Emotions are so complex. We feel something, but is the emotion triggered by thoughts? Sometimes I am overcome by emotions and I cannot explain how it happened. I finally decided to accept the positive feelings. Yet my experience does not allow me to have the feelings for a long time. I have to rationalize my feelings. I have "trained" myself to explain my feelings. Is that upbbringing, culture, education, or a combination of each? Regardless of the source, we are encouraged to "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." I can see the value of that phrase. When we keep processing a thought, our brain makes a pattern. Since the chemical-electrical pulse takes the path of least resistance, it is important to set patterns that are productive for our lives and not destructive. More and more I realize how important it is to capture the thought and enclose it. If the pattern is still strong it takes several rounds to turn from the thought or redirect it to a different topic. Slowly but surely I am making very deep emotional scars obediant to Christ. The strength lessons as I forgive or ask God for forgiveness and redirect my thoughts.
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