Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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Recognizing emotionally unhealthy spirituality and embracing emotional health are crucial steps towards achieving emotional maturity and managing your emotions effectively. Developing a balanced, harmonious rhythm of life that enables us to be aware of the sacred in all of life The Emotionally Healthy Woman Podcast: This podcast, hosted by Geri Scazzero, focuses on the unique challenges that women face in cultivating emotional health and spiritual maturity. I enjoyed most of this book but did have a hard time reading through some of the historical application of spiritual practices.

It is the ability to manage your emotions in a healthy way, which includes recognizing, expressing, and regulating them appropriately. It is about being vulnerable and authentic with yourself and others. The Journey Towards Emotional Health Second, Scazzero writes that we must “make love the measure of maturity.” “My focus and aim was to make disciples and to grow the church,” he writes. “But over time, it became difficult to distinguish between loving people for who they were versus using them for how they could contribute to the mission. Did I need people to come to faith in Jesus to build our church, or could I simply love them regardless of their decision to follow Jesus and serve in the ministry” (136)? I feel this is a hard question for all of us; if we are honest, we are prone to love people with an agenda that is self-serving. But the mark of maturity is to love people because they are people. Our love should come from a purity that desires others to flourish and become who God made them to be. I think the reverse is true. The more we know God the more we will understand how every component God created in us fits together as a whole so that we can live emotionally healthy. Embracing emotional health involves developing emotional maturity and learning to manage your emotions effectively.New Life Fellowship Church: New Life Fellowship Church, located in Queens, NY, is the home of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. The church offers a variety of resources and programs to help individuals and communities grow in emotional health and spiritual maturity. The author further states that, "out of our contemplative time with God, we, too, are invited to be prayerfully present to people, revealing their beauty to themselves" pg 180 . Our job is not to reveal people's beauty to themselves, in fact what beauty can we claim? The Bible says that none are righteous, and I would say that there is no beauty in ourselves aside from what God has given us. I would not say that our job is to reveal people's beauty to themselves, rather it is to reveal that they are in fact sinners and need God's saving mercy and grace. If we can go around and reveal people's "beauty" to them, then how are they going to see that they need God? 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.

This means being clear about what you will and will not tolerate in your relationships, your work, and your spiritual practices. The bad: Emotional maturity is linked to sanctification, that is not a part of this book. The more we ask and plead with God to make us into the image of Christ, the more emotional immaturity will be worked out of us. The author, instead of moving towards a sanctification outlook, looks to focusing on the inner self and knowing yourself so that you can see your faults, correct them, and then relate to God more. Scripture, however, calls us to not look inward, but upward (Col. 3:1 - Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your heart on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God), and for us to know that we cannot fix ourselves (John 15:5 - …apart from Me you can do nothing).Here are some tips for setting boundaries that will help you cultivate a healthy spiritual life. The Importance of Limits Scazzero was taught that almost all feelings are unreliable and not to be trusted. Many Christians believe that anger, sadness and fear are sins to be avoided.

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. Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was a pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do: It is about being able to express your emotions in a healthy way and not suppressing them. The Power of the Past By prioritizing self-care and emotional well-being, you can better love Christ above all else and love others well.

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A combination of a self help book and autobiography, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality is broken into two sections, the first explaining the problem of emotionally unhealthy spirituality and the second prescribing the pathway to emotionally healthy spirituality. Woven through the book is documentation the author’s personal experiences and journey. To feel is to be human. To minimize or deny what we feel is a distortion of what it means to be image bearers of our personal God. To the degree that we are unable to express our emotions, we remain impaired in our ability to love God, others and ourselves well. (26) By turning to Christ and applying biblical principles, you can find healing, hope, and strength to face life’s challenges. Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

In this revised bestselling book, Peter Scazzero outlines a roadmap for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. He unveils what's wrong with our current definition of "spiritual growth" and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to change that will help you experience authentic faith and hunger for God.That is why the GENOGRAM is one of the core tools in both parts of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course. Emotionally healthy spirituality involves integrating emotional health into your spiritual journey. Eventually God awakened him to a biblical integration of emotional health, a relationship with Jesus, and the classic practices of contemplative spirituality. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution, utterly transforming him and his church.