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Mastermind

Reframing

REFRAMING

Most of life’s battles are won or lost in the mind.

The Life you have is a reflection of the thoughts you think.

What comes into your mind—Comes out in your life.

Cannot have a positive life—Negative mind.

Control what you think—Control what you do.

Change your thinking, change your life.

And we're looking at the mind and the teaching of the apostle Paul.

What do we know about the mind?

We know that our thoughts are incredibly powerful.

There's often a war going on, and the war is generally won or lost in the mind.

What comes into your mind comes out in your life.

It's almost impossible to live a positive life when you're consumed with negative thoughts.

our key verse is from the apostle Paul

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3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

We are not a prisoner to the lies; the lies are prisoner to God's word.

We take them captive and make it obedient to Christ

Your life will always move in the direction of your strongest thoughts.

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Neural Pathways—More you think a thought—Easier it is to think.

What is a neural pathway?

Essentially, the more we think a thought, the more we create a pathway in the brain.

The more we think a thought, the easier it is to think.

And that's good news if we're thinking on things that are true and good and pure and lovely and excellent and admirable and praiseworthy, as the apostle Paul would say.

The problem is, many of us are thinking on things that are not true.

And today we´re going to talk about

Neural Pathways—More you think a thought—Easier it is to think.

Cognitive Biases—Mental Filters—Mental Framework.

the idea of a cognitive bias.

What is a cognitive bias?

A cognitive bias, we could also call it a mental filter or a mental framework.

A very simple definition is this:

it's a mistake in reasoning based on personal preferences or beliefs.

(Mental filter that impacts how you think.)

Our wrong thought process or our wrong belief causes to make mistakes or errors in judgment.

Glasses—You look bad.

It applies on everything from our seeing an oasis when there is none, to the maintenance of stereotypes to why depression is hard to get rid of.

Default filters—Default frames.

Why—People respond differently to same situation.

That's why different people respond in different ways to the exact same situation.

Have you noticed that?

The same situation, same environment, and yet, two totally different responses.

It's not the facts that are different.

What is it?

It's the filter that's different.

Illustration - Boss gives feedback to coworkers

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It’s not that the FACTS are different—It’s the FILTER.

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For example, you might see this at your workplace.

You might have a boss or supervisor that sits down with two different people and gives feedback in the exact same way, and the two different people respond totally differently to the feedback.

Feedback— one is Offended - other one Thankful.

Mom impossible to please—Have to be perfect.

Father—Loving, Involved—Distant, Demanding.

It’s not that the FACTS are different—It’s the FILTER.

This can even impact our relationship to God.

In fact, studies show that your relationship to an earthly father can often shape or color how you perceive your heavenly Father.

those of you who were blessed with a good dad - you might easier see God as a good God full of compassion that cares about the details of your life as opposed to someone else who had an earthly father who maybe was distant or abusive or cold or demanding or judgmental or legalistic.

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We talked about meditating last week on truth.

This week, I wanna talk about another tool, and then next week, we're gonna talk about the prayer component of the mind.

Today I wanna talk about something called reframing.

REFRAMING - What is reframing?

Reframing is simply creating a different way, of looking at a situation, person, or relationship by changing its meaning.

Reframing—Creating a different way of looking at a situation, person or relationship by changing its meaning.

(Diff Filter)

It's also called - Perceptual accentuation—Cognitive restructuring—Thinking different.

Reframing illustration

You can’t control what happens to you.

But you can control how you frame it.

HITTER—PITCHER—(Frame it)

Reframing is simply changing the way we look at something by changing the meaning.

It's also called perceptual accentuation.

It's called cognitive restructuring, or if you're simply like me, I call it thinkin' different.

What kind of a day are we gonna have?

Is it gonna be a great day, an average day, a pathetic day, what kinda day are we gonna have?

The answer is, it depends on how we frame it.

Some of you, you have a negative framework, a negative filter.

This day's gonna be bad.

I hate being around these people.

They're all a pain in the you-know-what.

I hate going to these things.

It never works out.

Every time I try to do something, I always fail.

God's not with me.

Life's bad, it's gonna get worse.

If there was anybody who was great at reframing, it was the apostle Paul.

In fact, if you know his story, he had a very strategic prayer plan.

God, please help me go to Rome.

If I can go to Rome and preach the gospel and reach the leaders in Rome, from there, we can spread the gospel all over the world.