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Assignment:
Listen to Every Negative Emotion
A key to healing, especially if you have a tendency to be self-
critical, is to make friends with your Treasure Inside. This
friendship, built on a growing trust, comes about by listening every
time your Treasure Inside sends up a negative feeling,
It is a bit like a parent with a child. If the child cries, a good parent
will ask the child what is wrong, with the idea of correcting
whatever is the problem. When a parent does this consistently,
the child grows to trust the parent, knowing the parent has their
best interest at heart.
The assignment is therefore to listen to every negative emotion,
no matter how small.
Keep a pad of paper with you.
Write down every incident of a negative emotion. It can be a short
note or a long journal. It is your choice.
A major purpose of keeping a list is so that if at the end of the day
your paper is blank, you will know you haven't been listening. We
all judge (and therefore have a negative emotion) many times
every day. It is very easy to fall back into the old pattern
of not listening if we aren't careful.
Listening to every negative emotion therefore does four things:
1. It pulls out bitter roots as soon as they are planted.
2. It leads to healing from old roots.
3. It takes down "The Wall" between you and your Treasure
Inside
4. It shows us how dependent we are on the Lord many times
each day.
Copyright 2003 Edward Kurath
Listen to Every Negative Emotion
A key to healing, especially if you have a tendency to be self-
critical, is to make friends with your Treasure Inside. This
friendship, built on a growing trust, comes about by listening every
time your Treasure Inside sends up a negative feeling,
It is a bit like a parent with a child. If the child cries, a good parent
will ask the child what is wrong, with the idea of correcting
whatever is the problem. When a parent does this consistently,
the child grows to trust the parent, knowing the parent has their
best interest at heart.
The assignment is therefore to listen to every negative emotion,
no matter how small.
Keep a pad of paper with you.
Write down every incident of a negative emotion. It can be a short
note or a long journal. It is your choice.
A major purpose of keeping a list is so that if at the end of the day
your paper is blank, you will know you haven't been listening. We
all judge (and therefore have a negative emotion) many times
every day. It is very easy to fall back into the old pattern
of not listening if we aren't careful.
- Choose a feeling word to describe the feeling. Most negative
emotions are signals that you have judged. If you need help
naming the emotion, see the list of emotions with a link from
the end of Chapter 11. - Forgive whomever/whatever you have judged.
- If your Treasure Inside is the one you have judged, ask
him/her to forgive you. - Ask the Lord to forgive you for the judgment,
- To remove the bitter root
- To cleanse that place with His blood
- To fill that place with His spirit.
- After you pray, review the incident and see if there is peace. If
there is peace, you are done. If not, there is more to be done.
The further praying may have to do with the current event, or
there may be an older, deeper root to be prayed about. - When you have peace, you are done. Peace means that the
work the Lord wanted you to do right now is done. It does not
necessarily mean that every bitter root with respect to that
person or type of situation is gone. If there is more, in due
season the Lord will bring it up. - Once you have prayed and have peace, then just go on and
enjoy the day. - If on any given day you have an almost blank piece of paper,
this means you haven't been listening. We all judge many
times a day. - If you have a history of judging yourself, once you begin to
listen you may be astonished at how awful you are to
yourself.
Listening to every negative emotion therefore does four things:
1. It pulls out bitter roots as soon as they are planted.
2. It leads to healing from old roots.
3. It takes down "The Wall" between you and your Treasure
Inside
4. It shows us how dependent we are on the Lord many times
each day.
Copyright 2003 Edward Kurath
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Being changed into the image of Jesus
Being changed into the image of Jesus
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