Did you know our human minds are very capable of creating a way to escape a situation when life forces us to face things we really don’t want to.

What is an escape mechanism?
When you don’t really want to face a challenge or certain situation in life, your subconscious mind will find a way to avoid it.

This will happen especially if you have allowed fear to take over. Depending on the strength of your resistance to the situation, your subconscious may go to very drastic measures to avoid the challenge or responsibility.

So the plan of escape that your subconscious mind invented will be stored away for future use also. Now this plan has become an escape mechanism, ready to spring out and defend you by allowing you to escape from unpleasant situations in the future.

How will this escape mechanism “defend” you?
This plan will not only to be used to avoid this present situation, but also your mind will draw upon it to escape from future circumstances that are similar to the present one.

The subconscious mind is very powerful and is even capable of allowing sickness into your life if it means your being able to escape from an unpleasant task. This is the escape mechanism, and can be very powerful, and as you can see it can also be dangerous. Of course this plan will only provide temporary “relief” and a pseudo peace.

How can you avoid the dangerous of any hidden subconscious schemes?

The key motivation that will drive your mind to find an escape mechanism is fear.

We were created to walk with God in faith and all the fruits that go with faith (love, joy peace).

Fear will corner you and your mind will look for a way of escape.
When you allow fear to take over your life, your mind has to find a way back to peace and it will, even though it may be a pseudo peace and in reality only a temporary relief.

For example: it may allow you to become sick so you can escape the responsibility of a situation. Of course this is only a temporary “solution”.

There is an interesting verse found in Proverbs 23:7 that says: “for as he thinks in his heart, so is he”

The word “thinks” in this verse is translated from the Hebrew word “gatekeeper”.

>> You have control over your mind.
>> You decide what to think.

You can avoid allowing your mind to stray over into the negative field of life. How?

You decide what to think – and what you think decides how you live!

Are you consciously deciding what to think today?

Are you ready to take control over what you think? Your real health and true happiness depends on this decision.

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