Freedom From Poisonous Thoughts

7/2/2021

The spiritual principle in this runs to the core.

From “Freedom From Poisonous Thoughts”

“Johns Hopkins Medical School has found that 70% of disease is psychosomatic. What does that mean? That word psyche means ‘the mind,’ and soma is ‘the body.’ This is not to say that 70% of diseases are not real, but rather that the origin of these diseases is not found in a physical cause. The origin, in nature, first occurred in the mind. As a person begins to harbor and foster negative thoughts in the mind, these manifest into the body. Thoughts have the ability to make us well or to poison the body. Negative thoughts weaken the immune system and poison the bloodstream.

“...2,000 different chemical secretions that were released into the body, from the brain into the bloodstream, which were all based on a person’s thoughts - good or bad.

“If you are not careful, you can begin to develop negative thoughts towards other people without understanding that while these thoughts have absolutely no effect on the other person whatsoever, they do affect you. That’s a part of why Jesus went to such great extents to teach us to turn the other cheek. This was not simply a teaching. If someone asked you to walk one mile, walk two. If someone asked for your coat, give them your cloak. If they hit you on one cheek, give them the other side. The whole premise of this teaching was freedom...

“Just as our thoughts can make us ill, they can also help us to heal. Consider people who practice ‘mind-body’ therapy. There is growing clinical evidence that imagery is beneficial in treating skin disease, diabetes, breast cancer, arthritis, headaches, and severe burns. Jesus taught in Mark that ‘Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.’ Today is a good day to begin to pray and in faith to see yourself resting in God for a positive outcome, to start to change your life as you get freedom from poisonous thoughts.”