But prayer is not just passive, we can’t just offer this to God, and assume God will take care of it all… we must both extract negative thoughts from our minds and replace them with good thoughts.
What’s with good thoughts? How do good thoughts work?
In college, my roommate and I would do this little exercise if we were having a really bad day. We would force each other to think of three things for which we were thankful.
It may sound easy, but not if you’re really focused on bad things. It’s hard but it works.
Can we go back to science for a bit?
There have been studies that show the affects of thoughts like shame, guilt, apathy, despair, fear, anger. These thoughts actually create weakness in us physically.
On the flip side – thoughts of love, peace, joy, acceptance, willingness make us stronger.
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