Session 10 – Deeply love yourself
You must love yourself, your shortcomings, failures, body, your physical condition, emotional baggage, financial situation, your past and be open to whatever plans God has for your future. You must love and accept you, deeply. How else can you love others as yourself? We are to be holy as He is holy. He is love, and we are to be also. All thoughts are equal to the Holy Spirit. However to the id, our fleshly self, some thoughts are given more negative power than others. They stir up more negative emotions than others. Proverbs 14:30 addresses the results of bitter feelings, but jealousy, envy, pain, mistrust, deception, are also but a few feelings that we must harness and release. Now read Proverbs 14:30 in KJV out loud. Whether they are your thoughts or those around you with a negative influence or ones that have a hold over you, they can be defused by allowing God, the Holy Spirit, and Love to be the medicine that heals you in all of these areas. Most of us have given these strong thoughts such a stronghold as a way of survival, as part of our personal identity. This step may take a little longer, 10 – 60 minutes and as such needs to be addressed a little slower. The Holy Spirit is never in a rush! He will never rip off a band-aid and cause pain intentionally but He will expose them. If the emotions are not 100% defused it may be because you have only peeled away one layer of it like an onion… and the pain is still there, raw and vulnerable. Whether it is a childhood trauma that you have been carrying or a resent one… give yourself enough love to continue working in this area with the love of the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and you. Core issues may take days, weeks, or months depending on how deep they go and how much time and effort you are willing to dedicate to overcoming them. Sometimes our feelings can mutate from anger, to sadness, to fear, to hostility, or anywhere on the emotional scale. This will cause us to continue to work on these altered emotions. Continue to work through this… the sweet victory of the healing you will be more living in the spirit rather than in the id. Yes… a very sweet victory. You will be who you really want to be, the person God created you to be! Developing this new way to face your emotions can truly transform your life. You will be a new creation in Christ, the one promised you in scripture. Some folks do not realize that when the disciples asked Jesus how to pray that He instructed them to address all prayers to the Father, and that whatever they asked for should be done in His name. Exercise 10–Repeat session 8 and then ask the Lord, in Jesus name, to allow the Holy Spirit to give you an unresolved emotion to work on. It may come bounding into your mind loud and terrifying because that is how you remember it or it may come softly with gently weeping. If one pops up that you do not want to deal with… push on and deal with it any way… God knows best. Open your heart to it, embrace it, feel it every way possible, and simply be there thanking the Holy Spirit for this chance to heal. Accept it, extend love to this feeling and allow your heart to build it into love, unconditional love. Do not succumb to it… do not identify with it, or become it, step back, shine the love of God into that corner. Stop your session, love yourself, and continue later. Be patient, you can do this. The love of God has you. Blessings are in your near future, pressed down, shaken together and running over. Continue to repeat exercise 8 as often as you can. You have ears to hear, hear what the Holy Spirit is wanting to help you overcome. Lean back now, take a nice slow deep breath, and begin this exercise.
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