Speaking Life Into Your Brain
How small daily actions and kind words can rewire what illness tried to break.
I’ve written before about the choice to lean in, or not to a diagnosis. I chose not to. Instead, I pulled up my bootstraps and dug in.
I made a conscious decision not to spend my energy searching for reasons why I couldn’t or shouldn’t do something. Instead, I focused on every reason I should.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record saying this, but it’s worth repeating: Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that causes a malfunction in the brain. And, if we want to heal or improve, we have to start at the source.
If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you’ve been diagnosed with MS. And if so, you may have been treating the many symptoms it creates throughout the body. That’s important. But it’s only part of the picture.
Ask yourself:
What am I doing to stop the demyelination of the sheaths around the nerves in my brain?
If all we ever do is treat symptoms, then those symptoms, and more, will stick around. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a wound without ever cleaning the scrape.
I treat my symptoms too: I don’t let myself get overheated. (Texas heat is no joke.) I use cold towels, rest when I need to, meditate, and pray to quiet my mind and let it reset. I eat as clean as I can, because that’s just basic health 101.
But here’s the truth: healing goes beyond symptom management. There’s no shortcut, no quick fix. It’s hard work. It’s daily work. It’s staying compliant with your medications and committing to the deeper task of rebuilding the neural pathways in your brain. It’s refusing to settle.
Our brains are extraordinary. They’re not static — they’re plastic, capable of regeneration and rewiring. Through neuroplasticity, the brain can create new connections and strengthen old ones.
I’ve shared before about simple daily practices that support this rewiring. But the very first step is this:
Change your self-talk.
Replace limiting words with empowering language. Your brain is listening. You have to tell it what it’s capable of. Nourish it with calm, with healthy food, with the stimulation of learning something new.
And above all—be kind to yourself.
Neuroplastic change doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through small, consistent, intentional actions and gentle words that slowly, powerfully rewire the pathways within you.
Remember, you are not your diagnosis. You are the one that can rebuild and rewrite your story.
Share the Light.
Christi
P.S.
I am sharing this book again because I feel so strongly about it. If water is affected by words, just imagine the effect these same words have when you speak them to yourself.
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto