The Bible never tells you to feel differently.
than practice and reinforce it until it becomes natural. What modern neuroscience has
“called neuroplasticity, Scripture calls renewal. One of the most persistent myths in both modern”
Christianity and modern psychology is that faith and neuroscience are talking about two different
things. They are not. Scripture has always been the manual for the human mind. We just stop learning
to read it from that perspective. Your brain is wired for deception, but here's the true. Patterns can be broken. The code can be written. Once you hear the true, you can't go back. So the only question is, are you ready? Scripture has always been the manual for the human mind. We just stopped learning to read it from that perspective. The Bible never treats the mind as a neutral space. It never assumes that your thoughts are reliable, and it never tells you to trust
your feelings. And it's certainly never suggest that awareness alone will ever produce lasting change. What Scripture describes over and over again is a patterned mind. A mind that is shaped by
“repetition, a mind that is shaped through experience, and a mind that must be renewed.”
Long before we had the language of neuroplasticity, the Bible was already describing how the mind forms, how it distorts, and how it needs to change. And if we're honest, much of the modern church talks about renewal in ways that Scripture just doesn't back up. Renewal is not about inspiration or some figurative caterpillar becoming a butterfly moment. Renewal is a process that changes what your mind does by default. Today, we will cover what Scripture actually says about the
mind. Why it aligns precisely with neuroscience and why most people never experience real renewal,
despite sincerely wanting it. Let's jump into what a renewed mind actually is functionally. The phrase Renewary Mind has been flattened into something vague and hyper-spiritualized. And of course, attacked by everyone who wants to convince you that you are just fine as you are and you should radically own who you are. But in Scripture, Renewal has never something that's abstract. Romans 122 tells us do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. That verse assumes something that most people just skip right over. It assumes that your mind is already conformed, conformed to what? A renewed mind is not about changing who you are at your
core. It is about learning to see the distortions that your childhood wounds have carved out in your
mind that trick you into destroying yourself and others. Scripture consistently ties renewals of things like training discipline, repetition, all action-oriented words. In 1 Peter 5 8, we are told to be sober-minded, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Let's break down the word sober-minded. The Greek word is nepho, meaning to be free from spiritual or mental intoxication. Clear-headed and self-controlled.
“I think this is very important because this isn't simply saying don't drink. Being sober-minded”
is far more complex than that. It has everything to do with operating and discernment with self-control in the fruits of the spirit so that you're able to truly perceive the moment as close to objective reality as possible. As soon as you are not sober, the chances that you're going to fall into deception or distortion are so much higher. So it's important to just flag here. A renewed mind is one that requires practice, diligence, and sobriety or the Greek word nepho. Too many people
that are trying to renew their mind are doing it through trying to understand simply how the mind works. But they're not focusing specifically on the acts that they repeat over and over again. The Bible does not describe this as some gentle, easy spiritual transaction. But in fact, one that is fraught with spiritual battle, tension, and required dog-and-persistence. Neoplasticity is simply the brain's ability to change based on what it repeatedly does.
Your brain is not fixed. It is constantly adapting. Whatever you dwell on or you allow, mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, and, of course, spiritually, your brain starts to become efficient at. And what does efficiency mean in this context? It means that it knows you are likely to do X and Y and Z. So it starts skipping steps. And it just takes you right to where it knows you're going to go through the pathway of assumption or distortion. Scripture already told us in
Proverbs 237, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Not as he believes as he thinks." Jesus goes even further in Matthew 1519, "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder,
Adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, lander.
Thought precedes behavior. How often do we talk about the neurocognitive funnel on this show? What we perceive is going to actually engage a thought form that will trigger an emotional response
and then a behavior is triggered. The Bible never assumes that thoughts are neutral,
“and it never assumes that they're telling the truth. That's why in second Corinthians 10-5,”
we are told to take every thought captive. You don't capture something that is already aligned and helping you in any way shape or form. You capture something that has the potential to hijack the entire show and get you to fall victim to self-disception. There's a core principle in neuroscience that explains exactly how habits form. Neurons that fire together, fire together. When a thought, emotion or behavior repeatedly
activates, the brain actually binds to it. Over time, that pathway becomes your default. The inverse, however, is also true. Neurons that fire a part, wire a part. When an old response is interrupted, replaced, disrupted repeatedly, the old pathway weakens. And this is exactly
“how scripture has always described this internal battle. In Ephesians 4-22-24, it says, "Put”
off your old self," which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires. And put on your new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Put off, put on. This is not metaphorical language you guys. This is replacement language. This is describing neuroscience. Renewal requires and demands interruption. An interruption requires effort, and I'm going to level with you a whole lot of it, which is why resistance does not mean
that you're doing it wrong. Resistance actually just means that an old circuit is being effectively starved off. The brain is most plastic in childhood, which means that in childhood it's learning quickly, but it is not actually learning accurately aligned with the objective record. It learns what keeps you safe, what keeps you attached, what gets you attention, what gets you in trouble, and what helps you survive your environment. Many of the patterns that we struggle with today
were once intelligent adaptations, but now they're serving as stumbling blocks and strongholds of self-deception. Hypervigilance control avoidance, emotional numbing, over-responsibility addiction, these are all learned strategies. Ecclesiastes 729 tells us, see this alone I found that
God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. schemes aren't always conscious. Often
schemes are formed before our language has caught up to them. And the problem isn't so much that these patterns don't happen to everyone on planet Earth because they do. The problem is that we assume that they get better with time. Plot twist, they don't, they do the exact opposite. They also don't go away with awareness alone. And sadly they don't go away with prayer alone. And of course, I am a believer personally. I do know that the miraculous can occur, but for the average person
“prayer alone is not enough to renew your mind. You have to actually renew your mind through”
pattern opposition. The brain only updates its systems when you do things differently and repeatedly. Let's take the word repent. I don't know if you know this. I was raised Jewish. I had a one-on-one encounter that was completely divinely orchestrated when I was 19. Maybe I'll tell you another show.
But I'm the last person that should never have been a believer. I was essentially raised to
believe that believing in Jesus was like being an intellectual who still believes that Santa Claus squeezes his buns down the chimney to deliver presence. Imagine my shock and surprise as I was faced with having to grapple the truth of who Jesus was and what the Bible is. And this is not a show that is specifically to cram that down your throat right now. But I do know having been on the other side of it that words like repent and sin can give people even who are raised
in the church in immediate need to re-action. I'm a big fan of going back to the origin and tent of the word. So because of that for repent, I want to go back to the original Hebrew, which is SHUV, meaning to turn back or to return to God. And it's often associated with the word to SHUBA. In Greek, the New Testament word that is used is metaneo, meaning to change one's mind or to think differently. When you consider the original intent of the language used in reference to repent, it's talking
about a transformation of the heart, the mind, but most importantly, a change in your direction.
Repentance is not asking you to just feel sorry.
and change your behavior and move in a new opposite direction. There's a region of the brain
called the anterior mid-singulate cortex. And this is an area that is heavily involved with effort persistence and choosing discomfort on purpose. It activates when you resist your automatic responses and you choose something that is harder and more intentional. Keyword here is resist. When you move through the resistance, you change the way that you're perceiving the situation in order to act out a new choice through hard work, sustained effort and fighting through
that resistance. Guess you'll be fighting an uphill battle, but it's a battle that too many people
“don't even know it needs to be fought. And that honestly includes many believers.”
When we look at mentions of AMCC or anterior mid-singulate activation in the Bible,
we can see words like dying to self-indurance discipline produces fruit. Spiritual growth is not a type of passive surrender. It is a neurologically demanding one. And this is why renewing often feels like work. And it makes people want to quit early or deceive themselves into some sort of spiritually bypassing a approach where they understand their salvation as a way to take their foot off the gas. Is salvation about works and good deeds? Of course not. But is it possible to live
a true life of repentance and renewal if you're continually operating in self-deception and accidentally justifying your old behaviors patterns and ways of thinking? No. Pattern opposition is absolutely biblical. Doing the opposite behavior of the disordered impulse
“or in biblical terms, sin or deception is throughout both old and new testament. Not to be”
moral for the sake of being seen a certain way, but to actually starve off the neurological pattern and build new ones resulting in fruit. Examples of fruit, but bookly would be patient, self-control, gentleness, love, among others. When people are not operating in that type of fruit, it usually is a signal that they are not actually operating in a renewed mind. These oppositions force the brain and body or in biblical terms the heart, soul,
spirit and body to come into alignment. The Bible directly calls you to resist your flesh and walk in the spirit. Directional language often challenging you to see with your spiritual eyes instead of falling victim to fear and anxiety. All matters of self-deception and instead to instigate your faith. Pattern opposition is not able to be random in order for it to work. It has to specifically interrupt the rules generated by the old circuit. It has to activate
a competing one that generates a new observable outcome, and it also has to be repeatable under stress. This is why in break method we start with "I'm not one to quote anybody, by the way." So this quote obviously means a lot to me. It is a chook poignant quote that says, "Find out what you're afraid of and go live there." When you intentionally engage your fears and your patterns of self-deception and you oppose them, you no longer fear anything. You are
able to oppose every pattern and actually see that as an invitation to heal and to renew.
“Knowing that you need to do things differently is a lot easier than actually doing them. Some of”
you, for example, you start off in January, right, near as resolutions, you know what you want to do, but do you actually do it? Designing the specific pattern opposition that requires your brain is honestly the hardest part. Many people know that something has to change, but they don't know exactly what to change or when to change it or exactly what to say and the timing of it. And hint, human beings are incredibly stubborn and self-centered and sadly gollable when it comes to believing
their own excuses and rationalizations. So not only are you having a roadblock of not knowing exactly what to do, but until you have exposed all of your patterns of self-deception, it's really easy for you to let your fear of the unknown or your desire for comfort or pleasure to seek the familiar, justify keeping you stuck, justifying old behavior or take it biblically, justifying sinful behavior, justifying doing things that are absolutely not what you are called to do as a
believer. Everything that we are talking about today points to one often completely inconvenient reality. Renewal happens through training and discipline. Scripture consistently presents a renewed mind as something that is formed through active participation, repetition and submission to the process. And this is where many people reach a threshold. They believe, they desire the change, maybe they even see the patterns, and yet the patterns persist, they have no freedom.
I want to pause for a second because this episode matters to me on so many levels personally,
As you know if you've been falling along with my podcast, I did not get into ...
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autoimmune flares for mono-waking that was not responding to any of my strong willpower or time
“spent in the gym. The only thing that actually made a change was adding peptides to my daily routine.”
When I did that, I started to understand bioavailability, dosing, stacking, and that is everything we are covering in two days episode with one of the leading experts in the peptide space. As you know, I am partnered with LEMD so that you don't have to guess where your products are coming from, whether they're black market from China. You can find all of my recommended stacks at LEMD/busygold and LEMD is E-L-L-I-E-M-D.com/busygold. And I go deeper into all of my protocols
and offer support on my Telegram group, which is also going to be linked in the show notes. Now back to the show. Through all my work in the mental health space, and through years of studying brain patterns, side-by-side, but the scripture, one thing is unmistakably clear. Self-disception is not accidental, especially if you understand the biblical implications of it, and the role,
Satan, or the enemy, or the accuser, plays in it. It is a patterned state of mind that develops during childhood, and it holds you prisoner every single day until you learn how to free yourself. Scripture names this condition directly in Jeremiah 179. The heart is deceitful above
“all things and desperately sick who can understand it. One important note here is that in the”
Bible, the heart is often referring to what we know of as our mind and our consciousness and how we are aware unaware of how our emotional state is being driven by perception. So it's not talking about your anatomical heart in the Bible whenever the heart is being mentioned. It's talking about our mind and our consciousness. Renewal is God's response to this reality. It is a process through which perception becomes clarified. Patterns become reordered and disrupted,
and discernment is restored. Back in August of 2025, I first felt the pull to create renew your mind.
And back in October, I felt a very strong pull that it had to be a priority at the top of 2026. Renew your mind is a 20 week lecture series and it's centered around what Scripture reveals about the mind, the fall at the time of Genesis, self-deception, the spirit realm, the mechanics of transformation and healing will even cover the role spirits play in mental illness and how our understanding of the spiritual realm can be both a help and a harm to certain
brain pattern types and their pursuit of being healed. If you are interested and you enjoyed this little sneak peek of Renew your mind, head over to stan.store/busygold and you can join me for Renew your mind. I would also love to invite you to our brand new members-based community. That is going to be free for the next couple of months. The free community is called the Rewire Room. There's a bunch of different subject matters in there. You can jump in there.
Share what's going on in your life. I'm able to work with each of you and give real time feedback and if you are joining us for Renew your mind, our first lecture starts in a few weeks and make sure to join the Rewire Room because our discussions will be happening off-site there. This message was a little bit different. Then what we usually go through and decoded and I know that the Bible and Scripture in general can be a divisive topic and I don't talk too much about that
on this platform. I was radically transformed mentally emotionally by becoming a believer. I had struggled many years of my life with really intense anxiety attacks from roughly 9 to 19 and I actually came to have this radical transformation personally by kind of bargaining with the Lord. Like, hey, if you can get rid of my panic attacks right now, I'll give my life to you forever and
I've never had another panic attack and from somebody who has had extensive panic attacks for so many
years where it just completely destroyed any future thinking I had about my life. I never thought I would amount to anything. I never thought I'd be able to lead a normal life to now be turning 41 and anxiety is like, oh, huh? I can't believe I've ever used to feel like that. In fact, most people that see me,
“I think see me as much more free spirit and go with the flow and possibly even reckless,”
but the idea that I was like so fear-based and restricted and wouldn't do anything is very much the opposite of who I am. Now where I just I go and I'm passionate driven. Like, sounds like a a bad idea let's do it or sounds like I have no idea how we're going to figure out but we'll figure it out as we go along. This is my pattern-apposed life. I am a physical testimony, spiritual testimony, emotional testimony of what happens when you oppose these patterns,
you understand the patterns of self-deception, how they're tricking you into something that
Isn't real and big picture is ultimately trying to block you from being in Go...
world for your life. There are so many elements of this that I personally love teaching about
“and I will always keep break method as a secular program, but I'm really excited to bring”
renew your mind to both believers and people who don't believe all the same time. And the plan there is to unfold the lecture series so that we're looking at it from a very scientific perspective.
Of course curiosity and questions are always welcome. This isn't like a conversion series.
This is really exploring how is it possible that a living old document, like the Bible, could know so many things about mental health processes and ultimately how to heal ourselves long before we could prove it with any sort of natural sciences or imaging or psychological studies. And it's one of my favorite parts about the Bible is that if any of you had been raised with it and you were programmed to see it in a certain way, think of it in a certain way where it's
filtered through a man, I would encourage you to try to wipe all of that away and I'm so grateful to God that I didn't have that experience because I didn't have anyone tell me how to read it,
I just got to read it. And when you just get to read it from a healed mental state,
the immense value and wisdom that exists on the pages will change anybody's life, even if that's literally all that you do. Take it a step further for those of you who tend to think that science just proves the Bible, aha, well that's exactly what I plan on hitting and renew your mind
“because I'm a big fan of showing not only to science, not to prove the Bible, but I think when”
you can understand both paradigms over lady each other, it gives you a really profound understanding of who we are in the world, how to exist in the world and what are bigger purposes, like beyond just our personal lives, what is the purpose of humanity and what are we all going through right now? How can we experience that through lens of personal responsibility and utility instead of victimization and futility? Because that's often what ends up happening. If you take the, you know,
God isn't real, science is everything. You run the risk of, kind of checking out on certain parts of your life and missing the magical essence that's really all around us, the genus Hikwa. And when you go too far into the hyper-spiritual and you just completely deny the science, you also lose your way. I really would like to see more people build the bridge between the two because for those who are academically minded or intellectual, often you are programmed to believe
“that scripture or God or Jesus are all just, you know, like Santa Claus, when I think”
if you were to really roll up your sleeves and go into it with some intellectual honesty and openness, I think you would find the exact opposite to be true. I have a reading list in the Renewary Mind Course where I recommend other books written by other people. One of them that I think
is amazing, which will be mentioned inside the course, was written by a lawyer who, in essence,
was challenged to investigate Jesus the same way he would investigate something for a client. And at first he scoffed about it because he was absolutely not a believer and in fact was a major skeptic and he came out the other side of a really deep evidence-based dive and came out of believer. So I think big picture, whether you're a believer or you're not, doesn't matter if you're at all curious about neuro-scientific processes that are very much in the Bible and in my
opinion, very much mirrored, naturally organically and exactly what we do in break method. I'm going to be dissecting all of that. We're going to be unfolding it over about 20 weeks. We're going to meet mostly once a week, but every couple of weeks we meet twice. All of the recordings will live on in the portal within a couple hours of going live. I do want it to be something that's community-focused and respectful. There is a
entry questionnaire that helps me understand just your experience with the Bible and your level of resistance or openness to it. One of the things that I absolutely love and this has been the case with other Bible studies I've done in the past is that we get all kinds of people, people who, you know, were raised Christian and have intentionally turned against it and think the Lord will only hear it from me despite being not open to it in any other place.
Muslims, Jews, people who think that science is a God, hey, even people who think that, you know, maybe Elon Musk is God, I don't know. I still have questions about why Elon Musk won't admit that aliens are real, but we'll put a pin in that one. Everyone is welcome and that is
The point I'm trying to make here.
with me. If you are curious and there's an openness to wanting to understand how all of the
“salines go to stand.store/busyworld and sign up for a new year's mind we're starting in a couple of weeks.”
And I also have another program coming out in another few weeks called the Cycler stuck in, what your therapist won't tell you, but I will. That one, I'm so excited for it too. But I will pump the brakes and I will tell you about that one on a future episode. We have a ton of great episodes coming up and one of the ways that I would encourage you to use the rewire room is to vote on what things you want me to talk about. If there's a certain topic like, hey, break down this
movie, what's going on with this thing in the news, just throw your ideas in there and I will jump in there and turn them into episodes for you. This is what I love to do. I love to teach, feel like buddy the elf and I say that I just love to teach. It really is my favorite. I love
“spending this time with each of you and I love that there's an openness to pivoting between”
all different types of topics. My hope is that all the topics, even though, you know, in the moments, I don't see their interconnectedness when I reflect back, you can actually see how all the episodes are interrelated. Let's keep that going. We're going somewhere. The world can be a pretty nuts place. There's so much division and a lot of really strong opinions. There's a lot of really intense deception and distortion and attacks. The thing I will leave you with is
don't take anyone's word for it on anything and I I feel that way even about like things that I
will share with you. I never tell people like, this is what it is. Deal with it. Don't question it.
Question everything. Go explore it for yourself. Use your own sensory experience. Don't
“ever just rely on what so-and-so told you ever. I don't and you shouldn't either. I would never”
want to create an audience that just immediately takes my word for it. Ever. I don't I don't like to have a sheep audience, you know. It's not what we're doing. I try to encourage people to heal mentally, emotionally, spiritually so that they can achieve metacognition and be thinking about their thinking. They can break patterns for themselves, break generational patterns. All in effort to literally do butter in the world to put out something positive in the world.
And there are so many people that only contribute negativity, victimization, darkness, slander, manipulation. You don't have to be that way. So in a world where we seem to be heavily leaning toward that and in fact rewarding it somehow, be somebody who creates something, don't consume, don't attack, don't divide, put yourself out there in the world solve problems, be a blessing to somebody be a light to somebody. Because we've weighed too much of the opposite and
Lord knows we need some more lights in the world. And my hope is that the work that I do helps people become more of a light in the world. Because every time you're able to face head on your patterns of self-disception and get to the other side of them, you do create fruits of the spirit, whether you believe or not. You do build self-control, you do build patients, you do build your capacity for love. I truly can love my air quotes enemies. I can pray for people that
are actively trying to harm me. I have empathy. I can see the pain and suffering that is causing
people like this to act out in this way. That is ultimately where we need to be. And when your mind
is renewed, even if somebody is viciously organizing people against you, you can still have the capacity to be patient and loving and kind and still want to thus for them. So if that is the type of life you want to lead, where you're not in some sort of victim, retaliatory, aggro mindset all the time, where you're just justifying conflict left and right, then you know where to find me. That is exactly the work I do, and I really hope that I get to see you in renewed your mind when we start in a
couple weeks. Bye, guys. Your brain isn't broken. It's running an old code. Break method is a system that maps your neurological patterns, decodes your emotional distortions, and rewires your behavior. Fast. No talk therapy, spiral, no getting stuck in your feelings. Just logic-based rewires during in 20 weeks or less. Head to break method.com and see what your brain is really up to.
