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++The Mind and Emotions
A. Proverbs 23:7 – “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
B. Emotions respond to a signal the mind sends them.
1. Illustration:
Wife and mother: “Why do I feel so much resentment toward
Harold every-time he comes into the house?”
Her life and marriage were
being destroyed because of the powerful emotion of resentment.
Her
emotions were being produced by the thoughts within her mind.
2. Illustration:
Driving down highway when suddenly a glance into the rearview
mirror reveals that a highway patrol car is closing on you with its blue
lights flashing.
Your heart leaps into your throat.
You feel nervous,
uncertain, and the palms of your hands begin to sweat (perspire).
You begin to pull over, all the time wondering what you did, and contemplating
receiving a ticket.
As you begin to pull over, the patrol car pulls on around
you and keeps going.
Then you realize that he is not after you and your
emotions return to normal.
What has just happened.
a.
You thought you were going to be stopped and issued a ticket.
b.
Your emotions responded to that thought.
c.
You placed a wrong interpretation on one fact, the patrol car coming up
behind you with its blue lights on, and you did not think of other reasons
why it was happening.
(Maybe the car ahead of you was his target . . .
maybe he had received a call and was being dispatched to an accident
scene . . .
Maybe the Krispy Kreme doughnut sign was flashing . . .
etc.)
Your distorted view and interpretation of the fact produced your emotion.
Your emotions responded to the signal your mind sent them.
C. Listen carefully: It is not the actual event but your perception of the event
that result in changes in your moods . . .
your emotions.
D. You determine your emotions by the choice of thoughts you hold and believe.
1. Emotions are not external entities which enter our bodies arbitrarily like a
germ.
2. Your emotions, regardless of their nature, are the product of your thoughts.
3.
You re in the driver’s seat . . .
You select your emotions when you select
your thoughts.
a.
You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are
presently thinking.
b.
Change your thinking and your will change your emotions.
d.
Illustration:
3. The five senses: (Sight, hear, touch, taste, and smell) are the doors to the
mind . . .
especially the eyes and the ears.
4.
This is why we must be very careful as to what we allow to enter our minds
through our eyes and ears.
a. Proverbs 4:23 – “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring
the issues of life.”
b.
Galatians 6:7 – “Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked.
For whatever a
man sows he will also reap.”
Sowing negative thoughts produce
negative emotions.
THINK RIGHT TO FELL RIGHT
A. Proverbs 23:7 – “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”
B. “How do you feel?”
The answer to this question depends on what you are
thinking at the moment.
1.
If you are thinking positive thoughts your response may be, “I feel great!”
2. On the other hand, if your frame of mind is negative you may say:
a. “I don’t feel so hot.”
b. “I feel lousy.”
c. “I’ve felt better.”
3.
If you think negative thoughts you will reap a crop of negative emotions.
If you think positive thoughts you will reap a crop of positive emotions.
C. Feelings aren’t facts!
1.
In the earlier illustration, the blue lights were not intended for you.
You felt
at the moment that they were, but the true fact was that they were not for
you.
Feeling they were for you did not make them be for you.
2. Emotions respond to a felling whether the felling is factual or not.
TWISTED THINKING
A. Twisted thinking produces emotions accordingly.
1. Twisted thinking is your mind processing thoughts, not actual facts or
events, and producing emotional responses such as fatigue, nervousness,
anxiety, depression, loss of appetite, and a host of others.
a. Twisted thinking can create problems for us.
b.
David Crockett: “Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
2. Failure and negative thoughts, which produce twisted thinking, need to be
promptly ejected from our mind.
B. Saul of Tarsus is a good Biblical example of twisted thinking.
1.
In his defense before King Agrippa, he acknowledged the results of his
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