06 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 6 - Fear and Anxiety

- Tim Smylie
What is fear?
What's good and bad about fear and anxiety?
Engaging our fears and anxieties
Identify them
How are you dealing with them?
A wise strategy
Go to your Father
Take simple physical steps
Face your fear
Give
A passage to live with (Luke 12:22-34)

05 - how do you feel? Making sense of our emotions - Part 5 - Anger

- Tim Smylie
What is anger? - "I'm against that"
What's good about God's anger? - it flows from love
What's the problem with my anger (and yours)? -"My kingdom come, my will be done"
Getting anger right
Own it!
Examine it
Slow down
Respond constructively, with:-
Patience
Forgiveness
Charity
And sometimes - constructive conflict

04 How do you feel? - Making sense of our emotions - Part 4

Engaging our emotions - part 2 - Tim Smylie
 
This is a long term project!
 
Plan to cultivate your emotional garden
Grow:
Love for God, our neighbour, and what is good
Hope in God, and our eternal destiny
Hatred of evil
Allow:
Grief
Guilt
Jealousy
Eliminate:
Destructive anger
Fear and worry about the future
Disciplines to get us there
Wise up to the little things - sleep, diet, and exercise.
Learn to look upwards - using prayer, Scripture, and song.
Commit to look outwards

03 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 3

Tim Smylie
Engaging our emotions - part 1
Take the challenge seriously
Listen to your emotions
Evaluate your emotions
What do they tell me about what I love?
What do they tell me about what I believe?
"Emotions reflect what we believe and reveal our assumptions about how the world works" (Matthew Elliot)
What does the bible say?
Don't be bullied by your emotions
"I need this"
"This is all or nothing
"I need to act right now"
 

02 - How do you feel - making sense of our emotions - Part 2

Tim Smylie
Emotions are:
Good
Complicated 
Powerful
Not the only thing
Mirrors of the heart

01 - How do you feel - Making sense of our emotions - Part 1

Emotions are good
Our emotions are derived from God's emotions
Jesus felt: Joy, Love, Compassion, Frustration, Anger, Distress
Emotions are complicatedThey're like a paint mixer that never shuts off
They're connected to our bodies
They're disordered by sin