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11 Practical Steps to Help You Control Your Thoughts

I published a devotion called, What Are You Thinking About? and felt it needed some practical suggestions to make it complete. So, here are just a few tips you could implement to help keep your thoughts in check.

11 PRACTICAL STEPS TO HELP YOU CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS

Practice Breathing Exercises
Decrease Stress In Your Life
Eat a Healthy, Balanced Diet of Nutritious Food
Decrease Intake of processed, chemically created foods and drinks
Read Your Bible to help bring peace and renew your thinking
Spend time meditating on God’s Word
Put encouraging Scripture verses on cue-cards and strategically place them for easy access and frequent visibility
Spend time in prayer, brining your anxious thoughts to Him for help
Read Books That can help heal your soul wounds
Get Counseling to help heal your soul wounds
Talk to your doctor if you’ve done all these things and can’t get control of your thoughts

This list was not meant to condemn you, but to help you.

If controlling your thought life is an issue for you, then begin to work towards getting your soul healthy, so your mind can think right. There are great books to help you heal wounds you’ve experienced to your mind, will, and emotions. I recommend getting counseling because too often you can’t see the hidden things of your hearts and counselors are trained professionals to help you unearth what’s been buried, so it doesn’t keep popping up in your life {usually at the worst times}. If you’ve been working on getting your soul healthy, reading your Bible and praying on a regular basis but you can’t seem to get a handle on your thoughts (the meditations of your heart), then you might be struggling with depression or anxiety, or both.

An inability to control your thoughts is a clinical marker for depression.

I have created a page on my website to help discuss many of these issues. I’m not a health-care professional by any means but have experienced these struggles myself and so do close family members. As a result, I’ve done a lot of research and it’s helping so many people. Click here to explore my mental health page and find resources that might help you, especially the videos at the bottom of the page.

“May the words of my mouth
and
the meditations of my heart
be pleasing to you”
~Psalm 19:14 NLT

If you liked the refreshing in this #SoulH2O devotion, you’ll love my latest Soul H2O Devotional book: 40 Thirst Quenching Devotions for Women.

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Training Your Mind to Conquer {Battle Ready Book}

Are you missing me, like I’m missing you?

I’ve heard from a bunch of you that you are missing me and the weekly #Soul H2O devotions, but you’re praying I have a great July blogging vaca and get rested to refuel. God has answered your prayers… and mine 🙂 For the past three weeks, I’ve been getting filled up during my summer holidays at where else, but Braeside Camp in Paris, ON… below you can watch a video of me in my element at camp; kind of like seeing a bear in the woods :). After a busy season of speaking, this fill-up time is invaluable to ensure I have lots of fresh, living-water to flow out! I’m breaking from the rest to fulfill a few writing commitments, and this one has the potential to change your life… and mine!

Do you want a life-changing, inspiring book with lots of freebies to read this summer holiday?
Have I got the book for you!

I’m reading Kelly Balarie’s book, BATTLE READY; Train Your Mind To Conquer Challenges, Defeat Doubt, and Live Victoriously for this #PaperbackPic post.

I have to let you know that the book was provided to me by Baker Books when I joined Kelly’s book launch team, but I can assure you the comments are what I really think…and you’re gonna love this one! 🙂

I love it so much…
I bought an extra copy to give away!

Your name goes in a draw to WIN when you: Comment on this blog post, Share the Facebook Live, Comment under the Facebook Live Post or Pin the Quote Image on Pinterest.
***Read at the end of the post for the DRAW DETAILS AND WINNER REVEAL.

LIVE – FROM BRAESIDE CAMP

CLICK HERE TO WATCH the FACEBOOK LIVE recording and get to know speaker and author, Kelly Balarie.

BATTLE READY

Too often we fail to prepare for our battles. So when challenges, troubles, or opportunities arise, we rapidly become burdened with limiting thoughts of self-doubt, fear, impossibility, and lack. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We can train our minds to conquer uncertainty, beat insecurity, and step past the tragedies of yesterday.

Are you sick of living crippled by doubt, discouragement or defeat? Then you need Battle Ready because it’s a hands-on Scriptural plan that teaches you 12 easy-to-implement, confidence-building mind-sets, designed to transform your thoughts… and therefore, your life! My copy of the book is already getting marked up to the point of unrecognition inside.

As a Bible Study teacher, I would love to take a group through Battle Ready to help prepare women for anything the enemy tries to throw their way.

TRAINING YOUR MIND TO CONQUER

Kelly Balarie is an amazing girl who wants to help others in areas where she’s seen God help her. In Battle Ready she shares practical wisdom… like how to:

• Make new habits stick in just five steps
• Disarm the seven most common attacks that plague women
• Exchange self-limiting thoughts for purpose-driven, love-releasing thoughts
• Implement thirty-second mind-lifters that deliver peace
• Create boundaries so you live life full of what matters

[tweetthis]YOU CAN LIVE VICTORIOUSLY, and Kelly’s book #BattleReady helps you get there! @kellybalarie [/tweetthis]

HOW I GOT CONNECTED WITH KELLY

When I began blogging I didn’t know anything, and I mean anything about blogging. To be honest, I’d never even read a blog until I decided to set one up… how crazy is that! After two years of simply posting my blogs, Kelly messaged me on twitter and invited me to join her #RaRaLinkup for bloggers. To this day I don’t know how she heard about me? I was so green I didn’t even know what a linkup was, Kelly had to explain it to me. This was a game changer for me. I’ve ever-thankful for her reaching out to a newbie (even though I had been blogging for almost two years) like me!

Kelly has this giving heart.

It’s evident in her book. There’s tons of FREE STUFF you can get. The thought-provoking Downloads at the end of each section in the book to help you be fully Battle Ready! You can also take the “Find your Battle-Style Quiz” and create a personalized daily battle plan at http://www.iambattleready.com

Kelly’s also running a CONTEST FOR BLOGGERS to win a meeting where they get to pitch their book idea to Baker Books or meet an agent. I would LOVE to have this opportunity because I’m full of MORE book ideas that are pent up inside of me 🙂 If you’d like to help my chances...

COULD YOU VOTE FOR ME?

Simply Comment… I VOTE #9 in the comments (not my name) at THIS LINK, at the bottom of the page. THANKS FOR ALL WHO DO 🙂

I’m praying you enjoy your summer… reading Kelly’s book! Hope you watch me on See, Hear, Love this coming Monday, July 23rd on YES TV talking about What To Do When You’re Spiritually Dry. If you miss watching on TV, the episode, and my blog post about it will be released on their website http://www.seehearlove.com.

I’ll be back for reals in August, when I return from my blogging vaca and send out my weekly #SoulH2O Devotions again.

Much love,
~Sherry
xoxo

Draw for Kelly’s Battle Ready Book to take place on my Author Facebook Page:
Friday, July 27, 2018 at 12:15pm

Comment on this blog post, Share the Facebook Live Post, Comment under the Facebook Live Post or Pin the Quote Image on Pinterest. for your chance to win!

Kelly Balarie is the author of Fear Fighting and is a featured blogger at Crosswalk.com and iBelieve.com A passionate national speaker, she has spent a decade leading groups of women in spiritual growth, marriage building, and Bible studies across the nation. Balarie lives with her husband and two small children near the sun-soaked shores of the East Coast.
Website and Blog: https://purposefulfaith.com/
Book Website with FREE Downloads: http://www.iambattleready.com
YouVersion Bible App Devotion Series: https://www.bible.com/r…/12129-battle-ready-by-kelly-balarie

#PaperbackPic BATTLE READY
Train Your Mind To Conquer Challenges, Defeat Doubt, and Live Victoriously
AUTHOR: Kelly Balarie
© 2018 by Kelly Balarie
PUBLISHER: Baker Books; a division of Baker Publishing Group Grand Rapids, MI USA

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If you liked the refreshing in this #SoulH2O devotion, you’ll love my latest Soul H2O Devotional book: 40 Thirst Quenching Devotions for Women.

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