We live in a rapidly changing world, and as a general population, we are more connected to one another because of technology. There are currently 3.96 billion people who use social media every day Backlinco). You may have noticed that it is becoming more challenging to focus on one thing at a time. Perhaps, you jump from thought to thought quickly before fully processing the given task. Because of our highly connected world, we’ve stopped processing in the brain’s natural cycle, keeping us from us adopting a positive change in our lives. Our brains are begging us to take a break!

I’m a big fan of Caroline Leaf, who is a Christian neuroscientist from South Africa. She helps to clarify the spiritual and physical effects of negative thinking. When we think about a particular thing long enough, a neuron will grow on our brain and create a pathway to think along those lines. It takes an average of three, twenty-one-day cycles of repetition of truths to grow on our brain. Likewise, it takes the same amount of time for a lie cycle to create a new neuropathway. Caroline Leaf goes on to say in her book, Switch on Your Brain, “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.”