“Today, try this:
Interrupt all thought rumination with a thankfulness celebration.
Mentally circling something is the mind’s way of fooling itself that it’s controlling something, which it finds self-soothing. But: All the brooding in the world never hatches hope.
No soul is no hen or cow: no soul is meant to brood or ruminate.
You are not a ruminant, and you are never meant to ruminate. You are a celebrant, made to celebrate. Your soul doesn’t need cud to ruminate on; your soul needs (Abba) God to celebrate in.
All intrusive ruminations need a gratitude intervention.
Mind keeps circling that toxic situation? Immediately: Gratitude intervention.
Giving too much air time in your mind to a dark narrative? Immediately: Give thanks.
Instead of counting grievances, count gifts.
Counter that barrage of negative thoughts by counting gifts.
Gratitude interventions cure thought ruminations.
Being grateful isn’t being a naive pollyanna, it’s being neurally proactive. If you let your mind keep returning over and over to toxic, dark, knotting thoughts — you create a rut through your mind that keeps you going in pointless circles of pain.
Do the things you can do, deal with what you can, use your agency — and then refuse to make mental ruts by returning to the situation but instead choose daily gratitude interventions.
We definitely do not live in denial, and we definitely deal with situations, but we don’t fixate on situations, we fixate on grace — because we live in doxology.
Why be obsessed with certain thoughts — when you can be obsessed with the grace of (Abba) God?”
#Abba #FirstThingsFirst #GiveThanks #Focus
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