Failure shows my need for mental boundaries.

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Trying to resist and overcome the discouragement, depression, and defeat of failure has made me aware of my great need for mental boundaries. It has caused me to train myself to reign in my runaway mind when it panicky gallops in my skull.

Thought boundaries are borders to protect your mind from intruding thoughts. Fix your inner border! People who have open boundaries in their mind are overrun by chaotic thoughts. Without thought boundaries your brain will be bombarded by bullying beliefs, worries, fears, and obsessions. For peace of mind let your conscience help you set and enforce thought boundaries.

A lack of thought boundaries is terrible because it lets your mental health waste away day-by-day. Without thought boundaries people become controlled by dominating desires, whacky whims, freaky feelings, and obsessive opinions.

A mind with no boundaries will always be unhealthy. Without thought boundaries mental health is a myth. Thought boundaries tell your mind where you will and where you won’t allow it to go.

Our thought boundaries (or the lack thereof) determine what we will and won’t allow in our mind. Before you welcome and embrace a thought make it go through customs first. It may be bringing harmful ideas into your mind.

Let your conscience define your boundaries. Then keep guilt-producing thoughts and behaviors out of your life. Thought boundaries help protect your inner core and keep you from falsely identifying yourself by your desires, feelings, and opinions. It takes courage to set and maintain mental boundaries.

Enforcing thought boundaries in your mind is an effective way to protect yourself from mental torment. Hang this sign in your brain: “No Conscience Violating Thoughts Allowed!” Then actively patrol your mental borders to enforce it. Train your mind to respect and abide by the boundaries your conscience sets for it.

You’re not required to let every thought that comes your way into your mind. Wisdom and discernment empower you to pick and choose. Thought boundaries are obstacles to tormenting thoughts. For peace of mind keep your thought boundaries strong!

The thoughts that you allow into your mind will shape your life. Be wise in which ones you welcome and which ones you reject. Train your mind to say no to and to resist unwholesome, manipulating, and tormenting thoughts.

The best thought boundaries “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” They “set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.” Mind boundaries help you to guard your heart. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” –King Solomon

The risen Jesus is “the bread of life,” “the living bread” that “anyone may eat.” He has restored access to the tree of life. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!” I love to feast on His presence 24/7/365! Let Him set your thought boundaries.

The peace of mankind
Requires peace of mind.
Obeying Jesus
Is the way to find
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