Do you wish you could just stop yourself from the negativity that fights for space in your head? In this session, we’ll pull out all the stops to stop the insanity.

GYC 2016: When All Has Been Heard

<p>Do you wish you could just stop yourself from the negativity that fights for space in your head? In this session, we’ll pull out all the stops to stop the insanity.</p>

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

From Shame to Glory

Amanda Anguish

1. Steps to Christ-like Thinking

2. Cognitive Conflict of the Ages

3. The Ministry of Healing the Mind

5. The Gift of Guilt and Shame

6. Christ-ians: Persecution and Pain

This message was presented at the GYC 2016 conference, When All Has Been Heard, in Houston, Texas.

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Okay, well I'm going to start and maybe if I start talking people outside will hear too.

Today I'm going to talk about, or right now I'm going to talk about the ministry of healing the mind.

And we're probably aware of the book Ministry of Healing, but there's actually a lot of things that we can do to heal the mind.

When I was in first grade, I mentioned in the last seminar that I had difficulty learning how to read when I was younger.

Part of that was because I was stubborn and partly because the rules did not make sense when it came to actually reading.

Words like enough, that's not spelled like it's supposed to according to what you learn in school.

And I had a really difficult time learning how to read, but my incentive was there was only 1 other kid in what I like to call the delinquent reading group when I was in first grade, and he was the troublemaker in the class, and so I decided I'm either going to be stuck with him forever, or I've got to get myself into gear and learn how to read, or else I'm going to be stuck with him and I'm going to have the same reputation he does.

He's a nice guy today, but I had some trouble as a first grader being stuck in the group with him.

And he'd get teased all the time, and then I felt like that teasing was put on to me too because we were both in the same reading group.

So when the summer between first and second grade came along, I decided that I was going to read an entire book in 1 day.

Well, that's a big deal when you're in first grade.

And it was 1 of those Dick Jane spot books, but it was like the ones with the chapters in it.

So I buckled down and I put myself in my room and I spent the entire day reading that book.

And I was convinced by the end of the day that I would be a much better reader and I wouldn't have to be in the delinquent reading group when I went back to second grade.

I didn't have to go back to the delinquent reading group when I was in second grade.

But we don't realize sometimes it takes work to do the things that we really need.

And some of us have been put in some bad habits of thinking because of the way we grew up or the things that we were taught.

And so I want to spend some more time with you, if you've been to some of the other seminars I've done, and those of you who are new, this is your first time, teaching you that there is actually an art to thinking.

There's actually an art to the way we put our thoughts together.

And often we think, our belief is, is that I don't have any choice in the matter.

I'm just the way that I am, and that it's extenuating circumstances, other people's faults, or just the circumstances we have in our life that bring us to these bad places in our life.

Have you ever heard somebody say, oh, this always happens to me.

Why do I always get stuck in this situation?

The simple answer, you're not gonna like me afterwards because of you.

We are often, I know, it's the simple answer, but I'm gonna explain that to you, and I'm gonna actually show you exactly how this works, but so many times, we are our own worst enemy.

We think that it's easier to believe that it's somebody else.

But we are actually doing this to ourselves.

And I was doing that to myself for a long time.

I thought all of these things in my life were, I just got the short straw.

Or whatever the saying is you want to use.

I thought that I had no choice and these are just the circumstances.

But if in actuality, if we look around us, if we pay attention, there are people who are actually doing a lot worse than we are sometimes.

Or they have worse circumstances or worse people in their life.

But I believe that depression and anxiety are diseases of self.

When I am depressed, I'm focusing on all of the psychosomatic symptoms that are happening in my body.

I'm taking lots of short, shallow breaths.

And I think, oh, there's something wrong with me.

And people who have anxiety attacks, where do they eventually end up?

And then the doctor does all the tests just to rule out there's a heart problem.

And then at the end of the visit, the doctor says, there's nothing wrong with you.

It's like Xanax or something like that to reduce the anxiety.

But that is, I don't want the people I work to be dependent on medications.

I don't want them to think that that's the only answer to their problems because there are a lot of people in this world.

It used to be that therapy and mental illness was seen as taboo.

Nobody wanted to talk about it and still in some places it is.

But you know what I'm starting to see in the media more and more now?

And this almost saddens me even more, is that people think of mental illness as like just their personality.

And you even see this in the movies too now.

Not that I'm watching these movies, but I pay attention to the things that are going around And some of these movies are actually starting to glamorize mental illness.

You see movies where the whole movie is about 2 people who are in a mental illness hospital and they fall in love and they're crazy just works together.

That doesn't really work the way they say it does, but that's what these people think.

And so rather than ignoring it, now we're flipping way over to the other end of the spectrum and we're saying, oh, well, everybody has mental illness, what's yours?

I don't think we were meant to live that way.

And I come from my own depression and anxiety, not anymore, but I had that.

And I'm here to tell you, you don't have to stay with that.

Fortunately, I grew up in a time where nobody went to the therapist and they didn't have all the medications that they do nowadays.

But there were things that I had to learn to tell myself in order for me to get out of that.

And I believe very much for any 1 of you that might be experiencing it, anyone in your life that you might be able to have some influence in helping, that there is a way out.

Now some people might need something to kick them into gear, But I don't believe that that is supposed to be the way of life that God intended for us.

And there's some lifestyle choices and some thought choices that we can make to get out of that.

So I want to share some of those things with you today.

So far I've been talking about irrational beliefs.

And irrational beliefs are the things that get us into the long-term depression, the long-term anxiety.

The screen keeps going out every once in a while.

But the slide right there shows that sometimes, like say you can't go to bed until 4 AM, or you can't fall asleep until 4 AM, well, what happens because of that?

You wind up sleeping until 11 AM, so I can't get to sleep that night.

And this is often what we do with our own mental illness, is we say, well, I'm stuck with this, so I'm forever gonna be stuck with it.

And we actually perpetuate the mental illness.

If I wake up and I'm depressed in the morning, what do I tell myself?

See, it never goes away, I'm just stuck with that.

Well, what am I likely to feel the rest of the day if I tell myself, see, I'm just stuck with depression?

I'm likely to feel depressed the rest of the day.

If I wake up and my heart's racing and I'm having a hard time breathing, and I tell myself, see, Amanda, you have anxiety.

You're never going to get over it, what do I'm what am I going to wind up doing?

I'm going to be anxious now about being full of anxiety.

You know the interesting thing is when we have anxiety we're more likely to have depression and when we have depression we're more likely to have anxiety.

Series

From Shame to Glory

3. The Ministry of Healing the Mind

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Burning or Burnt Out?

01 Don’t Let Satan Blow It Out

59m

Journey with God & God’s Faithfulness

1h 3m

G.I.D.E.O.N.

44m

Breakout Session C

Being Willing to Fully Invest in All of Our Patients

57m

A Faith Prepared for Eternity

40m

Simply Divine! Concept Cooking for Creation Living

04 Quick Cuisine on the Go

57m

Living Free: Building a Better Brain, Body, and Habits – for Good!

5. Leaders Lighting The Way

1h

Medical Mission Work

03 The Bloody Nose That Healed London

48m

Tim Riesenberger - Christinity 101: How to Give Your Life to Jesus

The (Almost) Irresistable Witness

1h 35m

Practical Christian Living

Part 4 - Overcoming Worry and Anxiety

1h 9m

Unraveling the Gay Spin

1. Transgender vs. Transformation

1h

Sound Doctrine