Train Your Mind (Part 1)

Train Your Mind (Part 1)

Luke 11:17 “But He, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.”

How can you ever deal with real life and true love and passionate work if you’re afraid to feel what you really feel?  You need to feel pain, just as much as you need to feel alive, loved, and driven.  You need to feel doubt to understand belief. You also need to learn how to endure so you can enjoy the victories that are to come.

-Pain is meant to wake us up, yet we try to hide from it. 

-Pain is something to carry willingly, just like good sense. 

You can only learn how strong you are in every important area of your life when being strong is the only choice you have.  It’s how you carry the things that don’t come easy or don’t go your way that matter in the end.  You grow into the strongest, wisest, truest version of yourself when you feel pain, endure it, and deal with the hard realities of life, love and work.

There is no “one size fits all” list of advice for growing through the pain of hard days, but there are some very important principles that apply to those of you fighting right now.

Your mind is incredibly powerful.  It can bring you down or lift you up at a moment’s notice.  How we think about things literally changes everything! Because of this a shift in your focus from what you don’t want to what you do want makes a difference.  What you focus on grows stronger in your life, and the best time to focus on the positive and take responsibility for your happiness is when you don’t feel like it, because that’s when doing so can make the biggest difference.

You may not be responsible for everything that happened to you in the past, or everything that’s happening to you right now, but you need to be responsible for undoing the thinking patterns these circumstances create. It’s about thinking better so you can ultimately live better.

Understand that no matter what has happened, you choose your response, which dictates pretty much everything that happens next.  Truly, the greatest weapon you have against anxiety, negativity and stress is your ability to choose one present thought over another. You must learn to train your mind to make the best of what you’ve got in front of you, even when it’s far less than you expected.