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by Jennie Allen
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Get Out Of Your Head shows you how to break the pattern of negative thinking so you can consistently entertain healthier and happier thoughts by teaching simple tips like being alone, connecting with others, and reconnecting with God.
Get Out Of Your Head shows you how to break the pattern of negative thinking so you can consistently entertain healthier and happier thoughts by teaching simple tips like being alone, connecting with others, and reconnecting with God.
When interacting with people every day you’d never suspect they might deal with toxic thoughts. It’s easy to hide, especially when you’ve got a great family and a successful career.
This was the author’s case but inside her mind, she had demons that she struggled to get rid of.
It all started when she was giving some talks at a Baptist church. The first one she gave was about demons and their determination to undermine faith. Little did she know that she’d soon have some real-life experience with the topic of her sermon!
After the speech, an angry man approached her and said “we are coming for you.” Not long afterward there was a strange power outage right before her next talk.
These experiences began a spiral that ended up making Allen feel anxious all the time. Things didn’t start getting better until 18-months later when she began to think about her thoughts.
She soon realized that she had the power to choose goodness over evil, and that’s just what she did.
You might not have to deal with spiraling worries for as long as the author did. But the demon of negative thought patterns comes for us all at some point.
To overcome it, review your thoughts from an outside perspective. Next, recognize that they don’t control your ability to choose whether or not you’ll entertain them. Then, consciously decide to think better thoughts!
How often do you get distracted? Whether it’s at work or while we’re watching a movie with a loved one, losing our focus is all too common. Sometimes we can even get sidetracked from our priorities by seemingly good things like work or friends. But what we could all use is a little more silence and stillness to refocus on the positive. At some point, we need help that nobody else can provide. In these moments the only way to let go of our worried minds is by letting them rest with some alone time pondering. Science shows that spending time alone in meditation can alter your brain for the better. It helps you rewire your thinking patterns and make them healthier. It’s not always easy to let yourself spend time alone though. Without realizing, you usually make yourself so busy just so that you can avoid your thoughts. It’s easier to flee from the fear of being alone or realizing that you need to change. Most often your thinking patterns involve some reason for the way…
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Disrupt your pessimistic thinking patterns by spending time alone and in silence.
If you want to beat negative thoughts for good, you must learn the power of connecting with others consistently.
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Jennie Allen is an author, speaker, and the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering. She is a passionate leader following God's call on her life to catalyze a generation to live what they believe. Jennie is the New York Times Bestselling author of Find Your People and Get Out of Your Head. Jennie has a Masters in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Zac, and their four children.
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