Worry is a habit of mind that creates unease and apprehension. But we can learn to “cast our cares” on the Lord.
What is a sense of being? To have a sense of being is to have a sense of fullness and richness as a person. It is the ability to truly say: “I am and my personhood is good.” It involves the deep security of knowing we are, we have a solid existence, and that: we have value and worth, it is well within us and can enjoy being alive, we have the ability to trust and be connected with others, we belong, that we have a place; we are competent and can handle life’s difficulties, there is no shame in being ourselves. The one with a sense of well-being is free from undue fears and anxieties about the present or future. Even if you must wait, you know your needs will be met. Video Recap Notes: https://tinyurl.com/2p8hpwnv YouTube: https://youtu.be/n7G_Ewer4as Website: https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbarbarabyers/ Please reach out to inquire about speaking engagements. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas drbyers2020@gmail.com Publication of my book Transformed: Healing the Voice of the Soul is scheduled for late 2022.
God calls us to know him in the secret place with him, a place of love and friendship, security and safety.
Prayer is about faith and intimacy as God invites us into conversation with him.
Desire is a well of energy within us, the great capacity to dream, hope, yearn and aspire to that for which we long. C. S. Lewis and Fr. John Gaynor Banks write of desire as a “radiant thing,” the “mighty force” that is “part of the atomic energy of the soul.” If desire is indeed beautiful, radiant, and explosively powerful why then do we not live alert and fully alive to our deep hearts’ desires? Are we perhaps afraid to desire so deeply because the possibility of disappointment and failure loom greater than bright expectation? In that fear, do we anticipate nonfulfillment more than fulfillment, and thus live against true hope and desire? Video Recap Notes: https://tinyurl.com/mr2da6tc YouTube: https://youtu.be/BLY8A1IiQ-o Website: https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbarbaraby... Please reach out to inquire about speaking engagements. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas drbyers2020@gmail.com Publication of my book Transformed: Healing the Voice of the Soul is scheduled for late 2022.
When we seem to be unseen or unrecognized, these times of hiddenness or times of restriction, often hold gifts for us.
The origin of the word emotion is from the Latin emovere which means to stir, to disturb, to move out or move through. So, to experience emotions is to have inner movement. (MacNutt lecture 2009). God designed us to express our emotions in healthy, reflective ways and to enjoy a full life of properly ordered and energized emotions. This is an essential and beautiful living energy of the soul, like a river continually changing its course. We need a structure to channel the river, and that is our soul. The voice of our emotions is: “I’m stirred” or “I’m moved by.” The false alternatives are to be either unmoved, stoic and repressed or neurotic and overly emotionally expressive in our reactions. If we weaken this voice because of repression, we become ill within, unable to access our emotions and be moved by them appropriately. These emotions will find a different means of expression, such as physical illness or getting stuck in only one emotion such as anger or sadness. Conversely, if we dramatically and passionately express all our emotional reactions, we will create confusion and destruction and stay in immaturity. We need to be brought back to the truth of how we are created and how to express emotions well and in complement to the other parts of our soul. Video Recap Notes: https://tinyurl.com/3km3hyf4 YouTube: https://youtu.be/ywuSVkqYHnc Website: https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbarbarabyers/ Please reach out to inquire about speaking engagements. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas drbyers2020@gmail.com Publication of my book Transformed: Healing the Voice of the Soul is scheduled for late 2022.
Anger is an essential but often misunderstood emotion. How we express it reflects our maturity.
Anger is an essential but often misunderstood emotion. How we express it reflects our maturity.
Appetites are the connectors between the body and the soul. Appetites engage all of our bodily senses and are the energy of the body: hunger, thirst, rest, sexual drives, exercise and touch. Legitimate needs (interconnected with our thoughts and emotions and desires) that help us survive and thrive, enjoy life, connect with others, take care of ourselves in good ways. Appetites are like power supplies of energy that propel us forward but must be channeled. Our physical being is a gift. So how do we live in our bodies? We should have a deep, sacred courteous, dignified relationship with our body. Our privilege and responsibility: make friends with your body; be at home in your body. Jesus was incarnate; he came in a body, a vitally important expression of God’s nature on earth. Rom. 12:1-2: present our bodies to Him as sacrifice of worship while renewing your mind. 1 Cor. 6:19-20: as the redeemed we glorify God in our bodies as a showplace of His greatness Rom 8:13 (PAR): we can present our bodily parts to Him as “weapons of righteousness.” In spiritual formation, we can make our bodies allies of our Christian walk. Our body is our domain so it is our responsibility to not let the inclination for wrong dominate. Enemy hates created matter so our enemy is going to try to distort/destroy what is of our body. Video Recap Notes: https://tinyurl.com/2p8y83jh YouTube: https://youtu.be/htiFOvIUaKY Website: https://www.drbarbarabyers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbarbarabyers/ Please reach out to inquire about speaking engagements. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas drbyers2020@gmail.com Publication of my book Transformed: Healing the Voice of the Soul is scheduled for late 2022.