Peace Taker #9- Having Negative Self-Talk, Part 2 (TMF:690)

Friday, July 14, 2017
Peace to Live By: Peace Taker #9- Having Negative Self-Talk, Part 2 (TMF:690) - Daniel Litton
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       Our self-talk can either motivate us with positive thoughts, or if our self talk is negative, it can cause us to get into a bad mood and not be so motivated to do much of anything. I believe that much of our life experience is based and dependent upon the types of thoughts we are thinking in our minds. So, if we want to have a more peaceful life, we need to eliminate inappropriate negative and unnecessary thoughts from our minds. Many of us are too hard on ourselves. We have set standards for ourselves that we usually don’t meet, and then we get upset inside our minds when we feel we have failed. But we should be careful about imposing upon ourselves rules in our minds, which must be carried out in our lives, that God never made rules. If we give ourselves too heavy of a burden to bear, this will cause more and more negativity to develop in our minds. We become frustrated with ourselves because we ‘feel’ we haven’t to been pleasing to God today, but often much of what we have made rules are not things that God said we have to do. So, we create a false standard by which we are thinking that God expects us to live by. And this takes away peace.