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September 22, 2010 
Thought Life - Part I 
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"We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God that can destroy the enemy's strong places. We destroy people's arguments and every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture every thought and make it give up and OBEY CHRIST." -The Apostle Paul  
 

Thought Life - Part I by Dr. Caroline Leaf 

87% to 95% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life.

 

What we think about affects us physically and emotionally. It's an epidemic of toxic emotions.

 

The average person has over 30,000 thoughts a day. Through an uncontrolled thought life, we create the conditions for illness; we make ourselves sick! Research shows that fear, all on its own, triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses and activates more than 30 different hormones.

 

There are INTELLECTUAL and MEDICAL reasons to FORGIVE!

 

Toxic waste generated by toxic thoughts causes the following illnesses: diabetes, cancer, asthma, skin problems and allergies to name just a few.

 

You must consciously control your thought life and start to detox your brain!

 

Medical research increasingly points to the fact that thinking and consciously controlling your thought life is one of the best ways, if not the best way of detoxing your brain. It allows you to get rid of those toxic thoughts and emotions that can consume and control your mind.

 

Change in your thinking is essential to detox the brain. Consciously controlling your thought life means not letting thoughts rampage through your mind. It means learning to engage interactively with every single thought that you have, and to analyze it before you decide either to accept or reject it.

 

How do you go about doing that? By "looking" at your mental processes. That may sound like a strange, if not impossible thing to do. After all, it's not as if you can just crack open your skull like an egg and have a look at what is going on inside your brain.

 

It is possible, however, to look at your mental processes. In fact, it is not just possible, it is essential.

 

For example consider the following:

 

        How many "could-have", "would-have", "should-have" statements have you made today?

        How many "if onlys" were part of your inner vocabulary today?

        How many times have you replayed in your head a conversation or situation that pained you, or one that hasn't even occurred yet?

        How many scenarios have you created of the unpredictable future?

        How much is speculation taking out of your day?

        How passive is your mind?

        How honest are you with yourself?

        Are you at cross-purposes with yourself - going through the motions, but not really committed to the goal, saying one thing but meaning another?

        How distorted is your thinking?

        Are you forming a personal identity around for example, a disease? Do you speak about "my arthritis", "my multiple sclerosis", "my heart problem"?

        Do you ever make comments like "nothing ever goes right for me"; "everything I touch fails"; "I always mess up"?

 

If you answered yes even to just one of these, your thought life needs detoxing right now.

 

A potential pitfall on the path towards detoxing your brain is the fact that toxic thoughts come in many guises. On the surface, a thought like "I must do well" seems positive enough. It is only when you look at it closely, and check out the feelings it generates and their effects on your body and mind, that you will be able to judge fairly and squarely if this is a thought that serves you well.

 

If you base your thought life on assumptions like the above the foundations will be shaky and the edifice (your body mind) that you create thereafter will be highly unstable. As you think more toxic thoughts and generate more toxic emotions, that edifice will show cracks, cave in and eventually collapse altogether as burgeoning illness and disease takes hold.

 

Right off, you need to ditch unrealistic thinking and keep in mind some key principles to kick-start the process of controlling toxic thoughts:

 

        Thoughts create your moods.

        When you experience a fear-based emotion you will feel depressed and your thoughts will be characterized by negativity.

        A negative thought linked to emotional turmoil will be distorted.

        "...bringing all thoughts into captivity to Christ Jesus" (2 Corinthians 10:5) becomes the golden rule of safe thinking.

 

NEXT WEEK: Part II - "The process of "bringing all thoughts into captivity."

ABOUT OUR GUEST AUTHOR: Since 1981, Dr. Caroline Leaf has researched the human brain with particular emphasis on unlocking its vast, untapped potential. She has been received all over the world by a variety of audiences, due to her unique ability to link the scientific principles of the brain to intellectual and emotional issues in simple and practical ways. Through years of research, she developed the Geodesic Learning™ theory (brain-compatible learning), which is a scientifically and statistically proven approach to thinking, teaching, and learning. She has also developed the unique Switch On Your Brain™ 5-Step Learning Process and the Metacognitive-Map™ as a learning tool, and she has presented her learning theory and Metacognitive-Map courses to more than 100,000 students worldwide. She has published articles in academic journals and consumer magazines and has been widely interviewed in newspapers, on radio shows, and on television shows about her research and theories. She frequently lectures to both Christian and secular audiences worldwide on diverse topics relating to optimal brain performance. For more information, visit: www.drleaf.com.

 
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