Candace Cameron Bure on How a Godly Mindset Changes Perspective
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure and Bianca Juarez Olthoff recently talked about how our thought patterns impact our lives.
They began by discussing neuroplasticity, “a process that involves adaptive structural and functional changes to the brain,” per the National Library of Medicine.
“If you were to cut across the lawn…if you were to walk across the lawn once would anything happen to the grass?” Olthoff asked Bure, explaining how neural pathways develop.
“No,” Bure responded.
“But if you walked across the same path every day what would happen to your grass?”
“It would probably die or get flattened, there would create a little path,” she replied.
“…You create a pathway. The same is true for our brain,” Olthoff explained. “If we continue to think the same thoughts repeatedly, a pathway forms in our brain. So we can form positive paths or negative paths. In neuroscience, bad thoughts are like velcro, and positive thoughts are like teflon.”
She explained how negative thoughts easily “stick” in our brains while positive ones are more difficult to hold on to.
“The brain’s brilliant malleability allows us to acquire new skills, drop bad habits, adapt to novel environments, and even heal from severe trauma and injury,” Real Simple reports. “Every new experience or challenge…compels the brain to rearrange its synaptic connections…Repetition is the key to rendering a behavior second nature.”
Because these pathways affect life, what we think about is important, and believers should ultimately believe what God says about them.
“God’s Word says that I’m fearfully and wonderfully made. Yes, God says that while I was in my mother’s womb, I was fashioned informed with a purpose,” Olthoff said. “Like 1 Peter tells me… I am a royal and chosen generation called to tear down strongholds, that there is favoring divinity upon my life. And the Spirit of God is on me, like Isaiah says and like Jesus quoted, to bring freedom to the captive. And to bring those in Zion who are mourning joy. If that isn’t the Word of God says, why should I not believe it?”
“The truth is…I will never be able to look at myself and see something that is a value of worth,” she continued. “But I stare in the word of God and I’m speaking scripture over my life and I’m paving new neural pathways in my brain.”
If believers continue to read and believe God’s word, we can retrain our brains to think in a way that heals us and honors the Lord.
Movieguide® previously reported on Bure’s podcast:
Candace Cameron Bure just hit 50,000 YouTube subscribers!
“We’re really excited here because we just hit 50,000 YouTube subscribers for the podcast!” the actress said in an Instagram video. “That’s a pretty big deal. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed!”
Bure launched “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast” last year.
“I’ve been interviewed a whole lot in my 40 plus years on television,” Bure said in a statement at the time of the podcast’s debut. “I thought it was time to have in-depth conversations about things I really care about — and have lots of fun at the same time!”
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