“If our thoughts are creating our emotions, we can change our emotions by changing our thoughts.”

A thought by David Stoop from his book, You Are What You Think (Kindle Locations 344-345). Kindle Edition.

Now I am not normally a complainer. I look at my life and see it as a positive situation. I love my life so why would I complain. But I am right now on my other blog, bill’s front porch, writing about complaining and I have been having a difficult time keeping from complaining. My thoughts have been about things that I deserved to complain about. In other words I have been focusing on me.

Whenever as a preacher I was preparing a sermon on a certain subject then I would have trouble on that particular subject. Margaret would always sense it and would understand what was happening after she heard me preach the sermon. You see our thoughts, our focus create our emotions.

Now the key is we can change our emotions by changing our thoughts, our focus. The key for me this week on the subject of complaining is to focus on the remedy instead of the problem. Feed my mind and heart on the Bible and what it says about complaining. Quit dwelling on the things I could complain about and dwell on our good God is. See the good things in my life. Change my focus.

I have made a lifetime focus of changing my thought process. I have been a very emotionally, moody person. I let outside situations control me. I mean, if my team lost a game I would be in the pits for the rest of the day. But I decided to change. I didn’t see the value in living an unhappy emotional uncontrolled existence so I started changing the way I thought, I changed my focus. It was hard work but it has worked. I catch myself falling back into an emotionally negative thought process every once in a while so I stop and change my negative self-talk and I get back on tract. Again it isn’t easy but it is so worth it.

The first thing in all of this is to see that our thoughts are creating our emotions and we can change our emotions by changing our thoughts. Believe it and do it. You will be so glad you did.

So what is controlling you?

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