Living The Life

So you wanted to lose some weight this year and decided to stop eating sweets. It didn’t work. You swore you’d stop yelling at your kids, but you continue to do so. You know you have to stop worrying all the time, but you can’t seem to stop. Why? One reason is probably because you…

Last time we established that sublimation is basically replacing an unacceptable behavior with an acceptable behavior. We saw that that Freud was into the idea, but is God? In Matthew 12, Jesus talked about someone who has his “impure spirits” leave, but since he doesn’t replace them with anything, they simply come back to him…

I’ve been studying sublimation. (Doesn’t my life sound fun?) The term sublimation comes from psychology and is considered a defense mechanism whereby a person turns unacceptable impulses into acceptable behaviors. It’s kind of a replacement technique. So, for instance, a guy who feels rage coming on towards his family might go out and chop wood,…

Occasionally we peek out of denial long enough to see our problems, and that we’re stuck.When we do we often commit to change. The problem is that the commitment happens, but wanes, and the change doesn’t happen at all. And we become even more resigned to the idea that we’ll stay stuck forever. So why…