Recently I wrote about a book I had begun to read entitled The 7, by Glenn Beck and Keith Ablow. Now that I have finished it, I want to give it a very high recommendation. It is kind of a marriage between the best principles of psychotherapy and Christianity. The "7" concepts discussed in the book are courage, faith, compassion, truth, friendship, family, and common sense.
The book is chocked full of ideas about how we can go about changing our lives for the better. Can we make changes and grow as human beings without confronting pain? Nope! Should we be afraid to learn the truth about ourselves? Nope! In fact, the closer we get to truth, the closer we get to God, who is Truth! By hiding from the truth, living in denial, and avoiding learning and disclosing the truth about ourselves, we are essentially saying that we are not yet fully welcoming God's love in our lives. On the other hand, the more we move toward realizing in our thoughts and actions the best in ourselves, the closer we move toward God.
Can you forgive yourself? Can you forgive others? Is that not the essence of the Christian faith? Do you have the courage to resist the fears, anxieties, and other negative loops being run by your storyteller left brain? Okay, now I am mixing together the concepts in this book with my favorite book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight. That book and The 7 encourage us to resist negative patterns that we know will harm us, and both books give lots of practical suggestions as to how to implement change that will enrich our lives.
My earlier post is here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2012/01/facing-truths.html
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