I’ve been living far from home for almost 2 years now. And expectedly, I’ve been through a lot of phases where life’s ups and downs are magnified. There are times when I succumbed myself to loneliness and just leave everything to fate whenever it decides to give me the escape that I need. It was just lately that I realized how wrong my mindset was. I used to fear and worry about almost any challenge. I had so many wishes and wants up to now but the difference is that right now, I know that someday I will make it happen and manifest it into action unlike before when I thought that everything seemed to be far and beyond my reach.
Because I was usually alone, I resorted to reading anything which interests me. Well talking about interest, I don’t need to say that I have a growing pile of fashion magazines in my room. Yes it gave me the ‘temporary’ forgetting that I need. I generally keep myself busy just so to forget that I am away from my loved ones and that my life was a constant bore. Why with the home-work-home-work habit I don’t think I can be able to unwind and rest my mind for a while.
This year I would say that this reading hobby has stepped over a higher notch. I discovered that books weren’t just bound to romantic novels or fantasies. This year I discovered the wonderful library of self-help books. And these books have been helping me cope with life and they opened my eyes and ears to the kind of thinking that I was adopting for like I-can’t-count number of years. Before, when I was depressed or frustrated I will just go to my room and cry my heart out thinking that crying will take all the pain away but right now when I encounter things like this, still I would cry because I can’t help it I’m really so much of a crier but the difference is before I go to my room you’ll find me heading to a bookstore and find another book which I think could remind me again on how to deal with my current situation in the right way or should I say in the right kind of thinking.
Wondering about the title of this post? Well it’s because in one of the books that I’ve read entitled “Battlefield of the Mind”by Joyce Meyer. It said that we are in constant warfare. Our opponent is satan who has gradually been injecting so many lies, hatred, anger and many other negative things in our minds since we were young. And our mind is where the battle takes place that is why ‘the mind is the battlefield’ and we can only win over satan if we fight by thinking positively and by thinking the way that God thinks. God’s word will be our strongest weapon so we must make it to a point that we hear out his message and praise Him and pray to Him every day.
I would like to share with you my magazine collection and also my favorite self-help books. I hope with this post I get to encourage you to read and read no matter what it is that you are interested about because it is the fastest and easiest way to learn things.
Because I was usually alone, I resorted to reading anything which interests me. Well talking about interest, I don’t need to say that I have a growing pile of fashion magazines in my room. Yes it gave me the ‘temporary’ forgetting that I need. I generally keep myself busy just so to forget that I am away from my loved ones and that my life was a constant bore. Why with the home-work-home-work habit I don’t think I can be able to unwind and rest my mind for a while.
This year I would say that this reading hobby has stepped over a higher notch. I discovered that books weren’t just bound to romantic novels or fantasies. This year I discovered the wonderful library of self-help books. And these books have been helping me cope with life and they opened my eyes and ears to the kind of thinking that I was adopting for like I-can’t-count number of years. Before, when I was depressed or frustrated I will just go to my room and cry my heart out thinking that crying will take all the pain away but right now when I encounter things like this, still I would cry because I can’t help it I’m really so much of a crier but the difference is before I go to my room you’ll find me heading to a bookstore and find another book which I think could remind me again on how to deal with my current situation in the right way or should I say in the right kind of thinking.
Wondering about the title of this post? Well it’s because in one of the books that I’ve read entitled “Battlefield of the Mind”by Joyce Meyer. It said that we are in constant warfare. Our opponent is satan who has gradually been injecting so many lies, hatred, anger and many other negative things in our minds since we were young. And our mind is where the battle takes place that is why ‘the mind is the battlefield’ and we can only win over satan if we fight by thinking positively and by thinking the way that God thinks. God’s word will be our strongest weapon so we must make it to a point that we hear out his message and praise Him and pray to Him every day.
I would like to share with you my magazine collection and also my favorite self-help books. I hope with this post I get to encourage you to read and read no matter what it is that you are interested about because it is the fastest and easiest way to learn things.
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