Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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It is about being able to express your emotions in a healthy way and not suppressing them. The Power of the Past There are seven marks of deep transforming discipleship according to Scazzero. Naturally, he devotes the majority of his time in this book defining each mark while sharing some hands-on tools to help with each. He also is careful to develop Biblical and theological premises for each mark as well. Undoubtedly there could be much written here about each of these healthy discipleship traits, but I feel that there are a couple that stand out and need to be mentioned. Scazzero was an experienced pastor who came to a point in his life where he realized he was emotionally unhealthy. He avoided conflict to keep peace and ignored and suppressed his emotions. My life was lived more out of reaction to what other people did or might do or what they thought or might think about me.”

I can't really say I was super entertained by this one, although I got a lot out of it. I definitely think I had some breakthroughs in reading it and learned some things about myself, but, I don't know. It's a book about feelings. Feelings are not my favorite thing to explore, which is probably why I need therapy in the first place. As you strive for emotionally healthy spirituality, it’s important to set boundaries that help you maintain your mental and emotional well-being. As a pastor of a church, Scazzero was trying to lead through pure effort with no attention to his emotional life. Only when his relational life began to fray at the edges did he begin to take a closer look at emotion. At the outset of the book, he identified 10 symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality that serve as a useful diagnostic tool. Emotional health and contemplative spirituality offer three primary gifts. Each enables us to participate in the enormous transformative power of Jesus Christ today. They are:Despite a promising title, the cover of the book had a few red flags: "Unleash a revolution in your life in Christ!" I don't really know what that means, despite it being the sort of phrase of buzzwords that has surrounded me for years, and the words "unleash" and "revolution" paired with "life in Christ" made my skin crawl. The tagline on the front, "it's impossible to be spiritually mature, while remaining emotionally mature" had a cadence that made me read it exclusively in the voice of a movie trailer narrator (and now you are too. You're welcome).

These practices can help you cultivate a sense of inner peace and balance, even in the face of difficult emotions. As You seen above Pete Scazzero the co founders story is quite similar to everyone who struggled. He was in a dark place, unhappy, was not effective in his job and needed to fix himself and his marriage. At this time Pete Scazzero claimed he found god and fixed himself. Through his re birth of his life he was able to be more effective in his teachings. Taking time to rest and recharge is essential for maintaining your emotional and spiritual well-being. I am not a "spiritual" person. "Spirituality" to me sounds vague and unspecific and trendy and New Age. I like theology and liturgy and apologetics. I am into the Disciplines.. I am not into freeing my mind or releasing the power within. And when I flipped through and saw the words "inner child", I seriously considered giving up all together. I want a relationship with Christ, yes, but based on fact and theology and Scripture, not on feelings. I find feelings highly unreliable. I was honestly just preparing myself for a watered-down, feelings-oriented, let's-not-make-any-waves Christianity. The kind that is all "your sins are forgiven" and forgets the "go and sin no more". Sabbath provides for us now an additional rhythm for an entire reorientation of our lives around the living God. On Sabbaths we imitate God by stopping our work and resting. (163)What do we do to replace all we are now stopping during our Sabbath time? The answer is simple: whatever delights and replenishes you. (168)

The Leader because discouraged as he seen people were not taking there faith to the next level they did not live the way god did not want them to lead. Pete Scazzero went on to try to engage his people. Try for his followers to change fully even though he did everything such as bible and extra studies. Embracing emotional health involves developing emotional maturity and learning to manage your emotions effectively. Incorporating practices like meditation, prayer, and mindfulness into your spiritual practice can help you develop emotional intelligence and greater emotional health. Accurately self-assessing our strengths, limits, and weaknesses and freely sharing them with othersOne way to cultivate emotionally healthy spirituality is to prioritize time for rest and relaxation, such as through meditation, prayer, or simply taking a break from technology.

This workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course, but it can also be used on its own. In fact, the spirituality of most current discipleship models often only adds an additional protective layer against people growing up emotionally. (15)It is the ability to manage your emotions in a healthy way, which includes recognizing, expressing, and regulating them appropriately. This is very rare in todays society and with this being said you can really feel the genuiness of the program and vision.