A Christ Follower: The Journey

TAKING ON THE A.N.T.S As you think in your heart, so you will be. Proverbs 23:7  As we continue helping with freedom producing thinking, we are going to look a little more at those little stingers that we call A.N.T.s   or Automatic  Negative Thinking. Given it is true that your thoughts really can dominate your life, and they can  lead it to a place of either darkness or light, this is important. Indeed A.N.T.s can really complicate a persons life, especially if she or he does not realize that they are stomping daily in a whole bed of those hurtful little but powerful things.  Let's begin looking at a colony of A.N.T.s and see what we can learn.  Much thanks to Daniel Amen (Noted Psychiatrist and author) for these insights. Our overall mind state has a certain tone or flavor based largely on the types of thoughts we think. When the deep limbic system is overactive, it sets the mind's filter on "negative." If you could look into the thoughts

Finding Freedom By How You Think        Freedom thinking is an important accomplishment at which you can arrive. You can do so  by  giving yourself permission to not worry about what others may think or appear to think about you.  I can promise you that, once a person forms an opinion of you, it is highly unlikely that will ever change, and no amount of "dancing on a pin head, " or trying to convince them to change their minds, will be productive. So simply make a conscious decision that the person has your complete and full permission to think what they think.  If you disagree with those thoughts, it really won't matter because you have freed yourself by your permission giving to think and let think. You may have even freed the other person as well. Additionally, you may be misunderstanding how a person is thinking about you by reading them wrongly.  If you are reading them wrongly, and your thinking is way off base, even in this case,  if you grant the per

Creator Impacted Creative Thinking   As a man thinks in his heart, so is he . Proverbs 23:7 KJV   Our brains are powerful, and the beautiful grace available to Christ Followers is we do not have to let our brain's thoughts take us down the path of darkness and defeat.  For we indeed do have "the mind of Christ!"  This spiritual reality provides us with the power to not be dominated by our thoughts, but it provides us with the grace provided self control to take time out to think about how we are thinking about what we are thinking about.  And once we identify our "stinging thinking,"  then we can do something positive with our thinking: We can do some Divinely God breathed "creative thinking," as our Creator transforms us by the renewing of our minds. Indeed The Almighty makes us the new creations who can actually re- frame the way we think.   Why is this thought reformation so important?  It is important because re-framing our thinking