Dave, on the other hand, would be sitting on the floor in the TV room, playing with the kids, letting them put curlers in his hair. Years ago, when my children were young, I would sit at our kitchen table and spend hours looking at our bills, worrying about how we would pay them. I used to be a professional worrier- I was good at it. Meanwhile, I’m going to trust You and enjoy my life while You work on my problems.” If You want me to do something, I ask You to show me. Or we can choose to adopt a trusting attitude that says, “God, I don’t know what to do about this situation, but I can’t fix it on my own. We can “rely on our own insight and understanding”-endlessly thinking about our problems, trying to figure everything out ourselves. Trusting God is the greatest stress reliever in the world, and our minds play an important role in the process. Proverbs 3:5 (AMPC) says, “Lean on, trust in and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.” The good news is God has given us the answer for worry and stress- t rust. And that’s only a few of the side effects! Stress has been proven to cause issues like muscle tension, headaches, breathing irregularities, increased heart rate, artery inflammation, gastro-intestinal problems, constipation and diarrhea. The mind and body are definitely connected!įor instance, did you know you can stress yourself by the way you think? So often, we believe our circumstances are to blame for our unhappiness however it’s the way we think about our circumstances that usually causes worry and stress.
In fact, research shows that 75 to 98 percent of mental, physical and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life. They also affect our emotional and physical health. They affect our words, moods, attitudes, the choices we make and even our relationship with God and others. Our thoughts are connected to every single area of our lives.
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