Your unconscious mind (or the Holy Spirit, working within you)

Our thoughts generally become self-fulfilling prophecies. You say to yourself, “I think I’m coming down with a cold,” and your unconscious mind takes this thought as marching orders. Voilá — you’ve got a doozy of a cold! The unconscious mind is a powerful tool for good or for ill, depending on what we tell it.
So consider these words: “I have done those things which I ought not to have done, and I have not done those things which I ought to have done, and there is no health in me.”
Do those words become self-fulfilling prophecies, or is “confession good for the soul?” When we confess our sin, does our unconscious mind take that confession and make it even more true? When our unconscious mind hears “there is no health in me,” does it carry out this marching order? I hope not!
I still believe in confession. But I don’t live in a state of constant confession.
Honesty compels me to reject such statements as “I’m no good at …” If I were honest with myself, I would have to admit that I’m not no good at something; in fact, I’ve gotten better over the years at whatever that something is.
So I stop the negative thought and substitute a more honest thought: “I’m getting better at …”
Voilá! My unconscious mind — the Spirit of God within me — makes that prediction come true.