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Speaker 2: If you have ever felt ambushed by intrusive thoughts, unwanted

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Speaker 2: mental spirals, or the kind of anxious loops that hijack

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Speaker 2: your piece, You're not alone and you're not powerless. In

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Speaker 2: this episode of Your Hope Filled Perspective, we're diving into

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Speaker 2: the intersection of Biblical truth and brain science, exploring how

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Speaker 2: God designed your mind, why intrusive thoughts show up, and

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Speaker 2: how to interrupt them with evidence based strategies and scripture

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Speaker 2: anchored in truth. Whether you struggle with anxiety, guilt, catastrophizing,

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Speaker 2: or what if thinking, you'll learn practical Hope filled tools

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Speaker 2: to renew your mind, reclaim your thought life, and experience

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Speaker 2: the calm your soul has been craving. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: Your Hope Filled Perspective podcast, where it's always our goal

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Speaker 2: to restore hope, renew minds, and empower listeners to live

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Speaker 2: in your God given identity. We will equip you with

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Speaker 2: the encouragement and biblical truth you need to walk in hope.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, doctor Michelle Bankson, clinical neuropsychologist, author,

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Speaker 2: and fellow traveler, on this journey of learning how to

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Speaker 2: take thoughts captives so they don't take us captive. I'm

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Speaker 2: grateful you're joining me for today's episode. In honor of

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Speaker 2: Mental Health Awareness Month, we are going to talk about

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Speaker 2: how to manage intrusive thoughts through biblical truth and brain science.

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Speaker 2: We'll dive in right after this brief word from our sponsor.

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Speaker 2: What do you do when your mind won't quiet down?

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Speaker 2: When intrusive thoughts bargin at the worst possible times, whispering lies,

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Speaker 2: stirring fear, and draining joy. In today's episode of Your

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Speaker 2: Hope Filled Perspective, we will unpack the surprising, spiritual and

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Speaker 2: neurological roots of intrusive thoughts and the good news that

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Speaker 2: you are not at the mercy of your mind. With

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Speaker 2: a compassionate look at both scripture and the science of

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Speaker 2: thought patterns, will discover how to confront mental noise with truth,

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Speaker 2: retrain the brain God gave you, and step into greater peace, clarity,

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Speaker 2: and confidence. If you've been longing for mental rest, this

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Speaker 2: episode will give you a path forward. Today, in honor

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Speaker 2: of Mental Health Awareness Month, we're talking about something that

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Speaker 2: impacts far more people than most realize. That is the

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Speaker 2: concept of intrusive thoughts, Those unwanted, uninvited, and often untrue

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Speaker 2: thoughts that barge into the mind, drain our peace and

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Speaker 2: derail our focus. Maybe your intrusive thoughts sound something like this,

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Speaker 2: What if something terrible happens, everyone will be disappointed in me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not enough, I can't control what might go wrong?

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Speaker 2: Or how about this one? What if I fail? What

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Speaker 2: if I fall? What if God isn't really here? Or

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Speaker 2: maybe your intrusive thoughts are darker, more shame inducing, more

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Speaker 2: fear driven, more persistent. Friend, wherever you fall on that

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Speaker 2: spectrum of intrusive thoughts, you are not broken and you

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Speaker 2: are not alone, and there is incredible hope today because

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Speaker 2: God designed your brain with the ability to change, and

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Speaker 2: he gave you his word to anchor your thoughts in truth.

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Speaker 2: That's what this entire episode is about, how to manage

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Speaker 2: intrusive thoughts through the combined power of biblical truth and

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Speaker 2: brain science. So let's talk about what intrusive thoughts really

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Speaker 2: are and what they aren't. Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts, images,

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Speaker 2: or impulsive that pop into your mind without invitation. They

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Speaker 2: often feel alarming, shameful, overwhelming, persistent, or completely inconsistent with

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Speaker 2: who you are. And I want to say this clearly

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Speaker 2: at the beginning. Having intrusive thoughts does not mean you

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Speaker 2: are spiritually weak, mentally unstable, or feeling god. In fact,

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Speaker 2: intrusive thoughts are common, They are predictable, especially under stress,

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Speaker 2: They are explainable through neuroscience, and they are manageable through

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Speaker 2: tools and truth. From a brain perspective, intrusive thoughts often

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Speaker 2: arise when the amygdala that's the brain's alarm system, when

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Speaker 2: that becomes overactive. When the amygdala senses danger, whether it's

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Speaker 2: real or perceived, it sends fast, automatic warning thoughts in

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Speaker 2: an attempt to protect you. But the problem the amygdala

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Speaker 2: can't tell the difference between a genuine threat, a hypothetical threat,

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Speaker 2: same urgent message every single time. Actually, intrusive thoughts often

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Speaker 2: fall into the following recognizable patterns. First is accusation, like

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Speaker 2: What if? The third is condemnation. Boy, you've really messed

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Speaker 2: up this time. God is disappointed in you. God can't

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Speaker 2: forgive you. The next is catastrophizing, but one small thing

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Speaker 2: will ruin everything. And then the last one is identity attacks.

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Speaker 2: Those are the intrusive thoughts that sound like, you're unlovable,

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Speaker 2: you're unforgivable, you're unwanted, you'll never measure up. Scripture tells

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Speaker 2: us that the enemy is both a liar and an accuser,

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Speaker 2: and intrusive thoughts often echoed those kinds of lives. But

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Speaker 2: I want you to hear me, because here's the truth.

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Speaker 2: A thought is not a fact, A thought is not

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Speaker 2: a sin, thought is not your identity, and a thought

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Speaker 2: is not your destiny. You can learn to respond to

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Speaker 2: intrusive thoughts without absorbing them as truth. So, now that

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Speaker 2: we know what intrusive thoughts are, let's talk from a

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Speaker 2: neuroscience perspective about why do intrusive thoughts stick. Let me

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Speaker 2: explain briefly why intrusive thoughts are so powerful. Number one,

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Speaker 2: the brain loves patterns. Once you think something repeatedly, especially

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Speaker 2: something fearful, the brain creates a pathway and the more

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Speaker 2: you walk that path, the faster the thought fires. Number two,

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Speaker 2: the brain is velcrow for negative thoughts. Because negative thoughts

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Speaker 2: might signal danger, the brain stores them quickly and deeply,

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Speaker 2: but positive thoughts actually take longer for the brain to encode.

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Speaker 2: Number three. The amygdala relies on guesswork, so as a result,

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Speaker 2: it often misinterprets uncertainty as danger. Number four, dress lowers

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Speaker 2: the brain's filter. When court is all is high, the

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Speaker 2: prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain that's responsible for

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Speaker 2: rational logical thought, goes offline. So intrusive thoughts feel louder

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Speaker 2: because your thought traffic controller is tired. But the good

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Speaker 2: news every one of these processes is changeable. Your brain

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Speaker 2: can be rewired by intentional focus, biblical meditation, emotional regulation,

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Speaker 2: truth based thinking, healthy habits, and God's renewing power Romans

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Speaker 2: twelve to two isn't metaphor, it's actually biology. Be transformed

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Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind. Friends, we're going to

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Speaker 2: take a real short break for a brief message from

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Speaker 2: our sponsor, but when we return, we're going to turn

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Speaker 2: our conversation to discussing the biblical framework for managing intrusive thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Will be right back. So now that we know what

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Speaker 2: intrusive thoughts are and why they're so compelling, let's turn

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Speaker 2: our conversation to the Biblical framework for managing intrusive thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Scripture gives a clear roadmap for managing intrusive thoughts. Tewo

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Speaker 2: Corinthians ten, verse five says, take every thought captive. Well,

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Speaker 2: taking a thought captive means number one recognizing it, number two,

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Speaker 2: stopping it, number three, examining it, number four, replacing it

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Speaker 2: with truth, and number five refusing to let it rule

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Speaker 2: your heart or choices. Now the next thing. Number two

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Speaker 2: is Colossians three to two, which says, set your mind

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Speaker 2: on things above. You may not be able to control

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Speaker 2: the first thought that pops into your mind, but you

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Speaker 2: can control the next one. Once you recognize the thought,

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Speaker 2: you go through the steps that are just offered. The

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Speaker 2: next thing. Let's turn our attention to Psalm forty six'.

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Speaker 2: Ten it's a familiar versus says be still and know

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Speaker 2: THAT i Am. God now this is important because intrusive

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Speaker 2: thoughts thrive in internal, chaos but they shrink in. Stillness

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Speaker 2: so when you're having any of these intrusive, thoughts get,

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Speaker 2: still talk to The, lord invite The Holy spirit, in

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Speaker 2: Thoughts and number, four take a look At philippians four verse.

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Speaker 2: Eight you know the. Verse it talks about whatever is,

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Speaker 2: Say god gives us a filter for what is allowed

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Speaker 2: to stay in our. Mind he tells us what to think.

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Speaker 2: About so when we find ourselves going down a spiral

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Speaker 2: attention to all those, good positive things In philippians four

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Speaker 2: eight and number. Five let's think About romans eight, six

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Speaker 2: which says the mind controlled by the spirit is life and.

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Speaker 2: Peace your peace is not dependent on thought, arrivals but

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Speaker 2: on thought. Alignment what are you going to do with

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Speaker 2: the thoughts that you? Have if you focus On, jesus

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Speaker 2: you focus on the truth Of god's, word your thoughts

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Speaker 2: come into alignment with the Truth god has already spoken

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Speaker 2: that helps stop intrusive. THOUGHTS i thought it might be

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Speaker 2: helpful IF i went over with you a step by

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Speaker 2: step process for managing intrusive. Thoughts it's a practical five

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Speaker 2: step method that combines biblical truth as well as brain.

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Speaker 2: Science step number one we've already talked about this sum

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Speaker 2: but step number one is to notice the intrusive thought without.

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Speaker 2: Bad christian Or i'm failing, spiritually try. This this is

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Speaker 2: an intrusive. Thought this is not WHO i. Am this

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Speaker 2: by naming a, thought it reduces the emotional intensity by

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Speaker 2: thirty to forty. Percent that's. Significant so, first you're gonna

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Speaker 2: notice the intrusive thought without. Shame you're gonna name. It number,

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Speaker 2: two neutralize the. Thought here's the phrase THAT i often teach.

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Speaker 2: Patients this is just a, thought not a, truth and

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Speaker 2: not a. Command this helps shift the brain from emotional

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Speaker 2: reaction to a rational. Response here's a few. Examples intrusive,

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Speaker 2: Thought you're not. Safe neutralizing. Thought my brain is sending

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Speaker 2: a false. Alarm another intrusive thought might be Early god's

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Speaker 2: disappointed in. Me neutralizing thought is that is a lie

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't match. Scripture in, fact scripture says he

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Speaker 2: delights in, me and he rejoices over me in. Singing

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Speaker 2: another example of an intrusive thought is something terrible is

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Speaker 2: fear not. Prophecy we are not forecasting into the, future

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Speaker 2: so let's stay present in the here and. Now scripture tells, us,

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Speaker 2: enough worries of its. Own the step number, three name the.

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Speaker 2: thought coming from the enemy of my? Soul is this

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Speaker 2: responded with, scripture and we can do the. Same step number,

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Speaker 2: four replace the thought with. Truth replacement is. Essential you

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Speaker 2: cannot stop thinking your way out of intrusive. Thoughts you

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Speaker 2: must redirect. Them so here's some replacements you might. Use

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Speaker 2: psalm forty six to. One let's say you have a

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Speaker 2: the replacement truth comes From romans eighty. One there is

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Speaker 2: therefore now no condemnation for those who are In Christ.

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Speaker 2: i can't handle what's. Ahead the replacement truth might come

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Speaker 2: From Tewo corinthians twelve to nine that reminds us my

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Speaker 2: is to regulate the body to calm the. Brain thought

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Speaker 2: change happens best when the body is. Calm so here's

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Speaker 2: noticing five things you, see four things you, hear three

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Speaker 2: release your jaw. Now another recommendation is prayerful, stillness something like,

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Speaker 2: we'll be right. Back, hey welcome. BACK i want to

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Speaker 2: discuss three common categories of intrusive thoughts and how scripture

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Speaker 2: give yourself some, compassion turn to the, scripture and identify.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts the biblical antidote comes From matthew six thirty. Four

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Speaker 2: what if thinking overworks the imagination, center not the danger.

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Speaker 2: it might be helpful IF i took you through a

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Speaker 2: practical sixty second reset tool for intrusive. Thoughts because here's

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Speaker 2: a tool that you can use. Anywhere here's the sixty

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Speaker 2: Statement exhale slowly and release the tension in your, shoulders

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Speaker 2: and Thank god for renewing your. Mind, friend if you

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Speaker 2: do that, consistently you will know it is. Change if

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Speaker 2: intrusive thoughts have made you feel, tired, defeated, ashamed spiritually,

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Speaker 2: reflect your spiritual. Maturity your response to intrusive thoughts reflects

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Speaker 2: your spiritual. TRAINING a, friend you are, Growing you are,

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Speaker 2: Learning you are being. Strengthened you are being renewed and

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Speaker 2: you are being transformed from the inside. Out philippians one

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Speaker 2: you will carry it on to. Completion that includes your thought.

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Speaker 2: Life let me pray for, You, father for every listener

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Speaker 2: who feels overwhelmed by intrusive, THOUGHTS i ask for your

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Speaker 2: alarm systems in their, brain anchor their identity in your.

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Speaker 2: Truth expose every lie the enemy tries to whisper empower

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Speaker 2: them to take every thought, captive renew their, minds restore their,

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Speaker 2: calm and remind them that they are, loved, safe and

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Speaker 2: held by you In jesus, NAME i, Pray, Amen, friend

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today on your hope field.

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Speaker 2: Perspective if this episode encouraged, you CAN i encourage you

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Speaker 2: to share it with a friend who might be battling

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Speaker 2: anxiety or intrusive. Thoughts remember there's always hope Because god

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Speaker 2: has always with. You until next, Time i'm Doctor Michelle.

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Speaker 2: BANKSON i pray you will choose today to replace intrusive

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Speaker 2: thoughts With god's truth and walk forward with a renewed

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Speaker 2: mind and a hope filled heart until we're together again next.

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Speaker 2: Week it's my prayer for you that you have a

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Speaker 1: neuropsychologist Doctor Michelle bankson provides a countercultural perspective on, pain

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Speaker 1: offering hope without any false promises or empty. Platitudes Doctor

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Speaker 1: bankson unwraps the complex emotional aspects of dealing with. Pain

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Speaker 1: she gives you permission to Question, god helps you identify

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Speaker 1: the lies you've believed about your, pain and reorients your

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Speaker 1: pain may not, change but your experience with it. Can

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Speaker 1: Doctor Sandra Dalton, smith, physician best selling, author and a

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