A brain tumor can cause a range of different symptoms, depending on its size and location. The most common symptoms may include headaches, seizures or convulsions, and difficulty thinking, speaking or finding words. If you experience any of these symptoms, it’s important to see a doctor so that the cause can be investigated. The Big Idea of today; The four voices in your head are the world, the flesh, the devil and the Holy Spirit. Your job is to figure out which one is speaking and then make the adjustment. You can control the narrative that’s in your head. Yes, your mother was right: Getting a good night’s sleep before an important project will help you get and stay focused. Rest helps our executive function skills — the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus and remember — keep sharp. There is a famous case of Solomon Shereshevsky—a Soviet journalist able to memorize loads of information and recall it through the years. His case was described in the book The Mind of a Mnemonist by Soviet scientist Aleksandr Luria. Cognition works by creating concepts—abstract groups of similar objects, events, people, or ideas. Concepts band together into prototypes, which are mental images of particular things. Concepts and prototypes allow us to think fast and save processing time—but they also lead to misjudgment when we are faced with something “out of the box.”

Gage lived for 12 more years after that. His brain recovered: he did not lose his abilities to speak, hear, or move. For example, the left and right frontal lobes govern many crucial aspects of personality. There was a very famous case that highlighted this particular connection to neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. Have you ever wondered what is going on inside your head? Well, there’s a bunch of nerves, ganglia, neurons, and synapses that exchange various signals to make us react to the environment and move around.

Concepts also help us communicate and understand each other. When a friend asks you to hand them an apple, you probably know which action they want from you and which object they refer to. Just remember that everything in this life is temporary (both the good and the bad) so the bad times won’t last forever and who knows what amazing opportunities lie ahead for you in your life. The past 30 years have seen the most remarkable advances in the study of the brain. And the past ten have seen more advances in our understanding than all the other years combined.

The voice of the world wants to tell you that you can’t make a difference and that’s an example of how human traditions and the elemental spiritual forces of this world try to influence the narrative that’s inside of your head. The second voice that we want to take a look at in this overview … We’ll do a deep dive on each of these four voices in the weeks ahead, but the second voice, the first one’s the world, the second one is the flesh or the sinful nature. These voices in our head are affecting the narrative that is in our brain and God has given us the ability to take control of that narrative. When he says, “Above all else, guard your heart,” he would not tell us to do that if he would not also equip us to be able to do it. Phone calls, text notifications, your children interrupting you – those external distractions aren’t the only thing pulling you away from the task at hand. But those categories leave room for variation, too. Take inner speaking, which can come in the form of a single word, a sentence, some kind of monologue, or even a conversation.But Mark set me straight. “Humans can’t do two or more things at the same time in parallel. We’re just not built like that. What we’re actually doing is shifting our attention,” she said.

But for psychologists like Fernyhough and Hurlburt, researching inner speech is not an easy task. Simply asking people what they’re thinking about won’t necessarily prompt an accurate answer, says Hurlburt. That is partly because we’re not used to paying close attention to our wandering minds, but also because the questions that surveys tend to ask about our thoughts might prompt us to answer in a particular way – something he thinks leads people to report more inner speaking than they truly experience. And the next night, you stay out late, binge-watching a new season of a TV show, probably regretting it the morning after: this is how your body influences your mind. In DES, you carry around a device as you go about your normal day-to-day activities. When it beeps, you tune into what was going on in your mind right before the sound. At the end of the day, you debrief with a psychologist who asks questions to get at exactly what was in your head in that moment, and what form it took: words, pictures, an emotion, a physical sensation, or something else.The Big Idea; The four voices in your head are the world, the flesh, the devil and the Holy Spirit. Your job is to figure out which one is speaking and make the adjustment. I look forward to doing deep dives on these voices with you in the weeks ahead. Let’s go ahead and pray. As if this was not enough, almost overnight, in the 1970s, along came another even more sophisticated technique: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here, scientists had taken advantage of the differing response of atomic structures, particularly protons, to perturbations by radio frequency waves within a magnetic field. When I think about what really drives me and what I’ve been put on this earth to do, I get really motivated and all the other stuff seems to become irrelevant. Then as you get older, people tell you that, “Well, you’re not useful anymore. You have been expended and so now you’re expendable, so you can’t make a difference.” Here’s the way the world speaks. It doesn’t make any difference if you’re young or old, you really can’t make any difference. The world trying tell you that you can’t make a difference. You keep going over and over in your mind with that [interrupted] task. You don’t want to forget it, right? So … you keep trying to remember it. If something is finished, it’s off your plate. … It’s done. And in fact, there there’s a really nice study that shows that if people want to sleep better, they should write down the interrupted task, because it’s offloading that work of trying to remember the task onto some external memory. The external memory is a piece of paper; you’ve written it down on a piece of paper, so you know you’re not going to forget it. When you wake up in the morning … you’ve got that list of things you still have to do, so you don’t have to rehearse it in your mind,” Mark said.