1.  First, it changes the way you think.

2.  Second, it changes the way you feel.

3.  Third, it changes the way you live.

When you change the way you think, feel, and live, you actually become a new person.  You look at yourself and your world in a completely new way.  This isn't just a makeover or a tidying up of your life.  It's a totally new you that starts in your head and works its way down into your heart.  Whoever you were in the past, you are not that person any longer.  You are a new person with a new life.

First, you experience God's love intellectually, and that changes the way you think.  You need to change the way you think about many things.  When you look at your limitations, you need to change the way you think.  When you look at your failures, you need to change the way you think.  When you look at your present, you need to change the way you think.  When you look at the present, you need to change the way you think.  When you look at the future, you  need to change the way you think.  When you look at who you are and what you can do with your life, you need to change the way you think.  When you look at your depressing and distorted thoughts, you need to change the way you think.

When God's loves rolls through your mind, powerful positive new thoughts start to change your life.  Your self-image immediately is transformed by the fact that you are made in the image of God.  You don't need to prop up a week self-image or create and project an image that will be loved by all.  Instead, you need to live an image-oriented lifestyle based on the fact that you are made in the image of God.  When God created the world, He pronounced his creation good, and that includes you.  There were no exceptions.  God doesn't make mistakes, and you are not a mistake.  God thought enough of you to create you in his image, and that is an excellent image.  Your self-image can't get any better than being create in the image of God.

Your new thoughts also increase your self-esteem.  God loves and accepts you the way you are.  God isn't holding back his love until you are perfect.  He loves you now, and his love for you is eternal.  If God loves you, then it's high time you start feeling good about yourself as well.  If it is good enough for God, it should be good enough for you.

Once you start thinking differently, the emotional healing begins, and God's love changes the way that you feel.

Your emotions are the direct result of the thoughts that you put into your mind.  When you think new thoughts, you experience new emotions that are consistent with those thoughts.  Your new thoughts become the musical score for a new emotional symphony that plays in your heart and mind.  When God is the author of your new thoughts, the melody of God's love starts playing in your heart and mind and good things happen in your life.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.