Retrain your emotions, renew and reframe your mind to adapt to any change…

You can retrain your emotions, renew and reframe your mind to adapt to changes and form new habits at any age.

We can reprogram ourselves mentally to eat less, spend less, stop drinking alcohol, stop smoking, stop stealing, stop lying, stop hating, and stop all negative or evil things. I used to drink and smoke, but I stopped because I determined that I wanted to.

We developed our behaviors out of repeated learning and experience. Some were practices that we intentionally performed and some we did by unconsciously imitating other people.

Confucius said, “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential … these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” (Unquote)

Faith produces expectations and motivates us to pursue goals.

Research on neuroscience (and mental science in general) show that we can retrain our mind and replace our feelings and actions.

Ephesians 4:25-32 teaches that we change our wrong or bad actions by repeating and practicing correct actions. Medical science calls that retraining. The Bible calls that renewing the spirit of the mind.

According to mental science when we repeat a new action, new cell-to-cell connection pathways (known in medical language as synapses) take place in the brain. Whether the repetitions are done covertly in our mental imagery or overtly through actions, the brain recognizes them, and patterns of behaviors are created.

Ephesians 4:25-32 explains that we are renewing the spirit of the mind by replacing the old corrupt ways or actions with new good or correct ones as the new patterns of behaviors are created.

According to mental science we change old emotions with new ones when we replace them with new ones. This changes our mentality and eventually our attitudes.

We change our thoughts by reframing them, a process known as cognitive restructuring. When we do that we reframe or change the interpretation of our thoughts. By repeating that several times we establish new patterns of thoughts.

Romans 12:2 says we become new personalities by feeding our minds with new thoughts and actions. When we repeat them several times we eventually form new habits and characteristics.

Lao Tzu said, “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.” (Unquote)

In our emotional state, such as anger, our decision-making is different than when we are calm. Proverbs 16:32 says, “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” (NKJV)

We can retrain ourselves not to react angrily and violently to emotional triggers.

The great men and women of history that you admire today were ordinary people like you. The only difference is that each had a vision, each had passion, each wanted to do something, and they pursued their aims. Their achievements made them become extraordinary people. They were ordinary like you and they pursued and achieved extraordinary laurels.

You, too, can do what they did. After all you, too, are ordinary like they were.

Belief increases the firing capacity of the brain – sending messages to the mind and increasing the capacity to act. Faith convinces that you will be what you visualize for yourself to be. Faith makes us continue against challenges.

Someone said, “A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but its persistence.” (Unquote)

The soft character is also strong. Water is soft, yet it can penetrate sand and earth and can bring down houses, trees, etc.

To retrain the mind and adopt new characteristics we must put off the old self and feed the mind with a new attitude; that is, put on a new self. (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Vince Lombardi said, “The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” (Unquote)
Retrain your emotions … renew and reframe your mind.