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Sunday Thoughts: Creating A Better You
It’s a challenge to take control of ones self. To dig into that inner wiring in our minds and re-route thoughts that affect your instincts and others impressions of your outer being. What goes on in the brain is miraculous! We have more power than we give ourselves credit for!
Sunday’s lesson was right up my alley. I LOVE studying behaviors and ways that I can improve. Our teacher first instructed us to get a piece of paper and pen/pencil. Go ahead and do the same and I can take you through the incredible lesson I learned.
We folded the paper long ways and she instructed us to write on the top of the paper “Negative Thoughts” and proceeded to tell us to go ahead and write down all our negative thoughts that we tell ourselves/think regularly… (So go ahead and do the same if you’d like and then continue to read below).
After about 5 min that she allowed us to write them all down she then explained to us the power of our minds. That whatever we choose to tell ourselves, in telling our mind we will in turn believe it to be true. i.e. “She is so stupid!” or “I just can’t do anything right, everybody hates me!“. If we tell ourselves that often enough, we’ll believe it. One lady chimed in out of the group with a great thought that I love:
“When you point one finger you have four more fingers pointing back at you!“
Our teacher then asked us “Why is it that we get so frustrated that nothing is going right? That everything seems to go wrong and we can’t seem to get a hold on things?” She then also added later another thought “How do you feel when somebody who you care so much for just seems to get stuck in life and their whole world is so horrible for them? They vent the same things over and over to you and no matter what advise you give them they just can’t seem to get over their troubles? How do you handle that? What more could do you do for them?”
She gave some great thoughts to keep in mind to help us with just that situation:
“Keep in mind when your in that situation of speaking with them to (1) Listen, (2)Validate their feelings, (3) Acknowledge the reality of the situation… then keep in mind when it’s easy to label the person or place judgment with them or anyone in general that you may be speaking to or about:
They are doing the best they can for who they are and where they’re at in life.
Assume the best of everybody.“
There is a channel we have with the Spirit that when we pray for guidance, unless there is a place within us for the Spirit to reside, without it in no way can we expect any assistance in our troubles. Yes, God is always there, but we also need to humble ourselves and invite God’s Spirit appropriately. What we need to keep in mind is:
29 For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of acontention is not of me, but is of the bdevil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.
Doesn’t it make sense that the reason that we feel we’re getting no where or no one is listening or i.e. “I just can’t seem to get these last few pounds off..” etc is maybe because you continue to think negative and proceed to put yourself down? You’re not allowing the negativity/contention to leave you! Where there is contention within us, there is no room for the Spirit. The moment we let that contention leave us, the Spirit has room to reside and help us to progress.
Thank the Lord for the trials in your life, for trials are not always consequences for doing something wrong. There is no need to blame yourself but accept the situation as it is and thank the Lord for the opportunity to learn from this obstacle/trail and the ability to grow into a stronger and wiser person because of it. 
Also, another thing to keep in mind:
We are only as good as what has proceeded us.
Meaning, we can only expect ourselves to react to situations as we have grown up with the behavior taught to us. i.e. Did you have a Mother/Father who was behaviorally a negative person in general? This doesn’t mean we’re stuck with these traits - because we always have the ability to change that behavior.
Another thought to keep in mind is:
Would you speak as negatively to your child as you speak to yourself? If not, than why would you speak to God’s child (you) as you do? Something to think about. Keep in mind to remind yourself:
“I am taking care of God’s child (me). How would He want me to take care of me?”
Our teacher then instructed us to take that list of negative thoughts and change them into positive thoughts on the other side of the paper. (Go ahead and proceed to do so if you’re following along in this lesson).
What a great exercise of positive thinking this lesson was. It really opened my eyes in how powerful I really am. There are quite a few things that I want to improve in my life that I feel I instinctively hold myself back on. I don’t give myself enough credit that I can change this. I am not stuck with “this” for life. If I can tell myself that “I can and I will meet the President in person” and make that happen, then why can’t I use that same willpower to do anything and everything else in life? I personally feel that there isn’t anything that is impossible in this life if you believe in it & yourself enough.
