- Feb 26, 2017
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To answer the OP's request for help, I will venture forth some ideas based upon lived experience as a fellow Catholic.
What I can intuit based on your post, I see the following struggles:
1) Trapped by the habit of being led by emotions, in particular, the habituation of the negative.
-Being led by the passions is quite common of a trap, but can indeed be overcome by very extremely difficult and hard work.
-To counter acting on emotions instead of acting on principle, one must overcome emotional attachments
2) The first step is to acknowledge that you are powerless over your attachment to emotion, followed by complete surrender to the Church for spiritual direction, mostly through very thorough examination of conscious.
To begin on working through your habits and harms, I very highly recommend obtaining a notebook and pen, and slowly and pray-fully working through this very intense examination of conscious, with a priest, in private, scheduled sessions:
https://sensustraditionis.org/ExaminationConscienceLong.pdf
3) Wounds are what feeds the negative behavior and has you coming back for more. These wounds do not give you the very deep satisfaction of filling that God shaped hole in your soul. There is some very great guidance on wounds and healing here:
Wounds and Healing -
What I can intuit based on your post, I see the following struggles:
1) Trapped by the habit of being led by emotions, in particular, the habituation of the negative.
-Being led by the passions is quite common of a trap, but can indeed be overcome by very extremely difficult and hard work.
-To counter acting on emotions instead of acting on principle, one must overcome emotional attachments
2) The first step is to acknowledge that you are powerless over your attachment to emotion, followed by complete surrender to the Church for spiritual direction, mostly through very thorough examination of conscious.
To begin on working through your habits and harms, I very highly recommend obtaining a notebook and pen, and slowly and pray-fully working through this very intense examination of conscious, with a priest, in private, scheduled sessions:
https://sensustraditionis.org/ExaminationConscienceLong.pdf
3) Wounds are what feeds the negative behavior and has you coming back for more. These wounds do not give you the very deep satisfaction of filling that God shaped hole in your soul. There is some very great guidance on wounds and healing here:
Wounds and Healing -
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