Heart Afire Fellowship
Heart Afire Fellowship
9331 State Route 43
Streetsboro, OH 44241
ph: 330-474-7788
fax: 330-474-7788
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Detox Your Brain
STRESS RELIEF
1 Peter 5:7 |
7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. |
Psalm 119:165 |
165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. |
Isaiah 26:3 |
3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
Isaiah 48:18 |
18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: |
Matthew 6:31-34 |
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? |
Philippians 4:6-7 |
6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. |
WORRY/ANXIETY Philippians 4:6-7 |
6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. |
Matthew 6:25-26 |
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? |
Proverbs 17:22 |
22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
1 Peter 5:6-7 |
6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: |
Romans 8:28 |
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. |
Isaiah 26:3 |
3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
John 16:33 |
33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. |
Matthew 6:33 |
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. |
Isaiah 49:15-16 |
15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. |
Toxic Thoughts
75% to 95% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about affects us physically and emotionally. It's an epidemic of toxic emotions.
The average person has over 30,000 thoughts a day. Through an uncontrolled thought life, we create the conditions for illness; we make ourselves sick! Research shows that fear, all on its own, triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses and activates more than 30 different hormones. There are INTELLECTUAL and MEDICAL reasons to FORGIVE! Toxic waste generated by toxic thoughts causes the following illnesses: diabetes, cancer, asthma, skin problems and allergies to name just a few. Consciously control your thought life and start to detox your brain!
Medical research increasingly points to the fact that thinking and consciously controlling your thought life is one of the best ways, if not the best way of detoxing your brain. It allows you to get rid of those toxic thoughts and emotions that can consume and control your mind.
Change in your thinking is essential to detox the brain. Consciously controlling your thought life means not letting thoughts rampage through your mind. It means learning to engage interactively with every single thought that you have, and to analyze it before you decide either to accept or reject it.
How do you go about doing that? By "looking" at your mental processes. That may sound like a strange, if not impossible thing to do. After all, it's not as if you can just crack open your skull like an egg and have a look at what is going on inside your brain.
It is possible, however, to look at your mental processes. In fact, it is not just possible, it is essential.
For example consider the following:
- How many "could-have", "would-have", "should-have" statements have you made today?
- How many "if onlys" were part of your inner vocabulary today?
- How many times have you replayed in your head a conversation or situation that pained you, or one that hasn't even occurred yet?
- How many scenarios have you created of the unpredictable future?
- How much is speculation taking out of your day?
- How passive is your mind?
- How honest are you with yourself?
- Are you at cross-purposes with yourself - going through the motions, but not really committed to the goal, saying one thing but meaning another?
- How distorted is your thinking? Are you forming a personal identity around for example, a disease? Do you speak about "my arthritis", "my multiple sclerosis", "my heart problem"?
- Do you ever make comments like "nothing ever goes right for me"; "everything I touch fails"; "I always mess up"?
If you answered yes even to just one of these, your thought life needs detoxing right now.
Dr. Caroline Leaf
Heart Afire Fellowship
9331 State Route 43
Streetsboro, OH 44241
ph: 330-474-7788
fax: 330-474-7788
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