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• For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

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Godly Decision-Making is the Key to Optimal Neuroplasticity

Developing the Mind of Christ

Karl Benzio, MD

Making sense of all this!!!!

• Puzzle pieces• Practical application• Macroscopic from the microscopic• Sequence of Dominoes – getting to the first one• Our fulfillment and peace is determined by how

we take in, process, manage, and respond to the stressors of this world, the spiritual warfare, we are called to live in, endure, and prosper in.

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Science and FaithScience and Faith

• Darwin and Freud

• Faith: the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.• Science: Hard Data, Measurables• Definitions Collide• Do they work together?


Science and FaithScience and Faith

Science is:• The study of what God made

• Understanding how He designed it to work

• Learning how to maximally steward it for God’s glory and our abundant living


God’s Great God’s Great GiftsGifts

MindFree Will: Decision Making


Science is a tool.Science is a tool.So let’s not ignore the science.

Science is a tool.Science is a tool.So let’s not ignore the science.

The Most Important Spiritual Discipline


Decision-Making• Solomon• Most important Core

Competency/Foundational Skill that we have 100% control over

• Never any classes for it• Most people – Random– E-M-M-M, R-P-S, Dice, Magic 8 Ball, Coin Flip

• Bible– Gideon’s fleece, Cast lots, Urim and Thumim, Prayer

Dream Interpretation• Strategy Necessary


Bread Analogy


BrainWorksBrainWorks Research Research

Skin

GI / Cardiac

Panic Disorder Study


Heart Heart of Transformation: of Transformation: Decision-MakingDecision-Making

• No biological Intervention• But Brain Chemistry Improved/Renewed

Decision-making is exercise for brain• Good decisions = stronger brain• Bad decisions = injured brain


What determines accurate Perception and Response?Holy Bible – God’s Instruction Manual

DM: Science and Faith Meet

Integration and DM are Key!Integration and DM are Key!


Mind

SpiritBody

Decision-Making Decision-Making ==

Spirit, Mind, & Body

IntegrationIntegration

Decision-Making• Intersection of Spirit, Mind, and Body


Body, Mind, & Spirit• Body – mechanical, physical, and

biochemical functions–Above and below the neck

• Mind - mental processes and behavior, the mind, heart, will, personality, cognitions, emotions, executive functions


Body, Mind, & Spirit


• Spirit – Inner– immaterial–our eternal part – allows relationship with God–encodes our uniqueness–differentiates us from other animals– allows unique relationships with others

• Spirit – Outer– Trinity, angels, Satan, Heaven, Hell

Body, Mind, & Spirit Integration


• Spirit – inner/outer; Owner/Designer

• Mind – Operating System

• Body – Physical Hardware

• External Events – Software, Viruses

HELP! I prayed, took meds, and love

my mother!I’m DYING

Psychological Defect-Tell me about your

mother!

Sin- Have more Faith!

Disease- Take your MEDS!


What word do you see?What word do you see?


Decision-Making – Strategy SPEARS

• Psychotherapeutics• Bringing God in• Reflection / Self Assessment• Autopsy – Maximum Efficiency• Slow the Mind down• Rubric guiding the optimal utilization of

the raw materials and processes/reactions for max SMB circuitry and performance


19Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

20 You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


Proverbs 4:23

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it flows the wellspring of life.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.Proverbs 23:7

Romans 12 : 1-2Romans 12 : 1-2

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the your spiritual act of worship.

Do not be conformed to this world, but continually be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is-what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

1 Peter 1:13-151 Peter 1:13-15 Therefore, prepare your minds for action,

keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ

2 Corinthians 10:52 Corinthians 10:5

KarlKarl’’s s StoryStory

Why did I become a

psychiatrist?


Karl’s First Karl’s First BeerBeer


• We all have stress that impacts our DM in adverse ways – SMB

• Most important Spiritual Discipline• Most important Core

Competency/Foundational Skill• Exercise for the Brain• Intersection of Spirit, Mind, and Body• Where Science and Faith Meet• Decision-Making Model: SPEARS


DM Key PointsDM Key Points

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