Staying Healthy During Times of Chaos & Crisis: Part 2

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Being Psychologically Healthy During Times of Crisis.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-13-being-psychologically-healthy-during-times/id1488880049?i=1000469015971 IMPERATIVES: #1 Determine Your Goal;#2 Pick A Point (It’s important to have a one point message. That way you only have one thing to remember.);#3 Create A Map (Me-We-God-You-We);#4 Internalize The Message (Tell a story that takes them on a journey) (Whether it’s a journey to your childhood home or a journey to a life-changing truth, it’s a story that will take you there.) (People make it difficult when they try to communicate points instead of telling a story.) (When you stand up and speak without notes and without having to read your sermon, you’re saying, “This is so important that it’s a part of me — and I think you should make it a part of you, too!”);#5 Engage The Audience;#6 Find Your Voice;#7 Find Some TractionPrayer, Checklist Questions: What do they need to know?Why do they need to know it?What do they need to do?Why do they need to do it?MAP:ME - Explain who you are and what you’re all about. Pastor in his church uses as introduction of idea or topic.WE - It takes me from what I’m thinking or feeling to what WE are thinking and feeling. I have to find an emotional common ground with them around the topic or idea of the message. My goal is to raise a felt need with as many people in the audience as I canGOD - where I take this emotional common ground I’ve established and introduce biblical truth into the discussion. Now I’m providing a solution to the need I just raised. Remember, we are not teaching the Bible to people; we’re teaching people the Bible. First, we connect with the people; then we move to the Bible.YOU - Once I’ve introduced God’s view on the subject as the answer to the need, it makes it easy for me to then ask, ‘What are you going to do about it? This becomes the application segment, and if I’ve followed my map well, instead of having to stir up interest in making the application, the application comes as a relief or it’s always the answer to a question they’re already asking. Communicate the challenge at a personal level because life-change is going to come when people apply the truth to their lives. You just go back, and everywhere you raised a need, now you make an application and make sure you don’t raise a felt need that you aren’t going to cover from God’s Word and answer with an application. The worst thing a communicator can do is overpromise and under-deliver. You’re building trust with your listeners. Not just trust in the information, but trust in the relationship.WE - the place to cast a common vision. A vision of what our lives, our church, and even our world would look like if only we would apply the truth of God’s Word. It’s the inspirational part of the message. My goal at this point is to inspire people to make a change. Sometimes being faced with God’s Word can leave the listener feeling defeated, if all they think about is how far they have to go. But, if I can give them a picture of what life will be like once they apply the truth, then they have a little hope.

GOAL: To give people focus points through crisis that will help them to stay healthy!

POINT:

INTRODUCTION

Greetings to each of you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord! I hope you are all having an incredible day . . . and I want to thank you for joining us in worship today! I want to cut right to the chase today because I have some really good stuff I want to give you that will help you through this crisis, and I still don’t want to go to long and lose some of you. So, I’m going to cut short on some things today and get right to it.

(ME)

(WE)

MESSAGE

Get Practical

(1)-Follow the Guidelines for staying healthy

(2)-Rebuild Personal Connectedness (CONNECT, CONNECT, CONNECT)-talk to each other about this crisis-talk to God about this-secondly, talk to your family that you are quarantined with-thirdly, others through media (face-to-face, phone)-take walks, get outside, keep your distance from people, talk with people from a distance.

(3)-Structure & Routines-Sense of Structure (not every day has to be exactly the same, but must have routines) we are wired for that and it brings a calmness.-family dinners, reading time, work hours, exercise, helping kids with school-with teams also-Cordon off times for information concerning updates with the virus-don’t sit and listen to it all day, pounding your brain with “the world is falling apart.” PTSD-take 15 minutes a day and go to those trusted voices that are saying the same thing. Find out about updates and those things that might have changed. — stop the ongoing watching - you still have a life to live and things to do.

(4)-Control (Sense of Choice, sense of power/control)-when we don’t have sense of choice, power, or control we literally will go crazy and we can get depressed. Humans are not meant to not have a sense of control. You should be able to get up in the morning and make choices. That’s what prison is about . . . it takes away your choices . . . and right now we could be feeling this sense of imprisonment.-make a list of the things that you have lost control over in your life-how you work, how you connect with people, when and where you can go to get things you need, lost control of how you can even find some of those things, being able to exercise, even using your gifts to express yourself, being able to move forward in your goals, and the list goes on and on.-that will mess with your head-surrender them-Serenity Prayer-make a list of the things that you can control in your life.-your own health, hygiene, family practices, social distancing, washing your hands, not touching your face, clean (directly related to not getting sick and keeping yourself healthy)-catch up work-to do lists (honey do lists)-sit down and look over your finances-write a book, take an online class, research something you want to learn to do-clean and organize, projects you’ve been putting off, use your gifts and be creative, do things you are good at (to help express competency)

(5)-Mental Area (come inside your head)-be mindful of your thoughts and feelings-the ones that aren’t helpful let them go-differentiate between imagination and reality-deal with realities-health stuff, finances (use useful predictions instead of anxious fictions-stay in the now, stay in the present-don’t live out there somewhere worrying about the future-Matthew 6, Jesus said today’s got enough worries of its own (stay in the now)-exercise (good for the brian)-relaxation exercises (to calm the body)-put things into a longer narrative (it’s always a longer story, we will resolve and get through it)-Got to put your life in this big perspective (this is a terrible time, it’s going to have some awful consequences, but we’re going to get through it this could be part of a much bigger story)-could stir up deeper things that you have went through. Get counseling on the phone or zoom, etc.-limited time segmentation to worry 10-15 minutes-practice gratitude and make a gratitude list everyday.-call someone you appreciate tell them-remember when you’ve gone through things before, what did you do. Celebrate your resilience from before. Practice those things that you did before. Remember you got through it.

(6)-Spiritual Side-Life is a gift from God-Life on earth isn’t normal life without God.-God is in control-Pray, read, meditate (Psalm 91)-use this time to develop your spiritual life

-Do things that make you laugh, watch old movies, watch good comedy

(GOD)

(YOU)

CONCLUSION

(WE)

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