Expanding on the wisdom of her other books, "Battlefield of the Mind" and "Power Thoughts" (also available in this library), she explains how to improve the quality of your thoughts and your life. You learn to think with purpose, gain greater confidence and claim the joyful life you were meant to lead.

Excellent book on how the mind affects our overall being. ( )

The Mind Connection

Joyce Meyer the inspirational American teacher and author on Christian and in particular Biblical context teaching returns with The Mind Connection. Once again Joyce Meyer approaches a difficult subject, mental health and well being and how it affects our moods, behaviours and decisions. One of the great ways of dealing with mental health issues is through cognitive behavioural therapy, and this book is a course in that with Biblical interpretations included.

As someone who over the years has had mental health issues one goes through a various amount of therapies to find the one that works for you. In my case, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works better than other therapies, but if you are ill you need your doctor and therapist to guide you to the therapy that works for you, as we are all different.

There are a total of twenty-one chapters that Meyer has broken down in to four sections and those sections are important:
• How Your Thoughts Affect Your Mind
• How Your Thoughts Affect the World Around You
• How Your Thoughts Affect Your Physical and Emotional Health
• How Your Thoughts Affect Your Walk with God

Each chapter within the sections addresses particular problems and challenges positively that thinking and how with passages from the Bible you can change your thoughts and cognitive processes by looking at life through a different approach that will be a positive to you. At the end of each chapter Meyer leaves you with something about and acts on.

What Joyce Meyer does well is addressing every reader directly and that by challenging our current thinking we can and will change for the better. By using the Bible and personal stories as well as reflection, something therapists’ use that we need to declutter our minds. By decluttering our minds we are clearing away those things that are blocking us and therefore empowering our negative thoughts. With a clearer mind it is easier to slowly begin our move forwards to better and more positive thinking, while not easy, we can all do.

One of the great things about The Mind Connection is that it does not preach at the reader, but wants to be used as a tool for better thinking. Rather than stand and shout at those with problems Meyer is sitting with them and holding their hand supporting them on their journey to wellness. This is an excellent book that shows how we can change ourselves with God’s help and be more positive about ourselves. ( )