Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle of Your Mind

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UPDATE: Our son Danny did not like school and struggled all the way through so I did a lot of wondering about him and his future. I was in a very dark place after a breakup due to some bad decision making and this was exactly what I needed--someone to provide encouragement as well as a push. Another example of the way the spirit and the mind work together is the gift of tongues with interpretation.

Battlefield of the Mind is about solving some of the common problems we all encounter in life, such as depression, anger, or worry, by getting you to examine the way you think about things, or as the book puts it, "you need to begin to think about what you are thinking about.I have had such a 180 in my thinking and my life due to this book that I want to come back to this same jail after I am out in August to teach of this book and these principles to others that I see in here that are in very desperate need of these ideals. I figure this is the time now, that God knew my heart was open and ready to read these words and let them wash over my mind and emotions. And it seems like Joyce feels if you're following her suggestions and you're still not happy, then you must not be doing it right; you just don't have enough faith. Let me give you an example: Sister Smith may stand up in church and give a message in an unknown tongue. Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind.

She also quotes frequently from the Amplified Bible so that she can pick meanings from the full semantic range of a word, even if that meaning isn't justified.It is a does what it says on the tin kind of book - in other words, it is exactly what you would expect having read the synopsis. This book was really great at helping me to realize what thoughts I was allowing to be present in my head; most of them were negative and self-defeating. I also found some of the information wrong, some of it to the point where it could be harmful to a reader with already low self-esteem. It's the same as so many other books, with a lot of "feel better by thinking better," which isn't helpful for me and presumably for many people.

While I did not particularly care for Meyer's writing style - it felt too informal, too much like she wanted to be close with her readers - this was a good read. It is quite common knowledge now that Joyce Meyer has gone under the knife (I thought she was hotter before, as a friend told me I was the type that would always choose the before pictures on those infomercials, and he's right). It has helped me deal with issues of anxiety -- of worrying too much, particularly about things I can't control anyway.The fact that it is already so mass produced that it can be very cheaply bought and yet so powerfully change someone's life ( by the work of the Holy Spirit ) is a testament to Joyce, it is completely grounded in scripture all the way through, my critical mind couldn't fault it while my open were being opened and my soul being fed. Much of the book is devoted to getting the reader to change their thinking and discusses how to tear down the "strongholds" that the devil tries to set up in the mind.