resolving emotions to resolve disease: healing the wounded spirit (a distinctly christian...
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Resolving Emotions to Resolve Disease:
Healing The Wounded Spirit(A distinctly Christian perspective)
Dr. Nick EnoPresident & Chief Executive Officer
Nick Eno And Associates
Overview
This seminar will explore an essential ingredient in resolving emotional
disease which is missing from traditional psychiatry/psychology.
Overview
Christianity generally posits that human beings are comprised of
three broad components.
Trichotomy
• Are spirits• Possess a soul• Live in a body
Human Beings…
We are spirits having a human experience.
Spirit
The spirit is generally considered the governing center of man in
traditional Christianity
We will highlight
1. The functions of the spirit2. The source of wounds throughout the
life cycle3. Clinical manifestations
and will also offer practical tools for resolving emotional disease.
Functions of The Spirit
3 • Relate to God• Relate to each
other• Self regulation
Clusters
• Worship• Prayer• Faith• Inspiration
Relate to God
• Communication• Feeling of
disconnection• Love blocks
Relate to Each
Other
• Lack of conviction• Discipline• Tendency to be
stuck in the past• Lack of resiliency
SelfRegulation
Epigenetics
In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence.
Epigenetics
Your emotions regulate your genetic expression.
Your perceptions control your biology.
Sources of Spiritual Wounds
– Rape– Incest– Maternal depression– Attempted abortions– Conception after miscarriage– Parental conflict– Drugs/Alcohol addiction
Prenatal
Sources of Spiritual Wounds
– Lack of imprinting (reactive attachment disorder)
– Adoption/Surrogate parenting– Post partum depression– Inability/Unwillingness to breast
feed
Postnatal
Sources of Spiritual Wounds
– Compassion deficits– Abuse/Neglect• Sexual• Emotional• Physical• Verbal• Spiritual
– Racism–Misogyny/Androgyny
Childhood
Sources of Spiritual Wounds
– Divorce– Death/Grief– Unemployment– Rape– Spiritual Abuse
Adulthood
The Lodebar Syndrome
Marked by: • Isolation• Self-condemnation• Secrecy• Resistance to Love
Vows
• Definition: solemn promise or pledge, especially made to God or a god, dedicating oneself to an act, service or way of life (Websters)• Vows are major obstacles to
restoration.
Vows
“The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe
from all dangers and perturbations of love is HELL.”
– C.S. Lewis
(Mere Christianity)
Clinical Manifestations
Relationship Problems
• Fear of intimacy• Lack of trust• Emotional Vampires
If we are afraid to surrender to love, we imprison our hearts in rigid cages; so they are
protected but not free.
Clinical Manifestations
Personality Distortions
• Failure to accept ourselves• We become “other”
Clinical Manifestations
• Hold Outs:–Paranoid–Schizoid–Schizotypal
Clinical Manifestations
• Fight Back–Anti-Social–Borderline–Histrionic–Narcissistic
Clinical Manifestations
• Give In –Avoidant–Dependent–Obsessive/Compulsive
Setting Captives Free
• The Great Exchange–Repentance, Renunciation, Resistance
(Active)– Forgiveness–Practice virtue of self-acceptance
Summary
• Most, not all, emotional diseases originate from assaults to the heart – or core – which is the spirit.
Summary
• The spirit cannot be medicated but can be healed through the mediation of a human vessel yielded to God’s power.
Sources• Wake Up World – March 26, 2012• Epigenetic Concepts offer a new approach to degenerative
disease (Eureka Alert April 28, 2010)• In Search of Focus: Abiding in Christ Amidst Distractions, Nick
Eno, Axiom Press 2006• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris, Harper Collins
2009• People of The Lie, M. Scott Peck, Touchstone Press 1983• Heartbreak And Heart Disease, Dr. Steve C. Sinatra, Keats
Publishing 1996• God’s Power to Change, John & Paula Sanford, Charisma House
Publishers 2013
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