Control Toxic Thoughts and Emotions

Dr. Caroline Leaf's book "Who Switched Off My Brain: Controlling Toxic Thoughts and Emotions is a big success. She and Dr. Daniel Amen (author of Change Your Brain, Change YOur Life)influenced my research for the biblically based book, "Breaking the Cover Girl Mask: Toss Out Toxic Emotions." Neuroscience backs up what the Holy Bible has said for over 3,000 years. There is no freedom without a change of mind.

Maybe it’s anger in the form of abuse, depression, or ongoing negative thoughts. It might be addiction or low-self esteem. What lies and wounds do you hide? What accusations do you wear as your identity? What temptations are you continually enslaved to?

Millions of women suffer with ongoing anxiety, fear, doubt, perfectionism, anger, and depression because of toxic thoughts and emotions. Research shows that at least 87 percent of illnesses can be attributed to our thought life. Our mind affects our whole being. Because emotions and behaviors involve a complex interplay between the heart, the mind, and the body, it benefits us to know how our mind is influenced and how our brain works.

Breaking the Cover Girl Mask gives you the tools to restart, restore, and refocus your spiritual super computer. Drawing from personal and ministerial experience, women’s pastor Kimberly Davidson will lead you on a life-changing journey where you will learn how to confront and heal harmful thought patterns and behavior.

Knowledge changes everything.By implementing R.E.S.I.S.T., you can experience true and powerful mind change, restoring the new mind and nature Christ died to give you. We cannot live the life God intended, a life of freedom and joy, without a change of mind. Meet God in the pages of this book.

Those who have read this say, “Every woman in every church needs to read this!” –(Sydney Nash, Stay at home mom, church and community volunteer). “Kim doesn’t sugar coat this subject. She is honest and transparent and out to bust many worldly falsehoods that lead to toxic thinking and behaviors.” (Ronnie Hansen, Marketing Manager).

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Conquering Negative Thoughts

Let's look at the third factor that cause negative thinking--our flesh or humanly nature.

Literally, flesh is our physical nature, the muscular and fatty tissue parts of the body, which are separate from our spirit or soul. Figuratively, flesh is our human nature. It is equated to our fallen, sinful, and dysfunctional nature (Gal. 5:17; Jude 23)—humanity’s natural orientation away from God. The moment we are born, the struggle with our flesh begins, because we are born slaves to sin (John 8:34). We are less able to choose right.

The flesh is our desires. Desires are good in themselves, such as desires for food, sleep, and sex; desires to achieve and succeed. There are proper ways to satisfy each of these desires, and there are also divinely imposed limits. It is when we are tempted that we usually cross those limits. This is where our opponent, Satan, strikes. He takes advantage of our bent toward doing precisely what God would not want us to do. James said, “Each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed (James 1:14-15).

Until you understand your fleshly nature, conquering toxic thoughts will be hindered. When our flesh dominates the mind, our thinking is compromised. Scripture states, “Those who live according to the sinful nature [the flesh] have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” (Rom. 8:5).

This is an excerpt from the book: Breaking the Cover Girl Mask: Toss Out Toxic Thoughts

A Source of Negative Thinking

Last week I talked about how toxic thinking is influenced by three different, but related, ways: through the world, through spiritual warfare, and through our own flesh--our own nature.Today I want to focus on how “the world” can be a source of negative thinking. “The world” touches everyone in many different ways. Worldliness is the attitude that places, self, or things at the center of one’s aspirations and activities.

Secular usually means “belonging to this age or this world.” Worldliness, or secularism, is a worldview or lifestyle oriented toward the irreligious rather than the sacred, towards the natural rather than supernatural. It is the ungodly aspects of our culture, peer pressure, values, traditions, what is in, what is uncool, customs, philosophies and attitudes.
Secularism is guilty of having “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25).

Although believers are told not to be conformed to this world (Rom. 12:2) we nonetheless are influenced by it. Most Christians live in two different worlds: the one on Sunday morning and the one that includes rest of the week. In practice, both worlds clash. Our disposition, temperament and habits are manipulated through the workplace, media and entertainment industries, advertising, the education system, peer groups; world views and philosophies. No doubt our minds are more at risk now than ever.

If we follow the world’s ways, we miss God’s blessings. Jesus’s disciple John said, “Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father” (1 John 2:15, Msg).

This is an excerpt from the book: Breaking the Cover Girl Mask: Toss Out Toxic Thoughts