Reboot Your Thought Patterns

Today I re-read 2 excellent paragraphs from Matthew Elliot’s great book, Feel. Emphasis added:

Our emotional response to anything is a collage of our personality, upbringing, self-image, worldview, experiences, and beliefs. What we concentrate on, what we dwell on, what we run over and over again in our heads is what we get emotional about. So we need to stop and think about what we are always telling ourselves. If it does not line up with what is true, we must cancel the download. Then we need to reboot our thought patterns with godly values and beliefs. Only then can our emotions reflect a godly perspective.

Whatever podcast you play in your head is what you will eventually believe about God, others, and yourself. If will determine your emotional starting point and the place out of which you respond. You can spend most of your life at a single spot emotionally because you pitched your tent on the one thing that you relive and rehash every day. Sometimes, you have to make yourself pack it up and move on to something new.