Soul Care- Tune IN

Intro: Tune IN

Slide 1

Tune IN is a rhythm that requires insight into who we are-

Tuning IN allows us to answer questions like “How are you feeling?”

For some of us this can be a difficult question to answer because we spend most of our time looking around but we spend very little time looking in

“We notice people places and things, but aren’t as in tune with our emotions, thoughts and behaviors.”

Some of us may just be unaware and some of us may be deliberately avoidant- but either way it leads us to an absence of insight

Insight answers the WHY?

Slide 2

The insight formula is: Thoughts-Feelings-Behaviors

Becoming aware of the underlying narratives-the stories that we are tell ourselves

Where are those stories coming from?- that answers the WHY?

These stories come from life experiences

When we lack insight or we ignore the WHY question we find ourselves reacting to our thoughts and feelings instead of responding

Something the Debra points out in the book is that “feelings are not bad or good...It’s how we respond to feelings that lead us down healthy or unhealthy paths.”

In reacting there is a lack of understanding in where that emotion is coming from and so in reacting we allow that feeling or emotion to lead us to a response/behavior

Responding to feelings and emotions requires a recognition of the WHY? getting to the bottom of what the feeling and emotion might mean and then choosing to act in a way that is beneficial to yourself and those around you

As I say that I recognize, at least within my self that that takes work- its much easier to react to than to respond.

We all have behaviors that we’d like to change

When we lack insight into who we are, the stories we tell ourselves, what we end up doing is correcting behaviors without considering the feelings and thoughts behind the behavior

We Are A Body

1 Corinthians 12:12–27 NIV

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

Conclusion: Consider

Slide 3- How Full or Empty do you feel?

Slide 4- What things tend to drain you? Fill you up? Consider the impact that is having on you and those around you?

Slide 5- Don’t ignore the signals?

Slide 6- Take time to consider the WHY? that that we can respond instead of reacting- reacting leads to Isaiah 55:2 behaviors

Isaiah 55:2 NIV

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

The Rhythms: Slide 7

Nourish- caring for your soul through nutrition, hydration and movement

Rest: Caring for your soul through rhythms of rest and a sustainable pace of life

Connect: Caring for your soul through life giving relationships

Protect: Caring for your soul with boundaries that protect your calling

Savor: Caring for your soul by being present, practicing gratitude and intentionally enjoying life

Tune In- Caring for your soul by having insight and understanding of your inner world

Questions:

Which of these rhythms is most significantly missing from my life?

When you consider the times when you are most depleted- is it because;

You have neglected your physical body?

Need rest?

Lack boundaries and are spread to thin?

Are lonely?

You haven’t savored the goodness of God lately?

Lack insight into why you feel the way you do?

Answer the WHY?

Why does this area tend to be the struggle?

What lies or false beliefs might I have that perpetuate this cycle?

Nourish- that the soul is the only thing that matters

Rest- busy doing for Him instead of just being

Connect- I’m not worth loving

Protect- yes is good and no is bad

Savor- life isn’t good right now so how can God be

Tune In-

Ephesians 3:17–19 NIV

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.