Train Your Mind (Part 3)

Train Your Mind (Part 3)

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.”

The stories you tell yourself will change what you see in life.  When you live through an experience with a story about how life is, that tends to be what you see, even when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary

-Some of you have been deeply heartbroken. 

-Some of you have lost our parents, siblings or children to accidents and illnesses. 

-Some of you have dealt with infidelity. 

-Some of you have been fired from jobs we relied on. 

-Some of you have been discriminated against because of our gender, age, or race. 

It’s when you enter a new experience that arouses significant memories of your own painful story from the past and narrows your perspective in the present.

When a negative past experience narrows your present perspective, it’s mostly just a defense mechanism.  Every day of your life you are presented with some level of uncertainty, and your human defense mechanisms don’t like this one bit.  So your mind tries to compensate by filling in the gaps of information by holding on to the stories we already feel comfortable with.  We end up subconsciously trying to make better sense of everything in the present by using old stories and past experiences as filler.  This approach may work sometimes, but at other times old stories and past experiences are completely irrelevant to the present moment and end up hurting us and those we love far more than they help.

Do your best to consciously detach yourself from the story you’re telling yourself.  Go deeper into reality.  Don’t just look at the surface.  Investigate.  Observe without presupposing.

Again, it’s about thinking better right now so you can ultimately live better right now.