Dr. Caroline Leaf explains how you can rewire your brain! Did you know that up to 95% of physical health issues are a direct result of your thought life? Dr. Caroline Leaf explains how to get rid of toxic thoughts and see your prayers answered!
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SID: Science has FINALLY caught up with the
Bible!
We now have proof you are NOT a victim of
your genes!
You CAN alter your genes, your health, and
your destiny supernaturally!
On this edition of It’s Supernatural!î
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ANNOUNCER: Can ancient secrets of the supernatural
be rediscovered?
Do angels exist?
Is there life after death?
Are healing miracles real?
Can you get supernatural help from another
dimension?
Has the future been written in advance?
Sid Roth has spent 30 years researching the
strange world of the supernatural.
Join Sid on this edition of It’s Supernatural!
SID: Hello!
Sid Roth!
Welcome to my world where it’s naturally
supernatural!
I have been so looking forward to my guest!
Why?
Because I have been studying the promises
of God for many, many years and I believe
them because they’re God’s Word.
But now science has just figured out the Words
of Jesus, that they’re true!
Now my guest, Doctor Caroline Leaf, has spent
25 years researching the brain!
DR.
CAROLINE: That’s it.
SID: When you started researching the brain
they were really in the Stone Age as far brain
understanding, weren’t they?
DR.
CAROLINE: They really were.
There’s been a Dark Ages in brain research
for a long time and it’s only in the last
10 to 15 years that people are really starting
to get an understanding of the brain.
And the more we understand about the brain
the more we realize we don’t understand
about the brain!
SID: But when you told me that we could change
our genes, I wish every doctor in the world
would understand this cutting edge research!
Because you know you go to a doctor and say
your cholesterol is high and they say well
exercise, change your diet.
BUT it could be your genes and there’s nothing
you can do so take this medicine that’ll
have a zillion side-effects.
But you say, according to the latest brain
research, if you follow what Jesus said you
can change your genes!
That, that’s just so amazing!
DR.
CAROLINE: I know!
It is phenomenal!
And when you think of it it’s logical too,
Sid, because we’re spirit, soul, body.
And it’s our soul area which is literally
the brain, the intellect, the will, and the
emotions that is processing and building all
these thoughts into real things.
So structural changes are happening in the
brain and whatever is going on in the soul
will affect the spirit and will affect the
body.
So if our mind is filled, our thoughts, our
mind is all filled with chaos, chaos will
reign in our bodies.
So you know the scientists are finding now
that 87 to 95 percent of current mental, physical,
emotional illnesses come from our thought
life!
I mean that’s the, that’s the
SID: Well you know Jesus put it very well.
He said ìAs a man thinketh in his heart so
is he.î So you’re saying that these thoughts,
as you say in your book, take up mental real
estate.
They’re, they’re real!
It’s not just a fleeting thing!
DR.
CAROLINE: No.
It’s a real thing!
You know even in science we call them the
magic trees of the mind because the nerve
cells in the brain look like trees.
So your brain which is the size of your two
fists, this is a little bigger than a normal
brain, is made up of all these nerve cells
or neurons and they look like trees.
And I’ve got some props that I’ve brought
along just to help us understand.
Literally we have these forests in our mind
of all these trees that branch and as you
are listening to me now your brain is processing
at 400 billion actions per second and in doing
that processingÖ
SID: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Did you hear that!
If I heard her right 400 BILLION actions per
second?
And someone wants to say it was a coincidence,
creation?
I mean I don’t have enough faith to believe
that it was a coincidence!
DR.
CAROLINE: No, exactly.
I agree with you.
More faith is needed for that.
SID: Yeah!
DR.CAROLINE: You know that process in the
nonconscious mind is building memory as we’re
speaking.
So every single thing that you hear, everything
that comes into your brain through your 5
senses converts, we think about it and then
you make choices and it converts into a structural
thing in your brain which is a thought and
they look like trees.
And that’s why the scientists refer to the
forest or the magic tress of the mind because
that’s what it looks like in your mind.
Now you have about a 100 billion nerve cells
in your brain.
That’s a lot of nerve cells.
But each nerve cell can grow up to 200,000
branches.
So that means we have around 3 million years
plus worth of space in our brain to build
memories!
SID: Well that’s better than any computer
that I know of!
(LAUGHS)
DR.
CAROLINE: Exactly.
And that’s just, that’s just what they
understand from our basic understanding of
the brain and it will probably be more than
that!
But the point that I always like to make with
people to emphasize is that because we can’t
see a thought out here, it’s not like my
hand, it makes people tend to think their
thoughts are harmless.
But a thought is real!
It occupies mental real estate!
It looks like a tree.
As you’re listening to me now you are causing
the trees of your mind to change shape!
You are growing branches as we are speaking!
So every time we listen, think about things
it will result in choices that we make which
will result in thoughts or memories that we
build and that’s what they look like.
They look like trees.
SID: Okay.
This is green.
And this is nice.
I like to see the green wherever I go.
A golf course or trees.
I mean this is beautiful.
So I want my brain on the inside (laughs)
to be beautiful!
You want your brain on the inside to be beautiful!
But show me what happens to a lot of people
with toxic thoughts.
DR.
CAROLINE: Well what happens is that this is
the norm.
This is how we’re wired.
You know we think that we are made in God’s
image and He’s wired for love and God is
love.
So therefore all of the process that we go
through to build thoughts is all wired in
a positive direction.
In a healthy direction.
But God gave us the choice of free will.
So He says I lay before you life and death.
Choose life so that your descendants may live.
But if you choose death you and your descendants
won’t live.
So we choose life, good choices, we’re gonna
build those trees.
But Sid, if we make bad choices we build toxic
trees! (laughing)
SID: So I saw that in the lobby of the hotel
this morning and I was wondering what is,
what have you got?
What is THAT!
What IS that?
DR.
CAROLINE: Well it’s just a visual image
that I use to try and demonstrate the fact
that when you think a bad thought, when you
make bad choices, when you hang on to anything
that is negative, anger, abuse, irritation,
frustration, all the negative side of emotions,
that’s not just a harmless thing!
It is a physical change that occurs in your
brain.
So we are designed and wired that every time
we think we will build thoughts and if we
as we are thinking if we choose to think in
a negative direction we are still gonna build
thoughts but because we are wired for love,
which that’s what the scientists said, that
we are wired for love!
That’s that they found (laughing) in the
laboratories.
SID: FINALLY!
DR.
CAROLINE: Finally!
SID: They’re catching up to the Bible!
Well maybe is this why Jesus said only say
things that are good and pure and lovely and
of good report because if you don’t, if
you do the opposite this is the way your cells
are gonna look!
DR.
CAROLINE: Well exactly.
There’s a consequence.
You know God is very conditional.
You know He’s a God of grace but if you
do this, then this will happen.
So our bodies are designed and aligned like
that.
So if we’re going to choose the negative
it’s not the norm for the body it’s the
hijack.
So whenever we build the hijack into our body
it’s a choice that we, that we make.
God has given us that ability to choose.
There’s a consequence!
SID: Okay.
But I have a problem!
I became a believer at age 30.
And even after a believer I did not have my
mind renewed like I, like I do today.
And I have got close to 70 years of building,
ugh, THAT!
What, what am I gonna do about THAT!
DR.
CAROLINE: Well here’s the good news!
These things as God, as you know in the word
it says the renewing of the mind like you
just said, that’s a lifelong process.
So these, fortunately, we built these but
we can rewire them.
And that’s what I love about science.
So we, we hearÖ science is just a tangible
way of showing the truths that, that God teaches
us.
SID: You have a word that you describe, neuroplasty!
DR.
CAROLINE: Neuroplasticity.
SID: What does that mean?
DR.
CAROLINE: Well what that means is that your
brain can change!
These things can change.
In fact what I always say is that God you
made you an authority.
You’re a neuroplastician, Sid!
I don’t know if you realize that but you’re
a ìneuroplastician!
So am I!
So is everyone.
God designed us with the ability to change
our own brains!
So when He says renew our mind He would give
us the ability to do that.
So scientifically we’ve found now that these
ugly, toxic trees that we build through bad
choices and physical realities occur can be
rewired!
SID: Are you gonna show me how to rewire my
brain?
DR. CAROLINE: I’m gonna start telling
you how to do that.
SID: Okay.
And I want you to eavesdrop so you can rewire
your brain!
We’ll be right back after this word!
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SID: Hello!
Sid Roth here with Doctor Caroline Leaf.
And isn’t it amazing, Caroline, that the
scientists, like yourself, have now come up
with the conclusion that our brain was originally
wired for love.
Not, this is an example of a toxic brain,
that’s toxic thoughts.
Do you know every time I look at that, Caroline,
I’m gonna remember it!
And I am going to watch what I say!
What I think!
And give no place to anything that’s gonna
kill or steal or destroy!
So we’re wired for love!
Tell me about that.
DR.
CAROLINE: Well I just think it’s incredible
and that’s the scientist’s term by the
way.
They say wired for love.
And they therefore say that we learn fear
and that’s very significant, Sid, because
God tells us not to fear and we know that
God is a God of love so fear is the hijack
so that’s a spiritual principle.
Two opposite spiritual forces.
But in science it’s the same thing.
As humans we are wired for all the positive
stuff!
Therefore if we had like, we have like a little
chemical factory in our brain.
In order to grow these branches we have all
this input going into our brain which is like
electricity.
Then the brain will secrete chemicals and
you have this electrical-chemical reaction.
And when that happens branches grow.
And these branches are all holding the memory
that’s related and all grouped together
in that tree so that’s a whole network related
to one kind of thought.
And then to build that thought I needed chemicals.
So now we’re wired for love which means
that we are, and that’s not just the, the
sort of love, love in terms of relationships.
It’s love in terms of happiness, joy, peace,
passion, excitement, truth, all the wonderful
stuff.
We have chemicals that we secrete for each
of those.
So if I’m building a memory and it’s a
great exciting thing, like now.
I’m building a memory now as we talk about
this which we’re both interested in.
What will happen is that the brain will excrete,
will secrete excitement and passion chemicals.
But now let’s say for example something
negative happens and we shift out of excitement
into negativity.
Some kind of negative thing.
Lack of excitement.
Lack of passion.
The opposite.
The brain doesn’t have a chemical for that
so it’ll take the closest positive and secrete
more and more and more and more and more.
Throw the brain out of disorder in order to
try and find lack of excitement.
Because it’s got to have chemicals so it
takes too much of the good chemical, still
builds the tree but now we have an electrical-chemical
imbalance in this area of the brain.
SID: So that’s why someone might get depressed.
DR.
CAROLINE: Exactly.
Exactly that.
Because when we have an electrical-chemical
imbalance around this, this thing’s ugly.
It causes inflammation in the brain so around
this areaÖ
SID: But what about when doctors test you
for heart conditions and things and they say
well you have too much inflammation.
Does that start in the thoughts that go to
the brain that then affect the body?
DR.
CAROLINE: Definitely!
Because spirit, soul, and body are linked.
So the mind-body connection it’s very clear.
And that’s why doctors say 87 to 95 percent
of illness is cardiovascular, immune system,
all the different disorders that can happen,
and all of us will manifest differently or
are a direct result of your thought life.
Because what happens is that your body will
take this thought in your brain and will translate
this thought into a physical reaction in your
body and all of us will respond differently.
Now wherever there is a hijack in the body’s
order and because God is a God of order.
The body functions on the principles of order.
And very, very, very, very organized.
So when order is thrown out, when the electrical-chemical
balance is thrown out the result will be inflammation.
Inflammation causes the immune system to start
sending out all kinds of cells to try and
sort this out and that in itself throws us
out.
SID: And so I’m just thinking like these
alternative health doctors and medical doctors
they have medicine and they have alternative
things to treat inflammation but that, all
that’s doing is masking the symptoms.
The cause is those thoughts!
DR.
CAROLINE: Well it’s a combination.
It is.
The cause is the thoughts.
You know have to get awesome enlightened doctors
that are saying listen, you’ve gotta deal
with your thought life.
There’s research showing that medication
doesn’t even work that well unless you actually
have your thought life under control.
SID: But wait a second!
You said that 95%…
DR; CAROLINE: Is coming from our thought life.
SID: is connected with that!
DR.
CAROLINE: Exactly.
SID: So forget that 5%!
That 95%…
DR.
CAROLINE: Is big enough!
SID: is what concerns me!
Now we’re wired for love!
But most people are walking in fear!
What happens when the body goes into fear
or stress?
DR.
CAROLINE: Well then what’s happened there
is in order to, that fear is a choice that
we’ve made.
So life is coming in at us.
We’re thinking building thoughts and those
thoughts are I’m scared, I’m, I’m anxious,
I’m whatever, negative and this, this incident
happened there and it’s built in, it’s
wired in.
Whenever you think, Sid, there is a physical
structural change in your brain!
If it’s in this negative direction your
body being this, this thought thing, this
state is translated by your brain into physical
reaction in our body.
That is stress!
SID: Okay.
DR.
CAROLINE: That is stress!
SID: You know I have in my notes here that
there are 1400 chemical and physical responses
when you go into fear and stress?
DR. CAROLINE: Absolutely!
What happens is
SID: 1400! 1400?
DR. CAROLINE: Absolutely!
It’s a lot!
SID: How do we, how do we STOP this?
DR.
CAROLINE: Well let’s, let’s look at the
way stress forms first.
SID: I mean why did Jesus keep saying FEAR
NOT!
FEAR NOT!
FEAR NOT!
He knew He didn’t want you to go into those
1400 chemicals and physical responses that
go immediately throughout your brain and your,
your
DR.
CAROLINE: Your body.
SID: your entire body.
DR.
CAROLINE: Your entire body.
It throws your body into chemical chaos!
You see what you get is 3 stages of stress.
Stage One is a normal stage.
That’s what you use when you are alert,
focused, building memory so it’s a good
positive thing.
It’s called eustress.
E-u-s-t-r-e-s-s.
Those 1400 chemical reactions and the 30 different
hormones that flow in flow in order.
So we have beautiful trees being built.
You’ll have a healthy green tree being built.
But when we go into the fear side the hijack
happens.
We make a bad choice.
Then the brain is trying to secrete and find
those chemicals so it secretes the wrong amount.
And so it throws the entire electrical-chemical
balance out.
So those 1400 chemical reactions move from
being a positive thing into a negative thing
and we have chemical chaos.
SID: Okay!
Is there hope for me?
I mean I have spentÖ
DR.
CAROLINE: Yes, there is, Sid!
SID: Well, wait a second now!
I got to where I am right now.
It took me 70 hard years!
You see the gray hair?
DR.
CAROLINE: I see
SID: It took me 70 how long would it take
me to get that green tree?
I mean I would like to walk, this is my passion,
as a matter of fact!
I want to walk in love!
Not just for me.
I wannna do it because that’s what I’m
created to do!
You said I was created, wired for love!
DR.
CAROLINE: Absolutely!
SID: Is it gonna take me 70 more years I’ll
have to live longer than Moses!
(LAUGHING)
DR.
CAROLINE: (LAUGHING)
SID: How am I gonna rewire myself?
DR.
CAROLINE: Let me give you the good news.
And this is the supernatural element.
We can mess up for 70 years.
It takes 21 days to rewire a tree!
21 DAYS!
SID: Okay!
I’m putting you on the clock.
CAROLINE: (LAUGHING)
SID: We’ll be right back in a moment!
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SID: Hello!
Sid Roth here with Doctor Caroline Leaf.
And she is a neuroscientist that has researched
the brain for 25 years!
Cutting edge research!
And she has found that no matter how old you
are, if you’re as old as I am, 70, or if
you’re 20 years old, that’s a lot of years
that you have wired yourself like THIS.
And wouldn’t it be neat if in 21 DAYS and
it’s, it’s Listen!
It’s going to affect your physical health!
It’s going to affect your relationships
with people!
It’s going to affect your emotional health!
It’s going to affect you fulfilling your
destiny of why God put you on this earth!
So tell me!
You said there’s hope for me!
Tell me what I should do!
(LAUGHS)
DR.
CAROLINE: There’s hope for all of us!
It’s all good.
Well let me start by explaining that we, you
mentioned, you asked me you know one of the
things that you loved about this was the fact
that we can change our genetic expression,
literally.
So now when we rewire what we have to do is
we have to change the way in which our genes
are expressing themselves.
Now all that that means is that our genes
make proteins.
Proteins are the building blocks that build
our thoughts.
So what they have found is that over and above
the gene there’s the epigenome and the epigenome
is over and above the gene.
And that simply is our thoughts.
Our thoughts are this electrical flow.
These thoughts are real things and they generate
this electrical flow right to the, to the
gene level.
SID: So, so would you say that our thoughts
can activate the good or the bad genes?
DR.
CAROLINE: Exactly!
That’s exactly what I’m saying!
SID: Okay.
DR.
CAROLINE: So this is, and this is incredibly
powerful because this is what it says in the
Bible, that’s what God is saying.
Is that what a man thinks in his heart, so
is he.î ìSo is he this is what’s dominating
my thinking.
That’s who I’m gonna become.
So I have to rewire this!
I have to have more building blocks.
I have to melt this down and I have to rebuild
this.
So I have to use my thoughts to change.
So this is a negative thought, like maybe
someone had alcoholism in their family or
depression or some negative abuse thing that
happened to them.
This doesn’t have to be something that you
can keep.
This is something that you can rewire!
And scientifically what happens is that these,
your nonconscious mind is filled with billions
of thoughts.
Now I’m gonna hide this for a moment.
So in your nonconscious mind you’ve got
all these billions and billions and billions
of trees, forests.
At any one time you’ll have a mixture of
black and green trees.
Hopefully more green than black.
But the black we wanna get rid of.
So then what happens is as we go through life
prompting happens and this moves into the
conscious mind.
When it moves into the conscious mind it then
becomes, I’m gonna shake it, malleable,
plastic, changeable!
And we can now use our own ability that God
has designed to change this tree.
That’s why it’s called neuroplasticity.
But it’s directed by our thought life.
At the front of your brain you have what we
call the frontal lobe.
Your frontal lobe enables you to stand outside
of yourself and look at these things and may
observe you talking, your thinking, your laugh.
You can observe everything.
God’s built that into us which is quite
phenomenal!
Now we use that ability to stand back and
say hey, this is a bad thought!
This is how I’m feeling.
This is what my body feels like.
I’m actually probably have this or this
kind of ache or pain or whatever it may be
because of these things.
The fact that it’s moved into consciousness
God wants us to do something with it.
So He’s created and designed our brain in
such a way that it’s very malleable!
If we say “I can’t” that is a decision.
It will become more toxic and move back into
the nonconsciousness enflaming and throwing
our body into Stress Stage 2 and 3 of stress.
SID: So even if we’re not thinking about
it it’s there.
DR.
CAROLINE: It’s there.
SID: And it’s working against us.
DR.
CAROLINE: It’s working against us.
It’s throwing your body into Stage 2 and
eventually Stage 3 of stress which is called
“the death cycle.”
So when it’s out here I have a chance to
get rid of it.
So what I need to do is I need chemicals to
flow around this tree that will melt it down.
Now within 24 to 48 hours of this popping
out I can make a decision with my frontal
lobe of my brain, the front part of my brain,
to say hey, this is not good for me and I’m
gonna believe that God is who He says He is.
If we take Mark 11:22 it talks about have
faith in God.
We rebuild our faith in who God is, that He
is who He says He is, that we recognize who
we are in God, what it means to have a God
who’s a creator, whatever it is that you
build your faith as you do that you get excited.
I mean you said to me if you read the Bible
when you go to bed you can’t sleep at night
because you get so excited.
SID: Right!
DR.
CAROLINE: Now when you get that excitement
rush that is evidence for you that you’ve
got a lot of what we call “dopamine,”
a neural transmitter that flows around this
thing and starts melting this tree down!
Then God says in verse 23, He talks about
“speak to the mountain.”
This is the mountain.
So now we speak the Word of God at this mountain!
The Word of God is living and alive.
So as we speak the Word of God from what we’ve
read, from the scriptures we speak literally,
if I may, the green tree, the healthy Word
of God at this mountain.
So we put on scriptures we know, things that
we’re reading, whatever it is and we speak
to this mountain covering them and as we do
that more chemicals flow, oxytocin, serotonin,
and the combination of those three plus a
few more literally, Sid, melt this thing down!
And then we can rebuild next to it the healthy
green trees.
So the point is there may be an abuse.
We can get rid of this.
Get rid of its pain because these chemicals
carry the physical feeling of pain, the branches
carry the actual description
SID: So you’re saying I can go from this
DR.
CAROLINE: To this!
SID: to this in 21 days?
DR.
CAROLINE: In 21 days!
I melt this down and I start building this
parallel to this thing melting down.
You cannot have them in the same, you cannot
have a black and a green tree in the same
tree at the same time.
There’s a scripture in 1 John 4:18 ìPerfect
love expels fear.î Perfect love expels fear
that’s literally what is happening on a
scientific level!
And it take 21 days!
SID: You know what she does?
She works with young people that had brain
injuries that doctors have given up on explaining
the Word of God based on science.
And tell me one young person and what happened
to their life that you worked with.
DR.
CAROLINE: Well you’ll be happy to know that
I’ve worked with young and I’ve worked
with the old and I’ve gotta tell you this
quickly, Sid, there was one gentleman of 78.
He was a pilot and he wanted to go because
his eyes weren’t good enough he couldn’t
fly anymore so he wanted to go back and do
his second career which was to become a CPA.
So I taught him how to use his mind, use his
brain, learn.
Get rid of the toxic trees.
He went and he completed that at 84 and he
practiced for another 19 years after!
So that’s really an amazing story.
So at any age, from whatever age you can change
your brain!
A young man I worked with had huge holes in
his brain from a really, really bad traumatic
brain injury.
He was when I started working with him it
was about 3-4 years after his accident.
Now according to the old brain research if
you work with someone after 14 months there’s
not much more spontaneous recovery that can
happen.
They kind of hit a ceiling.
So you know it was in the early days of my
research and I was doing neuroplastic brain
research with traumatic brain injury.
I worked with this young man for 3 months.
This young man made a decision.
I have to stress this.
He made the decision to apply the principles
of neuroplasticity.
He took this into his life.
When I started working with him he was coping.
He was 24 years of age.
And he was coping at around about a 6th to
8th grade level.
Within 3 short months that young man, not
only did he change, he went on to complete
his schooling.
Went on to get 4 degrees and he’s currently
one of our top motivational speakers in South
Africa.
And that’s just one story!
SID: One more quick thing you told me.
You know what most people, what Hollywood
tells you, as you get older your minds slows
down and you don’t remember things.
And you said the opposite thing is true from
using the Word of God!
DR.
CAROLINE: Absolutely!
When you study, when you spend time with God,
when you study the Word of God, when you study
the Bible, when you get the Word of God in
your mind, when you pray, when you praise
and when you worship, your brain, they’ve
actually seen in the laboratories that this
external part of your brain thickens
SID: So in effect
CAROLINE: and you become more intelligent.
SID: you should be getting smarter!
CAROLINE: That’s what is says!
SID: I’ll tell you what!
I love the Word of God!
And I love the way science is proving
the Word of God, don’t you?
(LAUGHING)
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