Friday, August 4, 2017

Emotions Stress Reliever

Narcissists hate emotion, they think it means someone is weak.

There is weakness in one who has to pretend in order to feel whole and safe. The narcissist cannot admit what is right in front of them if it will make them sense emotion. I have lived with people like this all my life, when emotion is shown they seem to disappear as though something is wrong with tears or crying out. I even had a woman tell me she refused to scream when she was in labor. I asked her why, her answer was "I don't know, I'm just not going to scream." My reply was that "I did scream and I didn't care who heard it." LOL Perhaps pride is what keeps people from admitting truth, they just hate to look weak. But they mistake honesty with weakness, sad to say the least.

Often believers are doing their obedience in the flesh rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. Facing the truth and telling the truth does not stress me at all. My joy is not diminished by looking at truth any more than a doctor's joy or skill is diminished by diagnosing a problem in someone who needs an operation.

So many people cannot face truth because it affects their mood, that is not the case with me. Someone who must have "positive" as defined by them, continually in their life, will never be able to face hard things. When an expert runs into a problem, he looks for solutions, he does not sit down and cry because there is a problem, he gets busy and solves it or admits it cannot be solved.

It is the difference between seeing the world as it is or sucking it into your soul. As believers we should be able to look at anything and see the good or bad, call it what it is and feel little or no devastation in our hearts. As one doctor once said, "we ought to be able to observe without absorbing."

I have cried many times over things I see, but it doesn't make me depressed or despondent. In fact the tears bring relief while accompanied by my trust in Christ that He has all the answers.

Our emotions do not guide us nor do they diminish us, they just "are." They are the bodies response to stress, a God given release mechanism that should never be repressed. Only weak and beggarly people are fearful of appearing weak through the expression of emotion. It is not strength to pretend one does not have emotion, it is weakness.

The devil is very clever, he loves to watch people implode from heart attacks brought on by unreleased emotion, the stress that keeps us in bondage. Releasing our emotion through tears allows our body to heal, the emotions and the physical are deeply connected. There are no Scripture verses that tell us that weeping is wrong or weakness.

The more we hold in the more the stress builds, even if we don't think we are stressed. God meant for things to be dealt with, solutions that heal are confession, expressed emotion and trusting Christ for the outcome.

Psalm 56:8
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"

Psalm 126:5
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!"

Revelation 7:17
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Psalm 42:3
"My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”"

Isaiah 38:5
“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life."

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