caa a22 4500 47705272X CHVBK 20180405111342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02354525 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02354525 McGarry Francis St. Thomas University Pastoral Counseling Center in Miami, FL aut Balance, wholeness, and healing in christianity [Elektronische Daten] [Francis McGarry] The nature of the spiritual journey inevitably leads us to examine our fears, doubts, and conflicts, in life and in our spiritual communities. Psychology and a true spiritual theology acknowledge an unconscious part of ourselves that is the reservoir for suppressed fears, pain, and anger. Unless these conflicted emotions and related experiences or imaginings are sought out and examined, an authentic spiritual search is denied. The result will be a superficial cognitive belief-system, predicated exclusively on shoulds, oughts, and constant accommodation. To make free, intelligent, mature decisions in our search, we need always to ascertain what we want that will bring fulfillment and spiritual and emotional freedom. This can only be done if we truly own the repressed, hidden, negative memories and behavior that often become self-destructive unconscious determinants. The psychological reality is that unless we look at the shadow part of ourselves, the part that is repressed, denied, hidden and which we often find discomforting, it will surface eventually in a more unhealthy, destructive fashion. Institutes of Religion and Health, 1996 Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/2(1996-06-01), 159-168 0022-4197 35:2<159 1996 35 10943 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354525 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354525 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McGarry Francis St. Thomas University Pastoral Counseling Center in Miami, FL aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers 35/2(1996-06-01), 159-168 0022-4197 35:2<159 1996 35 10943 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer