The Positive power of a Negative thinking

The positive power of Negative Thinking

While visiting England one time, I read a news paper Obituary about Gem Gilbert, a British tennis star. It told of a curious death: Gem Gilbert died as her dentist was about to extract a tooth, before he actually touched her!

   Years before, when she was a girl, Gilbert had been at the dentist’s with her mother, who was to have a tooth pulled, and her mother died suddenly from the shock of the extraction. The young girl saw her mother die in the dentist’s chair.

   So, what had happened? Her little mid painted a picture of herself dying in the same way. The picture became a sustained mental image. Gilbert carried it in her mind for 30years. She would never go to a dentist no matter how badly she needed treatment. But finally there came a time when she was suffering such acute pain that she let a dentist come to her house. She had her medical doctor with her, her friends around her, and her pastor present-but before she could get into the chair, she died. The writer of the Obituary remarked that Gem Gilbert had been killed by thirty years of thought.

   Hers is an extreme case, of course. But everywhere there are people whom are killing themselves just as surely, if more slowly, by mental attitudes composed of defeat, of sickness, of hate, of fear. If they do not kill themselves physically, they kill off their creative powers. Thinking does make it so. Each day stands before a mirror, looking at the head above the eyes, where the brain is and say, “Lord dedicates my mind to You. Please may I be transformed by the renewing of my mind”. A most important part of reconditioning our mental attitudes is to have a long, daily, consistent process of mind-emptying. Our minds tend to tend to accumulate a vast number of resentments, fears, inferiority feelings, gripes, grudges. These things get lodged in the cracks and crevice of the mind. How are you going to get rid of them all? Well, you must be willing to work at it. You have to want to do it. Some people actually like to be miserable. You have to renounce any sadistic pleasure you fine in being miserable.  

Every morning, while taking a shower, get yourself clean mentally at the same time. Sing hymns in the shower. The hymn is the most therapeutics form of song known to man. As you sing a hymn, it can.

  Thrust out of your mind all the old dead, listless things of yesterday and clean your mind on the inside while you are washing your body with soap and water on the outside.

Our failure in personal relationships may have to do largely, with our own attitudes and with our own unwillingness to consider modify, and change those adverse attitudes. It may well be that we fail to obtain our highest hopes and dreams because we need new attitudes. I have seen this work out in the lives of people so frequently that I have adopted the truism: Changed attitudes will change almost anything.

   For example, if I have wrong attitudes toward someone, my relationship with him will be unsatisfactory. No matter what I do, It will not work out right.  If I have a wrong attitudes toward some situation I have to face, it is bound to work out in the same wrong way.

How shall 1 change this? Simply by going to work my attitudes,  And how do I go to work my attitudes? Here is one way: for 15 minutes every day, apply selected thoughts to the things that isn’t going well. By selected thoughts to the things that isn’t going well. By selected thoughts, I mean take everything you know about God, about Jesus Christ, about faith, about Love, about righteousness; brings all those selected, spiritual thoughts to bear upon the issue that isn’t going well. Surround it; saturate it with those power selected thoughts. If the situation is particularly difficult, repeat and continue the process three times every day until you get in the habit of thinking right about the problem.

By applying these right thoughts to your own attitudes, they will become right and the situation will become right when your attitude is correct, everything will tend become correct. This change, when you experience it, is so powerful that not even the impossible constant against it.

People sometimes say these principles will work in an easy situation but doubt that they will apply to a difficult one. Remember that the Bible was not written fat easy situations. The Christian religion was first taught to people living in the catacombs of Rome who, every moment of the night and day were in danger.

There is a direct relationship between the principles pies taught in the Bible and the laws of the Universe. I believe that if you applied faith and hope and goodness and love to everything, in any situation, however difficult, it will produce a right result. It will change things for the better. It will solve the most perplexing
  situations. Faith can overcome the greatest odds. Prayer can open the way where there seems to be no way.

Finally, remember the law of supply. Here’s how one practitioner explains it: “when everything seems to be against you, when there seems no hope, if you fill your mind with faith and do your best, if you put it all in the hands of God, if you are a worthy servant of His and do His will, then the universe opens and the law of supply pours everything you need upon you. 

Positive things to do to improve our attitudes and the way we think

1.     Remember attitudes are shaped by thoughts; exercise your mind by repeating the Bible verse “wherefore gird up the loins of your mind ……” (1peter 1:13)

2.     Each morning, look at your forehead in the mirror and consciously give the activity of your mind into God’s control.

3.     Work on negative attitudes with the principles of replacement. Find one positive element each day in your personal business, and spiritual Life. At bedtime reflect on and affirm that positive thought. 

4.     Remember our destiny changes with our taught. We will become what we think all the times if our imaginations persist. “Be ye transform be the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2)