Yes, I am aware of those approaches and many of them have empirical support. One of the reasons I still like Inner Healing is that it brings believers closer to Christ--they go away saying the Lord healed me. Obviously the "bottom up" approaches are probably the preferred ones when working with unbelievers.
I appreciate your excellent overview of inner healing. I have read almost all the books you have mentioned in this paper and practiced inner healing for about 30 years with tremendous results. After reading Rita Bennett’s book, “Emotionally Free,” I came away with my summary statement of her approach, which I have shared with her successor and she asked for a copy of it. “Inner healing is allowing God to replace the pictures in the heart gallery of our minds, removing pictures that do not have Jesus in them and replacing them with pictures that do.”
So inner healing is a living encounter with the living Christ, and it involves pictures, since a picture is worth a thousand words, and thus maintains a thousandfold impact on healing our hurts and wounds.
Inner healing became one in a sequence of seven prayers I pray over people with heart wounds. The synergies of the seven complementary prayers working together really do a complete and powerful work in the client’s life. All seven involve living encounters with the Lord. I discovered and wrote about them when Kay Cox prayed them over me while I was in Australia. It was the most profound 2-hour prayer counseling experience I had ever experienced and know I must write them up, which I have done in our Prayers That Heal the Heart book. https://www.cwgministries.org/store/prayers-heal-heart-ebook
Thank you for this overview - so well done. I believe I have read and used most of the inner healing material you have listed! I haven't worked my way all the way through this article, but at one point you mentioned "top-down" work. I actually am a trauma counselor and in the past several years there has been some work come forth that is considered "Bottom - up" - working with the nervous system and emotional components of our being along with experiences that are not verbalized, and in some cases, unable to be verbalized. I am curious if you have researched this area of counseling? And if it is in this article, I am sure I will find it in the next couple of days...
Yes, I am aware of those approaches and many of them have empirical support. One of the reasons I still like Inner Healing is that it brings believers closer to Christ--they go away saying the Lord healed me. Obviously the "bottom up" approaches are probably the preferred ones when working with unbelievers.
Henry,
I appreciate your excellent overview of inner healing. I have read almost all the books you have mentioned in this paper and practiced inner healing for about 30 years with tremendous results. After reading Rita Bennett’s book, “Emotionally Free,” I came away with my summary statement of her approach, which I have shared with her successor and she asked for a copy of it. “Inner healing is allowing God to replace the pictures in the heart gallery of our minds, removing pictures that do not have Jesus in them and replacing them with pictures that do.”
So inner healing is a living encounter with the living Christ, and it involves pictures, since a picture is worth a thousand words, and thus maintains a thousandfold impact on healing our hurts and wounds.
Inner healing became one in a sequence of seven prayers I pray over people with heart wounds. The synergies of the seven complementary prayers working together really do a complete and powerful work in the client’s life. All seven involve living encounters with the Lord. I discovered and wrote about them when Kay Cox prayed them over me while I was in Australia. It was the most profound 2-hour prayer counseling experience I had ever experienced and know I must write them up, which I have done in our Prayers That Heal the Heart book. https://www.cwgministries.org/store/prayers-heal-heart-ebook
Thank you for this overview - so well done. I believe I have read and used most of the inner healing material you have listed! I haven't worked my way all the way through this article, but at one point you mentioned "top-down" work. I actually am a trauma counselor and in the past several years there has been some work come forth that is considered "Bottom - up" - working with the nervous system and emotional components of our being along with experiences that are not verbalized, and in some cases, unable to be verbalized. I am curious if you have researched this area of counseling? And if it is in this article, I am sure I will find it in the next couple of days...