Thursday, August 19, 2010

Kevin Hinckley- Perfectionism

Beliefs                                   ----> Emotions             ----> Actions

    =                                         Rational                            Irrational

Conscious                        Basic Truths                             Phobias
Thoughts                          Logic                                       Superstitions
                                                                                       Bad Habits
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Unconscious                    Internal Belief Pattern                  Vault
Thoughts                          Habits



Emotions can turn on a dime, with what you're thinking.

Beliefs                                   ----> Emotions             ----> Actions  

Irrational Thoughts(Lies)                What I feel                   What I do                          Consequences
I'm broken                                  Worthless                      Isolate                                 More Depressed




Reality (Truth)__________             What I feel                   What I do        _______     Consequences   



Elder Neal A. Maxwell
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?  How can there be a real identity without real history?  How can one understand his timy, individual plot without knowing even a little about our Father's galactic plan?

Self Questions
Do we have a testimony of the Plan of Hapinees?  Do we trust it?

Do we trust it will bring us more hapiness than any other plan of happiness we might try?

If all this is true, why, then, do we 'rebel', or disboey, or attempt to find happiness doing it our chosen way?

Mystery for Today #2

At which points, in his arrogance and pride, did Lucifer think he could destroy the Plan?

Satan's Daily deceptions

I want to do the 'right things'    .....after all you can do? (Satan's distortion)
I mourn when I do the 'wrong things'  .....after all you can do? (Satan's distortion)

Some believe-
Earth's tribulations are a punishment.  I don't know what I'm supposed to know.  So now I'm 'learning my lesson'  Tribulations will stiop when I learn to be good.

The 3-fold function of the Atonement.

1) Redeeming-his blood atones for our sins
2) Empowering- the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease  (the Lord didn't intend for you to be powerless, but empowered by his power)
3) Transforming- the Spirit has wrought a mighty change in us... that we have no more disposition to do evil.

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