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One of the goals of: Christian Counseling of Palm Coast-with-Laurie Mendez is to help God's children reach their full potential in Christ through the counsel of the godly. The skyrocketing divorce rate, sexual abuse, and violence in the home are astronomical. Suicide, drug abuse and alcohol have become commonplace. Stress-related heart disease and high blood pressure have become two of our nation's biggest killers.
Creation Therapy is based on the theory of temperament (understanding of the inner man—our intrinsic make-up) and uses this knowledge to help us understand ourselves.
Therefore, it allows us to be the best that God as created us to be by meeting the needs of our temperament equally and scripturally. Although this therapeutic method is a fairly new concept (since 1983) it has proven to be extremely successful.
A Temperament Analysis Profile is similar to personality testing, but actually is not. Personality is the mask we wear and is formed as a result of how we were parented, the environment in which we grew up and circumstances that have occurred throughout our lives. Our temperament is who we really are underneath. Who we are determines the choices we make in life (friends, spouse, career) and how we interact with our significant others.
Many of us take a personality assessment hoping to find out who we are and understand ourselves better. Many are disappointed when they find themselves being placed in a single category that does not always match the way they really are. That’s where Temperament Analysis differs from traditional personality testing. Like our DNA, each person is unique. Each one has different tendencies socially, in decision making skills, and intimately. Using a system developed by Dr's. Phyllis and Richard Arno, www.nationalchristiancounselorsassociation.org we evaluate each of those three areas giving you a thorough and in-depth look at your personal, unique temperament.
Creation Therapy is not the perfect answer. Nothing can exceed the gifted counselor who is walking in the wisdom of Jesus Christ. One thing is certain, however. The answer rests not in the world's "psycho-babble," but within our Owner's Manual: the Scriptures.
Neither Counseling, Therapy, Psychology nor Psychiatry can change a person not inclined to change any more than a Rain Dance. Only the Holy Spirit working in a life can alter such a person's course; literally an act of God.
It is understanding and acceptance of our unique self through Creation Therapy which causes us to allow God to effect change in our life.
Most interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts are caused by:
a. attempting to meet in-born (temperament) needs in ungodly ways.
b. spending energies meeting some temperament needs while others go ignored.
c. our reaction to unmet in-born needs. |
Creation Therapy identifies your temperament needs to help you find a balance in order to relieve the source of stress. This enlightenment will help you find peace within yourself, within your environment and with your Creator.
The whole concept of Temperament Analysis rests on discovering who we truly are rather than on who we have become. Most of us have a mask on (our personality) according to who we have learned to be, who we feel we are expected to be, and/or who we are forced to be from our family of origin and/or our peers. We can all acknowledge that very often our behavior and our language is a facade or a way of protection.
As we grow and live, most of us experience feelings of hurt, disappointment, fear, rejection, loneliness, grief, guilt, and/or shame. These feelings may cause us to project an image that is not necessarily true to who we really are. We think we need to protect ourselves using outbursts of anger, verbal abuse, manipulation, control or withdrawal. Usually we don't like ourselves much at these times, causing internal and external conflict.
We are unique creations of a loving and wise God. Since the fall of mankind, we have become like uprooted trees, separated from life-giving nourishment. Sin has separated us from God. A literal definition of sin is "to miss the mark." We have become separated from the Creator and all we like sheep have gone astray.
God has reached out to us in the person of Jesus Christ the Messiah. And even though we may accept this gift of eternal life, that does not make us instantaneously wise and all-knowing and it certainly does not instantly "fix" us. We must pursue Christ and learn of Him. And just as we learn of His magnificent design in all creation, we learn we are not all chaos, but fearfully and wonderfully made.
All the wonderful designs, inventions and specifications of all the world's great engineers are tinker toys compared to God's very specific design in us. The Scriptures are our Owner's Manual. God has made each of us with a unique blending of several temperaments that can be measured to an accuracy of better than 90%! God has created each of us to a unique purpose. The APS Temperament Analysis profile is an enlightening look "under the hood" of God's creation in us. |
