How do you change the way you think?  One of the easiest and quickest way of changing the way you think is to use positive self-talk to push your mind in a positive direction.

The Law of Positive Self-Talk states, "You change the way you think and feel by changing what you say when you talk to your mind."

If you want to change the way you think, you are going to have to change your inner dialogue.  You are going to have to talk to your mind in a different manner.

The Bible says, “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, whatever is excellent, or worthy of praise, think on these things.”  This scripture is the formula for a positive mind.

What you put into your mind transforms your life for better or worse.

What you listen to in the media changes who you are.  What you watch on television goes into your mind and stays forever; it makes you into a different person.

Do not walk the path of self-destruction by loading your mind with toxic waste.  Each time you dwell on negative thoughts, you plant the seeds of your own destruction, because those thoughts will haunt you for the rest of your life.

God gave you a mind, and He expects you to fill it with good things.  Focus your mind on everything that is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise, because you want to have those kinds of things in your life.  You want to experience those types of thoughts while you work during the day and when you lay down to sleep at night.  You want those kinds of thoughts to bubble up in your mind when you face the major challenges of life.

If you want to move in a new direction, you need to put new thoughts into your mind.  The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind.  That's why your thoughts are so important; they determine the course of your life.

What you put into your mind is literally your steering wheel.  Every time you put  in a new thought, you steer in a new direction.

Lots of folks are discouraged by all their problems.  Mountains of adversity surround them on all sides.  Sometimes they feel like there is no hope, and as long as they think only about all their problems, they are right.  But the instant they put new and positive thoughts into their mind, the wheel of change turns their life in a completely different direction, and they leave their problems behind.

How do you put  new thoughts into your mind?

It's easier than you might think.

First, look at positive pictures that have a message of hope.

Pictures go directly into your mind and remain for the rest of your life.  Each picture gives your mind a push in a positive direction.  That's why Positive Graphics exists.  There are one-hundred and sixty-five positive graphics ready to turn your life in a new direction.

Second, repeat positive self-talk and positive affirmations.  Maximum Strength Positive Thinking contains hundreds of pages of positive self-talk that you should repeat until your mind repeats it back to you.

Change who you are by changing what you say when you talk to your mind. Use positive affirmations to get a new way of thinking and feeling. Visit Postive Christian Affirmations and Powerful Positive Affirmations to fill your mind with positive things.

Third, listen to positive recordings.

That's easy to do using positive podcasts.  I have nearly two-hundred positive podcasts on my websites.  Positive Thinking Radio and Positive Christian Radio fill your mind with positive thoughts that can turn your life around and make you into a new person.  Listen to messages of hope and inspiration on Maximum Strength Positive Thinking.

If you do these three things, the wheel of change will take you in a new and positive direction.

The Law of Positive Focus states, "A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind."

How do you create a consistently positive mind?

It's actually quite simple.  You simply maintain a persistently positive focus!

A positive mind is not an accident.  It's something you do on purpose.  A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind.

It's easy to be positive for a nanosecond, but being positive for days and weeks is hard.  That's where persistence comes in.  You have to relentlessly keep at it if you want to make it happen.

The only way to have a consistently positive mind is to live with intention.  You have do it on purpose.  That means you create and execute a program that bombards your mind with positive things all day long.

What do you put in your program?

Positive-Self Talk
Positive Affirmations
Positive Scriptures
Positive Podcasts
Positive Pictures
Positive Music
Positive Books
Positive Memorization

You have at least sixteen waking hours each day in which you need to fill your mind with positive things.  Any combination of these eight things can help maintain a persistently positive focus.  Being consistently positive is an attainable goal, but it's not going to happen by accident.  You will have to do it on purpose.

If you really want to be positive, nobody can stop you.

The battle for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus.  In order to break the back of negative thinking, you will have to learn how to persistently and consistently control the focus of your mind.

The Law of Positive Change states, " When you change the things you look at, the way you look at things changes. When you change the things you talk about, the way you talk about things changes. When you change the things you think about, the way you think about things changes."

It really does matter what you look at, what you talk about, and what you think about, because all of these things change who you are and make you into a different person.  You must look at positive things, talk about positive things, and think about positive things if you want to send your negative thoughts packing and become a positive person.

Your brain has billions of neurons (brain cells) and trillions of connections between those neurons.  Brain cells are not physically connected directly with each other like the wires in your house or car.  The neurons are connected indirectly through special chemicals called neurotransmitters.

When one brain cell talks to another, it sends the message using neurotransmitters.  The sending cell releases a tiny packet of chemicals that carries the message to the receiving cell.  This scenario repeats itself trillions of times each day.  The amount and distribution of the neurotransmitters is critical to the normal functioning of your brain.

The health of your brain cells and the amount of neurotransmitter chemicals available have a great deal to do with your state of mind.  People who have severe depression are often found to have a deficiency in the amount of neurotransmitters available for use.  Drugs that deplete the supply of neurotransmitters often lead to depression.  Drugs that elevate the supply tend to alleviate depression.

For thousands of years, people have experimented with the chemistry of their brain.  Alcohol, LSD, peyote, hallucinogenic mushrooms, ecstasy, amphetamines, crack cocaine, heroine, and marijuana are all chemicals that people use to change their brain chemistry to achieve a different mental state.  These chemicals alter the physiology of your brain, and if you abuse them long enough, they alter the anatomy as well.

Changing the physiology of your brain takes your mind on a temporary trip to another location.  Changing the anatomy not only takes you to a different mental destination, it leaves you there with permanent brain damage.

Every thought that you think is embedded at some level in the chemistry of your brain.  When you say that someone has a positive mind, you infer that their positive thoughts are embedded in the biochemistry of their brain.

Your brain consists of hundreds of different types of molecules (chemicals) arranged in a highly complex configuration.  Some of those chemicals are relatively stable structural molecules that create the anatomy of your brain.  Other chemicals are non-structural, and they create the physiology of the brain. It takes both types of chemicals to make your brain work.

Your brain contains trillions of cells, and each of those cells is a highly organized bag of chemicals.  Your brain cells talk to each other using neurotransmitters, which are a different class of chemicals.  Electrical impulses transmit messages throughout your central nervous system, and other types of chemicals called ions are responsible for creating those electrical potentials.  Your  brain is an infinitely complex living chemistry set.  It's the chemistry of life, and that is why it's called biochemistry.  The chemistry of your brain isn't static.  Furthermore, what you put into your mind actually influences the chemistry of your brain.
 

The distribution and balance of neurotransmitters in your mind vary with your mood and patterns of thought.  One type of brain chemistry is associated with depression and negative thoughts, and a different type is associated with a positive state of mind.

Positive self-talk pushes the chemistry of your brain in a positive direction.  When you use positive self-talk on a regular basis, you do more than create a positive mind, you actually create a positive brain.
 

If you choose to think depressing thoughts, you create the chemistry of depression.

If you choose to think anxious thoughts, you create the chemistry of anxiety.

If you choose to think negative thoughts, you produce the chemistry of negativity.

If you choose to think angry thoughts, you produce the chemistry of anger.

Research indicates there are groups of people whose gene chemistry is associated with depression.  Studies of the human genome have found that the DNA of depressed people may actually make some of them susceptible to depression.  It appears that not all people are created equal in their ability to have a positive mind.  Millions of people are genetically predisposed to mood disorders.  They inherited a brain chemistry that makes them vulnerable to negative thoughts and twisted emotions.  The stresses of daily life gradually take a toll on their mind, and they start to sink in a sea of negative thoughts.  When these individuals take a licking, they don't keep on ticking.  They get depressed, they become overwhelmed by inertia, and their life implodes.

If you don't believe there is a chemistry associated with depression, why do you think drug companies spend billions of dollars developing antidepressant drugs?  Modifying the chemistry of your brain with antidepressants is big business.

If you don't believe there is a chemistry associated with anxiety, why do you think drug companies developed anti-anxiety medications?  At one time, valium was one of the most prescribed medications in the western world.  Drug companies made billions of dollars selling valium helping people alter their brain chemistry so they no longer felt anxious.

Drug companies spend billions of dollars doing research to discover how the chemistry of your brain works.  Once they understand the chemistry, they make medications that alter it in a favorable manner.
 

Positive thinking, positive attitudes, and a positive operating system are embedded at some level in the chemistry of your brain.  The same is true for negative thinking, a negative operating system, and depression.

You can modify the chemistry of your brain using medication or illicit drugs.  You can also modify it using cognitive therapy.  Cognitive therapy works because it changes the way you think, and when you change the way you think, you change the chemistry of your brain at some level.

When you think positive and unlimited thoughts for an extended period, you restore the normal chemical balance, and you feel good once again.

People who have a genetic predisposition to mood disorders have an even greater need to fill their mind with positive things.  People who have an inner vulnerability predisposing them to depression need to be especially careful about what they allow in their mind.  If  they fill their mind with toxic waste, they will become depressed.  For these people, the price of a positive mind is eternal vigilance.  They must continually stand watch on the door of their mind to keep it from filling up with toxic waste.  They must become proactive and adopt a program in which they spend time each day putting positive things into their mind.
 

If you have a problem with negative thinking, you have been putting the wrong things into your mind.  You have let your mind fill up with toxic waste.  Negative thinking and a mind full of negative thoughts isn't a mystery that needs to be solved.  It's simply the result of living the undisciplined life and filling your mind with bad stuff.

Developing a positive mind isn't a mystery.  You simply start filling your mind with positive things so that your mental calculator comes up with a positive sum, and you start thinking positive thoughts.

WHY POSITIVE THINKING WORKS

Positive thinking is the natural software for your mind.  God designed a  positive software package that would permit your mind to function at full capacity and maximum efficiency.  He created your mind to work best with a positive operating system.

Negative thinking doesn't work well, because your mind was not designed to function with a negative operating system.  Although your mind is an awesome biocomputer, it will not function well using the wrong software.  Severely depressed people run a negative operating system most of the time, and they illustrate how bad things can get when negative thinking takes control of your thoughts.

Positive thinking truly is the right type of thinking.  Positive thinking is more than a good idea.  It's the way your mind was designed to work.
 

When you control your focus, you control your destiny.
 

It's easy to develop a positive mind if you maintain a positive mental focus.
 

You need to radically shift your focus to the most powerful and most positive force in the universe.  You need to focus on God's love. 

Every day you decide whether you will control your mind, or whether your mind will control you.  The choice you make determines the outcome of your life.

When you control your mind, you control your life.

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The Red Sea Chronicles also has outstanding Special Features that include an Instructional Video on Storm Management that tells sailors how to deal with storms at sea.

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