How To Deal With Anxiety

You are the only one who can control your mind. Often anxiety is but an irrational fear that sets in motion apprehensions that are even more unfounded. You need to examine your thoughts, restrain them so that you can redirect them.

2Co 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2Co 10:6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete. (NIV)

When the wrong thoughts come into our minds that are negative and untrue, we are to remove them and take them captive by not allowing them to run free but restrain and remove them by not entertaining or dwelling on them. Simply put "Don't Go There!" " Read (Dealing with Anxiety By Filoiann Wiedenhoff)

Force Yourself To Think Positive

Forward Your thoughts to an absolute truth. The thinking that is destroying you is not true. You are going to make it through this! That is the truth. Redirecting your thoughts means to change your thoughts that are not true and negative to thoughts that are true and positive.

One of the best ways I have ever seen this displayed is in Phillipians 4:8"

Php 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. (NIV translation)

Make Positive Thought You Habit

Let your mind experience renewal. When we force ourselves to think beyond the false negatives, those thoughts which try to destroy us, it clears out the old way of thinking and replaces it with the new.

Remember, you are more than an overcomer! Any thought that says otherwise is untrue for you! With any habit we want to change we not only need to stop the cycle but replace the bad habit with a good habit. Continual redirection of your negative, anxiety filled, thoughts make a new pattern. New patterns continued make habits. Habits guide your life. Anxiety may be present but now you and God are in control! Think about it!

Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (NIV translation)

Reprioritize: Taken from (Dealing with Anxiety By Filoiann Wiedenhoff)

One other issue that causes anxiety is feeling overwhelmed by too many tasks or thoughts at once. To help alleviate this problem; you can sit down and write it out

1. What's a real problem and what's not.
2. Sort out your concerns and prioritize them.
3. Weed out what's not important by either delegating it or putting it on a separate list to do.
4. Narrow down your list and focus on one task at a time and do the most important ones first.. Focusing on one task at a time will help you to not feel so overwhelmed and at the same time will organize your thoughts as well as your tasks into a doable plan and help you regain your ability to cope.
5. Carry it Out: Now that you know that these thoughts are not good and do harm you need to follow through with what you know is true and take them captive, remove them, don't entertain them and replace them with good and pure thoughts. Changing our behavior takes practice and as you work on this faithfully you will have a new habit and renewed mind before you know it. (James 1:25)

If you do these things with prayer and by faith God will provide His strength in the midst of your weakness and give you the power to overcome for our victory comes from Him.
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