HEALING TOXIC THOUGHT PATTERNS WORKSHOP

• Do you react when a certain name or situation comes up?
• Do you have subjects in your marriage that are taboo?
• Do you constantly grumble and complain about authorities over you?
• Are you constantly sabotaging your relationships or career?
• Do you catch every disease that comes around?
• Do you struggle with your self image?
• Does God and people seem distant and unreachable?

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Our brains are intricate electro/chemical computers that God designed to receive, sort and process information.  The brain is divided into many separate areas that function as screens, inductive and deductive reasoning, storage or memory, transmitters and analyzers.  All these functions are controlled by electrical and chemical signals.  Our thoughts do not just happen in a vacuum.  They do not just wander about in our minds but are locked into the actual physical structures that make up our minds.  We even have areas that fulfill the function of free will.  All these various areas of the brain communicate through both the neural (electrical) pathways and the endocrine (chemical) system. A brain develops these pathways as a result of constant use. We call these pathways, thought patterns, mind sets or strongholds.  They are the well worn ruts in our brains that become our default or habitual ways of reasoning.  Some become so well worn that they go beyond preferences and become prejudices.

The ability of the Spirit, working through our heart, to impact our thinking will depend on the strength of these thought patterns.  Unfortunately experts say that we develop the majority of our world view or thought patterns before we reach the age of three.  That is long before we encountered God and His way of thinking.  Thus the underlying foundation of our thoughts are according to James, ...natural, earthly,demonic (James 3:15).  We refer to these unsanctified thoughts patterns as demonic structures. When we encounter an event or situation, these structures cause the release of chemical packets that contain the memories of similar events that the mind considers relevant to evaluating the current situation.  Because these thoughts come from demonic structures they are toxic both to your evaluation and to your body.

We teach you how to recognize these structures, how to be healed from them and remove them from your mind.  We also lay out the principles in the word of how to break the power that former thoughts and words have enacted.  We deal mainly with judgments, oaths and vows as being the principle methods the enemy uses to trap us into a downward spiral of toxic thinking and poisonous results.  These tools will allow us replace these destructive memories with new godly orientated memories.  These are not designed to deny the facts but to see them in the light of God's purposes for our lives.

WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE

• The physiology of the brain
• The electro/chemical action of memory
• The role of the heart in decision making
• How to remove toxic thoughts
• How to create proper memories
• Personal ministry time