Change your Brain, Change your Life

Brain Training
You can train your thoughts to be positive and hopeful, or you can allow them to be negative and upset you. Learn how to change your thoughts, and you can learn to change the way you feel.

Negative thoughts are like ants at a picnic—very annoying and can spoil the day. Automatic negative thoughts (ANTS), such as those listed below, need to be crushed or they will ruin your relationships, self-esteem, and your personal power.

•Always/never thinking: Repeating such words to yourself as always, never, no one, everyone, every time, and everything.
•Focusing on the negative: Seeing only the bad in any situation.
•Fortune-telling: Predicting the worst possible outcome of a situation.
•Mind reading: Believing that you know what others are thinking, even though they haven’t told you.
•Thinking with your feelings: Believing negative feelings without ever questioning them.
•Guilt beating: Thinking in words such as should, must, ought, or have to.
•Labeling: Attaching a negative label to yourself or to someone else.
•Personalizing: Investing innocuous events with personal meaning.
•Blaming: Accusing someone else as responsible for your own problems
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Isn't this great information? We really need to be careful of what habits we get into. I love how we have great instructions in the Bible of what things to think on. God knew that since we live in this sinful world, that we could fall into traps of bad thinking and He also knows the damage it could do to us.

"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things." Philippians 4:8

This(top part) along with the rest of the article is in the March 2011 issue of Signs of the times. If you are interested in reading the rest of the article you can go to http://www.signstimes.com/ and scroll down to "Romancing the Brain." Many other great articles are there as well. :o)