Renovation shows are so popular on TV. But there’s a different kind of makeover – one that doesn’t deal with outward things that others can see. The one I’m thinking of is more private, personal and intimate in nature. It’s what I call a “facelift” for the mind – a way to renovate thinking, and it’s good for your health.
Renovate your thinking
Giving one’s thinking a makeover might seem a radical proposal, but it can be a life-changer. Some people have gone on to inhabit a happier frame of mind. Others have been freed from crippling doubt and fear. Many have become more confident of being well and staying well. There’s no doubt that there are as many great outcomes as there are renovation opportunities.
TIP:
- Knock down inhibiting mental barriers to healthy living.
- Strip away tired and worn out patterns of thinking. Modernize them with sparkling, fresh ideas.
- Break up old layers of anxiety. Replace them with calmness and peace of mind.
- Revamp dark and gloomy thoughts. Trade them in for bright and happy ones.
- Demolish pessimistic notions about healthy living. Rebuild with positive, hopeful thinking.
- Dump seemingly ingrained negativity. Remodel with enthusiastic expectancy of staying mentally alert at every stage of life.
Roll up your mental sleeves
There are multiple and unique benefits from renovating your mind. It just takes some thought-powered “elbow-grease” to achieve mental and physical freedom, health and happiness.
TIP:
- Accept the renovation challenge. Make changes now.
- Take up health-producing action. Refuse to work with unhealthy thoughts and fears.
- Mentally step back. Examine your thinking. Look at each thought.
- Get cracking! Ask yourself: Is this idea positive, health-giving, and healing in nature, or is it negative, fear-generating, and harmful to wellbeing?
- Make wise thought-choices. Transform fear of illness with thoughts of wellness.
- Overhaul worry about future wellbeing with the prospect of retaining a normal, stress-free life-style.
- Go ahead. Renovate thinking. It’s good for your health.
I’m a professional Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher. Through my prayer-based practice, I help people find happiness, health and healing.
What a great idea to renovate thought, particularly those things that we may have been living with for some time and not challenging. We can carry around a false notion for years unless it is reviewed and renovated or brought up to date. I remember, once, accepting something someone said about an acquaintance, which turned out to be quite wrong. Later I realized I was mistaken and this enabled normal relations to resume.
As another example, there seems to be an expectation that a new product using the latest technology must be better than some tried and proven product which may have been around for some time. The expression ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ cautions being swept away with an unproven capability. Just because it is old doesn’t mean it needs to be changed. The quotation ‘Stand porter at the door of thought’ (Eddy) warns us to be careful in what we accept and what we reject.
Large high-rise buildings often undergo a re-fit and re-decoration on a regular basis, to bring them up to scratch. It is amazing how different the ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures are. Your article reminds me that I should do the same to my mental environment; not just to repaint over old forms but to dig deeper and replace the old and rotten wood with more-lasting material. Thank you.
Thank you Peter for your comment. Great ideas. Thanks for sharing them. I like what you said about just not covering up old negative thinking, but actually dispensing with it and replacing it with good thoughts that are better in quality, beneficial and more lasting.
Thank you Beverly. To open your thought to fresh, new ways of seeing yourself and the world can do wonders in lifting your life out of tired old miserable habits. We renovate our homes and move around the furniture to give an update. Why not renovate our lives with a fresh new look.
Thank you Marion for leaving your comment. Excellent ideas. I love to move furniture and soft furnishings around to give a fresh new look. How great to give our thinking a mental make-over and get it sparkling with fresh positive, health-giving ideas.