People are increasingly realizing that our mental standpoint affects every aspect of our life, including health. Sounds like freeing news, except that many believe it's nearly impossible to change the way they think and how they approach things. They live from the viewpoint that all of this is firmly established by how they have been "programmed"— either by heredity or childhood environment.
Sadly, the effect of this materialistic view is being born out in the lives of multitudes. For instance, research shows that if a child is abused, later on he or she will likely abuse his or her children. Or if children grow up in a household where there is spousal abuse, this will likely be the pattern of their future marriages. Accepting the belief that our past determines our present and future means believing that those who have been abused have little hope of establishing healthy relationships; also, that they pose a probable threat to their spouses and children. This would create perpetual cycles of abuse.
In an attempt to break destructive patterns, secular methods delve into human thought through extensive therapy, through hypnosis, through support groups. Yet the actual healing experienced by thousands who have been abused in one way or another proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is another way—Christ's way.
