Ari Umble

(B) ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿง โค๏ธโšก๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ›ก๐Ÿ•Š The House Inside Your Head: The Three-Story Brain

(B) ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿง โค๏ธโšก๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ›ก๐Ÿ•Š The House Inside Your Head: The Three-Story Brain

I. The Three-Story Brain Model This model (popularized by Dan Siegel) is a useful functional framework for understanding emotional dysregulation without pathologizing it. In brief: * Upstairs brain (prefrontal cortex): reasoning, empathy, moral judgment, impulse control, long-range vision. * Downstairs brain (limbic system): emotions, memory, attachment, threat detection. * Smoke detector (amygdala): rapid,

By Ari Umble

(A) ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›‘๐Ÿ•Š๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ›ก From Flesh to Fruit: Rethinking Self-Control

I. 1. What We Mean by โ€œWillpowerโ€ Willpower is the human capacity to restrain impulses, delay gratification, and choose a course of action contrary to immediate desire. Biblically and philosophically, it aligns most closely with: * Volition (the choosing faculty) * Self-control (แผฮณฮบฯฮฌฯ„ฮตฮนฮฑ, enkrateia) * Discipline of behavior It is important to note:

By Ari Umble
โ›“๏ธ๐Ÿ›‘๐Ÿ“…โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ“˜๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Honoring the Sabbath: An Expression of Love in Community

โ›“๏ธ๐Ÿ›‘๐Ÿ“…โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ“˜๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ Honoring the Sabbath: An Expression of Love in Community

Scripture presents Sabbath not merely as a day off, but as a pattern of ordered rest that restores the whole person and, by extension, the community. What we tend to collapse into โ€œphysical restโ€ is, in the biblical vision, multi-layered. I. 1. Physical Sabbath Rest from labor and bodily exertion

By Ari Umble

๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ”ฅโค๏ธ๐Ÿ›‘ Sin Is Crouching: The Neuroscience of a Biblical Warning

I. 1. Stress Chemistry: Different Default Pathways Men: Stress โ†’ Dopamine-Dominant Response (Action-Oriented) Under stress, men tend to show stronger activation in dopaminergic pathways, particularly those tied to: * Goal pursuit * Problem-solving * Risk-taking * Reward anticipation This often produces: * A drive to do something immediately * Narrowed focus on a solution * Increased tolerance for

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๐Ÿ›ก๐Ÿง ๐Ÿชž๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ›ก Concrete Minds, Invisible God: Remember, Remind, Act

I. 1. Hebrew Thought: Concrete Before Abstract Ancient Hebrew language and cognition are notably concrete. Unlike later Greek philosophy, which excelled in abstraction, Hebrew communicates meaning through embodied, visible, and relational realities. * Truth (โ€™emet) is not an idea but something reliable, firm, proven in action. * Faith (โ€™emunah) is not belief-in-the-abstract

By Ari Umble