Change your Mind Heal your Brain

Mental health is an issue that affects everybody, one way or another. It seems to be the stigma of the century, we live in an age where small children are being medicated to keep them "sane". How ludicrous is this!!

Is there a solution beyond medication? Without a doubt!

Neuroscientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can heal our brain by changing our mind, but it means hard work for the bearer of a mental health issue as well as the parents of children with mental health issues.

The first step is to realising that the brain is not our mind and vice versa. Our brain is an actual organ which reacts to what it is "fed. The mind is what feeds our brain ie what goes through our 5 senses and when we react to the stimuli of our 5 senses that determines the way our brain reacts, chemically. There is a lot of science surrounding this and I do not want to get into that, should you be interested in information from a science perspective, there are many neuroplasticians out there. My favourites are Dr Caroline Leaf and John Kennedy.

The second step is to choose to throw away the idea that this is a disease and can only be fixed with medication.

The third step is to find a program that you fit with and do it, there are lots of them out there. Remember it takes Choice, Determination to change, Effort, Ups and downs and your desire to not have to live in a mental health issue.

NB: Do Not Throw Your Medicine Away: Learn to find your triggers i.e. what sets you off; Learn to love you; If necessary find a Doctor who believes in you and that you do not need to be medicated the rest of your life.

Romans 12:2, NIV: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will." ... Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."