EMOTIONAL WELLNESS
A DOCTRINAL APPROACH
Introduction and Overview
You’ll watch a few short video messages and then be encouraged to do a deeper dive into subjects that are of interest to you (these will be your own ‘readings’ for the course.
This class will present skills to better care for your body, mind, emotions, and relationships.
Your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ will assist you to know how to apply these principles to your life and the lives of those you love.
2: Belief Windows
3: Laws that Govern
Managing Emotions
The influence of the Holy Spirit can be masked by strong emotions or sin. It’s like trying to eat a grape while eating a jalapeño pepper. Both flavors are present, but one completely overpowers the other.
4: Circumstances vs Feelings
5: Feel your Feelings
6: Managing Anger
7: Clouds and Sunshine
Faith and Feelings
Your faith will grow not by chance, but by choice. Faith is a decision more than a feeling. Elder Dallin H. Oaks said: “‘Faith without works is dead. Works without faith is even deader!’”
8: Faith and Feelings
9: Choosing to Believe
10: Anxiety and Faith
Crisis of Faith
The Lord encourages all of us to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118). When we have questions or concerns about Church teachings or practices, seeking learning by study and by faith helps us become more self-reliant to and continue faithfully.
11: Crises of Faith
12: Seeking Truth
13: Examining Questions
14: Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge
The Brain
President Russell M. Nelson taught: “Your physical body is a magnificent creation of God. It is His temple as well as yours, and must be treated with reverence.”
15: Brain Science
16: Worry Vs Fear
17: Scrupulosity
18: A Healthy Life
19: Mindfulness and Meditation
Healthy Relationships
“Your soul will be blessed as you learn to listen and learn from friends, parents, partners, neighbors, and Church leaders, all of which will heighten capacity
to hear counsel from on high.”
RUSSELL M. NELSON
20: Healthy Relationship
21: Dating and Marriage
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22: Pornography
23: Abuse (Optional Reading)
Self Processing
In the ancient Greek town of Delphi, carved in gold letters on a marble temple, three inscriptions are said to contain the greatest wisdom known to man: “Know thyself.”
24: Planet Me
25: Personal Revelation
26: Repentance
Trusting God
“Doubt not but be believing“
(Mormon 9:27).
27: Trials
28: Godfidence
29: Faith vs Belief
30: Review
“Your Heavenly Father loves you. That love never changes when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there”
(Thoms S. Monson, “We Never Walk Alone“).
Jesus was sent ‘to heal the brokenhearted’ (Luke 4:18).
Jesus heals people ‘of their infirmities’ (Luke 5:15; 7:21).
Jesus helps those ‘that are afflicted in any manner’ (3 Nephi 17:9).
Jesus ‘Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses’ (Matthew 8:17).
Jesus will bear our griefs’ and our ‘sorrows (Isaiah 53:4).
‘Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee'” (Isaiah 41:10)
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