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PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALING
FROM EMOTIONAL
WOUNDS
You cannot
surrender your pain and suffering to God if deep in your heart you persist in
clinging to psychological defense mechanisms that shield you from that very pain.
 There is nothing wrong with
psychological defenses. In fact, they help to protect us from emotional injury. But
if you cling to the defense mechanisms that were created in your childhood and carry
them on into adulthood—as most everyone does unconsciously—your quest for spiritual
healing will be thwarted by overwhelming resentments and conflicts.
Still, God has
been trying to show you that there is more to life than resentment and conflict,
something so beautiful and desirable that only one thing can resist its pull:
hate.
So now, and in
every moment until you die, you will have a profound choice between your enslavement
to old defenses and the beauty of God. That decision has to come from you. You will
go where you desire.
A revised and expanded
version of the 2006 First Edition.
CONTENTS
Preface
Part One
The Unconscious | Victimization | Spiritual Purgation | Compunction | Healing |
Four Steps to Humility | Fear |
Wretchedness | Desire and Motivation | Outside the Box | Boundaries
Part Two: Questions & Answers
Blame and Responsibility | Defenses and Illusions | Disasters and Trauma |
Evil | Good from Evil | Love |
Meeting Your Enemy in Heaven | Mercy | Pride and Honor | Refusing Mercy |
Self-love | Sin | Suffering | Temperament
Appendix I: When You Don’t Know You’re Sick
Appendix II: Blind to Your Own Anger
Appendix III: Coping with Distractions
Introduction | Understanding, not Ignoring | The Definition of Fantasies (aka
Temptations) | The Relationship Between Thoughts and Feelings | Distractions
and Fantasies in General | Feelings of Darkness and Abandonment | Feelings of
Stuckness and Paralysis | Sexual Fantasies | Fantasies of Grandiosity | Evil
Fantasies | Self-destructive Fantasies | The Jesus Prayer | Do Not Lose Your
Peace | Be Gentle With Yourself | Don’t Punish Yourself
Appendix IV: Dream Interpretation
Introduction | Freud: The Royal Road | Other Ideas | The Dream Text | The Clinical
Work | Some Helpful Points | Traumatic Nightmares | Incubus and Succubus | Other
Troubling Dreams
Appendix V: A List of Emotions
Appendix VI: Spiritual Fruits
Love | Joy | Peace | Patience | Kindness | Generosity | Faithfulness | Gentleness | Self-control
Appendix VII: Parental Secrets
Introduction | Trauma Kept Secret | Getting to the Problem | Parental Love | The Possibility of
Real Love |
The Rarity of Real Love | Giving of Yourself Genuinely
Appendix VIII: Ego States
Appendix IX: Litany of Humility Meditation
Notes
Index
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ISBN-13: 978-1483940847
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