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Edge God In Podcast Week 18: A Negativity Detox: Step 2

October 27, 2017

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Dear Lord, you are the LIGHT of the world, I give you permission to override my below the line tendencies that project “lights off” rather than “lights ON” to the world around me. I know that I can’t give out what I haven’t mastered within my interior world. Open the eyes of my heart Lord to tune into those phrases and verses that pop out to me reminding me of an opportunity to identify and adjust my perceptions and behavior to more fully embrace and live out your will in my life. This invitation to detox my life from negativity is not for the faint hearted. Strengthen my weak knees so that I can unzip my old self and zip up my new self being renewed in the Holy Spirit with the gift of each new dawn. I want to be a city set on a hill and a light that outshines the darkness for you.

 

Edge God In Podcast Week 18: A Negativity Detox: Step 2

 

In the previous podcast: Negativity Detox Step 1, we explored high noticing around those negative thoughts and intonations we use with ourselves that dim our light for Christ. We now move into the experience of putting off those behaviors that fuel darkness in and around us as we step into shifting our attention on anchoring those actions that assist us in living a life worthy of the calling we have received.

 

Learn:

As we touched upon in the first step of detoxing negativity from our lives mirror neurons reveal an essential element to the point of entry of negativity: our thought life… which ignite our emotional state of being. An emotion is simply your body's response to your thought life. Mirror neurons will fire, triggering a similar emotional response in the receiver as put forth by the sender.

 

So, what does this look like when it comes to outshining the darkness? If you want to experience more kindness in your life, be kind. More love? Be loving. More compassion? Be compassionate towards others. This is such a powerful blueprint in behavioral neuroscience that reveals the handiwork of God. Studies have exposed the power of a person’s choice to remain in a place of love and kindness in the midst of outer negativity that is demonstrated by another person. The brainwaves in the sender are actually shift from the two-inch energy of the mind into the unlimited energy that radiates from the heart (The Heartmath Institute). Simply put, we have the ability to shift the brainwaves in another human being for a greater good simply by our choice for love and kindness.

 

Ephesians chapter 4 and 5 are jammed pack with behaviors that restrict our ability to shine, in fact that fuel darkness in and around us:

 

Anger/wrath
Falsity
Going to bed angry
Stealing, even another’s reputation and sense of worth and value through slander, gossiping and bullying
Foul, polluting language that cuts others down rather than edifying and encouraging using generous assumptions
Bitterness, indignation and wrath
Sexual Vices: Lust
Greed: selfish desire for something: wealth, food, power,
Wasting time
Drunkenness
Resentment: bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly
Quarreling
Slander (evil-speaking, abusive language that hurts another person).
Malice (spite, one-uping, revenge)
Bitterness: anger at being treated unfairly
Coveting: a deep yearning to possess or have something.
Do not be vague (Deuteronomy 30:19 I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life that you may live, that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice and hold fast to Him).

 

The following practices and behavior fuel your ability to SHINE, in fact OUTSHINE the darkness and live a life worthy of the c...