The Journey Paper Instructions
1. Go somewhere (the park, the lake, etc.), any place that you won’t be disturbed or distracted.
For Step 1, write out your prayer. Be transparent, honest, and thoughtful in your prayer. Pray specifically toward the purpose of discovering and uncovering thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
2. You are encouraged to press through and go deeper into yourself to find the hidden meanings of your emotions, thoughts and self-statements.
3. Follow the remaining steps: (Use a present situation, not one from the past that you have already worked through.)
Step 2: Describe the unpleasant situation that disturbs you.
Step 3: List any destructive behaviors stemming from the unpleasant situation.
Step 4: Describe how others responded to your behaviors and how relationships were affected.
Step 5: What are the negative and harmful emotions you feel in regard to the situation? (You may feel several emotions. Write them all down.).
Step 6: Ask yourself the following questions:
1. What is the worst thing about this situation?
2. How does this situation affect me personally?
3. What is the basis, the essence of the problem?
4. What is the main thing in this problem that makes me feel so bad?
5. Exactly what is it that feels so bad about this?
6. What is the worst of this feeling?
Step 7: Move even deeper through your emotions toward your deepest felt sense, and record all your feelings.
Step 8: (1) Examine your thoughts. Ask, “What am I telling myself?” (2) Ask, “Why am I feeling this way?” (Realize that there is a strong possibility that the reason you feel as you do is that you are taking the situation personally.)
Step 9: Ask, “In the list of strongholds, what is the faulty thinking regarding my security and my worth as a person that causes me to take this situation so personally?” Once you have detected the faulty thinking, how can it be rejected and corrected?
Step 10: First, forgive anyone who may have created the situation, and thank God you that you can learn and grow as a result of it. Second, now that you have detected the basic fallacy in your thinking regarding the problem situation, reject the fallacy. See your textbook for the “how to”.
4. List at least two specific scriptures that are especially meaningful to you that can be used to reprogram and renew your mind.
5. Paper requirements.
· Written in paragraph (narrative form), covering all of the above.
· 5-7 full pages >1″ margin, top, bottom, left, right.
· Times New Roman, 12 point font.
· Double Spaced
· Cover Sheet, must meet APA style standards. (See the library or internet if you are unfamiliar with this style.)