Your Mind Is A Library & choices of Books Will Determine Your Happiness & Peace
Posted: Monday, February 06, 2012
by Fran Larson
http://www.franniesquotes.com/
The mind is a library of words, thoughts and pictures. It is made up of a myriad of choices. In most cases, we could choose what we words and pictures that we want to reside in our minds.
For example, perhaps you wake up in the morning and you realize you have overslept and are already late for work. Then you turn the water on to take a quick shower and realize that there isn’t any hot water. You then find yourself thinking the whole day is going to be like this. You are sure things at the office will go terribly wrong and wish you could have just stayed in bed. Where did this idea come from? It is not necessarily our own original thought. Perhaps you have heard your parents or a friend proclaim that it is going to be a bad day because it started out with challenges.
If we only choose books that are dark and are filled with negativity, it crushes and sometimes breaks our spirit.
“Our mind awakens to new adventures and territories that we would not
have experienced if we had not cleaned house first and allowed room for
the crisp, new pages that we turn with delight and intrigue.”
Positive Thinking Crucial For Mental Health
In The Anxiety Cure, 1999, p. 217, Archibald Hart, M.D. relates how positive thinking is actually crucial to mental health. He stated, “A positive outlook is known to improve recovery from surgery and the immune system's ability to fight off disease as well as aid in cancer recovery, to reduce the fight-or-flight response and hence stress disease [and can] ... restore our tranquility and turn our unhappy, anxiety-producing hormones into happy ones"
The Bible, in my opinion is not only inspired, it is a very practical guide for everyday living. It describes the merits of simple positive thinking. In Philippians 4:8 the Bible instructs us in proper thinking: "And now, my friends, all that is true, all that is noble, all that is just and pure, all that is lovable and gracious, whatever is excellent and admirable—fill all your thoughts with these things" (New English Bible, emphasis added throughout).
Quotes About Our Mind
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You own the remote control. All you have to do is change the channel.
Joel Osteen Ministries
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)Resources:
http://www.ucg.org/christian-living/bibles-keys-mental-health/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)I love Philippians 4:8...great job.so do I! Thanks, Elle
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