Think about what you think about.\u00a0 Weird suggestion, huh?\u00a0 But….have you ever done it?\u00a0 Have you ever paid attention to what goes through your head?\u00a0 Have you ever stopped and listened to yourself?<\/p>\n
For some reason, I woke up one morning with that question on my mind.\u00a0 I laid in bed thinking about the question and trying to answer it.\u00a0 These were my thoughts: \u00a0‘Why do I want to even get up today? \u00a0I don’t have anything to contribute.\u00a0 I’m not happy about the way I look.\u00a0 I’m fat and nothing I put on makes me look decent.\u00a0 I try to be a good person and positive, but I fail 15 minutes after I get to work.\u00a0 No one can see God in me.\u00a0 How can they?\u00a0 My mouth opens up and before I know it my thoughts are out in the open and I can’t take them back.’ \u00a0The thoughts running through my head alone could depress me enough on a good day.\u00a0 And that is interesting, because I think these thoughts often, whether I’m in a depressed state or not.<\/p>\n
My pastor once said in a sermon that\u00a0we have 50,000 thoughts per day, and 85% of them are negative.\u00a0 I have also heard for every negative comment you say or hear it takes 7 positive ones to cancel that one out.<\/p>\n
So now, think about what I said.\u00a0 I counted them and there were 8 negative things I thought before I even got out of bed in less than a 5 minute period.\u00a0 So it would take 56 positive thoughts just to cancel out those 8 negative thoughts from those first 5 minutes of the morning.\u00a0 Now, how many of us really tell ourselves positive things?\u00a0 Do you answer yourself with something positive when you say or think something negative?\u00a0 I tried it one morning.\u00a0 It was pretty difficult!<\/p>\n
It took me years of therapy to be able to hear positive things from people.\u00a0 It took more time to be able to say something nice about myself.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 God doesn’t make junk!!!!\u00a0 We all are ‘beautifully and wonderfully made’ (Psalm 139:14 NIV).\u00a0 There are qualities about each of us no one else has.\u00a0 If this is something difficult for you to do, I understand.\u00a0 But I challenge you to look in the mirror each morning and say at least one positive thing about yourself. \u00a0But you have to say it out loud.\u00a0 Then when a negative thought comes across your mind, repeat the positive thing you said to yourself earlier in the day.\u00a0 Start small.\u00a0 Start simple.\u00a0 For example, ‘I have pretty eyes’; ‘my hair looks good today’; ‘I am a kind person’……<\/p>\n
Each of us is important and is worth positive thoughts and words!!!!!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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