No matter what path you walk to personal transformation, all paths eventually converge on the mind.  God designed your mind to be the door through which you enter the world of change.  You can change your life by changing what you put into your mind, especially when it's God's love you allow inside.

The power of the mind is so great there is considerable confusion regarding its role in spirituality and positive change.  For many people, the mind is a stumbling block.  They elevate it to such a high position, they appear to worship at the altar of the mind. Others turn their back on it, believing that religious faith and the mind are in conflict, and they choose faith.

Those who worship at the altar of the mind often believe their mind is everything.  They elevate it almost to the status of God.  They preach a gospel of mental omnipotence that is supposed to cure all ailments.  If they can just get things straight in their mind, everything will be fine.

Those who have an adversarial relationship between their mind and faith, struggle through life trying to bring their unruly mind into submission.  Often they hold their mind in contempt because many of their thoughts make them uncomfortable.  They hope their spirituality will give them control of their unwanted, disturbing, and frightening thoughts.  They try to ignore their mind, hoping it will go away or at least stop irritating them with thoughts they don't want to hear.  They try to divorce themselves from their mind claiming all they need to do is live by faith.  If they have enough faith, everything will be fine.

The truth lies between these two extremes.

God designed your mind to be the door through which the power of his love flows into your life.  Your mind is where God's love is brought to bear on the problems of life.  When you fill your mind with the power of God's love, miraculous things happen.  But it wasn't the mind that made them take place.  It was God's love that made the miracles come to pass.

You can have a new life if you open your heart and mind to the power of God's love.  You can become a new person who thinks new thoughts and experiences positive emotions.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.