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With Your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. (Psalm 18:29)
STRESSED?
I was reading a magazine article (a reputable well-known magazine) that said
our mind doesn’t know the difference between truths and lies. Seems like I ran
across that same concept in a book about negative self-talk. It caught my eye
and I sat and pondered. I can literally tell myself I’m a big, fat, helpless
loser who can’t figure anything out or I can tell myself I’m very capable of
solving complicated matters when they come up. Either way, my mind is going to
store the information I feed it and respond to life accordingly.
What
do you think about that?
Do
you think your life would really change any if you told yourself:
o
I
can figure hard things out
o
I
can make improvements
o
I
can face challenges successfully
o
I
can learn new things
o
I
believe I can do anything I truly desire
o
I
can practice, try, learn, get better, accomplish, achieve, complete
o
I
am smart enough to figure this out
o
I
do know how to manage my money, my time, my career
o
I
am beautiful inside and out
o
I
am generous and kind
You
get the picture. I’ve been trying this on myself for a couple weeks now.
Telling myself these things, even when I don’t believe them myself – does my
mind believe?
The
result seems to be LESS ANXIETY. I tell myself every morning that I know how to
handle a crisis when it arises. I can do difficult things. I know how to work
things out. My anxieties seemed to stem from feeling helpless, not knowing the
solution, not believing I had the power to work a solution out. But now my mind
seems to think and respond differently. My new first thought is that – whatever
it is – it is manageable and there is a solution and it will come to me.
With Your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. (Psalm 18:29)
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with
God.” (Mark 10:27)
I wonder if this would work with groups of people. What if we stopped grumbling and spoke good, empowering things ...
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