Posted by Bernard J. Tyrrell (147.222.56.79) on November 21, 2007 at 12:07:48:

In Reply to: Mind Fasting vs. Repression posted by John on November 13, 2007 at 19:21:44:

I recommend that individuals read the seven stages of the healing and education of feelings that are at the beginning of the chapter on Anxiety and Fear which is available on this web site in the excerpt from Christotherapy II.  The main difference between repression and mind-fasting is that in the former feelings are repressed unconsciously right from the start.  The opposite is the case in mind-fasting.  Mind-fasting is a process that involves owning and acknowledging one's thoughts and affects right from the start.  One then prays for a moment of diagnostic discernment in which one understands and validates existentially that one's particular thought/affect is not worth hanging onto and that it is doing more damage than good.  One then gently, NOT FORCEFULLY, releases, lets go of the particular thought/affect in question (the stinking thinking as AA calls it) and prayerfully seeks through appreciative discernment to put something positive and richer in its place (spirit-feasting).

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