excerpts from a spam email (r.warren)"Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts" (Proverbs 4:23 GNT)
Long before psychology came around, God said your thoughts determine your feelings and your feelings determine your actions. If you want to change your life, you've got to control the way you think.
Our minds are really an amazing creation. It would take a computer the size of a small city just to carry out the basic functions of your brain. Your brain contains over one hundred billion nerve cells. Each individual cell is connected with ten thousand other neurons.
In addition, you're constantly talking to yourself--all the time. Your mind is talking to you! You're talking to yourself right now. Research indicates that most people speak at a rate of 150 to 200 words per minute, but the mind can listen to about 500-600 words a minute.
Long before psychology came around, God said your thoughts determine your feelings and your feelings determine your actions. If you want to change your life, you've got to control the way you think.
Our minds are really an amazing creation. It would take a computer the size of a small city just to carry out the basic functions of your brain. Your brain contains over one hundred billion nerve cells. Each individual cell is connected with ten thousand other neurons.
In addition, you're constantly talking to yourself--all the time. Your mind is talking to you! You're talking to yourself right now. Research indicates that most people speak at a rate of 150 to 200 words per minute, but the mind can listen to about 500-600 words a minute.
In fact, our internal dialogue--the conversation we have with ourselves--is at a rate of 1,300 words per minute. How? Because our mind sees in pictures, and you can see a thought in a nano-second!
The problem is a lot of us are like Job, who says, "Everything I say seems to condemn me" (Job 9:20 GN). He is saying, in effect, "Everything I say puts me down." If you are typical to the human race, you are your own worst critic.
We're always putting ourselves down. We walk into a room smiling, but inside we're thinking, "I’m fat. I'm dumb. I'm ugly. And I'm always late!"
How do you eliminate negative self-talk so you can become a more confident person?
What does SO DONE mean?
• I don’t want any more human contact or stimulus activity
• I’m physically/emotionally exhausted
• I wished I didn’t feel so many responsibilities
• I’m tired of pretending to be what people want me to be
• I hate my life, life sucks, life is so unfair (whine)
• I just want the day to be over
• If it’s over, I can’t hit anymore
• I want to crawl into the closet and hide
• I want to escape into another place
• I can’t stand one more thing to have to fix
• I can’t do anything right and it’s just one more failure
• It’s over, finished, through, desiring an end, waiting for the next hell to begin
• I’ve arrived/concluded failure/defeat
• Where is God in all this?
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