Brain Sweep

If you’ve ever been pampered from head to toe, enveloped in soothing sounds and aromas while on a journey to relaxation at a spa, you will definitely walk out feeling replenished and ready to start again.  This was time ‘just for you.’  Perhaps your ‘just for you’ time was a couple of hours of precious alone time somewhere without any interruption from your little honey bun calling “mommy” or maybe even a few hours away from deadlines and hectic schedules; but in those few hours it was the beginning of a detoxing time in the natural!   

 

Well ladies, I’ve found there’s another kind of detox for us and it’s called “Brain Sweep.”  It involves the principle of sweeping away toxic thinking and toxic thoughts.  Every thought has some type of negative or positive nature attached to it:  death or life, foe or friend.  Thoughts may seem harmless, but if they become toxic they can be like poison and begin to drain us physically and spiritually, leaving us feeling depleted and even emotionally bankrupt. 

 

We can lead emotionally happy and physically healthy lives by simply maintaining a lifestyle of controlling our thought life.….and it all begins with ‘us’ and our response to every thought.   

Its starts here!   Brain Sweep…... It begins with YOU and ME.  Our life and our thoughts are choice driven, so we can make a conscious decision and choose today to detox our thought life and sweep away those undisciplined, negative thoughts and emotions and break that habitual cycle of thinking.  I’m all in!  What’s next?  Identify and examine every thought, no matter how innocent it may seem.  Is it a friendly thought or a dangerous thought?  If it’s unfriendly, quench it immediately by turning your attention off of that thought.  Jesus knew that every thought must be weighed and identified, because as we think so are we..….For as he hath though in his soul, so is he. Proverbs 23:7 (YLT)

……and just like you would set a trap for those little critters called ‘mice’ (my how they can multiply at a fast rate) you set a trap for those undisciplined thoughts!   Thoughts can’t overcome thoughts, but the Word of God spoken out of our mouth has the ability to destroy every toxic thought!  So, the same way you set a trap for ‘mice, mice everywhere’ is the same way you set a trap to get rid of those ungodly thoughts and capture them (2 Corinthians 10:5) one thought at a time by the speaking the Word of God.  Refuse to allow toxic thoughts to take over your life!   

 

Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.  Philippians 4:8-9 (Message)

 

~ Mary McIver