Rewiring Your Brain: The Power of Conscious Thinking

Practical Techniques to Gain Control Over Your Mindset

Nov 25, 2024

The way we think affects everything. Thinking controls emotions, even though we may think it works the other way. We listen to a constant stream of negative self-talk, anxiety, and wasted meditation. We must gain control over our thinking.

Control your Thoughts

Our feelings follow our thoughts. Every action and every feeling starts with a tiny, apparently insignificant thought that flitters across our mind, and we allow it to find a resting place. We think wrongly and feel poorly. Worrying leads to anxiety. Constantly criticizing ourselves leads us into a bottomless pit of despair.

We allow our thoughts to become obsessive. Our mind goes wild, racing from side to side and repeating over and over. It becomes a habit. We increasingly become more pessimistic.

By mastering our thoughts, we hold the key to transforming our lives—our emotions, actions, decisions, and even our relationships with others. This power is within our grasp, waiting to be harnessed.

How to gain control

Listen and catch yourself in your own game. Notice when the thoughts come and what they say. Be alert to the challenging, condemning voice of your harshest and yet inner critic.
It’s crucial to confront these thoughts with the truth. Train your mind to align with Biblical wisdom and the truth. What does God say, not what you think or what society says? This is a battle worth fighting, and victory is within reach.
Focus on the moment you are in, leave the past in the past, and leave the future in the future. All you have is right now,
Replace the over generalizations and harsh, bitter condemnations with truth.
Talk to yourself like you would talk to your best friend. If you wouldn’t say that to someone you love, then don’t allow yourself to tell it to you.
See failure as a step towards learning. You might have fallen, but the righteous get up seven times.
See how God will use even the worst.

Connected

It is all connected. Thoughts will fly into your head, and you can’t stop them, but you do not have to entertain them. Catch them at the door. Ask if they have a warrant or authority to tell or give you their message. Be careful to stop them cold at the door.

You will become what you think about. Our character even grows from our thoughts. Our thoughts are the seeds from which our character grows.
Every idea we entertain, and every belief we hold contributes to the foundation of who we are.
Choose what you are going to think about. So stop the wrong negative thinking and force yourself to think about the right and true thoughts.
That may mean changing your diet from social media, movies, friends, or whatever is spreading negative thinking.
Get around good and positive influences.
Never stop learning and growing.
Practice gratefulness.
Serve others, get out of your own space and your own head into living to bless and add value to other.
Keep fighting; don’t give up the fight for your own mind.
Forgive and get rid of all bitterness

Quotes

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” Horace

“Control your thoughts because they become the words you use.” Robert E. Wells

“Love in your mind produces love in your life. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life.” Marianne Williamson

“The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Bible Verses

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Proverbs 16:32.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. Proverbs 23:7.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit Is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Proverbs 25:28.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8.