WHY FRONTAL BRAIN IS SO IMPORTANT IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE

BRAIN

The brain is composed of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem

Cerebrum: is the largest part of the brain and is composed of right and left hemispheres. It performs higher functions like interpreting touch, vision and hearing, as well as speech, reasoning, emotions, learning, and fine control of movement.

Cerebellum: is located under the cerebrum. Its function is to coordinate muscle movements, maintain posture, and balance.

Brainstem: acts as a relay center connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spinal cord. It performs many automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, digestion, sneezing, coughing, vomiting, and swallowing.

Right brain – left brain

The cerebrum is divided into two halves: the right and left hemispheres (Fig. 2) They are joined by a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum that transmits messages from one side to the other. Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body. If a stroke occurs on the right side of the brain, your left arm or leg may be weak or paralyzed.

Not all functions of the hemispheres are shared. In general, the left hemisphere controls speech, comprehension, arithmetic, and writing. The right hemisphere controls creativity, spatial ability, artistic, and musical skills. The left hemisphere is dominant in hand use and language in about 92% of people.

Lobes of the brain

The cerebral hemispheres have distinct fissures, which divide the brain into lobes. Each hemisphere has 4 lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital

Frontal lobe

• Personality, behavior, emotions
• Judgment, planning, problem solving
• Speech: speaking and writing
• Body movement 
• Intelligence, concentration, self awareness

Parietal lobe

• Interprets language, words
• Sense of touch, pain, temperature (sensory strip)
• Interprets signals from vision, hearing, motor, sensory and memory
• Spatial and visual perception

Occipital lobe

• Interprets vision (color, light, movement)

Temporal lobe

• Understanding language (Wernicke’s area)
• Memory
• Hearing
• Sequencing and organization

WHY FRONTAL BRAIN IS SO IMPORTANT IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIFE 

The brain is composed of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem

Cerebrum is divided into 4 lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital

Frontal lobe functions:

• Personality, behavior, emotions, reasoning
• Judgment, planning, problem solving
• Speech: speaking and writing, long term memory
• Body movement, impulse control,
• Intelligence, concentration, self awareness, social, sexual behaviour

 
What Effects The Frontal Lobe

Drugs and Narcotics Factors Effect Frontal Lobe

1. Illegal Drugs : Heroin, cocaine, morphine

2. Culturally accepted drugs (alcohol, nicotine, caffeine)

Lifestyle Factors Have a Detrimental (cause harm) 

1. Poor Nutrition:

1. Fast foods: Most pizzas. Pizza is one of the world's most popular junk foods. ...
2. All refine products :White bread, sugar
3. Most fruit juices, sugar sweetened soft drinks.
4. Sweetened breakfast cereals. ...
5. Fried, grilled, or broiled food. ...
6. processed food: Pastries, cookies, and cakes, ice cream, candy,
7. other popular snacks: French fries and potato chips, 

2. Not Breastfeeding:  who had been breastfed for longer went on to score higher on IQ tests as adults. Breastfeeding improves the brain development of infants, (boosting a baby's brain growth), can increase a baby's brain growth by 20 to 30 percent. Choline biochemical in breast milk are markers of brain development “For example, higher levels of choline in the brain are associated with improved memory and cognition.

3. Refined Foods:  Refined foods are highly processed foods that have been stripped of their original nutrient content and fibre. Refined white flour, white pasta, and white sugar, Refine foods are linked to drastically increased risk of many diseases, including obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes

 4. High Fat foods: derives from flesh meats and their products 

5. Foods that are high in simple carbohydrates:  They are also excessively found in food processed and refined sugars such as candy, table sugar, syrups, and soft drinks.

Simple carbohydrates are easily and quickly utilized for energy by the body because of their simple chemical structure, often leading to a faster rise in blood sugar and insulin secretion from the pancreas – which can have negative health effects.

6. Foods containing arachidonic acid: is an omega -6 polyunsaturated fatty acids particularly obtain from meat products like chicken, beef, pork, egg yolk and fishes.

7. Rich foods containing Tyrosine:function  alertness, attention and focus, regulate mood–  

(highly found in cheeses, soya beans, nuts, beef, lamb, pork, fish, chicken, eggs, etc.)

8. Lifestyle Factors Effect Frontal Lobe

1. Hypnotism : 

2. Electronic devices: Television, mobile 

3. Inharmonious Music 

Screen and Brain

We are told that the prophet Samuel went to the house of Jesse to anoint the next king of Israel. As he arrived he looked at seven handsome young men, all of whom appeared ready to be king. But the one that God had chosen was not the one that he would have thought. “The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7, NIV).

So what was it about David that had prepared him to lead better than his brothers? The details we know show us that he spent a great deal of time in nature caring for animals, and using his creativity to write and play music.

In writing about Adam and Eve in Eden, Ellen White wrote that they were given “the occupation most favorable to development—the care of plants and animals.”1 Caring for plants and animals and spending inordinate amounts of time in the outdoors sounds revolutionary in a world of gadgets. So what’s the concern with screens?

 It’s easier to treat a heroin addict than a true screen addict,” says addiction expert Nicholas Kardaras. He details how compulsive technology use and reliance on screens can neurologically damage the developing brain of a child in the same way that drug addiction can.

 “Research shows that both drug use and excessive screen usage stunts (prevent from growing) the frontal cortex and reduces the gray matter in that part of the brain. So hyper-arousing games create a double whammy (bad influence). Not only are they addicting, but then addiction perpetuates (confuse) itself by negatively impacting the part of the brain that can help with impulsivity and good decision-making.

Often in Scripture we find references to the forehead. God puts His seal or mark there; or Lucifer puts his mark there. The underlying concept is talking about the pre-frontal cortex (i.e., the frontal lobe). It is the seat of judgment, morality, and character in addition to creativity and critical thinking.

 “The people of God are sealed in their foreheads,” wrote Ellen White. “It is not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved.”

Satan can find access to the soul through perverted appetite, passion to debase and destroy it, benumbed the moral sensibilities of the inhabitant of the earth.

habitants of

Through intemperance, Satan works to destroy the 

mental and moral powers ...Failure in self control the first sin.

Frontal Brain is the battleground for good and evil, it is I and you to decide whom to win.