Quote "Work at keeping your thoughts clean by thinking of something good. The mind can think of only one thing at a time. Use that fact to crowd out ugly thoughts. Above all, don't feed thoughts by reading or watching things that are wrong. If you don't control your thoughts, Satan will keep tempting you until you eventually act them out."
~Elder Richard G. Scott
Question "What helps you most to control your thoughts?"
I truly believe that environment plays into the control of our thoughts. When I am listening to primary music, for example, I have a hard time thinking of bad things. I believe that every person on earth struggles with their thoughts in one way or another. I know that pornography is a huge problem today, and other addictions as well. I have a serious problem with scary movies and anxiety. I watched a lot of scary movies in my youth, and I still remember them. I am very sensitive to those things, and also to real life scary things....for example, when CSI came out, my husband wanted to watch it, and one of the first episodes had to do with a kidnapped child....I already have enough anxiety about those kinds of things, so if/when I watch those things, I think about them all the more, driving myself crazy. So for me, it is really dedicating myself to not watching anything or listening to anything that puts me in mind of negative things.
As far as today's reading assignment goes, King Benjamin focused a lot on giving of our substance. If we have food, clothing, money, etc...and don't help those in need, we are committing sin. I wonder if we really all focused our 100% attention on giving service every day that we would never have time to think about our own problems, or have time for the negative thoughts that Elder Scott was talking about.
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