How Thanking GOD Expands Brain Capacity and Rewires Neuro Pathways

Robina Weermeijer@averey

I did a research on nuero-plasticity years back for several blog articles and confirmed what I've been suspecting all along. Our brain capacity can increase as we age, not weaken--if we choose to. It's a myth that human brain power is designed to lessen and eventually self destruct with age--even with man's Fall at Eden. Well, yeah, the brain is observed to weaken with age, sometimes leading to neuro-degenerative diseases, but it's because we've simply allowed it to be so.

Experts now tell us that normally, human beings just use about 20 to 30 percent of their brain capacity in their lifetimes, no matter how clever they may be. So that leaves us 70 % more room for improvement. But neuro-plasticity science tells how the brain has the capacity to expand more as we age. And more recently, the same science tells us the key to a re-wired brain is gratefulness.

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"Give thanks in all circumstances," says the bible, "for this is God's will in Christ Jesus." Now we know better why God insists on a grateful heart no matter what. It's to increase brain power, among other reasons, because it's in the brain where transformation happens. Mind renewal enables us to find out what God's good, pleasing and perfect will is and also the antidote against worldliness--the world's system, included.

Now, imagine if our brains use 100% full potential (not just 30%) and even expand beyond its initial designed limit. That's zero conformity to the world and 101% clarity with God's perfect will. And the only thing needed is to give thanks in all circumstances. And mind you, nothing is impossible with God and with those who radically believe HIM. This is no fairy tale. This is reality.

Okay, but let's talk of "re-wiring" the brain. One topic at a time.

Rewiring means putting in a new and better system of wiring to maximize (if not double or triple) capacity and proficiency. In short, so your brain can do better. And it does so even as you age, says neuro experts. Oh, before I go on, "wiring" is how thoughts are processed in the mind from one point to another via what experts call neuro pathways. This process can become faster and even "expand" and build new neuro routes to open up entire new worlds and dimensions in your brain's neuro system.

Says an article on RealFarmacy.Com, "According to UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, regularly expressing gratitude literally changes the molecular structure of the brain, keeps the gray matter functioning, and makes us healthier and happier." Imagine a new dimension or level of happiness. Another site, Learning-Mind.Com talks about how "the brain develops new neurological pathways whenever one learns something new, i.e., dancing, drawing, etc. The brain puts out new pathways that contain the specific information of what you’ve just learned," in one of its articles.

Here's the thing. The Word of God keeps increasing. Acts 6:7 says "And the word of God increased." No, it doesn't mean more words are added to it. You cannot add or subtract from God's Word in Scriptures anymore. But what it means is increase in insights. Same Word, different meanings. In Acts, the Word increased and produced evangelists who were instrumental in "spreading" the Gospel all over, reaching the unreached. Prior to this, there were no evangelists. But God's Word gave them a new perspective. See now?

One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard.." [Psalm 62.11]

When God opens up a new insight in his Word, you learn something new. Your mental and spiritual horizon broadens. A new "pathway" has been created enabling you to step forward onto new territory--new Spirit dimensions. In your awe, you break out in praise and thank God for the revelation. You feel ecstatic and radically elated. Now that neuro-plasticity defines it, we see better into the workings of God's revelation. A new neural pathway has been established, increasing your brain capacity in the process.

Your mind is once more renewed, taken farther from the world, transformed to better see and understand God's perfect will. As you go on meditating and getting God's increasing (or proceeding) Word, the entire Kingdom process happens again and again and you transform in ever-increasing glory. The bible says "ever-increasing." Doesn't stop. Everything is taken beyond limits. Everything takes on new pathways or routes. Everything expands. The Jesus DNA in you increases. In Paul's words, "Christ is formed in you."

You get what I call, "third-heaven" revelations---something given you by grace but which you cannot share with non-Kingdom people because these are "inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell...surpassingly great revelations" [2 Corinthians 12]. Holy Spirit excitement never ends at this point, even amid troubles and problems. You feel unearthly happiness because you understand Kingdom matters more deeply. Most important of all, you become simpler, humbler and contented. More quiet. Somewhat a nonjoiner. You don't need to prove anything to anyone. And a vital key here is simply giving thanks to God in all circumstances.

Then you begin to look different to earthly people--and they sometimes despise you for that. According to the Word, that glorifies God. It's great! ☺