Healing the mind.

Joshua 1:8,9 This Book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you ? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth it's fruit in it's season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. These verses are so important and have been all my Christian walk. If you want to know about success and prosperity of the mind, any mind even the mentally ill's mind, and I say this because it happened to me. But I must say it might not apply to you, because I am not God and only He knows what he has planed for His children. But I believe His word is truth. I first learned about meditating on the word early in my walk with Christ. I didn't right off the bat start memorizing scripture and repeat in my mind over and over while I thought what it meant and let the Lord give me wisdom about the verse, no, I started with "Jesus loves me I love Jesus". A brother at the time gave me that Biblical advise one day, because you see in those days I suffered much mental anguish, like if someone had a baseball bat and was just hitting my head over and over with it. The pain was extreme, I use to have extreme feelings of  depression, fear, paranoia, delusions, mania, jealousies beyond what you can expect, and my wife was always innocent, it was my mind that was defective. Worries about many things to say the least. So in my walk with Christ with my many mature Christian brothers to help and counsel me, that God put in my path, I began to slowly come out of the hell I was in. It especially began to get better the day I started to meditate on "Jesus loves me I love Jesus". The worries or what ever problem I was having at the time would improve. I would do this for awhile until later on I would find a verse in the Bible that would mean something very special to me and I would memorize it and use it when I would meditate. It was very difficult at first, memorizing, meditating and doing my daily things. But as time went by, with much effort, especially seeing and feeling the difference in my life as I practiced this, It became easier and easier, you see we are creatures of habit and it takes a lot of mental discipline to do this effectively I believe. So as the years went by and I meditated, day and night like the Bible says, I began to see more and more the success and prosperity in my life, with less and less of that bat hitting my head until finally, it stopped. My marriage got better, my thinking was clearer, worries were less, things just got better, not perfect but better, I had answers to questions many long to hear. I had strength and the ability to do things I only dreamed of. But I in doing this I had to be very courageous and obey God in things that were sometimes extremely scary. Things Biblical of course, but sometimes it's very difficult to to follow and obey God in all things especially if you don't feel like obeying. Today I still meditate day and night on the word of God, it is like breathing to me, I can't stop, the blessings are just too many to throw away. Yet I function with my daily things, meditating all day and night because I believe God empowered me, doing it for over 20 years now and seeing the truth in God's word come alive in my life.