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Introduction |
Relaxation CD |
MP3 Files
ENTAL HEALTH professionals
often tell patients troubled by anxiety or depression
to learn to love yourself and be happy. But this advice only
misses the pointits like trying to cover over crumbling rust
with shiny new paint.
From a Christian perspective,
the root of anxiety is a lack of trust in
Gods providence, such that, when facing the unknown, you worry
endlessly about how to figure it out on your own. And the root
of depression is a lack of trust in Gods
justice, such that when encountering any hurt
or insult you fall into a desire to take matters into your own hands
to get revenge, but, feeling helpless to overpower others, you turn your
anger onto yourself as unconscious self-blame.
All that worry and all that
self-blame is rust on our souls that prevents us from getting close to God.
Its a self-limiting sort of dynamic that keeps us stuck in our own
unconscious despair. For no matter how many times you say, Jesus, I
trust in You! if you say the words only intellectually, without deep
and loving trust in God, those words will do no more to heal your
fear than a coat of paint can fix crumbling
rust.
A genuine experience of relaxing
trust in God is, therefore, important to mental health and essential to spiritual
growth, but almost allif not allcommercially available psychological
relaxation recordings sanction New Age spiritual
beliefs that can contradict the Catholic faith. Accordingly, I have made
these recordings for a Catholic listener; you will discover in them a relaxing
psychological experience that guides you into a healing contemplative trust
in God.
GUIDED
IMAGERY CD
FOR RELAXATION AND
HEALING
Synopsis of the
script: |
1. |
Muscle
relaxation |
2. |
Deepening of
relaxation |
3. |
Life path choice |
4. |
Affirmations of trust
in God |
5. |
Affirmations of Christian
relationships |
6. |
Affirmations of
forgiveness |
7. |
Affirmations of spiritual
health |
8. |
Affirmations of physical
health |
9. |
Prayers of
confidence |
10. |
Prayers of spiritual
protection |
11. |
Return to waking
awareness / Blessings for sleep |
THESE
recordings are a spectacular improvement over the MP3 recordings that were
on this website previously. At that time, to keep file size to a minimum,
I had been forced to speak more quickly than I wanted and to use low-quality
mono sound. Now, I have recorded in CD-quality stereo; moreover, I have improved
and expanded the script itself.
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Digitally recorded,
edited, and mastered. |
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