Since we’re on the subject of prayer, I recently purchased your Pocket Guide to the Rosary. I went to Adoration today and prayed the Rosary. I spent much longer in the chapel than usual without even realizing it. The meditations, insights and personal applications are perfect. I love this book!
I did this a long time ago. Through prayer I invited Jesus into these memories and He healed my reactions to old memories! Nowadays I can hardly remember them! God is so wonderful....
Dr Caroline Leaf has a book (Messy Mind) and podcast that is very informative about this. Her app is a step by step process in healing memories of trauma. I do not know a single therapist that has this approach. So YAY for getting the word out. Most therapist are clueless and I know a lot of therapist. I’m also so on board with, “yes God could instantly heal us, but doesn’t.” I don’t like the journey sometimes, but….sometimes the past and present infuse in the presence of my God and I am brought to the immense emotions of pure and complete love.
THIS is the most important conversation on the Internet. It must be Promoted. I was blessed with this knowing. It is everything people need to hear so that they can try it. They try everything else…so…….🙏
Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:22-24
I believe that what the Dr refers to as "Radical Self Knowledge", is what we Catholics acquire through "Examination of Conscience" (when done properly) Without it, Confession simply does not produce its fruits, so this actually isn't a "new concept". The wisdom of the Church is always ahead of any science.
Self knowkedge and self compassion is vital to healing. Prayers may help provided its used not as an escape on reality. We need psychological tools, awareness and daily practice on not only spiritual things but mindfulness, presence and childhood trauma awareness
That was one of the things I learned from scripture. That God can cleanse my memory, if I would just allow him to, and I can move on; Forgetting is a gift from God. When I thought that I would never be able to move on, there was his word fighting for me, and convincing me that he can heal my memory. It brings me to tears just writing about it.
Thanks for this, Matt. And yes it is called Transformation Prayer Ministry now. Check it out and it's creator (with the Holy Spirit) Dr. Ed Smith. So much healing taking place through this ministry.
What he is describing is called theophostic Prayer ministry. And although there are a few priests that have endorsed it just like there's a few priests that have endorsed communism at the sake of their souls the majority Of Catholic, priests and psychologists have said that this therapy is not effective and it's dangerous. Basically the way that it works. Is that the therapist tells you to think of a memory that is painful to you emotional. They don't. Care if it's true or not, they just want a memory that is triggering. Then what they do is tell you to imagine that memory again. And then they ask you to invite Jesus in and ask Jesus what his opinion of it is. Then afterward. They ask you if you feel a sense of peace about the situation. If you don't feel at peace, what they do is tell you that must not have been the memory. That's triggering you to not be at peace. So therefore, you have to come up with another memory and if you have no other memory, they proceed to put pressure on you to come up with one. Because of the therapy there have actually been innocent people accused of sexual abuse that didn't do anything because somebody was made to come up with a false memory. If you talk to these therapists and say did you interview all of the people involved to find out if this even happened? They say that that doesn't matter. To make matters worse, they claim that everybody disassociates. And has disassociative identity disorder. Most of these therapists will say they have almost no clients that aren't disassociated. Well, the problem is the psychology. Research has shown that it's only 1.5% of the population. Many of these therapists will tell you that they see their clients for over 10 years. If you ask them to predict outcomes in any way they're unable to do so. If Clients, including children, do not follow their directives. They tell them that they have the devil in them. If clients disagree that their disassociated, they'll tell them that they have the devil in them. If they're. Questioned on the criteria for diagnosing disassociative identity disorder. They'll draw a blank because they don't know and the way that they define. It is very Willie Nelly. They decide who is disassociating. There's no objective criteria. They also tell people that they've been traumatized.Even though the person is never experienced a traumatic event because they'll say that they wouldn't The emotional, if they didn't experience trauma. And they will pressure them to come up with a traumatic memory which actually has been proven to create false memories. Lastly, even if all of these people had disassociative identity disorder, who says this is the treatment? The reason we have evidence-based practice is to find out what the best treatments are for whatever psychological condition or psychiatric condition someone finds themselves. We don't go around making stuff up if we can help it. But these people are making stuff up and all what they have to prove that their therapy works is a bunch of anecdotal evidence which is a logical fallacy. I wish more mainstream psychologists would speak out about this, but unfortunately, a lot of people don't realize how prevalent it is within our churches. By the way, if anyone wants to know the origins, it actually comes from a Baptist minister with no professional training and psychological services. He has no experience with research. He essentially made it all up. And as the saying goes, the devil just keeps using the same tricks. Recycled over and over again so all of this is regressive memory therapy, which has been proven to be false. It's actually been proven to be a dangerous therapy that hurts people. No therapy of any kind, whether pharmaceutical or psychological is without its drawbacks. And this one happens to be 1 that actually causes people to create false memories and accuse innocent people of things they never did. And it's dangerous enough that it doesn't stop for 1 second and ask the question of is there any evidence that this even happened? Many clients have actually said that if they were to verify that a memory did not plate. Take place that this would actually help them resolve the emotional conflict they're experiencing.
I'm sorry but the analogy comparing psychology to dentistry is just false. The church has been dealing with the psychological state of Christians for 2000 years. Psychology today directly competes with the mission of the Church, and is proven by the fact that many people have turned to psychology rather than the Church. I'm not saying that aspects of it cannot be used by Christians, but psycho-analysis is no replacement for true religion.
Not only psychology, majority of social science is now reversed against The Church teaching. I'm a social science college student and im struggling so hard to find even a single theory of concept of current contemporary social sciences that resonated to Catholic Social Teaching.
@@andarm.ambarita3461 I totally understand what you mean. If the social sciences and psychology have darwinism and materialism as their underlying presuppositions then its going to be awfully hard to reconcile that with the Catholic view of the soul. As an example. One of the major shifts in dealing with pornography addiction today is to talk about "Brain science" and "neural pathways", rather than morality.
What they are describing is the protestant new age therapy called theophostic. It's very dangerous and actually causes people to create false memories. That aren't there by putting pressure on them to contrive these memories. There's actually a lot of research on it that shows that it's garbage.
