{"id":337,"date":"2020-09-12T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-10-08T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:40:43","slug":"how-to-control-your-heart-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/how-to-control-your-heart-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Control Your Heart Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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No this is not a fitness blog \u2013 and no I\u2019m not talking about your heart organ.\u00a0 What we are talking about today is your mind (not your brain real estate or even your consciousness).\u00a0 God describes it as your soul\/heart\/mind.<\/p>

Your soul is made up of your subconscious mind, your will and your emotion and it is the mediator between your body and your spirit.<\/p>

There is heaps of information on what<\/u> it is, however what I want to focus on today is the warning I am hearing everywhere at the moment and it is to \u2018Guard Your Heart\u2019.<\/p>

We are in danger of corrupting our heart because we don\u2019t understand how important it is to guard it.\u00a0 God says that out of our heart our mouth speaks and it is what our mouth speaks that God will judge.<\/p>

The silly thing is that we have brought into the lie \u2013 that it\u2019s OK \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter if I watch this one episode or read this article or listen to this song \u2013 the truth is you might be ok \u2013 but we rarely stop at one -and through our conscious mind we feed our heart and our heart feeds our spirit, our spirit puts up a fight and tells our heart to not take hold of it, or heart tells our consciousness we need to stop this and the consciousness says- \u201cbut it feels good \u2013 don\u2019t you think?\u201d<\/p>

If you want the science of this \u2013 what is happening in our brain real estate \u2013 there are some great scientists who explain it well like Dr Caroline Leaf.<\/p>

Eventually it becomes rooted in our heart and then it\u2019s a chore which takes great will and determination to eradicate it.<\/p>

We need to stop and think about what we have allowed to take hold because those things now define us.<\/p>

\u00a0I like how Chad Prather puts it \u2013 we need to \u2018protest ourselves\u2019 \u2013 take issue with what we have allowed.<\/p>

If you have watched the media around COVID \u2013 over and over- I\u2019m betting you hold fear in your heart \u2013 because that\u2019s been the message.\u00a0 And as children of God this fear has no place in us.<\/p>

You cant just get rid of the rot it has to be replaced. (again see Dr Caroline Leaf\u2019s work on this)<\/p>

We need to change our hearts, protest ourselves, and do it with a positivity that gets us somewhere that makes a difference.<\/p>

\u201cDon\u2019t run around in the street (on facebook) burning other peoples stuff, burn down the idolatry of your own selfishness\u201d \u2013 Chad Prather<\/em><\/p>

When we let garbage in it affects us, our relationships, our community, our nation negatively.<\/p>

King David knew this \u2013 that\u2019s why when you read Psalm 119 (yes the longest Psalm) what he is saying is thank you\u00a0 Lord that I dwell on what you say day and night.\u00a0 David so gets this he confidently and humbly asks the Lord to:<\/p>

Search me,\u00a0God, and know my heart;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way\u00a0in me,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and lead me\u00a0in the way everlasting.<\/p>

Start to question everything<\/u> you allow \u2013 everything you watch, everything you listen to, everything you read.<\/p>

Ask yourself do I want this in my heart so it defines me?<\/p>

It may mean you have to say no when a friend invites you to a movie that wont feed your heart good stuff.\u00a0 It may mean you might have to ask the guy you work with to not swear all day.\u00a0 It may mean you need to switch the radio station over or off when morally corrupt music or conversation are on.\u00a0 It may mean you no longer buy your favourite magazine because they have allowed questionable advertising.<\/p>

Then you need to fill the void with positive, Godly, righteous stuff. Philippians puts it this way:<\/p>

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2014if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2014think about such things.<\/em><\/p>

And you can only think it if you feed it to yourself.\u00a0 You have the power \u2013 given by God- the will to do this.<\/p>

Only when we do are we then able to effect change in our society and stop the flow of garbage and evil that is coming into our lives.<\/p>

How will you change your heart beat today?<\/p>

What are you going to protest yourself about?<\/p>

What are you going to allow to define you?<\/p>

What changes do you need to make?<\/p>

What show do you need to stop watching?<\/p>

What comedian do you need to stop listening to?<\/p>

What media channel do you need to turn off?<\/p>

What music do you need to boycott?<\/p>

What person do you need to stop following on YouTube, Facebook or Insta?<\/p>

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Photo by Simon Migaj on Unsplash No this is not a fitness blog \u2013 and no I\u2019m not talking about your heart organ.\u00a0 What we are talking about today is your mind (not your brain real estate or even your consciousness).\u00a0 God describes it as your soul\/heart\/mind. Your soul is made up of your subconscious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-warrior","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolyngailedwards.com\/livingfearless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}