Truth! Are You Placing Yourself In a Mental Prison

People Don’t Want to Hear the Truth, They just want Validation for their own Thoughts

Truth! Are you placing yourself into a mental prison out of fear? Many people do this because they do not want to hear the real truth because they might be wrong, and that is something they cannot handle.

This is placing them in their own mental health prison.

Taking a Hard Look at Yourself is Scary

If you tell me I am wrong about something, I will very likely bristle. We all will, and we all do this. That’s ok, and of course it is a perfectly natural reaction. However, if you are unwilling to listen at all then it could be placing you into a very unhealthy prison of your own making.

In order to have a healthy outlook on life, we all need to be able to hear things that we sometimes do not agree with or wish to hear. This is normal, and it is very healthy.

The problem comes in when we absolutely refuse to change our thinking in any way. This places ourselves into a mental health prison and it becomes a hamster wheel of endless churning and unhappiness.

Truth! A Sad Story About Someone Who Refuses to Change Their Thinking

Have you ever met someone who is so dead-set in their ways they have become monstrously unhappy and hard to live with? I have, and as a matter of fact I’m dealing with someone right now who is in this exact place. She is probably the most unhappy person I have ever met. She will continue to be as long as she refuses to open her mind up to other thoughts.

“A wise man changes his mind; the fool never.”

Proverb

What makes this so horrendously awful is she is making so many people I love that are around her miserable as well. I also very much fear that her young son will take the brunt of this as he continues to grow. She is in a mental health prison of her own making. She has gained a lot of weight, and she has separated herself from her own parents, and as far as I can tell she doesn’t have any friends left to speak of.

Her husband stays and puts up with it because he loves her, and he is a very easy going person not to mention divorce is not something he would ever even consider. He believes it is better to make the best of the situation than to ever leave. Besides, as I said, they are raising a young son. This husband has been literally forced to stay away from his own family because of his wife, and it is not fair to him. If she truly loves him, then why would she put this wonderful man in this situation?

Truth! Changing Your Thinking Can Change Your Life — IF You Let It!

Don’t let this be you! Open your mind and your heart. Trust your family and your friends to never, ever hurt you. Even though it is very, very difficult, you should take the time to take a hard look at yourself and your mindset and how your thinking is affecting your loved ones.

To change one’s mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance. ~ Spanish Proverb

Source: https://proverbicals.com/change

People just don’t like to hear the truth about themselves. Sometimes when they do, even if you offer of research, they still poo-poo it because it is not what they want to hear. There is a wonderful Bible verse on this from 2 Timothy 4:3 which reads For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

Try Keeping an Open Mind to What Others are Trying to Say

Keeping an open mind when others are hurting, and you yourself are hurting is key. When you see so many people completely against you, what could it hurt to try to see the other side of the issue?

Don’t hurt yourself and others by keeping your own mind in a mental prison of uncompromising bullying. You hold everyone up for ransom as they try to bend over backwards just to please you, and to what avail? Because once you get to that immobile position no one is happy. Not them, and certainly not yourself. Ranting and raving about everyone else, when in reality you should be looking at yourself.

One person’s truth may not be another person’s truth. I was told the other day by my own coach that I should always speak truth to bullshit. This is freeing and life changing!

Mental Health Starts With Speaking Truth to Bullshit

This is hard. Really very hard sometimes because we want to be nice. But if you look at a previous post of mine, you will see that being nice is not always being kind: What is the Difference-Kind versus Nice Conundrum.

Is your thinking truth, or is it bullshit. Really take a very hard look at this. Don’t just search for your own opinion. Search hard for other’s and how they think. Or, better yet, ask them to seriously share exactly why they think they way they do. If you love them and they love you, they will listen and share with an open heart.

Besides, what good does being right do when it means that you are utterly and completely alone on your island. That is a very sad place to be.

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. 
Colossians 2:8

Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 
1 Peter 5:7

A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel. Proverbs 15:18

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1

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