Mind Management Part II: Change Your Mind!

Mind Management Part II

Change Your Mind!

We have done the preliminary work of determining which thoughts are from the enemy.  BLOCK SENDER immediately captures those thoughts from the enemy before they grab hold of our attention. CURRENT PROJECT receives the thoughts that though painful, are important, chiseling tools of the Holy Spirit. SPAM automatically receives those thoughts that are frivolous, none of our business, distractions from the task at hand, rob us of time, ambition, and throw us off course. FAVORITES are those gems that come from listening, reading, meditating where the Rhema Word grabs us and makes us aware of its eternal significance for us.

Let’s create another file and let’s call this one SLUDGE.  Some synonyms for sludge are goop, gunk, mire, ooze, scum, sediment, slime, and slop. SLUDGE thoughts slow down the mechanism that keeps us advancing on course.  SLUDGE thoughts are like the goo in the blades of the food processor making it stop with a thud! SLUDGE is the gunk that gets caught in the apparatus of the vacuum cleaner so you have to take it apart. SLUDGE is the THWACKING sound of the car engine before it comes to a stop on the highway. SLUDGE is a hindrance. It stops progress. And if we don’t persevere despite SLUDGE we will become derailed and sit down in the middle of the track instead of continuing in the race. Yes, we can persevere amid SLUDGE but it is laborious and painstaking.

What kinds of thoughts belong in the SLUDGE file? They differ depending on the person, the culture, and the life experience, but here are some that you may recognize.

1.    Envy.

2.    Comparing ourselves to others.  

3.    Resentment.

4.    Nosiness.

5.    Ugly rumors

6.    Spite.

7.    Assumptions and speculations.

8.    Dread.

9.    Regret

10.                       Bitterness

If allowed to run its course, SLUDGE, kept front and center, can lead to heinous crimes.

Using the Mind Management strategy we can stop, recognize those SLUDGE thoughts and immediately, without any further acknowledgement go about the Father’s business.

THINK! Before you THINK!

Much love and let me hear from you!

Next: scientific studies on changing neural pathways.