{"id":10990,"date":"2019-09-17T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2019-09-17T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:23:20","slug":"if-you-dont-use-it-youll-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10990","title":{"rendered":"If You Don’t Use It, You’ll Lose It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My precious mom said to her doctor \u201cDoc, some mornings I just don\u2019t want to get out of bed!\u201d His reply? \u201cThe day you decide to do that, count on being bedridden very soon. In essence, he was saying \u201cIf you don\u2019t use it \u2013 you\u2019ll lose it!\u201d These days \u2013 our minds are on overload, so much so, \u2013 the opposite is true: If we overuse it \u2013 we\u2019ll lose it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My sis-in-law was coming over to see me. I gave her the easy directions. \u201cTurn into the community at the gate and just turn right at the first street and it\u2019s the first home on the right.\u201d I watched out for her. She turned right but went to the first house on the left. I overheard her talking to her husband on her cell phone: \u201cI can\u2019t do two things at the same time \u2013 drive and follow directions.\u201d I get it. We need to be fine-tuned!. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been reading up on \u201cpowering up\u201d our brains and I’ve found out some things that can boggle our brains \u2013 one of which is all the multi-tasking that we do. While on our phones, we\u2019ll be driving, eating, telling our kids to stop arguing, remembering another item for the grocery list, etc. Bottom line \u2013 being focused not only saves our brain\u2019s power (over-using it), but it also saves us from being distracted and having an accident. I read that a recent neuroscience research proved the human brain is unable to consciously pay full attention to two tasks at the same time (thus my sweet sis-in-law’s dilemma).. Sure, we can do simple tasks like walking and talking at the same time \u2013 maybe even chewing gum along with it, but when it comes to true multi-tasking, our brain shouldn\u2019t do it.
\n\u2019t do it. Yikes! Think about all that multi-tasking we\u2019re doing while driving \u2013 talking on our phones, eating, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helping us to not overuse our brain is \u201cpowering it down\u201d when we get the sleep we need. A sleep-deprived brain works harder, but accomplishes less. It becomes more difficult to concentrate, speak clearly, and make decisions. I\u2019m making sure I get as many zzzz\u2019s as I can to keep my brain powered up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, \u201cpowering up\u201d our brain is powering up our attitudes that cultivate good habits like, enjoying life, laughing often, developing an optimistic outlook and being sure to free our minds of stress and anxiety. And above all \u2013 STOP saying, even in a \u201cjust joking\u201d way \u201cI\u2019m losing my mind!\u201d Instead, we should daily \u201cpower up\u201d our brains by keeping our minds on God\u2019s Word \u2013 even memorizing scriptures that help guarantee sound and healthy minds! Let\u2019s speak these kinds of affirmations from God\u2019s Word:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~ I have the mind of Christ! (1 Corinthians 2:16)
\n~ My mind is renewed daily! (Romans 12:2)
\n~ His mind is in me! (Philippians 2:5)
\n~ My mind is in perfect peace because it stays on God. (Isaiah 26:3)
\n~ I love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul and MIND. (Matthew 22:37)
\n~ Daily, I think on whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy. Philippians 4:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m in for the long haul so rather than my mind being used \u201cmindlessly\u201d, I\u2019m \u201cpowering up\u201d to be sure I live up to the best version of me that I can be! How about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI refuse to give in to my fears. For God did not give me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a SOUND mind!\u201d
\n2 Timothy 1:7 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My precious mom said to her doctor \u201cDoc, some mornings I just don\u2019t want to get out of bed!\u201d His reply? \u201cThe day you decide to do that, count on being bedridden very soon. In essence, he was saying \u201cIf you don\u2019t use it \u2013 you\u2019ll lose it!\u201d These days \u2013 our minds are on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14816,14815,14814,14813,14812],"tags":[1210,14811,14805,9056,12156,14809,11271,5040,7271,14807,43,2251,14810,3918,4531,3532,9676,14806,5043],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-habits","category-guard-your-mind","category-multi-tasking","category-power-up","category-sound-mind","tag-blog","tag-boggle","tag-brains","tag-enjoy-life","tag-laugh","tag-laugh-often","tag-lose-it","tag-mind-of-christ","tag-multi-tasking","tag-neuroscience","tag-optimistic","tag-perfect-peace","tag-powering-up","tag-renewed","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-deprived","tag-sound-mind","tag-tasks","tag-use-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10995,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/10995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}