Living Deeply
A Psychological and Spiritual Journey
Published on 27. September 2018
173 pages
978-0-7188-4718-0 (ISBN)
Description
Here is a book that takes people on a personal journey, a journey that is both spiritual and psychological: a three-fold journey that leads you, the reader, to face issues about yourself, raises challenges about relationships, and points towards what is above and beyond. Fraser Watts draws on his own Christian tradition in a way that is relevant to spiritual people everywhere, whatever tradition they belong to, or if they are of no religious tradition at all. It is a book to be read reflectively, giving some time to make connections between what is gently written in the pages and your own experience of life; if you let it, Living Deeply will help you join up a spiritual perspective with your own psychological issues.Such a journey could change a life. Perhaps it will change yours, helping you to see what deeper issues are at stake as you journey through life, and give you a spiritual compass to respond to life''s challenges. This book will help you,indeed, to be living more deeply.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acnowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter One: The Inner Journey
- Perspectives from Psychology and Spirituality
- Heights and Depths
- Head and Heart
- Towards Integration
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Section One: Personal Issues
- Chapter Two: Coping with Stress
- Recognising Stress
- Ways of Coping
- Support from Others
- Worry
- Prayer and Coping
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Three: Depression
- Experiencing Depression
- Negative Thinking
- Towards Hope
- Getting Help
- Spiritual Aspects
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Four: Loss and Death
- Loss
- Bereavement
- Know Your Feelings
- Loss and Growth
- Dying
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Five: Suffering, Illness and Wholeness
- Why Suffering?
- Health and Illness
- Healing
- Wholeness
- Social Wholeness
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Section Two: Relationships and Community
- Chapter Six: Personal Relationships
- The Place of Relationships
- Helping Each Other to Flourish
- Attachment and Trust
- Pastoral Relationships
- Prayer Companions
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Seven: Community
- Living in Groups
- Marks of Group Membership
- Individualism, Conformity and Interdependence
- Telling Our Story
- Background and Sources
- Bible Study
- Chapter Eight: Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- What is Forgiveness?
- From Guilt to Forgiveness
- From Division to Reconciliation
- How to Forgive
- Expanding the Horizons of Forgiveness
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Section Three: Going Deeper
- Chapter Nine: Something More
- Is There Something More?
- More Than Matter
- Direction and Purpose
- Souls and Angels
- Spiritual and/or Religious
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Ten: Darkness and Light
- Mixed Experiences of Ourselves
- Different Perspectives
- Problematic Events
- The Anger and Judgement of God
- Is God 'Good'?
- God as All
- The Dark Night
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Eleven: Jesus
- Jesus as Healer
- Encounters with Jesus
- Jesus and Recovery of the Lost
- Light and Dark in Jesus' Life
- Beliefs About Jesus
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Twelve: Sin and Salvation
- What Difference Does Jesus Make?
- The Concept of Sin
- Hard and Soft Sins
- Jesus as a Turning Point in Human Evolution
- Photosynthesis as a Metaphor for the Work of Christ
- Jesus as a Scapegoat: A Metaphor from Family Systems Theory
- How We Benefit
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Chapter Thirteen: God Beyond Words
- What Do We Mean by God?
- Words and Reality
- God and Ourselves
- God and Desire
- Bible Study
- Background and Sources
- Afterword
- Back Cover
