Resolving Emotions to Resolve Disease: Healing The Wounded Spirit (A distinctly Christian...

Resolving Emotions to Resolve Disease:

Healing The Wounded Spirit(A distinctly Christian perspective)

Dr. Nick EnoPresident & Chief Executive Officer

Nick Eno And Associates

Overview

This seminar will explore an essential ingredient in resolving emotional

disease which is missing from traditional psychiatry/psychology.

Overview

Christianity generally posits that human beings are comprised of

three broad components.

Trichotomy

• Are spirits• Possess a soul• Live in a body

Human Beings…

We are spirits having a human experience.

Spirit

The spirit is generally considered the governing center of man in

traditional Christianity

We will highlight

1. The functions of the spirit2. The source of wounds throughout the

life cycle3. Clinical manifestations

and will also offer practical tools for resolving emotional disease.

Functions of The Spirit

3 • Relate to God• Relate to each

other• Self regulation

Clusters

• Worship• Prayer• Faith• Inspiration

Relate to God

• Communication• Feeling of

disconnection• Love blocks

Relate to Each

Other

• Lack of conviction• Discipline• Tendency to be

stuck in the past• Lack of resiliency

SelfRegulation

Epigenetics

In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence.

Epigenetics

Your emotions regulate your genetic expression.

Your perceptions control your biology.

Sources of Spiritual Wounds

– Rape– Incest– Maternal depression– Attempted abortions– Conception after miscarriage– Parental conflict– Drugs/Alcohol addiction

Prenatal

Sources of Spiritual Wounds

– Lack of imprinting (reactive attachment disorder)

– Adoption/Surrogate parenting– Post partum depression– Inability/Unwillingness to breast

feed

Postnatal

Sources of Spiritual Wounds

– Compassion deficits– Abuse/Neglect• Sexual• Emotional• Physical• Verbal• Spiritual

– Racism–Misogyny/Androgyny

Childhood

Sources of Spiritual Wounds

– Divorce– Death/Grief– Unemployment– Rape– Spiritual Abuse

Adulthood

The Lodebar Syndrome

Marked by: • Isolation• Self-condemnation• Secrecy• Resistance to Love

Vows

• Definition: solemn promise or pledge, especially made to God or a god, dedicating oneself to an act, service or way of life (Websters)• Vows are major obstacles to

restoration.

Vows

“The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe

from all dangers and perturbations of love is HELL.”

– C.S. Lewis

(Mere Christianity)

Clinical Manifestations

Relationship Problems

• Fear of intimacy• Lack of trust• Emotional Vampires

If we are afraid to surrender to love, we imprison our hearts in rigid cages; so they are

protected but not free.

Clinical Manifestations

Personality Distortions

• Failure to accept ourselves• We become “other”

Clinical Manifestations

• Hold Outs:–Paranoid–Schizoid–Schizotypal

Clinical Manifestations

• Fight Back–Anti-Social–Borderline–Histrionic–Narcissistic

Clinical Manifestations

• Give In –Avoidant–Dependent–Obsessive/Compulsive

Setting Captives Free

• The Great Exchange–Repentance, Renunciation, Resistance

(Active)– Forgiveness–Practice virtue of self-acceptance

Summary

• Most, not all, emotional diseases originate from assaults to the heart – or core – which is the spirit.

Summary

• The spirit cannot be medicated but can be healed through the mediation of a human vessel yielded to God’s power.

Sources• Wake Up World – March 26, 2012• Epigenetic Concepts offer a new approach to degenerative

disease (Eureka Alert April 28, 2010)• In Search of Focus: Abiding in Christ Amidst Distractions, Nick

Eno, Axiom Press 2006• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris, Harper Collins

2009• People of The Lie, M. Scott Peck, Touchstone Press 1983• Heartbreak And Heart Disease, Dr. Steve C. Sinatra, Keats

Publishing 1996• God’s Power to Change, John & Paula Sanford, Charisma House

Publishers 2013

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