Connection Disconnection part 2

Here is more from my seminar on Four Styles of Parenting and Four Types of Foolishness in Children.

There are Three parts to the brain:

• Cerebral-controls reasoning, reflections, observation, and creativity (85%)
• Limbic-controls feelings, love, hate, bond, play
• Brain Stem-controls involuntary functions, heart beat, breathing; basic animal instincts of survival, act without thinking (Limbic and Brain Stem = 15%)

Jesus and the demoniac. Go home.

Be responsive not reactive; be who you were intended to be-at Home!

Anxiety activates the lower hemisphere of our brain. Feelings become overpowering, we react rather than respond thoughtfully. Thinking is narrowly focused. We blame, defend, attack. We become careless about our own boundaries and are unable to respect the boundaries of others. Anxious, we are preoccupied with self-preservation.

What can we do?

"Be anxious for nothing, but everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God." Phil. 4:6 (ask for God to change you, not those you think are the cause of your anxiety and pain.)

"Be transformed through the renewing of (your 85%!), that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Rom. 12:1