What's Going On Inside My Head?: A Let’s Talk picture book to start conversations with your child about positive mental health

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That’s the third voice that’s speaking into our heads. The first is the world, the flesh, the devil, and then the fourth voice that’s in our head is the Holy Spirit. John 14:26, one of my all time favorites. Jesus is speaking and he says, “But the counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, will teach you all things. Teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.” Wow, what an incredible promise. Solomon developed several mnemonic techniques to help him remember things through associations. He used his ability to take part in performances and scientific experiments. There are other people in the world diagnosed with hyperthymesia—they are just unable to forget anything they experienced. Have you ever noticed how a strong smell can bring about specific memories? This phenomenon is not as rare as you might think—the olfactory nerve (the one responsible for delivering the information from the smell receptors) lies near the hippocampus, where the memories are consolidated. That way, a smell can “build itself” into a memory. In one small study, for example, 16 college students were given short stories before being randomly sampled to find out what they were thinking during the course of reading. Only a quarter of their sampled thoughts featured words at all, and just 3% involved internal narration.

The brain is responsible for sending signals to the rest of the body that allow us to feel sensations. So when there is a problem with the brain, like a tumor, it can cause problems with sensation in different parts of the body. This can manifest as numbness, tingling, or other changes in sensation in the face, arms, hands, legs, and feet. How did you know you had a brain tumor? 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. I found a fake TV device that basically you plug it in, close the curtain and from the outside, it looks like there’s a TV flashing in the room, that somebody is inside. We have a yappy little dog who goes bezerk. I’d never want to burglarized my house with that yappy little dog and then we put everything that we have of value, which is really just papers into a safe deposit box. My wife doesn’t have any jewelry. We don’t have any art, but whatever we do have of any value, we put it in a safe deposit box. It] turns out that nearly half the time, we are distracted by ourselves. So we have internal interruptions, and it could be an urge, it’s a memory of something that we have to do, it’s this desire to look at social media – so we distract ourselves,” Mark said. Neuroscientists calculated that the brain processes about 11 million bits of sensory information per second. Imagine yourself at a party with loud music, stroboscopic lights, many people around, noises, smells, touches… Yet when a friend calls your name, you instantly hear it.

He compares it to parachuting into an otherwise undisturbed forest: a few small creatures might scurry away, but you can still observe and describe a lot of the forest’s features in something that’s as close to their undisturbed state as you’re ever likely to get. At about the same time, another technique, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a nuclear imaging technique, was developed which allowed the distribution of chemical reactions within the brain to be mapped. The sky seemed the limit.

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. 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. The critical age for language development is the age of 1.5–3 years. A child not taught to speak at this age, without any experience of social interaction, will probably never be able to speak or understand human speech. Problem-solving and decision-making are quite exhausting for the brain—that’s why we also tend to simplify repeatable and routine things by following logical algorithms (they are also called heuristics). Psychologist Russell Hurlburt at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has spent the last few decades training people to see inside their own minds more clearly in an attempt to learn something about our inner experiences at large. Though many individual studies on inner speech include only a small number of participants, making it hard to know whether their results apply more widely, Hurlburt estimates he’s been able to peek inside the minds of hundreds of people since he began his research. What he’s found suggests that the thoughts running through our heads are a lot more varied than we might suppose.Whatever was happening, it’s likely that your true inner experience – what you were thinking about just before you started trying to figure out what you were thinking about – is now lost to the mists of time. It gives you a way to communicate with yourself using a meaningful structure,” says Racy. Or as one of her colleagues sometimes puts it: “Inner speech is your flashlight in the dark room that is your mind.”