 1, p.74 E.G.W."It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature, that by beholding, we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard of purity or goodness or truth. If self is his loftiest ideal, he will never attain to anything more exalted." Great Controversy p.555 E.G.W.
"It is by beholding that we become changed. And as those sacred precepts in which God has opened to men the perfection and holiness of his character are neglected, and the minds of the people are attracted to human teachings and theories, what marvel that there has followed a decline of living piety in the church." Great Controversy p. 478 E.G.W.
