{"id":47916,"date":"2021-09-03T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=47916"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:35:49","slug":"get-out-of-your-head-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/get-out-of-your-head-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out of Your Head: Book Overview and Key Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you looking for a Get Out of Your Head<\/em> book overview? What are the key ideas from the book?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book Get Out of Your Head<\/em>, Jennie Allen uncovers Satan\u2019s master plan for trapping you in a life of defeat by poisoning your mind with toxic thoughts. She draws on the Bible, personal examples, and the findings of modern brain science to teach you how to \u201cput on the mind of Christ\u201d by literally reprogramming your brain, resulting in a victorious life that fulfills God\u2019s plan for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for our Get Out of Your Head <\/em>book overview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Get Out of Your Head<\/em>: Book Overview <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our Get Our of Your Head <\/em>book overview covers the main ideas and lessons from the book. From identifying your personal spiritual battle<\/a> to practicing gratitude<\/a>, our Get Out of Your Head<\/em> book overview is helpful for Christians who want to improve their mental health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people live as victims of their own minds, consumed with negative thoughts that seem to control them.<\/strong> In this book, Jennie Allen, founder of the influential IF:Gathering discipleship conference for Christian women, presents a comprehensive strategy for winning the war for your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The War for Your Mind<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first part of our Get Out of Your Head <\/em>book overview will focus on the spiritual battle in your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Jennie Allen, Satan is invested in your defeat, and his primary target is your mind.<\/strong> His mental attacks catapult you into downward spirals as negative emotions drive your thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and relationships. You live on autopilot, circling ever downward into dysfunction and misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to stopping these spirals is to interrupt them by learning to think about your thoughts, to \u201cmind your mind.\u201d<\/strong> Taking charge of your thoughts is in fact a biblical command, and it begins with the realization that your thoughts, not your emotions, determine your experience. This means you can change your whole life by reprogramming your mind<\/a> with God\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For help, you can draw on the findings of modern neuroscience about the human brain and its plasticity. By remolding your brain with new thought patterns<\/a>, you can literally grow more fully into the mind of Christ<\/a>, since your brain-based thoughts and emotions<\/a> correspond to what the Bible calls your \u201cheart,\u201d the center of your personal being.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-Lies, Toxic Thoughts, and Mental Strongholds<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Satan\u2019s attacks come as deceitful thoughts that convince you to believe lies about yourself. These lies fall into three general categories: \u201cI\u2019m helpless,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m worthless,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m unlovable.\u201d Behind each of these is the more fundamental lie that God\u2019s love isn\u2019t for you.<\/strong> Ultimately, these lies create their own alternate reality, a false mental state in which distorted reasoning seems true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author of this book experienced just such an attack on her thoughts after she told an audience of women at a church conference about demonic spiritual warfare. During a break, a woman approached her and warned her, \u201cWe\u2019re coming for you. Stop talking about this.\u201d Soon after this, the power went out at the church, and beginning that night, the author was plunged into an 18-month inner battle in which she felt estranged from God and feared that she was losing her faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distorted thought life that Satan\u2019s lies create about you and God is the deepest, darkest stronghold of evil inside you. The devil wants to keep you locked in there forever, and his intention is reflected in the psychological fact that up to 70 percent of all spontaneous thoughts are negative.<\/strong> Negativity appears to be our default setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Key to Freedom<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The key to liberation from this mental imprisonment is another thought, the \u201cinterrupting thought.\u201d And it\u2019s simply this: \u201cI have a choice.\u201d<\/strong> As a Christian with God\u2019s Spirit living inside you, you have the power to interrupt negative thought spirals and choose the mind of Christ<\/a> instead. You break free from Satan\u2019s mental strongholds by using the interrupting thought (\u201cI have a choice\u201d) to identify, reject, and replace the toxic lies about yourself and God that are keeping you imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the author\u2019s case, a friend helped her to realize that she had never really lost her faith at all, and that the very idea itself was a lie from Satan. She had merely stopped feeling<\/em> her faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The apostle Paul\u2019s conversion experience also illustrates the use of the interrupting thought. Paul had been trapped by the idea that Jesus wasn\u2019t the messiah and that he (Paul) had the God-given duty to stamp out Christianity. But after the resurrected Christ appeared to him, he recognized the truth of Jesus\u2019s identity and experienced a total spiritual and mental transformation that changed his life. He realized that he could choose to replace the lie in his mind with the truth of Jesus\u2019s real identity and lordship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental Story Maps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A mental story map is a tool that can help you use this key of the interrupting thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n