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Mental Disharmony

If we don't live the life we believe, we will end up unhappily believing the life we live.

Moody Institute of Science experimented to put a special pair of lenses that made everything appear upside down to analyze mental distress! In an experiment the founder of theInstitute, Irwin Moon, wore these glasses every day and night for three weeks, and slept with his eyes covered so that he never looked at anything without wearing these lenses. After three weeks his mind converted everything so things appeared the right side up!

The mind does a similar thing when we live out of harmony with God's directives. For example, the alcoholic denies his alcoholism. The person who
consistently lies, ends up believing his own lies. And criminals often justify what they have done by telling themselves that the people they victimized deserved it!

We do this because if we consistently go against what we know to be right, we get into what is called cognitive dissonance, which, simply put, means mental disharmony. And, not being able to live with this distress, we will change our beliefs to match our behavior. This way we justify whatever it is we want to do.

It's true, if we don't live the life we believe, we will end up unhappily believing the life we live. It's a dangerous course to follow. Another way of saying it is, we end up with a dead conscience and a hardened heart.

Dear God ..

help me never to deny any negative and/ or sinful behavior ..
but be honest with myself and admit it when what I am doing is wrong ..
so that I can always live in a state of mental harmony ..

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer ..