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Topic:
Directed Thinking
We can think about awful things happening. We can
live in a continual state of doom and gloom. We can predict the absolute
worst will happen to us in the next few days, weeks, months, or years.
Predicting our own doom is a kind of thinking we can call "Awfulizing."
Predicting or thinking the worst about our future has an impact upon us
in body, mind, and spirit. We contribute to our spiritual, emotional,
intellectual, and physical life or we take away from our life by how we
think and what we think about. Instead of predicting our doom we can
choose to think or consider our future in the positive light of hope.
Any thought that delivers hope to our spirit and to our intellect in
turn moves us toward a sense of well-being.
What do we do when we are consumed by doom and
gloom regardless of the cause or regardless of the source? We must calm
our minds by using prayer and meditation. By calming our minds in prayer
and meditation we can enter into a state of calm. Meditation upon the
soaring possibilities of life in the here and now or meditation upon
life in the hereafter is to be done in private and not done for show.
Meditation upon the ultimate beauty, power, love, trust, and serenity of
life is a way to achieve peace of mind. To do uplifting meditation you
will need a quiet place where you can physically relax. You will need
time alone without interruptions, with no exceptions. When you meditate,
relax physically. Relax all your muscles from the top of your head to
the tips of your toes. Pay attention to the tension triangle between
your shoulders and up your neck. Pay attention to this spot and relax
the tension from this spot.
Use a focus verse of a few words. "The Lord is
my shepherd" is an example. Maybe you want to use one or two words
as a focus verse. Repeat the focus verse or word as you breath out,
reducing your breathing rate voluntarily from the beginning of the
session. As you meditate you will notice mental chatter, thought
bombardment, and thought distractions. Observe these distractions but
let them go. The distractions don't matter. It is important you not try
to force the distractions out of your mind. Dismiss the distractions by
focusing on your focus word or verse. When you use this technique, you
will quickly learn to control your mind by meditation. As you progress
in your use of meditation you will experience a peace you may never have
experienced before. When your mind starts raging with negative thoughts
and doom and gloom you can meditate all the negatives away. You can
focus your mind for healing. You can focus your mind for love. You can
focus your mind to live life to life’s fullest in your body, mind, and
spirit. After 10 to 20 minutes of meditation, picture your illness,
adversity, or obstacle and give the adversity, illness, or obstacle a
symbol. Then imagine your own body in the form of the symbol in the hand
of God. Imagine your own body being infused with the wondrous healing
powers of God as well as being infused with your body’s innate healing
powers. By using this technique, you can control the healing powers and
spiritual powers of your body. Picture your medication, your solution to
problems, or your choice of a way to end your issues as working in a
powerful way. End your mediation session by picturing yourself full of
radiant life and health, smiling, and happy to be alive.
If you choose to be skeptical about the power of
your own mind and spirit in using meditation then you may have made the
choice to remain sick, unproductive and a loser in the battle for your
life.
If these words have been a blessing, please forward them to a friend
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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