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Re: how to develop emotional maturity

paulo31 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:06:00 -0000

that's a very nice work!!!!!
Do well and enjoy doing it......

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

thony — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:02:24 -0000

well said DjChuang. now, how can you educate people with that kind of thinking? i know people who choose to hurt (emotionally) people. even married couples does that to each other. right?! any suggestion?

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

djchuang — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:35:45 -0000

@anthony, yes, my family name is Chuang. My Dad comes from the province of Fujian.

As for eliminating magical thinking, I think it has something to do with having a reality check. We have to get rid of overly idealistic thinking and realize how things work in the real world, and how things don't work. (This is not to say we don't pursue dreams.)

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

anthony — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:38:34 -0000

Sir can anyone please explain "Eliminate Magical Thinking". thanks.

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

anthony — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:29:15 -0000

hi DJ Chuang! very very nice! all i need now is to practice. by the way mr Chuang. my family name is also Chuang. is that your family name too?

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

anthony — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:13:24 -0000

nice. i really need this.

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

M. Neuman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:16:30 -0000

Good information. Thank you!

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

j. — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:19:39 -0000

not quite directly on point, but david powlison has terrific articles (via the journal of biblical counseling) on how to see the gospel as a crucial part of the way we deal w/ our "felt needs" (to use a counseling term) & become emotionally/spiritually mature beings.

the thesis in all of his writing is that emotional maturity can't be separated from spiritual maturity b/c how we react to things emotionally is always going to be, at the core, a matter of the heart -- what we truly believe about the gospel. a google of david powlison should unmine some good PDFs.

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

djchuang — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:29:29 -0000

Heather, thanks for your comment. Agreed that we have hope when we're with God and God's on our side. Another way to say what I was trying to say is, that part of a maturing spiritual life should also include emotional maturity too.

Re: how to develop emotional maturity

Heather Palacios — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:39:32 -0000

If we walk with God, even when we're emotionally messed up, we still have hope. It's the years that I lived spiritually messed up (far, far from God) that NO messed-up seemed hopeful.