Prison Break

By Dorothy Woods

Your mind confi nes you as a Prison. In the deepest
corners of the brain are chambers prohibiting access
to freedom. The effects of your mind creating a mental
prison limits behavior thus giving rise to an equally stagnant
mental prison. Negative and positive variables, controlled
and uncontrolled stimuli, are examined cognitively and
cross examined with obtrusive and unobtrusive behavior.
Biblical perspectives are reviewed in relation to the Creator
and His purpose of mankind. Decision making processes are
examined for biological and psychological development.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462889600

Dorothy Woods

Dorothy Woods earned her degree in sociology and has been a minister for nineteen years as well as the president of an Outreach. She has owned her own business and has published her autobiography, The Welfare Queen. The author loves to write and currently resides in California.

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Copyright © 2011 by Dorothy Woods.

Library of Congress Control Number:            2011911411

ISBN:                        Hardcover                         978-1-4628-8958-7

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All scriptures are taken from The Holy Bible: King James Version

Rev. date: 08/10/2017

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CONTENTS

Abstract

Chapter 1:  What is prison?

Chapter 2:  Types of Prison

Chapter 3:  What is the mind?

Chapter 4:  What does the Bible say about the Mind?

Chapter 5:  How to recondition the mind?

Chapter 6:  What is stagnant?

Chapter 7:  What are the positive and negative variables involved?

Chapter 8:  Identifying the controlled and un-controlled stimuli

Chapter 9:  How do my choices affect me?

Chapter 10:  Research on prescription and non-prescription medication for depression.

Bibliography

DEDICATION

I wish to express my profound gratitude to my daughter J. Jalindah Woods for her encouragement and confidant efforts in me. I am permanently indebted to her for having such confidence in me to want me to be her Spiritual Leader.

ABSTRACT

Y OUR MIND CONFINES you as a Prison. In the deepest corners of the brain are chambers prohibiting access to freedom. The effects of your mind creating a mental prison limits behavior thus giving rise to an equally stagnant mental prison. Negative and positive variables, controlled and uncontrolled stimuli, are examined cognitively and cross examined with obtrusive and unobtrusive behavior. Biblical perspectives are reviewed in relation to the Creator and His purpose of mankind. Decision making processes are examined for biological and psychological development. Alienation, isolation, and shame are results of negative choices as well as the lock on the chains of confinement. Separation and the implications thereof are discussed when identifying factors leading to imprisonment are acknowledged. Research conducted on released inmates and the institutionalization taken place in their mental processing is explored and measured against participants experiencing a cognitive confinement. Results will demonstrate prison = whether physical or mental is a place of solitude and the mind must be reconditioned to present realities.

CHAPTER 1

What is prison?

E VERYWHERE, PEOPLE ARE asking: What can I do about the struggles I am facing today? What can anyone do? Is there anything one individual can do that will make a difference in these troubled times? These questions are usually asked with an air of ineffectualness. The implication is that one individual is powerless; that he/she can do little. That he/she is an insignificant factor in any situation. Fear attacks us. Anxieties prey on us. We become irritated and nervous! We are hit with economic recessions, foreclosures, car repossessions, evictions, hurricanes, floods, other natural disasters, and job cuts/layoffs.

Prayer is no longer permitted in the public schools, half the adult population in the United States is illiterate, and school children carry guns and knives to school for protection. It’s no wonder that many people don’t know where to turn or what to do to live a decent, happy life. People are turning to drug dependency to cope; prescription and non-prescription.

Depression is a major public health issue in America. Nowadays, many working parents, or single-parent families, say there’s no time to go to church. They are not bad people, they have just grown careless. They are contributing to the process of drifting away from the great vital things that are needed to sustain an individual, a family, or a nation. But there is hope. A positive victorious faith is available to anyone and everyone. It is available to you; the kind of faith by which you can overcome all the circumstances of this life that otherwise would defeat you. Such faith is not cheaply had, nor easily attainable. To get it you must develop a deep relationship with God.

Webster’s dictionary says that prison is a state of confinement or captivity. (2) A place of confinement esp. for lawbreaker’s specif: an institution (as one under state jurisdiction) for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes. However, prison is greater than the walls of confinement; it separates the freedoms of individuals. Prison is the separation of ideas, thoughts, actions, and intentions prohibiting progress. The Devil’s dictionary says prison, (noun) a place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that stone walls do not a prison make. From Easton’s 1897 Bible dictionary it states that the first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, Joseph’s master, took him and put him into the prison, a place where the King’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in the prison. But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison: and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand: because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper." (Genesis 39: 20-23). The Hebrew word here used (sohar) means properly a round tower or fortress. It seems to have been a part of Potiphar’s house, a place in which state prisoners were kept.

The Mosaic Law made no provision for imprisonment as a punishment. In the wilderness two persons were put in ward. And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be showed them. (Leviticus 24: 12). And they put him in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him (Numbers 15: 34). It was only until the mind of God concerning them should be ascertained. Prisons and prisoners are mentioned in the book of Psalms. For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. (Psalms 69: 33). Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of the power preserve thou those that are appointed to die. (Psalm 79: 11) Bring my soul put of prison, that I may praise thy name; the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shall deal bountifully with me. (Psalm 142: 7). Samson was confined in a Philistine prison. But the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. Then the lords of the Philistine gather them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made, them sport and they set him between the pillars." (Judge 16: 21-25).

In the subsequent history of Israel frequent references are made to prisons. And say, thus saith the King, put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace. (1 Kings 22: 27). And the King of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea for he had sent messengers to so King of Egypt, and brought no present to the King of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the King of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. (2 Kings 17: 4). And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin King of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the month, that Evilmerodach King of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin King of Judah out of prison. And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the Kings that were with him in Babylon. And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually; before, him all the days of his life. (2 Kings 27-29). Then Asa was wrath with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. (2 Chronicles 16:10). To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. (Isaiah 42:7). For then the King of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the