Unraveling Thoughts & Emotions and Discovering Your True Self

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(BONUS EPISODE 2) What if you could transform your life by unraveling the complex web of emotions and thoughts that shape your daily existence? Join us on an enlightening journey, where we explore the profound impact of articulating our emotions with strong feeling words and the significance of understanding the underlying thoughts that drive them. By engaging in honest self-reflection and writing down these often intrusive and automatic thoughts, we uncover valuable insights that can guide us toward a life aligned with our true intentions and beliefs. This episode offers a unique perspective, merging both psychological and spiritual approaches to help you process and integrate the different facets of your being—spirit, soul, and body.

Throughout our conversation, we tackle the challenging questions about life’s purpose and the detrimental impact of negative emotions. By incorporating scripture as a guiding tool, we provide a framework to address and alleviate the burdens of these thoughts. This process of self-discovery and growth is not just about acknowledging our feelings but also about understanding the spiritual and psychological narratives that we carry. Tune in and embrace this transformative experience as we encourage you to look deeper within yourself, ask the tough questions, and find the path that resonates with your true self.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:41

Hello there, how are you? I hope you have a feeling word, and it is good to have a strong feeling word, because if you express yourself with a strong feeling word, it will most definitely be able to share and show onto people what is actually going on with you, without you even having to explain, because what I'm hoping is that someone will ask you okay, well, what got you so uptight? You know what got you so, you know, happy, so insightful, so relaxed or so calm at this time? You know that's if you're around people that want to integrate. You know conversation. But anyhow, let's get to it. What do I want to do about it?

Speaker 1: 1:40

This is the second question pertaining to processing your thoughts and your feelings. This is a question that needs to be answered. What do I want to do about it? And hey, it can be some intrusive thoughts Intrusive. It's a reason why it's intrusive. So, if you have intrusive thoughts, it's good to be able to express what is going on with you on paper, because you get to look it over, you get to read it over, you get to say, okay, now, maybe I shouldn't be thinking about that, you know, and it's okay. We all have intrusive thoughts, we all have automatic thoughts and they just come. But you do have to sit down and process those thoughts. Don't be trying to hide them, don't be trying to internalize them. So the question is what do I want to do about it?

Speaker 1: 2:43

If you want to do something unhealthy, like I said just a second ago, write it down so you can process what you want to do. That is so unhealthy Because you want to figure out what is inside of me that's making me feel like this is the way to go. Okay, because evidently it's coming out. It's what I'm thinking. So what got me feeling this way? What coming up for me underneath this means Because your heart is going to tell on you. It really is. You sit down writing on that paper and you try to figure out what it is that you want to do about the situation that you have no control over. You most definitely are going to tell on yourself, but be honest about it. Be honest about it because you do want to process what is going on with you as far as that thing that you want to do about it, even if it's unhealthy, even if it's unsafe, even if it's self-destructive, write it down Because I do want you to see it. I do want you to read it, I want you to look at it and I want you to ask yourself what got me here. What got me here? Because is this the way that God want me to be?

Speaker 1: 4:12

You have to ask these questions and you have to answer them. So if you find yourself saying, okay, god, is this how God want me to be, is this what God intended for me to do with my life? And you sit up there and you ask yourself that question, go ahead and answer it. Let the spirit side of you answer for you. Let that part of you answer that question, because you do need to answer it. No, this is not what God had intended for you. What does Jeremiah 29, 11, say?

Speaker 1: 4:49

Okay, you can even put them scriptures up in there too, baby. Put them scriptures up in there, because you're going to have to, because what we want to do about things is that's the flesh talking. Of course it is. Of course it is. But that's why, when you're sitting down and you're processing these thoughts, you do have to look at it, and you do have to look at it from a spiritual eye as well as a psychological eye, because you want to know what is going on with you, negative feelings and negative thoughts about yourself, about certain situations that's going on around you that you cannot control.

Speaker 1: 5:32

Yes, you need to be processing it. You need to be asking yourself is this what God intended for me? Is this what God wants me to do with my life? Is this how God wants me to live my life, with all of these negative feelings and all of these negative thoughts? And you make sure that you put those scriptures in there, because the spiritual side of you is there. You are a three-part being Spirit, soul and body baby. So you got to address it. You have to. It is who we are. We're human beings, all day, every day, 24-7. Human beings. So, until the next episode, I want you to be kind to yourself. Be kind, okay, have some grace, but also be kind to others.