In the Active reach, decide what you want to do in one to two minutes based on the input from steps 1-4, then for the rest of the day you actually do the active reach 7 times.

For example, if you are detoxing ‘worrying about meeting the bills every month”, your replacement healthy thought could be something like using the scripture “my God shall meet all my need according to his riches in glory” (Philippians 4:19) and apply to the specifics of your worry.

You will be doing a double process each day: breaking down a toxic thought and building up a healthy replacement thought.

The first few days have a lot of explanation to coach you into mastering the technique, thereafter the explanations are shorter, and so you can navigate back and forth between days if you need to.

When I refer to a “thought”, I am referring to a ‘memory”…these are one and the same.

We are very good at working on 2-4 things at a time, so you will manage this really well.

This means at any one time, you will be working on automatizing the new healthy thought you worked on the previous 21 days, as well as working on detoxing the next toxic thought the Holy Spirit has guided you to work on.

This means, the thought moves into your non-conscious mind and drives your conscious thoughts, words and actions without you consciously thinking about it. This will total about 63-66 days of conscious practice and will result in the new thought being “automatized.

In order to stabilize the new way of thinking and to keep from reverting back to the old way, you needs to consciously practice using the new thought you have built for at least 2 more cycles of 21 days.

After 21 days, the new healthy thought is small and needs to grow.

This will wipe out the toxic thought and build in the healthy new thought.

The overall idea of the 21-day Brain Detox™ Plan is to do the Switch on Your Brain 5-step Process® each day in 7-10 minutes for 21 days.

For more information on the science, my theory and the research behind my 5-step Switch on your brain technique® and the 21-day Brain Detox™, please refer to my other books and my web page.

This is what you do each day for 7-10 minutes.

There are 5 steps that I have developed based on how the brain builds thoughts (based on my research on the science of thought) – I call these the Switch on Your Brain 5-step Process® .

Don’t be tempted to try to fix everything on the first day…it’s baby steps, so you make small changes each day.

From day two your time can be reduced to 7 -10 minutes in total of dedicated time.

You may feel you need a couple of days to practice getting into the routine, which is fine as well.

The first day will take approximately 30 – 60 minutes as you practice and learn the routine.

Caroline leaf brain